Head of Corporate Partnerships

Are you a strong leader who is passionate about Corporate Fundraising and dedicated to making a real difference? Samaritans is looking for Head of Corporate Partnerships to head up Samaritans’ Corporate Fundraising, ensuring sustainable income growth that’s supports our ambition of doubling our income over the next 5 years.

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As the Head of Corporate Partnerships, you’ll be at the forefront of our corporate fundraising strategy. Your leadership will be key to achieving sustainable income growth, essential for Samaritans’ aim of ensuring opportunities to build and develop corporate partnerships are maximised. You’ll manage and inspire the Corporate Fundraising team, drive forward Samaritans corporate fundraising strategy and build lasting relationships with our corporate partners.

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• Permanent role
• Full time (35 hours per week)
• £62,000-£66,000 per annum
• We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences
• Hybrid working, linked to our office in Ewell (Surrey), with a mix of home and office working. You’ll have the option to work from our London hub office if needed.
• In-office working: we’d love to see you in the office at least twice per month, with a willingness to also travel to meet corporate partners across the UK, when needed
• This isn’t a 9-5 role. There will be significant evening and weekend working, within your working hours.

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Our Corporate Fundraising journey….

As we embark on a new five year strategy, this is a unique opportunity to lead the development of an ambitious approach to corporate partnerships with businesses, building on the successful partnerships we have with Three, Network Rail, Standard Life, Cala Homes and many more.

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The Team:

You’ll join a growing and engaged team, who play an increasingly important role in growing Samaritans’ fundraising capacity and raising awareness of the charity in new and different environments.

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Key Responsibilities:

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• Lead and Inspire: You’ll support a team of 5 passionate team members and foster a high-performance, creative, and committed to bringing our partners to the centre of our work.

• Strategy Development: Craft and implement our corporate fundraising strategy, aligning with our broader fundraising goals.

• Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong relationships with corporate partners, ensuring they receive the recognition and support they deserve.

• Innovate and Improve: Continuously refine our fundraising offers using market insights and performance data.

• Collaborate: Work across teams to maximise the potential of our corporate relationships, involving training, volunteering, marketing, and services.

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About you

We’re seeking someone with significant corporate fundraising experience and experience developing relationships with the corporate/commercial sector.

You’ll be a supportive and enterprising people leader, with a strong understanding of our challenges and how to make the most of opportunities to create new relationships with partners and think differently about what it means for a business to support a charity and social cause. You’ll have proven success in securing multiple new business opportunities – including 6 figure gifts or partnerships.

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Job Description is here

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What’s in it for you – our benefits

So, you want to work for us? Good choice. We like it here too. We offer competitive salaries, flexible and hybrid working to suit your needs, family-friendly policies, 28 days annual leave inclusive of wellbeing days and a matched pension contribution up to 5%. You’ll have a structured induction and ongoing projects, secondments & learning opportunities. We also have colleague-led affinity groups made up of people with shared identities.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority. We have a staff community of Mental Health First Aiders, a Health Cash Plan and an Employee Assistance Programme. You’ll have free subscriptions to Headspace (your personal guide to mindfulness, sleep, focus, movement, and more) & Perkbox (an employee benefits platform with online exercise classes). That’s not all. We listen to your ideas and have staff forum and social committee networks.

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Hybrid and flexible working: We are a flexible organisation, and we embrace hybrid working – a mix of connecting in person and remotely. We’re aware that the world is changing, and we all want and need different things from our work and home lives. So, if you need to walk the dog, go to the gym, or have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.

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Being Inclusive: We recognise the enormous benefits and the social justice imperatives of ensuring diversity at every level of our organisation. Samaritans is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are. To ensure Samaritans is representative of those we support and who support us, we particularly welcome applications from Disabled, BAME and LGBTQ+ candidates, as these people are under-represented at Samaritans.

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Application:

If this role sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply. You’ll be asked to upload your CV and provide a cover letter (2 pages maximum) tailored around your motivations for applying and your skills and experience in relation to the job outline.

This role will close for applications at midnight on 21 July.

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