Job Description

The Strategic Partnerships & Engagement department is responsible for engaging, seeking, and exploring new opportunities with stakeholders from the public, private and people sectors.

As a Manager / Senior Manager of the Strategic Partnerships team, you will build and maintain strategic relationships with many of the different stakeholders within and beyond the arts and culture sector, as well as to launch new relationships, and drive new opportunities for partnerships and collaborations. Your core responsibility will be to build, maintain and evolve strategic relationships with NAC\xe2\x80\x99s stakeholders.

What you will be working on

• Develop Strategic Partnerships framework for the council.
• Develop an understanding of the arts landscape and implement plan Strategic Partnerships plan.
• Proactively develop a pipeline of corporate partners and steward existing corporate relationships with key private sector stakeholders.
• Pitch and craft funding proposals for existing and potential corporate partners to drive new partnership and collaboration opportunities.
• Support and organise meetings with stakeholders/partners at working and management levels.

• Hons degree with 3-6 years of professional experience working in a sales, business development, partnership management role, or a role with a partner-facing component.
• Demonstrate experience in driving successful partnership programmes and events.
• Articulate and strong in both verbal and written communications.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills, and the capacity to develop and maintain strong relationships with diverse stakeholders at all levels.
• Entrepreneurial, open-minded, persistent, collaborative; ability to lead and advise arts practitioners and co-workers from other departments on key partnerships.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about the arts and culture sector.
• Applicants who require work passes need not apply.

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