Rethink Mental Illness
Partnership and Development Manager
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Location: Sheffield (Agile - Home-based with regular local travel)
Contract: Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)
Salary - £30,880 per annum
DBS: Basic Check
Help Shape the Future of Mental Health Support in Sheffield
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone affected by mental illness deserves the opportunity to live a better quality of life. As one of the UK's leading mental health charities, we work alongside people with lived experience, communities, partners and policymakers to drive meaningful change.
We're looking for an experienced Partnerships & Development Manager to play a pivotal role in the development of Synergy, Sheffield's VCSE Mental Health Alliance. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled partnership-builder, influencer and collaborator who thrives on bringing organisations together to achieve lasting impact.
About the Role
As Partnerships & Development Manager, you'll be at the heart of a growing alliance of voluntary, community and statutory organisations working together to improve mental health and wellbeing across Sheffield. You'll build and strengthen relationships, identify opportunities for growth and innovation, and help ensure that people with lived experience are central to everything we do.
Working across health, social care and the voluntary sector, you'll support partners to collaborate effectively, influence system change and deliver programmes that improve outcomes for local communities.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll:
- Build, develop and maintain strategic partnerships across the voluntary, community, health and social care sectors.
- Act as a trusted relationship manager for Alliance partners, commissioners, funders and stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for service development, innovation and sustainable growth.
- Facilitate partnership meetings, workshops and learning events that encourage collaboration and shared learning.
- Lead and support projects and programmes, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, timelines and outcomes.
- Champion equity, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice across all aspects of the Alliance's work.
- Use insight, evidence and lived experience to influence service improvement and strategic decision-making.
- Support funding opportunities, business development activity and the long-term sustainability of the Alliance.
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About You
We're looking for someone who can bring people together around a shared vision and create meaningful partnerships that deliver real change.
You'll have:
- Experience developing and managing partnerships across the voluntary, community, public, health or social care sectors.
- A strong track record of building productive stakeholder relationships at multiple levels.
- Experience of delivering collaborative programmes, networks or alliance-based approaches.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills.
- Strong project management capability and the ability to manage competing priorities.
- A commitment to co-production, inclusion and tackling inequalities.
- An understanding of the challenges experienced by people affected by mental illness and a passion for improving outcomes.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're a strategic relationship-builder with the ability to unite partners, influence systems and improve outcomes for people living with mental illness, we'd love to hear from you.
Join us and help create stronger partnerships, stronger communities and better mental health outcomes across Sheffield.
Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:
Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement. We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
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