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Title:Â Corporate Development Executive
Salary: £32,944 per annum
Location:Â Hybrid Work Culture. We are proud to promote a truly hybrid work culture, recognising that every role is different and everyone has unique needs and preferences.
Our Hybrid Work Arrangement empowers each team member to work with their manager to choose the most effective way to work that balances your needs and Hospice UK’s.
Our office is a short walk from King’s Cross station in London. For this role, we need someone to come into the office at least one day a week, on a Tuesday. A day where all of Income Generation and Grants come into the office. You can work remotely for the rest of the time. Equally, you may prefer to work from the office full-time. We encourage all colleagues to visit member hospices to help inform our work and you may be able to work from there.Â
Contractually this role is London-based.
Contract:Â Permanent, full time (35 hours per week)
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 2 years (+ an extra 10 days on each 5th year)
- Matched pension scheme up to 7% of salary
- Support for staff with caring responsibilities
- Family-friendly culture
How to Apply: CV and supporting statement - using Hospice UK’s supporting statement document – see below.
Closing date for applications:Â 12-noon on Monday 17 March 2025.
Interview dates:Â
Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March 2025. Interviews will take place in person at our office. Hospice House, Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JG. Remote interviews available on request
We’ll send questions and assessments to you in advance so that you can prepare. Let us know if you have any specific needs to be able to fully engage with the process.
The Role:
This role will support the Corporate Development Manager on all of Hospice UK’s Commercial Partnership activity. This involves helping to build relationships with more than 70 businesses across all industries, to secure £350k+ for Hospice UK.Â
You will communicate and work directly with organisations from healthcare, insurance, digital, sustainability and more, who want to collaborate with hospices on a range of different products and services. You will help the Corporate Development Manager to steward each company with a personalised communications plan to help move them from transactional to long term strategic partnerships, where organisations return each year and sponsor multiple projects.
Our Commercial partners exhibit at our conferences, sponsor reports, speak at webinars, support our newsletters and attend our events.Â
You will also support our Hospice UK Jobs Board. You will support the creation of a marketing and sales plan to ensure the Jobs Board can reach its potential and lead on the day to day management of job postings. This is an income-generating platform that promotes career opportunities within hospice and end of life care.Â
This role will suit someone who is already working in sales (doesn’t need to be third sector), or has an interest to grow their skills in this area and a willingness to learn. Our Commercial team over the years has been built on people from travel, conference and health sales backgrounds. The role does include administrative tasks.
This role will be a key part of our Corporate Development Team, who are responsible for bringing in around 20% of Hospice UK’s income.
The Team:Â
We are a team of two that sit within the wider Corporate Development Team and Income Generation and Grants Directorate. The Commercial team includes the Corporate Development Manager and Corporate Development Executive.Â
Our Corporate Development Team build partnerships with businesses, through commercial activity, fundraising and strategic support.
Our diverse portfolio spans across four key areas:
- Commercial
- New Business
- Partnerships
- Compassionate Employers (workplace wellbeing programme)
How to apply
If you would like to apply for this role, please send the following documents to recruitment@hospiceuk.org by 12-noon on Monday 17 March 2025.
- Your CV. Ideally in Microsoft Word format and less than 3 pages of A4.
- A completed supporting statement form (where you can demonstrate how you meet the person specification.)
- A completed equalities monitoring form.
We will shortlist candidates based on their CV and supporting statements.Â
A briefing of what to expect will be sent in advance to shortlisted candidates for interview.Â
Closing date for applications: 12-noon on Monday 17 March 2025
We believe in fair recruitment and working to remove bias, so all applications will have identifying indicators removed before being submitted to the shortlisting panel.
Please make sure you provide your contact details in your email. We’ll contact you to let you know whether we would like to meet you. Please note the interview dates above and let us know if there are adjustments you might need to participate fully in the process. We will try to be flexible.
To be considered for this role you must have the right to live and work in the UK for your application to be progressed. Hospice UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
