Partnerships, Manager in London

Job family: Strategy and External Engagement – External Relationships

Location: London, UK

Job level: Middle Management – Grade 3 (Manager)

Salary Range: The recruiting range for this role represents the entry point into the salary band (not the full range). Actual salary will be determined based on skills and experience. UK: GBP 59,591.84 - GBP 73,000.00

Benefits: Visit our Careers page for more information.

ABOUT LUMINATE

Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing. Founded by The Omidyar Group in 2018 and funded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, we are a US foundation with an independent board of directors, operating through entities in the US, the UK, and Kenya. We ask who benefits from a technology, and who is harmed by it.

ROLE

As Manager, Partnerships you will oversee relationships, collaborative initiatives and outreach activities to drive more resources to the global tech justice field, managing convenings, participating in external events, deepening engagement with the funders already in our community and bringing in new partners.

Primary System Focus

Global funder ecosystems – identifying, cultivating, and coordinating relationships with funders to better serve and increase funding to the tech justice field coordinating Luminate’s donor collaboratives on building a better internet.

Secondary Systems Focus

Internal partnership capacity system – working with funding teams to support their engagement with donors, working with operations to keep up with organisation-wide deadlines and pushing forward the partnerships agenda within the organisation to keep people informed.

HOW YOU CREATE CHANGE: LEVERAGE POINTS

• Identifying and cultivating new funding relationships across sectors
• Supporting donor coordination and shared learning across the ecosystem
• Creating tools and strategies that make partnership engagement easier and more strategic
• Designing convenings and engagement programmes that move funders from interest to action
• Internal coordination across partnerships and programme teams.

MENTAL MODELS WE VALUE

• Shared power and inclusion: You seek out the people closest to the problem and give their views real weight, bringing diverse views into routine work as a matter of course.
• Integrity and stewardship: You treat Luminate's money, data and trust as held on behalf of others. You own your commitments and elevate ethical issues.
• Systems thinking: You see how your work connects to wider effects across Luminate and the field. You weigh knock-on efforts before deciding within your remit.
• Evidence over assumption: You test what you believe against data and lived experience before acting, basing your routine decisions on evidence frequently having explanations for them.
• Learning and adaptation: You treat plans as hypotheses and change course when the evidence says so, changing your own practice and communicating what changed.
• Long-term field view: You look beyond single partnership opportunities, observing how the field gets stronger, linking your own events and initiatives to field outcomes.
• Honest influence: You persuade with evidence and keep claims accurate, with donors, media and partners alike. You tailor evidence-based messages to each audience and check claims before they go out.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Individual

• You are responsible for:
• Donor community management with oversight of the Associate Director, Partnerships, managing Luminate’s donor collaboratives and communities.
• Designing and delivering online and in-person engagements.
• Facilitating online calls and webinars.
• Writing and coordinating community communications.
• Seeding and developing new donor communities.
• All associated community management admin.

Events and experiences

• Designing and delivering engagement programmes for funders to move them from interest to action.
• Designing and delivering events and experiences to engage funders in the tech justice field.
• Creating resources and engagement tools.

Shared

• Together with your peers, you contribute to:
• Relationship building: Identifying and cultivating new relationships that further Luminate’s partnerships goals.
• Representing Luminate at external events and in external meetings.
• Incubating and managing collaborative projects with donors.

Organisational processes and learning

• Designing and improving tools, processes and systems to deliver on Luminate’s partnerships strategy.
• Ongoing evaluation and learning of Luminate’s partnerships strategy.

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supporting Luminate’s Policy and Partnerships team on the execution of Luminate’s partnerships strategy.
• Managing consultants and vendors, ensuring contracts are fulfilled to a high standard and meet deadlines.
• Being an active member of the Policy and Partnerships team including contributing to team discussions, strategy and learning on all functions of the team: policy, communications and partnerships. This will include operational work such as processing grants and contracts across these three functions.

COMPETENCY PROFILE

Based in Luminate Competency Framework, this role requires the following competencies at the levels shown:

• C01 Inclusive practice and collaboration (Level 2, Independent): Builds trusted cross-team relationships, explains requirements and uses evidence to resolve routine differences within scope.
• C02 Ethics and accountability (Level 2, Independent): Manages own commitments and ethical issues within policy and authority; escalates exceptions.
• C03 Analysis and judgement (Level 2, Independent): Analyses evidence and context to make sound decisions within own remit.
• C04 Learning and improvement (Level 2, Independent): Uses feedback and evidence to improve own work and explains what changed.
• P03 Partnerships and field-building (Level 3, Advanced): Designs partnerships, co-funding or field-building activity and navigates complex interests.
• S04 Strategic communications and advocacy (Level 2, Independent): Delivers agreed communications or engagement activities and follows review and approval requirements.
• S02 Monitoring, evaluation and learning (Level 2, Independent): Maintains reliable monitoring and reporting, manages defined evaluation tasks using agreed methods, and applies findings within the role’s agreed MEL scope.
• S05 Funding strategy and donor relationships (Level 2, Independent): Qualifies prospects, manages routine donor contact, stewardship and reporting, and prepares proposals within agreed budgets & approval routes.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE

• Community management: Proven ability to manage and grow impactful communities.
• Experience in the full range of community management responsibilities, from strategy to community logistics, IT systems and admin.
• Engaging facilitation style and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Relationships and events: Experience in event design and delivery, from ideation to logistics to evaluation.
• Track record of successful networking and relationship building to deliver results.
• Creative thinking to come up with new ideas to engage donor audiences.
• Organisational excellence: Ability to learn and master operational processes and tools.
• Excellent project management skills and attention to detail.
• Domain knowledge and experience: Interest in tech justice and building a better internet – you do not need to be an expert in this topic, but you must be motivated to work on it.
• Substantial experience in partnerships, philanthropy, community management or events roles.
• A systems thinking mindset, with awareness of your own impact within the systems you are part of or interact with.
• Knowledge of and relationships in the philanthropic ecosystem.
• Experience of fundraising.

Reports to: Associate Director, Partnerships

Manages: N/A

Works closely with: Policy & Partnerships team, Programmatic Funding Lead Teams and Operations Team

TRAVEL & WORKING CONDITIONS

Based in London, UK. Occasional international travel for global team meetings and convenings (6-8 times per year). Flexible working supported, with occasional irregular hours for cross-time zone meetings and traveller safety incidents. Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.