(Internal Only) Partnerships Account Lead

To deliver our Utilities Partnership strategy. Our priority is to fully fund the £270,000 annual Disability Utilities Services Helpline costs purely from the utilities sector. To support the Utilities team to deliver impact, reach and income for scope.

Permanent - 35 hours per week

Full job description

The role

What are the main responsibilities of this role?

Manage a portfolio of corporate utility partners, driving mutual benefit.
Provide outstanding relationship management.
Support the Lead Programme and Relationship Manager to grow the SUM membership across the Utilities sectors.
Develop and manage the membership programme of activities.
Build and maintain excellent relationships with external stakeholders.
Collaborate with Scope’s services, fundraising and volunteering teams to drive opportunities to develop and engage partners.
Implement effective and efficient systems, processes and working groups to professionally manage the partnership to an exceptional standard.
Support in the set up and adoption of a new CRM system and ensure all processes are maintained in the interim.
Carry out due diligence on prospective partnership organisations.
Meet the agreed income and expenditure targets.

About you

What are the skills and experience you’re looking for?

Do you have experience in externally facing, customer-led roles, developing, securing, and cultivating relationships across the utilities sector? In this role, you will be identifying opportunities for positive impact on disabled people’s lives, widening the reach of Scope’s message and brand, and generating income for Scope.

These activities will include engaging with utilities companies through our Scope Utilities Membership, direct funding of services, in-kind support, marketing / brand campaigns, as well as selflessly amplifying the work of others in pursuit of our end goal.

We ask you to show an appreciation of Scope’s values and our ambition of everyday equality for disabled people.

Our values are being pioneering, courageous, connected, open and fair

By living our values and trusting each other, we give our colleagues freedom and space to be creative, push boundaries and change minds.

Disabled candidates

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our mission. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential job criteria.

Please let us know if you are applying under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

We encourage applications from underrepresented groups including people in BAME and LGBTQ communities.

If you prefer information in a different format, such as large print or Braille, please call us on 020 7619 7752 or email recruitment@scope.org.uk.

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How to apply

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Scope benefits

We believe hard work deserves reward and recognition. We offer a wide range of benefits including:

35 days annual leave in Retail
27 days plus Bank Holidays in other roles
flexible working (where we can)
company pension
excellent training and career development
strong colleague networks across disability, race and LGBTQ
discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme and much more.

Who are we at Scope?

Scope is a disability equality charity in England and Wales. Together we are Disability Gamechangers. We work to a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness. We campaign tirelessly for everyday equality for disabled people.