Senior Partnership Officer - Organ Donation

Job summary

You will work directly with the Digital Organ Donor Register Team at NHSBT, collaborating closely with key partner contacts. Drawing on your existing knowledge, skills, and expertise, you will develop and manage national relationships aimed at driving a consistent and sustained increase in organ donor registrations. These efforts will contribute to raising the organ donation consent rate, ultimately helping to reduce the transplant waiting list.

In addition to supporting the department lead and key internal and external stakeholders across the NHS, you will be expected to work independently, using your initiative and discretion to shape the role and its impact.

This position will be instrumental in enhancing existing digital pathways across both public and private sector industries, and where necessary, creating new ones to influence behavior change and improve consent rates for organ donation.

As part of the Communications and Engagement Directorate, you'll engage with a wide range of audiences to drive performance. With a strong emphasis on capability building, you'll have access to coaching and development opportunities from the department lead and wider team.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for delivering the success of national and regional Digital Organ Donation Partnerships and to ensure that we have the right volume and mix of organ donors to meet patients needs, today and in the future. Your resposnibilties will include:

• Developing, implementing and evaluating a component of the partnership strategy in support of the organisations aims and objectives.
• Initiating and developing strategic digital partnerships with strategically relevant organisations and companies; to help raise awareness and deliver organ donor recruitment
• Having significant experience of partner outreach and management, they will work closely with relevant colleagues to ensure that contact and work with partners and stakeholders is managed consistently and effectively
• Working closely with the donation register team to ensure that opportunities for building user-centred redirects to the organ donor register are delivered as partnerships are effectively progressed

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.