Business Development Lead Jobs in Westminster, Greater London
Closing date: 26th May
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We are looking for an ambitious and dynamic individual to join our award-winning Corporate Partnerships team! This senior role will co-lead the New Partnerships team to identify, develop, and secure high-value and long-term partnerships that deliver mutual benefits for our partners and Alzheimer’s Society. Alongside your peers, you will lead the strategic vision and development of the team, whilst leading on our highest value prospective partnership opportunities.
It is a hugely exciting time to join the team as we develop a broad range of high-value partnerships with some of the UK’s biggest businesses.
Recent wins in the last year have included:
- CBRE
- Travis Perkins
- EDF
- British Airways
The role offers the opportunity to secure truly transformational partnerships that deliver valuable income and lasting impact for people affected by dementia.
With an ambitious five-year growth strategy across Income and Engagement and a new ‘Help and Hope Strategy’, now is a fantastic time to join Alzheimer’s Society and make your mark. This post offers an exceptional opportunity for an exciting next step in your career, building your skills as a leader and driving the growth of sector-leading partnerships and the wider team.
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023! We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
We would love to welcome more outstanding people to join our exciting journey to make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.
About you
- Extensive leadership experience to support your team in driving progress and success.
- Ability to think strategically and engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Significant experience of developing and winning high-value partnerships (or similar) at ideally £1m+ level, from either the charity, public, or commercial sectors.
- Demonstrate a strong growth mindset to drive forward success of the New Partnerships team with vision, energy, creativity, and ambition.
- Your understanding of business drivers and the Environmental Social Governance landscape will enable you to also support the wider team in developing their high-value opportunities.
- You should be confident and comfortable operating autonomously, demonstrating ambition and determination to succeed in delivering partnerships that are best-in-sector.
- As well as being a team player, able to realise the vision of complex, strategic, and commercial partnerships.
Person Specification
- Verbal and written communication skills to liaise with a diverse range of stakeholders and customers.
- Excellent IT skills and extensive experience/knowledge on using Microsoft packages.
- Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively.
- Excellent organisational skills and great attention to detail
- Advocate for Alzheimer’s Society, demonstrating passion and resilience to make a difference.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
This new role has been established to lead and implement the audience and business growth
strategy for ICA audiences alongside developing and delivering a sustainable, entrepreneurial
and revenue generating business growth model.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Philanthropy
- Lead, develop and implement a Business Growth strategic plan that brings a mix of
sustainable income derived from individual giving, trusts and foundations and corporate
sponsorships - Work with the Director to develop strategic revenue generation opportunities across the
business and key ICA stakeholders - Lead a Fundraising team to research prospective donors and supporters and build a
pipeline of donor acquisition, including bespoke donor packages - Collaborate with strategic partners on the development of compelling partnership
funding/income/business growth proposals - Maintain an overview of trends and developments in fundraising and business growth
across the artistic and cultural sector - Contribute to business growth and fundraising forecasts to the annual and longer-term
strategic business planning process. - Ensure effective CRM measures are in place and leading on timely and applicable
communications to key stakeholders including audiences, funders and members - Alongside the Director, personally steward relationships with major individual donors
and key decision makers in trusts and foundations - Lead on data collection processes and analytics in relation to audiences, participants and
donors.
Audiences & Communications
- Lead, develop and implement an Audiences and communications strategy alongside the
ICA’s internal and external colleagues and PR agencies - Lead marketing campaigns for ICA’s work and manage a range of activity that supports
ICA to meet its organisational objectives - Maintain and develop ICA’s brand in international, national and local markets, ensuring
ICA’s identity is maintained across all communications channels - Oversee the ICA platforms including its website, socials, media and the overall user
experience to ensure that they serve the organisational objectives - Develop and deliver a coherent marketing and communications strategy that promotes
ICA, and enables the institution to meet its income targets - Develop, implement and maintain ICA’s overall digital and social media strategy
- Stay appraised of new opportunities for promoting ICA
- Alongside the Director and in consultation with ICA’s external PR agency as needed, lead
on PR strategy and response plans - Provide support, direction and guidance for any crisis PR and comms strategies,
overseeing their subsequent implementation - Ensure due diligence to GDPR is met across ICA’s Marketing and Communications
activity - Oversee data collection processes and analytics in relation to audiences, participants
and donors - Control the marketing budget to ensure that resources are managed as effectively as
possible, and that all spend delivers against key departmental objectives.
