Partnerships Officer

About Us  

akt is the UK’s national LGBTQ Youth Homelessness charity. We provide safe homes, mentoring, and support to ensure that no young person needs to choose between a safe home and being who they are. 24% of young people facing homelessness in the UK identify as LGBT (National Scoping of LGBT Youth Homelessness, akt, 2015) and 78% of LGBTQ+ young people cited an absence of family support (The LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Report, akt, 2021). The charity was founded in 1989 and operates service centres in London, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol and works online through a Digital Service to offer support to young people outside of our four office regions. akt works with over 800 vulnerable young people a year providing both face to face and online assistance.

The Team 

This role sits within London as part of the Fundraising team and reports directly to the Senior Partnerships Manager. 

Job Summary 

This is a temporary role on a one-year fixed term contract. 

Akt has experienced 200% growth  in corporate partnership income over six years and now works with over 80 corporate partners including Flying Tiger, Marks and Spencer's, Morrisons, Oliver Bonas and Blackstone. Partnerships is a key growth area for us over the next 5 years and the Partnerships Officer role will support the Senior Partnerships Manager to develop key relationships with corporate partners, helping to steward and cultivate strong multi-year partnerships to drive income, pro-bono resource, volunteering and marketing/brand awareness. The Partnerships Officer will take a particularly active role over the summer Pride season, attending relevant corporate talks and events on behalf of akt. We have an overall income target of £2.2M across fundraising this year, with approximately £800K coming from partnerships.

Duties and responsibilities  

• Day-day relationship management of a proportion of our existing corporate partnerships, with a focus on enhancing stewardship and cultivation.
• Ensuring the basics of strong partnership management are met e.g. punctual responses, professional meetings, strong proposals and quick thanking.
• Support the Senior Partnerships Manager to develop robust stewardship and cultivation plans, feeding creative ideas into the process.
• Implement stewardship and cultivation plans as appropriate, to drive increased multi-year income.
• Embrace a face-face role, particularly during the Pride season, by attending talks and events in person as an akt representative. Some out of hours work will be required.
• Support the team with relevant administrative tasks, including desk research, proposals, small grant applications, messaging, and filing.
• Keep contacts and records updated on the CRM, following a strict procedure set by the Senior Partnerships Manager.
• Keep up to date with trends impacting the corporate sector and business/charity collaborations to build understanding and spot new opportunities to generate income.
• akt may from time to time require you to undertake additional or other duties as necessary as commensurate with the role.  

More information about the role can be found in the job information attached to this advert. 

Application deadline: midnight (11.59pm) 30th December 2024

Please note - applications will be reviewed as they're received and interviews conducted on a rolling basis.