30 days holiday
Occupational health
Flexi time

Community and Partnerships Manager

Salary £44,352 per annum plus £4000 London weighting if applicable
Location Agile working with occasional travel to London or Leeds offices
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

About the role

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.

The Community and Partnerships Manager will: 

  • Lead UPD’s convenorship role in the health data space; designing, delivering and evolving community events, forums and wider opportunities for collaboration between professional stakeholders.
  • Expand key UPD partnership activity and management of our position in broader alliances and initiatives.
  • Project manage and deliver 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.
  • Work collaboratively with the UPD team to promote UPD’s research, resources and messaging with our audiences, including planned campaigns for new outputs.
  • Horizon scan, gathering examples of best practice and regularly providing the UPD team with strategic insights from the health data community; use these insights to proactively shape data narratives in line with UPD’s vision and mission.
  • Identify funding and commercial opportunities, bidding for and securing new contracts, and project managing, reporting and evaluating these.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you: 

  • Have understanding, awareness and interest in the wider health and data landscape
  • Are a skilled communicator with well-developed interpersonal and influencing skills
  • Have experience in developing and managing complex partnership relationships
  • Enjoy using your own judgement and initiative to work autonomously while also being skilled at adopting a matrix working style
  • Have excellent project management skills

To apply

Please download the job description found at the end of this page and click apply to complete the application form. Please note we do not accept CVs.

For an informal discussion about the post, Understanding Patient Data, and the NHS Confederation before applying please contact anna.steere@understandingpatientdata.org.uk

Application deadline: 27th March 2025 (midnight)

Interview date: Week commencing 7th April 2025 (TBC)

About Understanding Patient Data

Established in 2016, 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.

More information about Understanding Patient Data can be found here: https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/about-us

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.

The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The NHS Confederation is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our staff networks and a staff forum.

The NHS Confederation is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.

You will receive an excellent benefits package, including 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice schemes and travel season ticket loans.

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