Governance & Reporting
- Ensuring all fundraising and business growth activity is ethical and fully compliant with
relevant UK charity and financial management regulation - Leading the Fundraising team to complete all business growth/fundraising reporting as
required including Arts Council England NPO reporting - Reporting to the Director and Board of Trustees on the strategy and delivery of the ICA’s
business growth with the ability to flex and respond effectively when variances arise - Reporting to the Finance and Audit sub-committee
Team Management
- Play an active and highly collaborative role as a full member of both the Executive
Leadership Team and Senior Leadership Team - Line Manage roles of Senior Development Manager, Development Manager, Audience
and Marketing Manager, Membership Manager, Editions Coordinator, Ticketing &
Membership manager, ensuring person specific objectives are set in line with the ICA’s
strategic mission & KPIs, as well as supporting staff’s ongoing development and
appraisal processes - Contribute to the wider organisation’s implementation of business initiatives and
transformation - Working alongside members of ELT and SLT, deliver a consistent, empathetic and
pragmatic leadership
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Extensive and tangible experience in developing and delivering a communications
and audience development strategy within the arts and culture sector - A demonstrable experience in business growth and implementation especially in
relation to revenue opportunities, trusts and foundations, individual giving and
corporate sponsorship ideally within the arts and culture sector - Experience of personally managing relationships with high value individual,
organisational and institutional donors - A clear track record of meeting income targets
- A clear track record of effectively managing both internal staff members and external
consultants/agencies and audience development strategy and implementation within
the arts and culture sector - Knowledge of the practical application of effective CRM systems both across audiences
and funders - Awareness of legislation governing fundraising activity by charities in the UK.
Prospectus is excited to be working on behalf of an organisation that strives to improve self-government processes around the world through partnering with local institutions that support political engagement.
As the Head of Business Development and Funding Partnerships, you will lead on the implementation of multi-year Business Development Strategy, including agreeing yearly ambition and priorities with the internal portfolio renewal and growth board. You will proactively identify, liaise with and manage relationships with current or potential strategic global donors on business development-related processes and opportunities and consortia partners.
This is a UK-based with the option for remote working. This role will require occasional travel to HQ in London to fulfil operational requirements and the salary for the position is £53,000 - £62,000 per annum.
To be successful, you will have substantial experience of business development, commercial insight, programme design, and bid development. You will have a proven track record of securing high value contracts and grants from institutional donors.
At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you with your application. We welcome candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds. Please let us know if we can help you with the application process in any way. We are more than happy to make any reasonable adjustments to enable all interested candidates to apply. If you have any disability and would like assistance with completing an application then please contact Ariha Semontee at Prospectus.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You’ll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to connecting with you soon.
At Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, our mission is crystal clear – to lay the foundations of a healthier society. Nestled in the heart of Southwark, London, our foundation boasts a rich history. We operate in collaboration with our local NHS hospitals through our charity brands. Additionally, we establish partnerships with local organizations, offering funding to drive essential programs, delivered through our subsidiary organization, Impact on Urban Health.
Acting as a strategic people partner for Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, this role will drive people management initiatives, support the Foundation Strategy and the delivery of a strategic plan to achieve this. The role will have a designated internal client base to directly partner and will support the Foundation in promoting its corporate values and shaping a positive culture.
This role will establish consistency of practice with all Foundation People Business Partners and ensure delivery of a cost effective, customer-focussed service whilst continually striving for excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnering
· Develop a thorough understanding of the Foundation and the business area where you are providing support in order to provide a full people partnering service.
