Foundation Partnerships and Projects Manager

Charity People are excited to be working in partnership with the fantastic team at The Barratt Foundation, to find a brilliant Foundation Partnerships and Projects Manager. This role will lead in the delivery of their national charity partnerships programme, covering employee fundraising, volunteering and charitable projects across the business.

The Barratt Foundation launched in 2021 to draw together, professionalise and grow charitable giving at Barratt Developments PLC, and is an independent UK registered charity that is solely funded by an annual donation from Barratt Developments PLC.

The Foundation supports good causes across the country and donates over £4m each year to make a difference in communities all across the UK, including those where Barratt operate. Principally they make an impact through our national charity partnerships and a number of grantmaking programmes.

Since the Foundation launched in 2021, it has donated over £12m for 1,000 charities nationwide, as well as delivering a portfolio of highly impactful national charity partnerships helping over 100,000 young people each year.

Salary: £45,000-50,000

Location: London

Flexible working - with an expectation of splitting time between the office, charity partners, Barratt Divisions and home.

London Office: Central London office and East London Office - with an expectation of at least 2 days a week in the office.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 per week

Benefits:

This role also comes with an extensive benefits package, including:

• An opportunity to earn up to 10% bonus
• Generous Pension Scheme - with 5% minimum employee / 10% maximum employer contributions
• 26 days holiday with additional day every 3 years service up to a max of 29 days
• Ability to buy/sell holiday
• Single Private Medical with Annual Health Assessment

The Role

This role is the perfect opportunity for someone with extensive knowledge of corporate/charity partnerships who can deliver against the Barratt Foundations charitable strategy, delivering impact across a large number of charity partners, and using their expertise to maximise fundraising, volunteering and communication objectives.

Additionally, the role involves recruiting, briefing, and supporting Barratt colleagues to increase employee fundraising, volunteering, and involvement in charitable activities across the business. Proactive engagement with Barratt Divisions and employees to raise the profile of the Foundation is essential. The role also requires leading important projects across volunteering, fundraising, governance, and reporting to support the Foundation in its exciting start-up phase. The role also includes working with the Employee Communications team to develop clear and compelling adverts, case studies, and news articles about Foundation activities.

About you

The role will be perfect for someone who can demonstrate:

• Experience managing corporate / charity partnerships
• Experience in managing volunteering and fundraising activities and events
• A passion for the charity sector and creating social impact
• Experience managing high value corporate charity partnerships as well as colleague engagement activities.
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to inspire others
• Ambitious, with the ability to drive improvements and constantly evolve
• Excellent project management skills
• Working well as part of a small, dynamic and entrepreneurial team

If this role incredible role sounds like your next move, please get in touch with to find out more on how to apply!

First stage interviews are provisionally scheduled for 12^th August in person, with second stage w/c 19^th August. There is potential flexibility on these dates.

We actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion and would love to hear from candidates from outside of the sector with transferrable skills.

At Charity People, we match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, 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.