Partnership Executive

Work closely with Mentors and Team Leads to understand where young people need additional support or opportunity.

Build relationships with organisations that can add meaningful value to the participant journey.

Create purposeful pathways rather than simply producing a directory of services.

Make it easier for frontline colleagues to know who can help, what they offer and how to access that support.

Where several organisations are involved around a young person, encourage joined-up working and warm connections.

5. Connect local intelligence

Bring together what frontline colleagues, participants, partners and local systems are telling us.

Identify recurring themes, gaps and opportunities.

Share useful intelligence with the Operations Manager and wider Wise Group colleagues.

Help distinguish between an isolated issue and something that may be telling us something bigger about a place.

Make sure the experience of local communities informs organisational thinking.

6. Turn intelligence into opportunity

Look beyond immediate programme delivery.

Where local intelligence, partner priorities and participant experience point towards a wider opportunity, connect the right colleagues across the Wise Group.

Help turn relationships into collaboration.

Help turn collaboration into stronger pathways, influence or future opportunity.

Contribute to the Wise Group's developing Community and Place approach by bringing grounded, local intelligence into the conversation.

7. Work collaboratively across Jobs Guarantee

Work closely with Employment Pathways colleagues so employer and wider partnership activity complement rather than duplicate one another.

Work with Quality Improvement & Innovation so partner feedback and local insight contribute to service learning.

Support the Operations Manager with key relationships and emerging issues.

You'll build a strong understanding of Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Argyll & Bute - recognising that each place has its own priorities, systems, relationships and opportunities.

You'll know who matters locally.

You'll understand what relationships already exist.

You'll listen to what partners are telling us.

You'll identify gaps, opportunities and emerging priorities.

And you'll make sure that intelligence is useful to the wider Wise Group.

This isn't about building a large contact list or measuring success by how many meetings you attend.

It's about turning relationships into insight, collaboration, pathways and opportunity.

Jobs Guarantee will also operate in places where Wise Group colleagues already hold important relationships.

Your role isn't to take ownership of those relationships.

It is to connect them, make them visible where appropriate and help the organisation get greater collective value from what we know and who we know.

What you'll do

1. Build trusted strategic partnerships

Develop and maintain strong relationships with DWP and Jobcentres, local authorities, community and voluntary organisations, education and skills providers, housing, health and other relevant local systems.

Understand what matters to partners, the communities they serve and where our work aligns.

Represent the Wise Group confidently.

Build relationships around shared purpose rather than transactional referrals.

Help partners understand Jobs Guarantee while also being able to describe the wider Wise Group and the impact we can bring.

2. Understand and map place

Maintain an active understanding of each Jobs Guarantee delivery area.

Know:

the important organisations and networks;

the key local decision makers;

what Wise Group relationships already exist;

local priorities and emerging changes;

where there are gaps in support;

what partners are telling us about people and communities;

where investment, commissioning or collaboration opportunities may be developing.

Make this intelligence visible and accessible rather than holding it personally.

Recognise that different places require different approaches.

3. Connect rather than own

Work closely with existing Wise Group leaders and relationship holders.

Before establishing a new relationship, understand whether one already exists and who is best placed to lead or join the conversation.

Bring colleagues together where one relationship has relevance across several parts of the Wise Group.

Share information openly.

Help avoid duplicate approaches from different parts of the organisation.

Support a culture where relationships belong to the Wise Group rather than an individual colleague or programme.

4. Strengthen participant pathways