Community and Partnerships Manager
- NHS
- Full Time
- Westminster
- 44352.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Public trust, transparency and open debate are increasingly recognised as prerequisites for harnessing the power of health data to improve and save lives. As the health data professional community rises to meet this challenge, UPD aims to play a pivotal convening role - bringing together patient advocacy groups and charities, research organisations, industry partners, civil society and healthcare professionals. By better coordinating engagement activities, achieving economies of scale in resource production and sharing best practices, we can learn from each other and enhance our collective impact.
Main duties of the job
The Community and Partnerships Manager will lead on establishing a mix of forums, channels and events that maintain opportunities for connection and collaboration across the health data community. They will nurture partnerships and pursue opportunities to grow our network. In doing so they will promote our work and actively seek out fundraising and income generation opportunities that support future sustainability.
About us
The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Understanding Patient Data (UPD) is an independent initiative, hosted by the NHS Confederation, designed to support better conversations about the use of health data to improve patient care, population health, planning and research. Working with patients, charities, researchers and healthcare professionals, UPD has built a solid reputation as a trusted source of advice and objective, engaging research and information about the use of patient data in the UK.
Job responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Leading UPDs convenorship role in the health data space; designing, delivering and evolving community events, forums and wider opportunities for collaboration between professional stakeholders.
- Expansion of key UPD partnership activity and management of our position in broader alliances and initiatives.
- Project management and delivery of products for the health data community such as briefings, articles, roundtables and consultation responses that may be developed with strategic partners or by other parts of the team as required.
- Working collaboratively with the rest of the UPD team to promote UPDs research, resources and messaging with our audiences, including planned campaigns for new outputs.
- Horizon scanning, gathering examples of best practice and regularly providing the UPD team with strategic insights from the health data community; using these insights to proactively shape data narratives in line with UPDs vision and mission.
- Identifying funding and commercial opportunities, bidding for and securing new contracts, and project managing, reporting and evaluating these.
- Working with the team on specific projects on a responsive basis to support the live debate on the use of health and care data.
- Representing UPD at external events and meetings deputising for the Head of UPD as required.
- This role operates in a matrix working environment and requires the postholder to see the bigger picture and understand the potential impact of their own activities on UPD and the NHS Confederation.
- The postholder achieves a broad perspective by establishing and maintaining wider connections and visibility across networks both internally and externally.
- Depending on experience and interest, there may also be the opportunity for line management of the Senior Communications Officer.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Understanding, awareness and interest in the wider health and data landscape, its key developments and stakeholders.
- A skilled communicator with well-developed interpersonal and influencing skills in order to build good working relationships and communicate messages effectively at a senior level.
- Experience in developing and managing complex partnership relationships across health, charity, private and/or public sectors to deliver products/outputs.
- Flexible and ability to reorganise and reprioritise work at short notice, using own judgement and initiative.
- Ability to work autonomously and organise own work to meet demanding deadlines.
- Excellent project management skills, including monitoring and evaluation and experience of managing projects through to successful delivery.
- Proven track record of adopting a matrix working style in order to achieve greater impact and outcomes.
Desirable
- Demonstrable commercial awareness and experience in identifying and developing commercial opportunities.
- Experience of successfully bidding for funding, delivery of projects and reporting to funders.
- Experience of managing and supporting others work, either through direct line management experience or through less formal leadership, coaching, or mentoring relationships with less experienced individuals.
- Project management qualifications or equivalent
- Previous working relationships with national bodies such as NHS England, LGA or other membership or professional or academic bodies.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Confederation
Address
Calls Wharf 2
The Calls
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 7JU