· Translate People strategy and agreed deliverables for your designated business areas into achievable plans and a prioritised implementation map.
· Establish effective relationships with business leads to enable you to provide valued interventions and insights on people management strategies.
· Advise directorate managers on managing people effectively including treating people fairly and professionally to ensure employee engagement and the delivery of Foundation objectives.
· Work with directorate leads to identify skills and capabilities they need to deliver current and future work, liaising with the Talent Management Hub (Learning & Development and Talent Acquisition) to manage the resourcing and talent processes.
· Partner with business area leads to develop learning and development plans for your designated directorate, and liaise with the Learning & Development Manager to identify gaps in levels of capability.
· Work with the Head of Learning & Development to introduce talent mapping initiatives and ensure that leaders and managers within designated directorates are equipped with the skills and confidence to manage effectively.
· In liaison with the People Advisor, provide regular key people metrics with analysis, narrative and ideas to encourage your designated business leads/managers to seek continuous improvements and regular review of individual and team delivery.
· Work with, and bring in, specialists across the People & Culture directorate (e.g., Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, DEI) to respond to planned and emerging people and business objectives.
Advise, manage, and support
· Develop and maintain all Foundation policies, procedures, processes and forms required to deliver a People service capable of ensuring that the Foundation discharges its duties efficiently and effectively.
· Ensure legal compliance of all People processes and procedures, enabling best practice to be attained in providing guidance to managers and employees, and safeguarding the Foundation’s reputation in the execution of its duties.
· Ensure up to date knowledge of all employment policies and procedures and provide advice and input as required.
· Act as a point of contact for employees to discuss confidential matters or grievances.
· Partner with line managers to provide advice on employee issues, coach managers on how to manage people and resolve employee issues including via the grievance and disciplinary processes.
· Stay current on industry trends, employment law and best practice to provide guidance to managers and staff on all People, legal and compliance issues.
· Foster a positive working environment for all people working at the Foundation.
· Process monthly payroll promptly and accurately with supervision from the Senior People Business Partner.
· Contribute to the Foundation’s strategic approach to diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) and work to actively embed practices which promote DEI across the Foundation’s approach to its workforce and people processes.
· Act as a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) champion, representing the directorate and liaising with employee networks on People related issues, policies and procedures.
Performance management
· Partner with directorate leads to drive appropriate and timely performance management and improve performance delivery.
· Manage individual review cycles for your designated directorate, sending reminders to managers when reviews are due and signposting staff and Line Managers to further support and guidance.
· Coach managers on the use of PDPs.
· Promote mandatory eLearning and ensure it is undertaken within prescribed timescales.
· Working with the People Advisor and business leads provide oversight of the 360 feedback surveys for end of year reviews for your directorate.
Employee Engagement and Organisational Development
· Take on/lead any other projects as requested by the Head of People & Culture or Chief People Officer
· Nurture a positive working environment by embedding the company culture and values in the implementation of all people related initiatives.
· Provide mentorship to junior colleagues in the People & Culture directorate and play a key role in their development.
These responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the Foundation reserves the right to assign other duties commensurate with the role as required.
Skills and Experience
Excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication skills (including presentation skills) with a high degree of cross-cultural sensitivity.
• An ability to work as a highly effective team player, able to both collaborate and lead. • Comfortable with ambiguity and confident to working autonomously.
• Emotionally resilient and able to cope with, and resolve, conflict.
• The ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Tact, diplomacy, and discretion.
• Ability to use own initiative and good at problem solving.
• Exceptional communication skills, oral and written.
• Numerate with commercial awareness.
• Pragmatic, proactive and solutions driven.
• Dynamic self-starter who can prioritise and work under pressure.
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
• CIPD qualified or equivalent.
• Sound knowledge of employment legislation and its application.
• Strong understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion concepts and the impact the People. function can have in embedding an inclusive and equitable culture.
