Impact and Partnerships Manager
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Location: Centrally located, light and airy office with great views on Regent Street, London. Hybrid working possible, minimum 3 days per week in office.
Benefits: 25 days’ holiday allowance, flexible working, occasional 1-2 days extra holiday for Christmas period.
Reports to: Chief Project Officer at the Global Returns Project
Timetable: Candidates will be considered on a rolling basis
Preferred start date: 23 September 2024
What we are looking for
The ideal candidate will approach C-suite executives and other industry leaders with confidence. They will think creatively about strategies for identifying potential institutional partners, attracting their attention, and transforming those relationships into funding. They will be comfortable assuming responsibility for certain target audiences.
The ideal candidate will be data-driven and will relish the challenge of helping select and assess some of today’s highest impact climate and nature charities. They will have the attention to detail to maintain our charity selection methodology and dig into the details of the charities we support to report on their progress.
Successful applicants will excel in multitasking and meeting ambitious deadlines as part of a supportive and friendly team in a fast-paced start-up work environment.
Skills required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Team-player
- Time-management and self-organisation
- Ability to take initiative, identify problems, and solve them creatively
- Very high attention to detail
- Excellent understanding of, and passion to address, climate change and biodiversity loss
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
Skills preferred but not required
- Academic experience in geography, Earth Sciences, sustainability or related fields
- Understanding of the financial services industry
- Customer Relations Management (CRM) experience (Salesforce, etc)
Main duties and responsibilities
Partnership-building (50% of work)
- Support GRP’s established partnership-building strategy, expanding to new audiences in line with approach devised by Head of Partnerships and Strategic Communications Manager
- Support efforts to expand and strengthening GRP’s relationships with UK financial intermediaries, including wealth managers, financial planners, financial advisers and financial coaches.
- Other targeted outreach to potential institutional partners and individual donors, including:
- Lead conversion through meetings and presentations
- Coordination and communication with high-value institutional or individual leads
Charity research and impact reporting (40% of work)
- Ongoing relationship management with GRP’s current recommended charities
- Six-monthly data-driven assessment and scoring of GRP’s current recommended charities using our proprietary methodology
- Production of detailed impact reports on GRP’s current recommended charities every six months
- Quarterly presentations to GRPs’ Due Diligence Committee on our recommended charities, impact reports, etc
- Maintenance and updating of GRP’s selection/assessment methodology
- Research on climate charities for possible addition to GRP’s portfolio of recommended organisations
Customer relationship management (CRM) (10% of work)
- Managing company databases, including tracking and managing donor information and regular reporting to the Board of Trustees. Relevant programmes include Salesforce, Mailchimp and the website backend. No prior experience with these programmes required - training will be provided.
- Using data to facilitate ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the team’s progress in fundraising, sales and marketing, and addressing points of inefficiency to optimise conversions.
- Supporting website development and maintenance, including updating copy and visuals, and liaising with web developer.
While selection will be based on merit, we recognise the importance of elevating underrepresented voices in climate action. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and people who are from ethnically or culturally diverse backgrounds from across the UK.
Applicants should send both a CV and cover letter to the Chief Project Officer, Jack Chellman. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please include the name, email and phone number of a reference we can contact. Applicants must be available to interview in London.
Size: 1 - 5
Less than 2% of philanthropy goes to climate mitigation. We’re working to change that.
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