Partnerships Services Manager

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Closing Date:

2 November 2026

Closing Date:

2 November 2026

• Annually:£48,748-£54,164 per annum plus home based allowance , mileage.
• Region:Northern Ireland
• Location:Belfast - Lanyon Building
• Department:Local Services
• Vacancy Type:Fixed Term
• Working hours per week:35
• Duration of Fixed Term:12 months
• Closing Date:2 November 2026

The NSPCCs purpose is to prevent child abuse and neglect of children across the UK and Channel Islands. We have been fighting for childhood for the last 130 years and our organisational strategy for 2021-2031 is enabling the NSPCC to achieve greater change for children and inspiring others to join us in the fight for childhood.

Our services help children who have been abused, protect children at risk and find the best ways to prevent child abuse from ever happening. We work directly with children and families through our national and regional hubs across the UK and Channel Islands. We also give support to thousands of adults and young people in need through NSPCC Helpline and Childline. We work with schools up and down the country through our Speak Out Stay Safe programme, helping children to keep themselves safe. And our projects such as Together for Childhood help children who have experienced abuse, support parents, and work to transform the way communities come together to prevent child cruelty.

Our local services support children and families throughout the UK and Channel Islands. We provide therapeutic services to help children move on from abuse, as well as supporting parents and families in caring for their children. We help professionals make the best decisions for children and young people, and support communities to help prevent abuse from happening in the first place.

The Partnership Services Manager will form an integral part of our local services offer, identifying, building and working in partnership with external partners, local stakeholders and communities across Northern Ireland.

Linked to the NI Hub this role will evolve and develop as we grow our local services offer in Northern Ireland.

By its very nature the Partnership Services Manager role will require a high degree of internal strategic and operational interface with other departments within the Services directorate, and with other directorates more widely across the organisation, including, but not limited to , our Income Generation and Strategy and Knowledge directorates. This will ensure our 'one NSPCC geography' is embedded within our relationships with external stakeholders.

The post holder will be the key point of contact for our SBNI work leading the NSPCC work across all 5 SBNI panels. They will continue to build and maintain our existing relationships externally and contribute to the identification of new relationships across NI and assist the Assistant Director with same.

Is this role right for you?

• Experience of multiagency working supporting the development and delivery of services with local communities will be key
• Do you have a strong experience of relationships with a range of partners from different sectors and backgrounds and evidence of working effectively with staff from different disciplines and levels in organisation both internally and externally?
• Are you flexible in your approach and have the ability to work as an effective member of a management team?
• Do you have excellent interpersonal, influencing and networking skills and an ability to establish credibility with external professionals and stakeholders?

In keeping with our values and our policies, if any individuals who are regrettably at risk of redundancy apply for a role and meet the minimum essential criteria they will be given priority consideration. We hope that you understand our position on this and that this will not discourage from applying. We cannot predict who, internally, will apply for a role, or whether they will meet the minimum essential criteria. Where no at-risk candidates meet the minimum essential criteria, all applications will be considered as normal.

Supporting Documents

• Policy on storage handling use retention and disposal of DBS PVG and Access NI disclosures (227.92 KB)
• Our Benefits (5.84 MB)
• Recruitment of ex-offenders policy (268.33 KB)
• Safeguarding Statement (455 kB)
• Inclusive Recruitment Practices (943 kB)
• EDI Action Plan (677 kB)
• Becoming Trauma-Informed (3 MB)

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

At the NSPCC we are on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed organisation for the children, young people and families that we work with, as well as our staff and volunteers. To be trauma-informed is one of the guiding principles that shape and guide our 2021-2031 Strategy. This means understanding the nature of adversity, trauma, and resilience so that we can work towards reducing and preventing further harm and promoting recovery and healing. Coming to work at the NSPCC will provide the opportunity for you to join us in our commitment to becoming a trauma-informed organisation.

NSPCC is that the NSPCC highly embraces,

encourages and promotes diversity and

inclusiveness of staff.

Siobhan Walters / Children's Services

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