• HR Generalist experience across a broad range of HR functions and employee lifecycle, and best practice for those.
• Managing employee relations and related processes.
• The ability to analyse and report on HR information and data.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and manging multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Implementing and supporting change management with experience of TUPE/mergers.
Benefits
- Up to 12% employer pension contribution.
- Annual personal development budget.
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT Kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Finance Business Partner
Salary: £42,000 - £49,000
Permanent, flexible working
Hybrid working, 3 days a week in office
Office based in Sutton
My client is a specialist education provider supporting schools across London and South England. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting budget holders in their financial and strategic decision making. Working with a team of Assistant Finance Business Partners you will be responsible for the month end reporting cycle, periodic forecasting and yearly budget setting. Supporting a Regional Finance Business Partner, you will help translate financial information into insightful commentaries, and provide input into benchmarking, dashboarding and financial modelling as required.
Key areas of responsibilities;
- Lead and manage a team of Assistant Finance Business Partners and Finance Officers, including performance management, development, succession planning, sickness monitoring, etc.
- Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts pack (including income & expenditure, and balance sheet) to regular deadlines; specific duties will include: approve monthly journals, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, income analysis and inter-company recharges.
- To actively collaboration with the wider finance team to maintain and champion the integrity of financial information, specifically purchase ledger for supplier invoices, commitments, expenses and petty cash; procurement for contracts; and assets accountant for capital expenditure and maintaining fixed assets.
- To support and enable budget holders with budget management, exercising considerable judgement, in particular with Principals, School Business Managers HR and staffing resources, to problem solve where
Who are we looking for?
- A formally qualified, part qualified or qualified by experience accountant with relevant experience of financial accounting gained in a large, complex organisation (this could be commercial, Not-for-Profit or practice)
- Good communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral, able to communicate effectively with finance professionals, senior management and trustees, and non-accountants to achieve cooperation and results
- Ability to manipulate data, analyse information, identify anomalies and extract pertinent information. Excellent attention to detail
My client offers hybrid working with established training and team practices to ensure full support and engagement at all times.
If you are looking to develop your career in not-for-profit finance or change sectors, then this is the position for you.
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The essentials …
- Permanent, full-time
- £30 – 35k (depending on experience)
- Hybrid working (3-4 days in office with 1-2 days per week working from home)
What you’ll be doing …
The main purpose of this role is to grow the venue hire pipeline of business and deliver venue hire events and specialist group events to excellent standards ensuring repeat business and maximising new sales opportunities. We are seeking a professional, confident candidate who enjoys the end-to-end process of events and is keen to make their mark on venue hire at the Society. You will also be highly organised with a keen eye for detail and confident being the ‘gatekeeper’ of the room bookings diary at the society.
Overall responsibilities / requirements …
Venue Hire Sales & Marketing:
- To deal with all venue sales enquiries in a timely and efficient manner.
- To build and maintain an effective pipeline of venue hire enquiries. Including attending venue hire showcases and B2B networking events as necessary.
- Professional and friendly manner, confident in delivering and leading on showrounds to prospective clients.
- To produce venue hire literature and ensure that all material relating to the venue facilities is kept up to date.
- To meet venue hire sales targets for 2024 as set by the Society and build effective sales pipelines for 2025.
- Liaise with Marketing Teams to produce bespoke posts and newsletters for members, venue hire leads and special offers for venue hire throughout the year, maximising engagement.
- Support the Head of Events with all key cultivation events including venue hire showcases and any new business ventures.
Venue Hire Administration:
- To maintain safe working practices in conjunction with Health & Safety policies.
- Work collaboratively with Buildings Manager to communicate key information taking place across Burlington House.
- To liaise with AV company with regards to timings, payments, staff needs, training and use of equipment / set up for events.
- To liaise with caterers with regards to timings, payments, staff attending, training and room set up for events.
- To produce a weekly booking sheet for all staff to communicate bookings across the building.
