Head of Corporate & Community Partnerships

Location: Cannock, Staffordshire. Hybrid working options available.

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £50,000-£55,000 depending on skills and experience

Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week

About Our Client

As one of the UK’s leading charities providing essential specialist equipment to disabled and terminally ill children, our client is dedicated to making life better - for the families they serve, and for the people who help them to make that happen. Through grants and emergency equipment loans, they ensure children get the vital equipment they need, when they need it, while their free nurse helpline offers crucial support and information – as well as a listening ear. Their campaigns help to give disabled children and their families a voice, even being instrumental in changing laws to benefit the families they serve. And they support adults with additional needs with volunteering and employment opportunities, providing a means for career development.

Our client believes that disabled children should get the better future they deserve. For 30 years they have provided disabled children and their families specialist equipment, growing to become the largest charitable provider of essential equipment for disabled children in the UK and the only one offering an emergency response, delivering items directly to family homes within just 72 hours. They also run a free, national nurse-staffed helpline.

Job Description

They are looking for a skilled, experienced, and ambitious Head of Corporate & Community Partnerships to join their growing fundraising team at our client.

The Head of Corporate & Community Partnerships will report to the Director of Fundraising & Marketing who, as a member of our client's senior leadership team, will be responsible for delivering a transformation in their fundraising activity, performance and positioning, with the full support of the CEO and the trustee board.

The Head of Corporate & Community Partnerships is an important role for our client and will be responsible for implementing the corporate and community fundraising strategy.

This pivotal role will focus on implementing our client’s corporate and community fundraising strategy.

The Head of Corporate & Community Partnerships will actively generate new corporate partnerships through proactive engagement, while also overseeing community fundraising activities to ensure all opportunities are fully leveraged.

Corporate Key Role Accountabilities:

1. Develop and execute a corporate fundraising plan to leverage existing relationships with stock donors and identify and proactively approach new corporate supporters, both regionally and nationally to maximise income over a 3-5 year period.
2. Develop relationships with key internal and external stakeholders that will facilitate and support the corporate fundraising strategy, for example via insights or introductions to their networks.
3. Lead the development and delivery of key pitches and presentations to corporate prospects that demonstrate genuine business and societal benefits of supporting our client.
4. Leverage opportunities to enhance their brand via corporate partners, while also protecting the reputation of their brand and name.
5. Build a strong network of loyal partners who will support our client for the long-term and deliver sustainable fundraising income.

Please read the full Role Profile/ Job Description for more information about this vacancy including responsibilities and full person specification.

To apply please submit your CV and covering letter outlining how your skills and experience meet those of the role requirements. Please note applications without an accompanying covering letter will not be considered.

No agencies please.

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