Beyond that network, we're looking for:

• A proven track record. You should be able to point to specific corporate partnerships, sponsorships, or business development wins you've personally secured, ideally involving charitable or CSR budgets.
• Relationship and negotiation skill. You're comfortable approaching senior stakeholders, structuring propositions that work for both sides, and negotiating terms through to a signed agreement.
• Commercial understanding. You understand how businesses think about CSR, sponsorship, and partnership value, and you can translate our impact into a proposition that makes commercial as well as moral sense to a corporate audience.
• Project and time management. You'll be managing multiple relationships at different stages simultaneously. We need someone who can manage that without anything slipping, bringing their own structure and discipline to the role.
• Genuine independence. This is a self-directed role. You'll have full access to our team, our data, and our stories, but you won't have someone checking in on you daily. We need someone who sets their own priorities and targets and is comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy.

Above all, we're looking for someone who wants to put a valuable network to direct use for a cause they believe in, and who's excited by the challenge of building a corporate partnerships function from a strong base rather than from nothing. If that's you, we'd love to hear from you.

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What will you be doing?

Action Change is an international, community-led development charity, currently active across Southern Africa and Central America. We're small in number but mighty in impact our on-the-ground programmes, from coastal restoration to education and healthcare, are transforming communities who own and lead the change themselves. We've been doing this work for over 20 years, and we know it works. What we're missing is a senior corporate partnerships professional who can open the right doors for us.

That's where you come in.

We're looking for someone to build and lead our corporate partnerships strategy, ideally bringing an existing network of business contacts rather than starting from a cold list. You'll take ownership of the full partnership cycle identifying the right companies, activating relationships to open conversations, and structuring propositions that work for both sides.

Day to day, this means:

• Activating your existing business network to introduce Action Change to relevant corporate prospects
• Building and prioritising a pipeline of companies whose values or CSR priorities align with our work
• Structuring partnership propositions, from sponsorship to CSR tie-ins to employee giving and payroll giving
• Leading negotiations from first contact through to a signed partnership
• Reporting on pipeline and results, and refining the approach as you learn what resonates

You'll work closely with our CEO and our small team, who know every project inside out and can give you the stories, data, and evidence you need to make a compelling case to corporate partners. We're not looking for someone to sit on the sidelines waiting for direction. We need someone who can take the brief and run with it, setting their own priorities and pace.

This is a genuinely senior, strategic role, not an entry point into fundraising or business development. We're looking for someone who has already led corporate partnerships or business development elsewhere, who moves comfortably among senior corporate stakeholders, and who can work independently without needing close oversight. If you've spent years building this exact network and skill set and are looking for a cause where it will make a visible, direct difference, we'd love to hear from you.

The time commitment is flexible and entirely self-directed. This can be worked around an existing career, in the hours that suit you, from wherever you are.