Partnerships Manager

Charity People are working with the fantastic charity Inspire to find a brilliant Partnerships Manager to join their brilliant team, helping to build on their incredibly impressive corporate partnership programme.

INSPIRE is a local education charity working in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Camden, Islington, Newham, Barking and Dagenham and beyond. Their mission is to improve young people's access to the world of work, raise achievement levels and enhance their future career prospects and lives.

This role would be well-suited to an experienced corporate partnerships fundraiser, looking to grow their career in a successful and ambitious organisation.

* Partnerships Manager
* Salary: £37,500-£41,500
* Permanent, Full-Time
* Benefits
* 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* 3 volunteering days per year
* Family friendly policies
* Hybrid working arrangements

The Opportunity
Inspire are seeking a Partnerships Manager to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Business Development Team and make a significant contribution to the delivery of the charity's high quality services to children and young people, providing them with opportunities and inspiration to enable them to achieve their potential, create a positive future for themselves and open doors to their success.

If you are self-motivated, enthusiastic and confident with experience in successfully securing, managing and developing partnerships from initial prospect research through to contracting and ongoing management, then this role is for you. Working alongside the Director of Business Development and Partnerships, you will support and contribute to the charity's business development strategy with responsibility for managing activity including raising funds for Inspire from a range of sources including corporate partnerships, community fundraising, trusts and foundations.

Key responsibilities of the role include:
1. Writing and submitting applications for new funding to corporates, statutory bodies, trusts and foundations.
2. Researching funding opportunities, competitors and market trends.
3. Developing and maintaining an annual calendar of community fundraising activities.
4. Identifying new business development opportunities and developing a pipeline of opportunities and proposals.
5. Management and growth of Inspire's entry to mid-level corporate partnerships.
6. Working with delivery team colleagues to ensure funders' reports are completed on time and to a high standard.

How to Apply
If this role sounds like your next move, please get in touch with Kevin at Charity People to find out more on how to apply!

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.