You will be joining a small but passionate team consisting of a Head of Corporate Partnerships, a Corporate Partnerships Manager and two Corporate Partnerships Officers. We have secured some fantastic high-value and long-term partnerships in the past few years such as Barratt Foundation and Morgan Stanley. We have an exciting ambitious target of £2.8m for the year ahead and you will play a key role in bringing in this income. At a time when interest in children’s mental health has never been stronger, this is an exciting time to be joining our dynamic organisation and make a real and tangible difference to children’s futures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of corporate partnerships, delivering first class stewardship to increase engagement, value and longevity of support to deliver maximum potential for Place2Be.
- Lead on targeted new business approaches, developing a sector strategy to focus your time effectively, including identifying prospects, managing your pipeline and utilising the networks of the Development Board.
- Steward relationships with key decision-makers within our corporate partners demonstrating excellent communication skills and integrity, liaising with Directors, CSR Managers and executives to deliver partnership objectives.
- Create comprehensive partnership delivery plans including fundraising calendars, communications plans, KPIs and reporting schedules and partnership key messaging.
- Develop tailored and creative approaches, propositions, proposals and pitches for prospects.
- Accurately forecast and manage partner budgets to meet team income targets.
- Work with the Head of Corporate Partnerships to agree and deliver the team strategy and income targets, working to the wider team target as well as your own personal target.
- Line management of a Corporate Partnerships Officer, ensuring that their workload and portfolio is appropriately set, their development is progressing and that they are working to team targets and to individual objectives that are agreed with them.
- Work closely with the Communications team to ensure PR and media objectives relating to all aspects of corporate fundraising are met.
- Deliver strategic engagement opportunities for corporate partners, working closely with school-based support to do so. Actively look for ways to improve team processes and show initiative in leading changes to these.
What you will need:
- Demonstrable experience of working in a corporate partnership’s role or another fundraising role, or relevant experience/ transferable skills
- Good experience on managing a team and collaborating with different teams within the business.
- Experience of working towards and achieving ambitious financial targets and deadlines, or other non-financial targets and KPIs
- Experience of building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of organising fundraising, volunteering and engagement events, or equivalent events
- Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
- Ability to plan, prioritise and meet deadlines
- Strong team player – effective relationship builder who is able to work effectively with diverse client groups and the team at Place2Be
- Knowledge of charity/fundraising legislation or willingness to learn on the job
- Creativity and energy in delivering events for partners
For a career with purpose, this is your place.
Recruitment Process:
As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on 26 February 2025
1st Interview date: 06 March 2025
2nd Interview date: 12 March 2025
Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.
Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
- Annual Leave that increases with service
- Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
- 5% contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance of four times your annual salary
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
- Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time
- Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organization.
Should you require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email [email protected]
Please note if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply asap.
Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment which includes a DBS check.