Senior Partnership Manager (fixed term - 18 months)

REQ000404

£38,500 - £45,000

Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL/Hybrid Working

This is an amazing opportunity to use your experience in managing and leveraging corporate partnerships to save our planet. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world. And at WWF UK we are focussed on doing something about it. One answer is to forge new, high impact and long-term partnerships to catalyse action, change hearts and minds and create solutions to save nature. Which is where your skills come in as a Senior Partnership Manager.

As Senior Partnership Manager, you will take responsibility for one of our largest and most impactful partnerships. We will look to you to ensure it delivers against ambitious impact, income, advocacy, communication and growth objectives. Line managing a small team, you will make sure effective governance mechanisms are in place, share achievements and updates with colleagues and oversee budgets, income and expenditure. You will also develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in our corporate partners and support the team to grow our wider partnership portfolio. You will be responsible for the effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting of partnerships too.

You must have significant experience of managing corporate partnerships in a commercial or charity setting. Used to engaging and networking at a CEO and Director level, you will have an in-depth understanding of how business interfaces with charities and NGOs. You will have a firm understanding of conservation and sustainability issues and trends too. Experience of corporate fundraising and exposure to the finance, FMCG, food or tech sectors would be advantageous.

A team player you are adept at overcoming obstacles, you’ll have tenacity and drive and can demonstrate a commitment to the natural world and WWF’s core mission. Naturally warm and enthusiastic, you will also possess excellent networking, relationship-building communication and presentation skills. You will be a strong project manager, who enjoys strategic planning and a collaborative working environment.

If you have the ability to maximise income, impact and influence opportunities for us through partnerships and are passionate about building a movement in defence of nature, we’d love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up-to-date CV with the Supporting Statement highlighting what makes you a good fit for us.

Application closing date: 31^st August 2022

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF, we are committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.