Senior Partnership Development Manager

Senior Partnership Development Manager 
Reference: JAN20243003 
Location: Flexible in UK* 
Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum 
Contract: 22 Months 
Hours: Full Time 
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days annual leave

About the job
This charity is expanding their HQ Corporate Partnerships team as they continue to build on recent successes and increased public awareness of their efforts to collaborate with businesses, enabling collective action in support of nature's recovery.

Your work with this charity will allow you to play a vital role in raising awareness of the crisis that nature is facing and to make a significant impact in restoring habitats, saving species from extinction, and providing opportunities for people of all ages to connect more closely to nature - protecting it for the future.

About the Role
The Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager will be responsible for driving significant income growth from corporates - working with brands and businesses to reach challenging targets. Your role will incorporate close involvement in the ongoing stewardship of prospects and improvement of this charity's offer through engagement with stakeholders across the organisation. 

This role will focus on securing investment through natural capital markets, including biodiversity net gain, as well as the organisation’s wider corporate partnership offering. You will be working closely with colleagues in Conversation Investment, Business Conservation Advice, and the wider Business Engagement function to deliver high-value partnerships which will have a significant impact in the fight against the dual nature and climate crisis. 

What the employer needs from you
The post-holder will be someone who thrives in relationship management and successfully securing new partnerships.

The successful candidate will have significant B2B new business experience and a proven track record of securing complex corporate partnerships with strategic communications packages and financial values of £1m+.

*Flexible location with regular travel across the UK to visit partners and attend events alongside scheduled working at the HQ in Sandy, Bedfordshire with team members - currently monthly.

Essentials:

• Experience in securing high-value, multi-dimensional partnerships in the private or third sector.
• Able to take a leading role in the Partnership Development strategy, generating ideas, bringing external insight, and delivering on agreed areas of work.
• Experience in developing and implementing ambitious sector strategies and producing tailored new partnership propositions that meet corporate and this organisation's objectives.
• Able to proactively generate leads, build networks, and influence others, both internally and externally to secure multi-dimensional £1m+ value partnerships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective proposal writing and correspondence to internal and external audiences.
• CRM system experience

Desirables:

• Knowledge of natural capital markets including Biodiversity Net Gain and Voluntary Carbon markets

The right is reserved to make this role permanent at any time.

Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 12th May 2024 
Please note: The right is reserved to close this advert at any time.

Interested?

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This charity is committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve their vision of creating a world richer in nature, they need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, they are particularly interested in receiving your application.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

No agencies please.