We’re Hiring! Join Standing Tall as our Head of Partnerships
Standing Tall – what we do?
Standing Tall is ending homelessness one person at a time by supporting and matching people experiencing homelessness with stable jobs and safe homes. It’s the combination of a stable job and a safe home that’s providing a realistic pathway for the people we help to leave the streets for good. Our model is working with 80% of the people we help being still off the streets and in the same job one year later!
When a person is ready, we match them into a stable real Living Wage job with one of our employer partners. These include Network Rail, Amey and Lambe Construction. At the same time, we ensure these people have a safe home through our Amici hosting service. After 6 months with one of our Amici Hosts, the person is ready to get their own place.
We’ve been working in Birmingham since 2020, and in London and Manchester since 2022. In September we start to work in Liverpool, Leeds and Bristol and by Christmas we’ll be working in the East Midlands too. This expansion will mean we can double the people we’ll help from 50 to over 100 each year. Last November we won Social Enterprise UK’s ‘One to Watch’ Award. We have ambition to be grow our operations into each large city in the UK.
The role
There are 2 key strands to this role.
Firstly, Standing Tall is a trading charity generating income by charging placement fees to our employer partners. Traded income is currently equal to about 50% of our expenditure costs. The Head of Partnerships will work with the CEO to build partnerships with more responsible businesses to increase this to at least 70%.
Secondly, the Head of Partnerships will work to grow Standing Tall’s charitable income. With the organisation providing a solution for businesses to help end homelessness, this will be our target audience. Using lean start up principles, The Head of Partnerships will work with the CEO to develop relationships with corporates to increase charitable income. The role will aim to achieve targets to increase charitable donations by £40,000 in year 1, by £90,000 in year 2 and by £140,000 in year 3.
To grow this charitable income, the Head of Partnerships will also be supported by one of our trustees who has considerable Corporate Partnerships management experience.
The benefits we’re offering
The role is a hybrid role for 4 days a week (working from home and a local office with some travel within England).
Standing Tall is offering an employment contract with an annual salary of £46,000 pro rata per annum and a NEST pension.
A bit about you:
What we’re looking for:
· A person with exceptional motivation and fire in their belly to develop partnerships that will help deliver social justice. The individual shows drive and capability to put Standing Tall’s purpose and values into action.
· A Resource Investigator. This person is always looking for different ways in which to work. A person who fills the Resource Investigator role seeks to nurture relationships and negotiate on behalf of the team. They are enthusiastic and outgoing people who are happy to work with external stakeholders.
· You will have a strong and successful track record in two or more of the following business functions: marketing and sales, business development in recruitment, business development in the homelessness sector, management of high value relationships, fundraising, CSR, employer engagement.
· A person with exceptional commercial thinking can identify opportunities to build financial surpluses and deliver to secure these. Standing Tall is committed to develop a financially sustainable business model to deliver impact.
· A person with an exceptional commitment to quality will naturally focus attention on delivering the highest standard of relationship management as possible.
· A person with an exceptional ability to communicate can understand organisational key messages and work with key staff to develop these further for key external audiences.
· A person with exceptional leadership to bring all he/she/they has/have to offer to work with others to enable so the best outcome can be achieved.
· A person with exceptional financial competence capable of profiling and reporting on the financial health and resilience of the business and its prospects.
· Understanding of corporate responsibility, with a strong commercial understanding such as negotiating contracts.
· Evidence of securing new partnerships or growing existing partnerships (either in the private or third sector).
How to apply
Here’s the job description for the Head of Partnerships role.
Please email your CV with a covering letter responding to the competencies in the role description to hello@standingtall.org.uk before the deadline of 5pm on Tuesday 27th August.
If you’re shortlisted, you will be invited to an assessment centre day. The assessment centre day in Birmingham will take place on Tuesday 10th September (9:30am - 4pm).
Please keep this date free in your diary. If you do not hear from us, please assume you have not been successful. As a small organisation, we don’t have the capacity to provide feedback.