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Partnership Associate - Social Tech

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£33,000pa
Closing date
21 Oct 2018

Job Details

Partnership Associate - Social Tech

2 Year Fixed Term Contract

£33,000pa

Vauxhall, London SE1

Ref: BMA99156

Comic Relief is becoming a creative agency for a social change, an agency that is proud to be bold, confident and even edgy. As one of the nation’s most loved brands Comic Relief is at an exciting and transformational stage in its development.

Whilst super serving our existing audience with refreshed comedy content and entertaining ways to give and participate though our flagship events of Red Nose Day and Sport Relief, we are looking to develop new ways to engage new and existing audiences to attract the next generation to care, buy, do and donate. It’s not all about the money – it is also about the impact we’re having and the changes we are making to people’s lives. 

As one of Comic Relief’s key cross-cutting approaches to social change, Social Tech is a fast-developing area of our portfolio, funding innovative solutions to social challenges. The Partnership Associate – Social Tech will manage the partner-funded Tech for Good and Tech vs Abuse portfolios in the UK. The Partnership Associate – Social Tech will manage the partner-funded Tech for Good and Tech vs Abuse portfolios. They will lead on the associated grant making, and act as the day to day point of contact for our funding partners. They will represent Comic Relief’s Social Tech work internally and externally, helping to build on our position as a leader in this sector.  

To apply please visit our website via the link.

We positively welcome, and seek to ensure we achieve, diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people and we will guarantee a first stage interview to all disabled applicants who sufficiently demonstrate in their application how they meet the essential criteria for the job as outlined on the person specification in the job description.

Comic Relief is a Disability Confident - Committed employer

Registered charity 326568

Successful applicants will need to undergo a DBS check.

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Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.

And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.

As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:

"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.

Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.

It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"

AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:

Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.

On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.

Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.

Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.

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