Senior Partnerships Manager

Senior Partnerships Manager

Location: Hybrid or Homebased
Contract Type: Permanent/ Full time
Salary: £34,000 to £40,000
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog friendly offices.

Are you a talented corporate fundraiser with a proven track record of success looking for a new challenge? This could be the role for you!

Canine Partners' mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.

To help us create amazing partnerships, we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Partnerships Manager to join our dedicated fundraising team.

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of our essential work that transforms lives every day.

What you will do:

The Senior Partnerships Manager is responsible for driving significant growth for Canine Partners through corporate and community fundraising.

You will be passionate about providing exceptional supporter care when identifying, cultivating, and maintaining high-value corporate partnerships. You will lead the community engagement team, giving support and direction in building strong relationships with small businesses, schools, social groups, and other community partners.

You will create and foster good relationships with both community and corporate volunteers; developing and implementing comprehensive strategies to recruit, engage, and manage volunteer networks.

What we\'re looking for:

• Proven track record of success in corporate fundraising.
• Experience in developing and implementing fundraising strategies.
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Proven ability to manage budgets and achieve fundraising targets.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and meet deadlines.
• You will be confident in your ability to work on your own initiative and as part of team. Ideally, you will have previous experience in community fundraising and writing funding proposals.
• Most importantly, you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.

We can offer you:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Year-end closure period
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Charity sick pay
• Life assurance
• Wellbeing portal
• Free on-site parking and accommodation
• Dog friendly offices

This role can be delivered from our purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire (hybrid), or remotely from home with some travel, including to our training centre, for events, meeting with fundraising partners and related activities as appropriate. You must have a full UK driving licence and/or the ability to travel in line with the requirements of the role (claimable expenses for business travel as required). We will provide a laptop and mobile phone for use in the role.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.

Please be aware we reserve the right to close this advert ahead of the closing date should we find a suitable candidate before then. Please be assured that we contact all our candidates on the outcome of their application, this may take longer if we receive high volumes of applications.

First stage interviews are scheduled to take place online (via MS Teams) in the week commencing 19th August 2024.

Second stage interviews are scheduled to take place at our National Training Centre, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire in the week commencing 26th August 2024. We recognise the benefit of diverse experiences; we welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are a disability confident committed employer.

You may have experience in the following: Partnerships, Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Senior Partnership Development Manager, Strategic Relationship Manager, Senior Collaboration Manager, Senior Partner Relations Manager, Community Fundraising Manager, Senior Community Partnerships Manager.

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