Job description
Permanent
35 hours per week, flexible / pro rata requests welcomed
Starting Salary:
£41,189 per annum (London) / £38,390 per annum (National)
Location: Home based with regular travel, or hybrid/ from one of our key offices (London, Chelmsford, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle)
The Senior New partnerships manager is a key senior member of our corporate engagement, and High Value knowledge group. You will be integral in shaping future partnerships, with specialist experience in corporate partnerships.
You'll be accountable for building and maturing a pipeline of high-value partnership prospects across key sectors, developing engagement plans and bespoke proposals and pitches to secure 6 and 7 figure partnerships. You'll be excited to evolve our case for support, create meaningful propositions, and work with colleagues and supporters to drive support to transform society to be built for all children.
You will be joining us at a pivotal time as the organisation launches a new strategic initiative to transform the impact we can achieve with and for young people this decade. This role sits within our Strategic Partnerships and Alliances knowledge group, where we bring together statutory, philanthropic, corporate and political audiences to create impact. Your role will be to identify, cultivate and ultimately secure new high value corporate partnerships.
We are currently looking for an energetic new partnerships specialist to join our dynamic, ambitious team.
[KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES]
In order to be successful in this role, you must have:
-Experience in securing £100K+ corporate partnerships, and pipeline development
-Ability to transform complex data-led information into impactful; and tangible information
-Advanced influencing, negotiation and communication skills
-Strong commercial acumen and ability to align partnership activities with business benefits and priorities
[INFO ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY]
The Children's Society nearly 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.
Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.
The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.
The closing date for applications is midnight on 13th February 2024.
Interviews will be held on the week commencing 19th February.