Action for Children

Partnership Development Lead

London

£50k/yr

Posted about 11 hours ago

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Partnership Development Lead

Salary: £50,000 per annum.

Location: Remote (Home based in the UK with occasional travel to our London office).

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Benefits

29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays pro rata, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

As Partnership Development Lead, you will lead a function that secures long term, high value, industry leading partnerships, raising money and awareness for Action for Children to include Corporate partnerships, Third party events, Gift in Kind partnerships and Media partnerships.

You'll help to create brighter futures by:

Work collaboratively across functions and services to devise and implement a vision and approach to Partnership development.
Engage colleagues, teams and key stakeholders to develop and build internal capabilities and infrastructure enable delivery of required outcomes.
Manage a team of 4.
Embed required ways of working to deliver new partnerships and income streams.
Deliver significant new income across varied income streams (strategic, sponsorship, CRM etc) with ambitious targets in the coming years.
Lead on the identification and securing of partnerships to develop and build long-term strategic relationships.
Build an extensive pipeline of new partnership opportunities (in conjunction with the dedicated prospect research specialist).
Work collaboratively with internal teams on development of tailored partnership propositions.
Build networks with key decision makers and influencers within prospective partners and the wider commercial sector.

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Extensive experience of leading new business teams in the charity sector.
Extensive experience of securing high value partnerships in either a charity or commercial sales environment.
Proven experience of building long term effective relationships with high level individual stakeholders.
Experience of securing income from multiple income streams, utilising commercial expertise to create new and cutting-edge opportunities.
Experience of setting, managing and monitoring complex budgets and to track, analyse and report against results.
Experience of motivating and managing teams.
Excellent understanding of, and empathy with, the motivations of current and potential donors, supporters and volunteers.
Excellent interpersonal skills, to build and influence relationships, with a confidence with your team, colleagues and volunteers and to inspire others to achieve.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

Contact

Email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13597.

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Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.