Social Impact Strategic Relationships & Strategy Consultant

Job title:

Social Impact Strategic Relationships & Strategy Consultant

Company

Nationwide

Job description

As a building society, we were born out of community and have always had a strong social purpose. This year we launched a new Social Impact strategy, Nationwide Fairer Futures that is shaped by our purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society. Nationwide Fairer Futures aims to tackle three of the biggest issues we see in society today – youth homelessness, families living in poverty and people living with dementia. Through partnering with three leading charities, Centrepoint, Action for Children and Dementia UK, we will make a difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. The partnerships are focussed on funding transformational programmes, headline support of key campaigns with wide ranging colleague and customer involvement.The new strategy will involve working with flagship charity partners to deliver activity and programmes to engage our colleagues, customers and communities and help transform thousands of lives.You’ll be supporting the Strategic Relationships & Strategy Manager to maintain the operational charity partnership relationships – helping to create an external reputation as ‘the’ organisation that charities want to be partnered with.You’ll also help to manage and support a network of motivated, informed, aligned, and adaptable champions that ensures Social Impact activity, and practises are embedded across the Society.You will be working closely with other areas/teams to source and interpret customer and societal insights and research to identify areas to evolve Nationwide Fairer Futures for future focus or short-term support.The team is also the front door for business-wide stakeholder engagement, providing support to the business to maximise Social Impact opportunities.You will be confident and capable to drive and facilitate engagement with the Social Impact narrative, programmes and partnerships.It’s an exciting time to be in Social Impact and we are looking for someone to join us who has the drive, ambition and passion to make the most meaningful impact on customers, communities, and society.This role is within the Customer Brand and Engagement Function, which is responsible for building and maintaining Nationwide’s brand and reputation both for customers and colleagues.The Social Impact team ensures that the 1% of pre-tax profits that Nationwide’s puts to good causes is spent in a responsible and impactful way that connects colleagues, customers and the wider community with our brand in positive and meaningful ways.At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.For this job you’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you’ll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our London or Swindon office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to .If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.What you’ll be doingBeing able to manage multiple activities in a planned and thoughtful way is important in this role. An ability to quickly build relationships with colleagues, third party suppliers and charities will help you to be critical. Thinking creatively but also with the ability to get stuck into the details to keep everything running smoothly will be important in this varied role.You’ll be a go to person for our charity partners and colleagues, building great relationships and fostering an environment of collaboration.You will support the Social Impact Ambassador network who are a critical audience to keep informed and engaged with each part of the Social Impact team.You’ll be working on campaigns and projects engage colleagues and customers with Fairer Futures. So that means you’ll be heavily involved in creating outstanding communications and collateral, and executing impactful, memorable moments for colleagues and customers.You will be adaptable to work on different projects with a constant focus on operating with best practice principles and supporting the team evolving and improve our processes and ways of working.You will be relentless in supporting and championing the Social Impact agenda. Seeking opportunities to maximise the impact of the available budget and creating a culture of support, collaboration and high performance.About you

• Able to prioritise and manage multiple, high-profile activities at the same time.
• Experience in creating and maintaining project plans
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work to deadlines and under pressure with a calm and flexible attitude when things change or don’t go to plan
• You’ll enjoy building relationships with a variety of teams within Nationwide and with our charity partners
• Has good creative judgement, and is experienced in reviewing / developing new ideas
• A good understanding and experience of running project budgets
• Driven and proactive, able to work independently and as part of the team.
• Passionate about making a difference to society and local communities.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight – This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better – This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done – This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.The extras you’ll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us differentNationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.What to do nextIf this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.Please note that should you be successful in securing this role the job title on our internal systems will be social Impact Consultant.#LI-POST

Expected salary

Location

London – Swindon

Job date

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:54:14 GMT

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