Corporate Partnerships Executive

Salary: £31,133.37 (plus London Weighting of £5,023.71 if applicable)
Location: Old Street London (with flexibility to work from home)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: Wednesday the 22nd of January at 11:30pm

Are you looking to develop a career in partnership management and corporate fundraising? Are you passionate about the private sector's role in helping to tackle homelessness? If so, this is a great opportunity to join an award-winning team as Corporate Partnerships Executive and play a key role in driving our fundraising goals forward.

About the role

This role sits within our Partnership Management team in the Income Generation directorate, and you will be working with the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager to deliver strategic partnership activity in line with Shelter's organisation goals.

You will play a key part in the success of our employee fundraising, leading on engagement activities for one of our large, existing partnerships that generates over £1m in income for Shelter.

You will also manage a diverse portfolio of five and six figure partnerships across multiple sectors, delivering high quality colleague, customer fundraising and commercial campaigns that require presenting Shelter's cause effectively to a wide range of audiences.

The role needs someone with a proactive approach and creative flair for developing and executing new partnership activities. It will also involve collaborating on additional projects that support the wider Corporate Partnerships team strategy and managing elements of partner finances, including income forecasting, updating our supporter database and supporting the team.

About you

You will be proactive with excellent relationship-building and communication skills, and the ability to convey complex ideas succinctly, and confidently to a wide range of audiences.

You will have experience in corporate fundraising, partnership management or account management and be able to strengthen relationships with existing partnerships to grow fundraising income. You will have attention to detail and be able to work across multiple projects in a busy team environment, planning your workload effectively.

Importantly, you will also have a passion for social justice and share Shelter's belief that everyone has the right to a safe home.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

About the team

The Income Generation Directorate at Shelter comprises of 5 departments, delivering a mature fundraising programme that has seen continuous year on year diversity and growth. The directorate generates over £48m gross income each year, of which a high percentage is unrestricted.

Our Corporate Partnerships team is split into two areas - New Partnerships which generates income by securing new relationships with private sector businesses, and the Partnership Management team, where this role sits, is responsible for the growth of Shelter's voluntary income by managing and developing existing corporate partnerships spanning a variety of sectors. And, as the division as a whole continues to grow and develop, it's a truly exciting time to join us.

How to Apply

Please click 'Apply for Job' below. You are required to submit a CV and a one-page expression of interest. This should be relevant to the points in the 'About You' section of the job description attached to this advert and align with the following behaviours below.

• We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
• We work together to achieve a shared purpose

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It's our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

Safeguarding statement

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

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