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Corporate Partnerships Manager
Location: Southampton, Hampshire (1 - 2 days in the office per week)
Salary: circa £65,000 per annum
Reports to: Fundraising Manager
Term: Permanent
Working hours: We’re open to flexible working
Aquilas are delighted to be supporting a wonderful mental health charity based in Hampshire in their search for a new Corporate Partnerships Manager to join the charity’s small but mighty fundraising team.
About the role:
The main purpose of this role is to develop and deliver our approach to maintain and grow corporate fundraising income, to support our mission to improve mental health in Hampshire. You will join us at an exciting time, having just launched our new three-year strategy, and this role is pivotal in helping us achieve our strategic ambitions in the years ahead.
The role is to lead the corporate fundraising activities, which have grown significantly over the last five years. This will include maximising support through Charity of the Year relationships and participation in activities, events and challenges, and by securing one-off gifts in support of the charity. You will research and build our corporate pipeline and support the delivery of our wider employer engagement which covers all aspects of employment engagement including fundraising, training and mental health employer service.
This role is within the charity's fundraising team, and the successful candidate will manage and be supported by the Corporate Fundraising Officer.
About you
You will be an experienced corporate fundraiser or have relevant relationship fundraising or B2B sales experience, together with a proven track record in meeting and exceeding financial and other targets. You will be an effective communicator with excellent written and presentation skills. You should possess good negotiating and influencing skills, as well as excellent relationship management skills, and be highly pro-active and skilled in generating new business leads and moving warm prospects through the ‘sales’ cycle.
You will demonstrate the ability to motivate and develop your direct reports and will ideally have experience supervising both staff and volunteers.
Benefits
- Flexible working to promote a healthy work/life balance
- 25 days’ annual leave rising incrementally to 30 days per year (pro rata for part-time)
- Pension plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Season ticket and cycle-to-work scheme
The closing date for applications
Interviews commencing 18 November 2024
To apply
For further information about the role, or to arrange a confidential conversation, please contact:
Kieran McGorrian, Recruitment Partner | kieran@aquilas.co.uk | 0775 125 0774
Aquilas are wholly committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applicationsfrom all suitably-qualified candidates. We are truly invested in our candidates and being supportive and informative throughout the application journey
