Director Of Development

Full time (flexible working options available)

Location: England / Homebased

Closing Date: 20 February 2024

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Save the Children UK has an existing opportunity for passionate and dedicated individually to join us as our Regional Corporate Partnerships Executive. We are excited to receive applications from individuals who are looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to advance their career while making a difference in the world.

Please note: This role may require UK-Wide travel up to 20% of the time for networking opportunities, team and partner meetings.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About you

As our Regional Corporate Partnerships Executive, you will play a vital role in maximizing Regional Corporate donations. Through effective supporter-led acquisition, research, and account management, you will contribute to the broader Regional Fundraising team's success. Your responsibilities will include identifying key prospective companies, managing a personal portfolio of partnerships, and supporting the team in achieving an ambitious income target.

In this role, you will:

• Support the Regional Fundraising team by identifying and researching key prospective companies.

• Manage and develop a personal portfolio of lower value partnerships, ensuring exceptional stewardship and maximizing income.

• Oversee the team inbox, handling unsolicited corporate partnership enquiries and triaging requests.

• Collaborate cross-organizationally to identify and maximize fundraising opportunities.

• Ensure that all corporate partnerships adhere to Save the Children's principles and guidelines.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Experience managing supporter relationships, preferably corporate.

• Proficient in using CRM databases, preferably Salesforce.

• Demonstrated experience in building and securing new corporate partnerships.

• A good understanding of corporate fundraising rules and regulations.

• Experience in undertaking research and analyzing data.

What we offer you:

• Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.

• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.

To apply please visit our website via the apply button. 

Closing Date: 20th February 2024

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.