Senior Partnerships Manager
Sheffield
New Jobs
Permanent
£49,850 - £56,850 a year
- Drive the Stop! Think Fraud campaign, utilising innovative strategies to promote behaviour change and contribute to fraud prevention efforts.
- Ideal candidates should possess a strong background in communications, excellent relationship-building skills, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- This full-time position is based in Sheffield, with a competitive salary, additional allowances, and extensive learning and development opportunities available.
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London pay locations: Westminster £53,850 - £56,850
Plus a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) of £3,800pa
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Job summary
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
The Corporate Services Group works closely with the Home Office?s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department?s priorities. The group is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Communications, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Private Office, Security, Estates and Information.
As a member of the Communications Directorate, you will be supporting our mission to deliver outstanding public services that work for everyone.
You will join a multi-disciplinary team with colleagues based across the UK, working together to deliver the Home Office?s communications strategy.
We believe a positive, open and supportive culture is essential to help everyone deliver their best work. We value diversity and provide an inclusive and encouraging environment for our team members. We nurture our talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities to help you fulfil your potential.
Job description
Launched in February 2024, Stop! Think Fraud is an innovative behaviour change campaign which has made a positive impact in the fight against fraud, by helping the public and small businesses to both identify potential fraudulent approaches and take action to protect themselves.
Partners are critical to the success of the campaign - ensuring people see our messages through multiple channels and credible voices they trust. Working with organisations we can ensure we use every opportunity to engage and influence our audiences.
As a Senior Partnerships Manager you will be responsible for developing, managing, and growing strategic partnerships with private, public and third sector partners to support the Stop! Think Fraud campaign objectives.
Responsibilities
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Refining and developing the campaign partnership strategy with the aim of increasing the sustainability, value and breadth of partnerships secured.
- Employing creative and effective relationship building and networking skills to enthuse and inspire partners to work with us. Nurturing a portfolio of existing partners, ensuring high levels of engagement and satisfaction, and identifying new partnership opportunities aligned with campaign priorities.
- Leading collaboration discussions and the design of partnership activity, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes and risk mitigation.
- Leading the development, delivery and evaluation of impactful campaigns with partners, collaborating with external and internal teams including insight, media, digital, marketing, external affairs and policy.
- Providing regular updates on the performance of partnership activity to Senior Civil Servants, Special Advisors and Ministers.
- Keeping up to date with best practice in partnership management and developing a network of peers across government to share best practice and learnings with.
- Supporting wider campaign activity as needed.
Working patterns
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
Please also note that whilst the appointment is permanent, the position is expected to conclude after two years. Should the role cease to exist or organisational requirements change, you may be placed into the redeployment process in accordance with Home Office policy. In such circumstances, we will make every effort to identify a suitable alternative position; however, if no suitable role is available, the Restructuring, Redeployment and Redundancy (RRR) policy will apply.
Person specification
Essential criteria
You must be able to demonstrate experience of:
- Partnership management or stakeholder engagement, influencing internal and external stakeholders at all levels and building and managing productive relationships;
- Sourcing, analysing and prioritising relevant sources of data and insight to inform communications activity;
- Developing and delivering proposals and presentations;
- Leading the development, delivery and evaluation of partnership campaigns designed to drive behaviour change, including working collaboratively with internal and external communications teams; and
- Strong organisational and project management skills; able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Familiarity with public communications in a large complex organisation.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Communications - Implementation
- Communications - Insight
Benefits
In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
- 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
- Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
- Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
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Selection process details
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.
1. Application ? by 30th August 2026.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
- a CV
- a Personal Statement (maximum 750 words)
Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications, and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV and Personal Statement), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
2. Sift ? from 2nd September 2026.
The sift will be held on the Personal Statement and CV.
Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the CV. Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift that will consist of all the remaining elements submitted (Personal Statement). Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the initial sift will not have their remaining submitted elements scored and will only receive a sift score for that assessed at the initial sift.
3. Interview ? from 23rd September 2026.
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) and Technical Skills based questions. All Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the selection process will be scored at the interview.
In addition, candidates will be asked to prepare a 10-minute presentation that will be delivered at interview. The presentation question/scenario will be provided to you with your interview invitation (should you be successful at sift). The presentation will be assessed against the 'Experience' Success Profile, specifically the 'Essential Criteria' listed in the job advertisement.
The interview will take place in person in either our London or Sheffield offices.
Please note travel expenses incurred by attending an interview will not be reimbursed.
For guidance on the Technical skills, please refer to the Government Communication Professional Competency Framework:
GCS Government Communication Professional Competency Framework
For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.
Problems during the application process
If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you?ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.
Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.
Further information
Location preferences
You can select up to three locations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred locations and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.
Reserve lists will be held for each location. Candidates will be appointed in merit order by location.
Breaking Tied Scores
The behaviour, technical and experience skills have been ranked in order of importance to enable us to differentiate between candidates with tied interview scores.
Standards
All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Criminal Record Check
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Additional Security Checks
As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the ?Assistance Required? section in the ?Additional Requirements? page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ?Contact point for applicants? section.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
See our vetting charter .
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
Diversity and Inclusion
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
- Email : HORCCampaignTeamCorporateEnablers@homeoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
Sheffield
New Jobs
Permanent
£49,850 - £56,850 a year