Partnership Manager

Partnership Manager

Location: Eurocentral, ML1 4UF, Motherwell. With travel in and around Glasgow.
Salary: £45,896 per annum.
Contract: Full time, permanent.

Our “All in Glasgow” service is a partnership of organisations who have come together to deliver the new Training for Work employment service on behalf of Glasgow City Council. ENABLE Scotland are the lead of the partnership.

This new service is an exciting opportunity to transform the employment prospects of people in Glasgow. Your role is to ensure that the new service is delivered successfully and to a high standard. You will support our partners to meet their contractual obligations, meet quality standards and deliver their agreed performance targets. You will work to accurately forecast delivery outcomes, drive performance within internal and external teams, and identify and effectively manage any risks to performance to ensure targets are achieved.

You will liaise with the Partnership Steering Group and have direct responsibility for the delivery of the contract.  You will be principal liaison with Glasgow City Council on behalf of ENABLE Scotland and our partners. You will be responsible for all contract management, delivery of outcomes and income across the partnership; key to this will be developing positive professional relationships with internal and external delivery teams and stakeholders.

About You

Main Duties and Accountabilities

•  Establish and build effective relationships with all partner organisations and stakeholders
•  Act as single point of contact to funder and senior leaders internally and externally
•  Ensure partners deliver as per contracted volumes, outcomes, and finance.
•  Work closely with Quality and Improvement officer to deliver our commitments in relation to Working Together for a Fairer Glasgow
•  Coordinate compliant information systems and efficient data management.
•  Coordinate reporting systems in line with contract standards.
•  Coordinate and deliver timely submission of financial claims relating to the contract.
•  Coordinate the reporting of complaints and issues in line with contract standards.
•  Organise and attend All in Glasgow Steering Group meetings.
•  Share best practice and opportunities within internal and external colleagues.
•  Positive and flexible response to change.
•  Ensure compliance with ENABLE Scotland’s practice and policy standards.
•  Managing your time efficiently to respond to additional duties, as required.
•  Representing ENABLE Works and ENABLE Scotland with an understanding of departmental and organisational strategies.

What we need from you

•  Full driving license
•  Knowledge of employability, training and skills structures and systems in Scotland
•  A commitment to workplace diversity and understanding of its benefits
•  Strategic and operational management of employability, skills and training services.
•  Significant experience of managing contracts to performance and quality targets, financial, and service expectations.
•  Experience of a collaborative partnership approach to service delivery
•  Proactive at identifying problem and risk areas and resolving issues
•  Experience supporting internal and external stakeholders to achieve success
•  Implementing change management
•  Delivering high performance and quality to agreed standard.
•  Managing compliance to contractual and legal standards.
•  Excellent stakeholder management.
•  Evidence of influence in leadership.
•  Experience of strategic development and innovation
•  Professional presentation skills and experience.
•  Strategic and operational management of employability, skills and training services.
•  Significant experience of managing contracts to performance and quality targets, financial, and service expectations.
•  Experience of a collaborative partnership approach to service delivery
•  Proactive at identifying problem and risk areas and resolving issues
•  Experience supporting internal and external stakeholders to achieve success
•  Implementing change management
•  Delivering high performance and quality to agreed standard.
•  Managing compliance to contractual and legal standards.

About Us

At ENABLE Scotland we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

•  Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
•  Employee Assistance Programme
•  Cycle to Work Scheme*
•  Season Ticket Loans*

Starting a career with ENABLE Scotland is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

ENABLE Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

*Terms and Conditions Apply