Community Investment and Partnership Lead
| Posting date: | 12 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £36,000 to £46,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 April 2026 |
| Location: | Wembley, North West London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Sovereign Network Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7846 |
Summary
Are you experienced in Community Investment and looking for your next role?
This is an exciting opportunity for a community focused individual to join our Communities Team at Sovereign Network Group (SNG) as a Community Investment and Partnership Lead on a permanent basis.
Ideally, you'll be based from our Wembley office, combining both home and office working to ensure a positive work/life balance. Some travel will be required between other SNG offices across our geography and sites across Central London and boroughs.
SNG provides over 85,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose, to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love for generations.
The Role
The role will be at the heart of our London and Hertford delivering Community Investment and partnership actively through commissioning and supporting activity that creates social impact. You will lead in the delivery and ongoing development of a Locality based Community Investment strategy, embedding our Thriving Communities, Customer Impact and Corporate Plan priorities across two localities.
Reporting to the Community Investment and Partnership Manager this post will be embedded with our other customer facing teams and require excellent partnership skills, a focus on delivering social impact, ability to identify opportunities for fundraising and programme development and commitment to customer service with the confidence to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.
Creating, implementing and overseeing the delivery of a wide-ranging programme of interventions in localities
Ensuring that contracts and projects are managed effectively, including performance management that demonstrates our social impact
Ensuring the smooth and effective financial management of projects via contracts and grants, including adhering to procurement and financial regulations
Supporting the Partnerships and Funding team by writing bids that bring in external funding to deliver social impact in our communities
Working collaboratively with Community Investment colleagues to ensure the Thriving Communities vision is delivered in localities
Working effectively with our Grants Officer to support the grant programmes and work with awardees as required
Embedding a framework for social impact and outcomes recording
What we need from you
Ideally, you'll have significant experience and expertise in the Community Investment sector gained from working in a similar role.
You'll need excellent partnership skills, a focus on delivering social impact, ability to identify opportunities for fundraising and programme development and commitment to customer service with the confidence to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.
You'll also have:
A proven track record of positive stakeholder engagement and relationship management, both internally and externally
Excellent communication skills both oral and written, tailored to a range of audiences
Strong organisational and project management skills
Experience of quality assurance of projects, including monitoring and evaluation systems
Confidence with budget management and financial systems
IT literate and able to use technology for effective project delivery
We have some great benefits at SNG, including:
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
3 additional Wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
Enhanced paternity pay - 6 weeks full pay (after 26 weeks' service)
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.
If you would like the opportunity to make a real impact within our changing and growing organisation, we would love to hear from you!
This is an exciting opportunity for a community focused individual to join our Communities Team at Sovereign Network Group (SNG) as a Community Investment and Partnership Lead on a permanent basis.
Ideally, you'll be based from our Wembley office, combining both home and office working to ensure a positive work/life balance. Some travel will be required between other SNG offices across our geography and sites across Central London and boroughs.
SNG provides over 85,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose, to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love for generations.
The Role
The role will be at the heart of our London and Hertford delivering Community Investment and partnership actively through commissioning and supporting activity that creates social impact. You will lead in the delivery and ongoing development of a Locality based Community Investment strategy, embedding our Thriving Communities, Customer Impact and Corporate Plan priorities across two localities.
Reporting to the Community Investment and Partnership Manager this post will be embedded with our other customer facing teams and require excellent partnership skills, a focus on delivering social impact, ability to identify opportunities for fundraising and programme development and commitment to customer service with the confidence to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.
Creating, implementing and overseeing the delivery of a wide-ranging programme of interventions in localities
Ensuring that contracts and projects are managed effectively, including performance management that demonstrates our social impact
Ensuring the smooth and effective financial management of projects via contracts and grants, including adhering to procurement and financial regulations
Supporting the Partnerships and Funding team by writing bids that bring in external funding to deliver social impact in our communities
Working collaboratively with Community Investment colleagues to ensure the Thriving Communities vision is delivered in localities
Working effectively with our Grants Officer to support the grant programmes and work with awardees as required
Embedding a framework for social impact and outcomes recording
What we need from you
Ideally, you'll have significant experience and expertise in the Community Investment sector gained from working in a similar role.
You'll need excellent partnership skills, a focus on delivering social impact, ability to identify opportunities for fundraising and programme development and commitment to customer service with the confidence to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.
You'll also have:
A proven track record of positive stakeholder engagement and relationship management, both internally and externally
Excellent communication skills both oral and written, tailored to a range of audiences
Strong organisational and project management skills
Experience of quality assurance of projects, including monitoring and evaluation systems
Confidence with budget management and financial systems
IT literate and able to use technology for effective project delivery
We have some great benefits at SNG, including:
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
3 additional Wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
Enhanced paternity pay - 6 weeks full pay (after 26 weeks' service)
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.
If you would like the opportunity to make a real impact within our changing and growing organisation, we would love to hear from you!
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