Partnerships Manager (CSM Innovation)

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The opportunity

The Partnerships Manager is an exciting and engaging role that works across the college to build sponsorship and partnership collaborations with external organisations. Focusing primarily on attracting partners from the corporate sector, this role proactively generates and delivers suitably rewarding packages to the clients, whilst ensuring clear benefits to staff and students across the College. Visit Partnerships and sponsorship | Central Saint Martins (arts.ac.uk) for examples of the types of partnerships this role manages.  

You will be joining CSM Innovation – a team that works with college staff to deliver bespoke partnerships and projects that expand innovation capacity within businesses, communities and local government. We generate income and impact for the college and opportunities for our students and graduates whilst delivering wider benefits for our partners & society. 

We aim to be the first choice for organizations that want to ignite innovation and imagination in their work, and to be globally recognized as experts in creative collaboration, designing radical partnerships for a better future.  

About you

You can deliver compelling proposals and presentations with a natural ability to inspire support from executive level clients across different sectors. You will be confident in prospecting and proactively approaching clients to secure new business, in addition to having excellent client management skills to both retain and develop existing relationships. You have an impressive track record in sales or fundraising, preferably with experience of the creative, HE or third sector. 

Degree educated or with equivalent qualifications or experience. Knowledge of HE and/or the creative sector is desirable. 

UAL is committed to addressing the under-representation of staff from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, using our student profile as a reference point.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive pension and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please email the CSM Resourcing Team on: 0207 514 7885 or email: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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