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Senior New Partnerships Manager

Employer
Shelter
Location
London
Salary
£39,887 pa inclusive of London Weighting + excellent benefits
Closing date
21 Jun 2018

Job Details

Closing date: 21 June 2018 at 11.30pm

We’re looking for a personable individual with corporate fundraising/commercial business development and marketing experience to join us as Senior New Partnerships Manager and identify, develop and deliver some truly innovative new business opportunities.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

The Corporate Partnerships team is part of an award-winning fundraising division that generates over £35m gross income a year and has seen continuous diversity and growth.  We are responsible for increasing our voluntary income by delivering new corporate contacts and partnerships to fulfil our mission to help more people. Over the past year alone, we have been successful in building long term partnerships with B&Q, HSBC and M&S Bank, securing both cash and in-kind or pro-bono support. Join us, and you could soon be playing an important part in our future successes.

About the Role

Securing long-term, high value corporate partnerships across a range of disciplines, with a focus on Charity of the Year and strategic partnerships, is the challenge here. As well as gaining new business from a variety of supporters, you’ll develop lasting relationships, boost brand awareness and deliver innovative and tailored pitches and presentations to senior business leaders. We’ll also rely on you to line manage a New Partnerships Assistant and help them develop their potential. Identifying prospects, presenting creative propositions, monitoring performance against objectives and contributing to the delivery of the team’s strategy and plan – all are aspects of this high profile role.

About you

As well as proven relevant experience, you’ll need a strong understanding of, and ability to apply, commercial and financial principles to improve business performance. We’ll also be looking for the interpersonal skills to engage a range of stakeholders and build a strong network of potential funders to support our mission. Adept at managing the day-to-day delivery of complex relationships/projects, you convey ideas succinctly and persuasively too. What’s more, you are great at delivering presentations/pitches, have a proactive, results-driven approach, lots of creativity and, above all, a track record of achieving six figure value new business or income targets.

Benefits include 30 days’ annual leave, the possibility of flexible working, enhanced family friendly policies and significant opportunities for learning and development.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

For further information about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Company

The housing crisis is now a national emergency.

Shelter was founded 52 years ago, not by the wealthy or powerful, but as a community organisation whose purpose was to change society. That means we’re needed more now than at any time in our history: for millions of our fellow citizens the fundamental human need for a safe home is ignored.

Forget finding who’s to blame for this. Shelter is here to do far more than just point out what’s gone wrong. We are here to put it right, and that’s why our aim is for this strategy to be nothing less than a turning point for both Shelter and our country.

Without a home, no one can achieve their full potential. With millions whose right to a home is under threat, neither can the country. We believe that because the need for a home is so all-consuming, a home is a basic moral right, and everything we will do from now will be done to defend that right.

We’ve all talked so much about the ‘housing crisis’ that we’ve stopped believing it can be solved. The phrase has become like wallpaper. But this is a national emergency, and one that demands fearless, ambitious action.

In developing this strategy, it’s been vital to start with our own people: those who rely on our services, our volunteers, our employees. We aim to rebuild a movement, stronger than ever, and a movement must start with a simple idea that unites everyone within Shelter, our best advocates. Change starts here, in our work with individuals, spreading through communities, and across society.

We identify in this strategy six million households whose right to a home is either denied or under threat at this very moment. Soaring rents that squeeze out food and clothing, being thrown out of your home through no fault of your own, simply being too poor to afford a home: the terror of homelessness is everywhere.

Many are living in grossly unfit and unsafe conditions, adults and children whose lives are blighted by fear and despair. Discrimination is rampant in private renting and we have lost sight of the simple fact that we need a home just as much as we need healthcare and education. We are building the fewest social homes in 70 years, at a time when more and more people desperately need them.

In Shelter’s services, our people work tirelessly to alleviate the sheer destitution they see day in and day out. We will be a rock in the storm every day for those who need us. But our aim is bigger – to cut this suffering off at source – and we acknowledge in this strategy that we can’t do it overnight, neither can we do it alone.

For the first time, Shelter is committing in this strategy to ten-year goals as well as three-year goals so we can be confident of building to the necessary changes over the next decade. And at the same time we commit in this strategy to building the movement of people who will make this change possible.

We plan in the next three years to have 500,000 supporters join us in our mission to respond to this emergency, through campaigning, volunteering and donating. It is people that can power the change we seek.

This national emergency has been decades in the making. Now is the moment to act together with one purpose. In the community, our hubs and shops will be magnets for everyone with a role in ending the national emergency. Nationally, we will work with everyone who sees the desperate need for change: no one group or party is to blame for the emergency, and no one group or party can end it either.

Shelter: it’s a fundamental need and a basic moral right. Please join us to defend it.

Polly Neate, Chief Executive

Helen Baker, Chair

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