Senior Partnership Manager
- Employer
- Shelter
- Location
- Flexible location but regular travel to cities across England and Scotland required
- Salary
- £37,400 pa (+ London Weighting if applicable) + excellent benefits
- Closing date
- 25 Feb 2021
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- Function
- Fundraising, Corporate Fundraising
- Sector
- Housing & Homelessness
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
12 month fixed term contract
Flexible location but regular travel to cities across England and Scotland required
Closing date: 25th February 2021 at 11.30 pm. Interview date: w/c 1st or 8th March 2021
Does your corporate fundraising/commercial business development and marketing experience include delivering presentations, pitches or public speaking and achieving six figure income targets? Then join Shelter as a Senior Partnership Manager and you could soon be managing one of our Corporate team's largest partnerships to engage employees and customers alike.
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change with individuals, in communities, across society and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our mature fundraising programme has enjoyed continuous year-on-year diversity and growth. Currently, the directorate generates over £35m gross income, of which a high percentage is unrestricted, giving us an exceptional level of investment flexibility. High Value Partnerships covers Major Donors, Trusts & Foundations, Legacies and Corporate fundraising, while our Corporate Partnerships team is split between New Partnerships and Partnership Management. The latter is responsible for managing and developing long term corporate partnerships. It's here that we need your fundraising expertise.
About the Role
As Senior Partnership Manager, you'll be a key player in delivering on our Corporate Partnerships fundraising strategy, retaining long term support from the private sector and growing your portfolio to help tackle the housing emergency. You'll also have a lead role in the management and development of our high-profile, multi-faceted partnerships and help drive the team's strategic priorities. Finding innovative ways to engage businesses and identifying opportunities to maximise income from the private sector will be important aspects of the role too, as will line managing two direct reports and supporting the growth of smaller partnerships within our portfolio.
About you
A great opportunity to make a real impact for the UK's leading housing and homelessness organisation, you'll need relevant fundraising or commercial business development experience that includes identifying and developing new income-generating opportunities. You'll also need a strong understanding of commercial and financial principles and a proven ability to apply them to improve business performance. Adept at setting objectives and managing performance, you have excellent interpersonal skills too. Indeed, engaging a range of stakeholders and conveying your ideas to them succinctly and persuasively comes naturally to you, as does achieving your targets.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
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.
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.
At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
We will be sharing the interview questions with candidates shortlisted for an interview 3 days before the interview.
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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