{"id":3987744,"url":"https://alion.io/job/the-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager","title":"Partnership & Performance Manager","company":{"id":1965482,"name":"The Fedcap Group","domain":"fedcapgroup.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/fedcapgroup","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":76,"open_postings":35,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.943,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":23,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Preston, United Kingdom","Burnley, United Kingdom","Blackburn, United Kingdom","Crewe, United Kingdom","Macclesfield, United Kingdom","Skelmersdale, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":42000,"max":44000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":59018},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T16:35:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T04:20:43Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Supporting young people. Strengthening partnerships. Delivering results.\nFedcap is proud to be delivering Youth Jobs Guarantee, a transformational programme helping young people overcome barriers, develop skills and move into sustainable employment.\nWorking alongside a diverse network of delivery partners, employers and stakeholders, the programme is designed to create lasting opportunities for young people and strengthen communities.\nAs our Partnership & Performance Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the programme delivers on its ambitions. You'll build and maintain strong partner relationships, monitor performance against contractual outcomes, and support continuous improvement across the supply chain.\nWorking closely with commissioners, internal teams and external partners, you'll use data and insight to drive performance, manage risk, ensure compliance and identify opportunities to enhance service delivery and impact.\nThis is an opportunity to join a purpose-driven organisation and contribute to a programme that is creating meaningful opportunities for young people. If you're passionate about partnership working, performance improvement and making a measurable difference, we'd love to hear from you.\nSalary: £42,000 - £44,000 per annum\nCar Allowance: £3,500 per annum\nLocation: Ideally, you'll be based within reasonable travelling distance of one of our North West offices: Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Crewe, Macclesfield, Preston or Skelmersdale.\nHours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week\nTravel: Regular travel across the region and surrounding areas is an essential part of this role. Business travel expenses are covered.\nWhat you'll be doing\nDevelop and maintain strong, productive relationships with supply chain partners, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and contractual requirements.\nMonitor partner performance against agreed KPIs, service standards and contractual outcomes.\nConduct regular performance reviews, identifying opportunities for improvement and supporting partners to maximise delivery performance.\nEnsure compliance with contractual, regulatory and quality assurance requirements.\nAct as a key point of contact for supply chain partners, commissioners and internal stakeholders.\nAnalyse performance data, identify trends and provide meaningful insights to support decision making.\nProduce high-quality reports and performance updates for senior leaders and programme governance groups.\nWork collaboratively with operational, quality, governance and finance teams to ensure effective contract management.\nSupport the development of new partnerships and contribute to business growth opportunities.\nFacilitate training, networking and best practice sharing to strengthen capability across the partner network.\nIdentify risks to delivery and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.\nRepresent Fedcap at external meetings, events and stakeholder forums. \nWhat we're looking for\nA commitment to our values of Kindness, Respect, Integrity and Innovation.\nProven experience managing partnerships, stakeholder relationships or supply chain networks.\nExperience monitoring performance against KPIs and delivering performance improvement initiatives.\nStrong understanding of contract compliance, quality assurance and performance management.\nExcellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at all levels.\nStrong analytical skills and confidence interpreting data to drive improvement.\nExcellent organisational and project management skills.\nExperience producing reports, management information and performance analysis.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.\nFull UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly. \nIt would be great if you also have\nExperience working within employability, skills, education, health or publicly funded services.\nKnowledge of local labour markets and employment support programmes.\nExperience managing supply chain or commissioned service delivery partnerships.\nProfessional qualifications relating to partnership management, performance improvement or contract management.\nWhat We Offer\nWe’re a mission-led organisation with social value at our core. We’ve been trusted for nearly a century to help people improve their economic wellbeing. We’re a Disability Confident Leader and proud to reflect the communities we serve.\nYou’ll make a real impact: Every success story you help write will be felt in homes, workplaces, and communities across the county.\n\nYou’ll grow: With access to training, reflective practice, and a national network of likeminded colleagues.\n\nYou’ll be supported: We believe in team working, wellbeing check-ins, and manageable caseloads.\n\nYou’ll be part of something bigger: From mental health awareness to inclusive recruitment and sustainable employment, your work contributes to broader change.\n\nEquity, Diversity and Inclusion\nWe’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone is treated fairly, feels they belong, and can do their best work. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and communities, and we value the different perspectives and lived experiences they bring. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.\nFedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and, where required, in the workplace. We will not exclude a candidate with a disability unless they are unable to carry out a duty that is intrinsic to the role, after reasonable adjustments have been considered.\n\nWe are positive about employing veterans, serving personnel, and spouses/partners and family members, as part of our commitment to the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.\n\nAs a Ban the Box employer, we assess applicants on their skills and potential. We do not ask about criminal convictions at the initial application stage, and any relevant information is considered fairly and in line with the role.\n\nIf you need any adjustments to apply for this role or to take part in the recruitment process, please let us know. We’re committed to making our recruitment process fair, accessible and inclusive for everyone.\nBenefits\nAt Fedcap, we offer a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and personal development. Some of our benefits include:\n 33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell additional days.\n£500 annual benefits scheme to spend at over 900 retailers.\nCycle to Work scheme open all year round.\nPension scheme with up to 5% employer match.\nFree life assurance worth 4x your salary.\nHealth & wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.\nDigital gym, mindfulness resources, virtual GP and more. \nAbout Fedcap UK\nIn the UK, Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people’s economic mobility.\nWe support people to find work and access better health, education and learning opportunities.\nWorking across our four integrated practice areas - education, workforce development, health, and economic development - we deliver research-based solutions that remove barriers and open doors to economic mobility and wellbeing for individuals and communities.\nWe’re part of The Fedcap Group which serves more than 332,000 people each year through a network of not-for-profit affiliates in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.\nOur Values\nKindness: Be kind to each other, treat all those around you the way you would like to be treated.\nRespect: Always be respectful to each other, our customers, partners, stakeholders and funders - we are dedicated to exceptional service.\nIntegrity: Act with integrity- always be open and honest in our dealings with all people and stakeholders.\n Innovation: Be innovative - always try to do things better, to look for new solutions that improve our services to customers. \nINDHP","description_format":"text","description_chars":8130,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Equity","Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Career Services","Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T22:14:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:29:50Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":59018,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T06:29:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15140,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1965482},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1965482"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthe-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fthe-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fthe-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/the-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthe-fedcap-group-partnership-performance-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3987744}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"fedcapgroup.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3987744},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}