Corporate Partnerships Manager

Would you be proud to help businesses fly the flag year-round for Manchester Pride, as their new Corporate Partnerships Manager?

Manchester Pride is committed to expanding the charity's reach and impact to ensure they continue furthering LGBTQ+ equality and meeting the needs of queer communities. You'll help to continue the work of diversifying income sources, with this new and exciting opportunity at the heart of a new income generation strategy.

Salary: £36,000

Location: Hybrid between home and vibrant city centre offices

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours full-time, or reduced hours considered

Benefits: 26 days + bank holidays, 6% employer pension contribution

Culture: Inclusive, collaborative, supportive and life/family friendly

Manchester Pride is one of the leading LGBTQ+ charities in the UK. The charity is pioneering in its approach to LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality, spearheading the modern Pride movement. They are a local charity with international reach. You'll be joining a mission to create a world where LGBTQ+ people are free to live and love without prejudice and where queer culture is universally celebrated.

About the role

Manchester Pride is most famous for its annual programme of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Inclusive (LGBTQ+) events in Greater Manchester, which each year bring more than 200,000 people together to celebrate queer life. Community-focussed initiatives are at the heart of its organisational strategy, which incorporates the delivery of an internationally acclaimed and hyper-localised experience, be?tting a city at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse.

This brand-new Corporate Partnerships Manager is all about developing strategic relationships with companies and business leaders who want to dive deeper with Manchester Pride, and create even greater impact for queer communities - all year round. You'll support businesses to power up their ESG and CSR strategies with initiatives like Charity of the Year, as well make strategic alliances with organisations to create inclusive and fairer spaces - both internally for their employees and externally for the wider queer community.

Practically on a day-to-day basis, you can expect to:

• proactively identify and qualify partnership opportunities;
• develop and steward relationships;
• think creatively and tactically to develop compelling proposals;
• lead pitches and represent Manchester Pride at key meetings.

About you

We're looking for a passionate and skilled fundraiser or business development professional, with experience of meeting ?nancial targets. You've got a proven track-record of building corporate partnerships from the ground up, seeing them right through from lead generation to implementation and demonstrating impact for both charity and business.

Here's what we'd love to see come through in your application:

• Evidence of building a prospect or sales pipeline;
• Ability to build new relationships, as well as expertly steward current ones;
• Meeting targets, with a hungry approach to exceeding and smashing them;
• Confident in pitching and presenting;
• Emotionally intelligent with caring, compassionate attitude to teamwork.

Of course, we welcome folk from the queer community to apply. We would be equally as keen to hear from allies willing to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights and make the world a safer, fairer and more inclusive place.

Either way, you'll be able to talk passionately about opportunities to support Manchester Pride and inspire businesses to proudly get involved.

If you're as excited by this opportunity as we are, then what are you waiting for? Please send a copy of your profile or CV to Amelia Lee at Charity People as the first step.

Deadline: 9am on Friday 9th August
Interview dates are currently being confirmed

Please get in touch as soon as possible if you are interested, we would love to begin conversations with interested candidates early.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender or gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.