Corporate Partnerships Manager
Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 per annum, or pro-rata (depending on experience)
Location: Hybrid working – They ask their colleagues to be in there for at least 60% of their working week
Contract: Permanent contract – 40 hours per week. They are open to either 1.0 FTE or 0.8 FTE contracts. Hours worked are generally flexible and certainly you are not tied to “9-5”.
Benefits: 33 Days annual leave including bank holidays pro-rata; Free gym access; Access to OnSide’s Talent Academy; Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme; Free staff meals during sessions; Discounted holiday club for dependants on working days
Main Purpose
This post will play a leading role in our client’s Fundraising Team, developing their corporate fundraising capabilities and growing this income stream with a six-figure sum annual fundraising target.
The Role
Using your skills, you will develop and deliver our client’s corporate fundraising strategy, raising new business income whilst stewarding their current corporate partnerships. You will actively drive forward new ways in which corporates can engage with them and raise additional funds including but not limited to, challenge events, in-aid-of events, employee fundraising and corporate team days.
This is an excellent role for an experienced Fundraiser looking to take the next step in their career with the opportunity to pilot new ideas and manage key relationships.
As well as raising vital funds, you will help raise awareness that they are a charity within the local community. Through creating successful fundraising campaigns and building strong and meaningful relationship with local businesses in Croydon, you will make a key contribution to ensuring young people have a safe, affordable and inspiring place to go in their leisure time.
About Our Client
Our client was opened in September 2019. They are an independent Charity, but they are proud to be part of the growing OnSide Network whereby they have adopted a set of principles that guide their work with young people.
Their universal offer is focussed around a state-of-the-art, multimillion pound facility that is purpose built and remains dedicated to young people. They work with young people aged from 8 – 19 (up to 25 with additional needs) and offer an array of activities for young people to get involved in. They pride themselves on being open when young people need them the most, during evenings and weekends, and whenever schools are closed.
Since opening, they have had nearly 16,000 young people sign up as members of which around 60% are male and 40% are female. At times during their opening months 1,400 young people were visiting every week, making it a go to destination for Croydon’s next generation.
Person Specification
Essential Experience:
- Proven corporate fundraising experience.
- Experience of building relationships and partnerships with individuals, businesses and other groups that have resulted in sustainable income.
- Experience of planning and managing events including monitoring budgets and expenditure.
- Experience of using a CRM system for logging and tracking fundraising activity.
- Experience of working closely with Trustees (or other senior volunteers) on fundraising.
- Ability to make face-to-face approaches for funding from corporate donors and to negotiate the ask.
- Outgoing, personable, confident and results driven individual.
Skills, Knowledge & Aptitude:
- Good numeracy skills and ability to analyse and report on your own financial performance.
- Great at building and developing relationships that are meaningful and long lasting.
- Knowledge of how to optimise fundraising messaging to raise awareness among different stakeholders and generate return on investment.
- Outstanding communication skills, written, verbal and presentational, to a range of audiences (prospective and existing donors, Trustees, colleagues etc.).
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills, to enable building positive personal and organisational relationships and convey Unitas’ work with confidence and credibility.
- Ability to think conceptually and creatively, to develop profitable fundraising products and proposals for supporters.
- Strong organisational skills, with a structured and methodical approach to work, a clear focus on results, and an ability to work to multiple deadlines.
- IT literate and basic competence with the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Commitment to our client’s values.
To apply, please complete the application process by submitting a Cover Letter and CV.
