Collaboration Manager

Are you an experienced Project Coordinator, Partnership Manager, or Collaboration Manager looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact?

Do you enjoy building strong professional relationships, coordinating complex initiatives, and ensuring successful outcomes?

Looking to join a growing consultancy that offers responsibility, variety, and long-term career development?

Gillespie Recruitment are delighted to be partnering with a growing and ambitious consultancy to recruit a Collaboration Manager to join their expanding team.

This opportunity is ideal for a highly organised professional with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills. As Collaboration Manager, you will work across a diverse portfolio of initiatives, supporting governance activities, coordinating partnerships, and ensuring key objectives are achieved.

Working closely with senior leaders and external partners, you will play a central role in driving progress, maintaining momentum across multiple workstreams, and helping deliver successful outcomes.

The Role:

As a Collaboration Manager, you will coordinate partnership initiatives, oversee project administration, and support effective decision-making across a range of programmes.

This is a varied position combining project coordination, stakeholder management, governance support, and business engagement. You will work with both internal teams and external organisations, ensuring actions are completed, priorities remain on track, and objectives are delivered efficiently.

The successful Collaboration Manager will also have opportunities to take ownership of meetings, facilitate discussions, and contribute to strategic planning activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate partnership initiatives and collaborative programmes.
• Prepare reports, updates, recommendations, and supporting documentation.
• Organise and facilitate meetings, workshops, and stakeholder forums.
• Maintain project plans, action trackers, risk registers, and key documentation.
• Monitor milestones, deadlines, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with partners and stakeholders.
• Support governance processes and decision-making activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

About You

• Experience within a Collaboration Manager, Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Partnership Manager, Programme Coordinator, or similar role.
• Experience coordinating projects, programmes, partnerships, or stakeholder-led initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Excellent written communication and reporting abilities.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders and external organisations.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Desirable Experience

• Social Housing.
• Construction, Procurement, or Supply Chain environments.
• Property and Real Estate.
• Local Government, Public Sector, or Consultancy organisations.

What's On Offer?

• Salary of 35,000.
• Opportunity to join a growing consultancy.
• Professional development and career progression opportunities.
• Exposure to senior leadership and meaningful business projects.

Apply Now

If you're an experienced Collaboration Manager, Project Manager, Partnership Manager, Programme Coordinator, Governance Coordinator, or Stakeholder Engagement professional looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Even if your experience doesn't match every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Your skills and potential could be exactly what our client is looking for.

Apply today to take the next step in your career.