Job Description
Job Title: Corporate Partnerships Officer
Reporting To: Corporate Partnerships Manager
Salary Range: £30,000 - £33,000
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid London (Old Street, Canary Wharf)
Working days/hours per week: 35 hours per week, 9am 5pm, Monday Friday
Requirements: As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do ask questions regarding unspent criminal records.
Our Vision: A UK where No good food goes to waste .
The Felix Project and FareShare have recently merged to form the UK's largest food redistribution charity. Its vision is a UK where good food is never wasted, and nobody goes hungry.
The organisation rescues high quality edible surplus food, from across the food industry and gets it to over 8,000 organisations across the UK who are working to strengthen communities and improve lives.
The charity manages seven depots across London, Suffolk, Merseyside and Hampshire and works with 16 network partners who operate a further 26 regional depots across the UK.
Over the next year our ambition is to rescue enough food nationally to provide nearly 200 million meals, turning an environmental problem into social good with measurable impact for people, planet, and the economy.
Purpose of the Job
We are looking for a talented individual to help manage and support on implementing their corporate partnerships strategy. This role will sit within our growing Corporate Partnerships Team as part of the wider Fundraising & Marketing Team. The purpose of this role will be to lead on the development of new business in conjunction with the Corporate Partnership Managers, while also building upon our existing pipeline of future opportunities.
As a key member of the fundraising team, we expect the Corporate Partnership Officer to actively contribute to the implementation of our fundraising strategy.
Your focus will be to ensure income growth from corporate sources and activity based in new business development however there will be some account management responsibilities alongside this. There will be a focus on management of the corporate pipeline and highlighting relevant opportunities to the wider team.
As a growing team we have networks and pipelines in place but there will be a requirement for the post holder to innovate and develop new ways of working in-line with the fast-paced operational requirements of the charity.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Corporate Fundraiser looking to take the next step in their career to build and develop new high value corporate relationships across a number of sectors.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategy
Play a role in implementing the fundraising strategy, allocate time to plan budgets, meeting specific financial and organisational objectives, targets and KPIs.
New Business
Proactively source and develop leads for future funding opportunities and partnerships, taking them through our prospect journey from identify to close
Working with internal stakeholders to transform ideas, projects, and priorities into strategic fundraising proposals
Identify and build relationships within brand new industries for the charity.
Support on implementing an attractive volunteering ask to a range of Corporate Partners
Utilise current supplier relationships to leverage income generating activity
Support on the development of pitch and proposal materials.
Account Management
Support current and new partnerships, setting goals, and developing partnership agreements, developing strategic relationships with a view to long term retention and over achievement on targets
Provide inspirational and emotive reporting, showing impact of support
Drive corporate participation in key events such as World Hunger Day and Food Waste Action Week.
Administration
Undertake routine financial management of partnerships
Work with internal stakeholders to create and implement effective fundraising reports through our Fundraising CRM
Effectively create and maintain up-to-date records on our Fundraising CRM
Provide regular analysis and income and expenditure reports
Provide regular activity and pipeline update reports
Undertake appropriate thanking for the fundraising and volunteering efforts of our corporate partners
Actively contribute to Corporate Partnerships Meetings and Fundraising Team Meetings.
Measures of Success
Achieving income targets for existing partners
Acquisition of new partners
Retention of and increased support from existing partners
Positive stakeholder feedback.
Your normal duties and responsibilities will be set out in your job description. However, the charity may require you to perform other duties from time to time.
Recruitment Timeline
We reserve the right to close advertisements early and we might assess candidates and arranging interviews as applications comes in, so please apply as soon as possible, to avoid missing out on this opportunity.
Due to the anticipated large number of applicants, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of your application, we regret to inform you that your application has been unsuccessful. Consequently, will not be able to provide feedback.