- To produce and meet budgets for events in consultation with the Head of Events
- Manage the venue hire diary, ensuring it is kept up to date and all bookings are accurately recorded.
- To check all incoming invoices against quotes/information received and pass to accounts for payment.
- To raise and resolve any invoice queries in a timely manner.
Event Operations:
- To deliver all venue hire and specialist group events to excellent standards.
- To liaise with speakers and venue hire delegates and communicate all logistical details in a timely fashion including H&S briefings, PEEP plans and Risk Assessments.
- To make any other logistical arrangements that are necessary for the smooth running of events covering timings, parking, room set-ups etc.
- To ensure that all events are accessible and organised within the disability discrimination legislation.
- To support the events team with ad-hoc events out of hours where needed across the year.
- Ensure the events spaces are well maintained in collaboration with the Buildings Manager.
Teamwork:
- To be proactive in identifying areas for potential improvement in the events programme
- To take part in developing more efficient ways of working within the team
- To ensure that positive working relationships are created with other departments at GSL
- To participate in team meetings and wider meetings including External Relations and Health & Safety.
Other responsibilities and expectations:
- The post holder is expected to work flexibly to respond to changing needs at The Geological Society. As the Conference Office operates a room hire service it is expected that the postholder will undertake out-of-hours work to ensure that this service can operate. Excess hours worked will be compensated for by time off in lieu.
- The post holder is expected to undertake any other responsibilities or tasks consistent with the role and/or reasonably required by the Head of Events.
What we’re looking for …
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Experience 2-3 years working in events and/or venue background.
- A commercial mindset with natural aptitude for sales.
- Confident induvial with a can-do attitude, uses initiative to make things happen.
- Excellent reporting and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work to deadlines and juggle a varied and busy workload.
- Team player, working effectively both independently and in a team.
- Proven experience of working across multiple projects to tight deadlines.
- Competent with Microsoft Office programmes.
- Collaborative spirit, willing to work across multiple teams to achieve best possible outcomes.
- Strong level of spelling and grammar.
The ideal candidate will have:
ESSENTIAL
- Experience of event sales and marketing
- Experience of working with external suppliers and speakers
- Personable, customer service and networking skills
- Awareness of the events industry
- Awareness of running events for similar organisation / or venue based.
DESIRABLE
- Degree qualification
- Working within a venue similar to Burlington House Image editing / design skills.
A bit about us …
The Geological Society is a registered charity and employs just over 50 staff at its offices in London and Bath. Our London office is situated in the beautiful London hotspot of Piccadilly in Burlington House, just next door to The Royal Academy.
As an employee conscious company, we invest in our staff by emphasising training, growth and progression in every role. We firmly believe in a positive work/life balance and offer a flexible approach to working from home as well as 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) when you start with the option to add 2 extra days per year.
The Society is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a harmonious inclusive environment in which the rights and dignity of all its members visitors and staff are respected.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Head of Finance Business Partnering
Salary: £58,000 - £65,000
Permanent, flexible working
Hybrid working, 1/2 days a week in office
Office based in Central London
My client is a nation leading, medical, charitable organisation that provide support to individuals and their families suffering from this disorder, while also funding vital research. The Finance department is a valued part of the organisation and you will become part of a diverse and dedicated team, working in an environment where you can collaborate, be respected and thrive. You will be responsible for effective strategic financial management and planning, providing services of the highest standard and ensuring long-term financial viability. Working with the Head of Finance and the business partnering team to develop stakeholder engagement processes.
Key areas of responsibilities;
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the charity, its activities and how the finance business partnering team can support the achievement of our strategic objectives
- Alongside the Head of Finance, manage the budget and forecasts process for the charity
- Provide strategic business partnering directly to the research department and other teams
- To support the Head of Finance in the development of the financial plan in line with the Group’s operational plan and targets.
- Build financial capability and confidence across the charity helping to identify risks and opportunities
Who are we looking for?
- A formally qualified Accountant with relevant experience of financial accounting gained in a large, complex organisation (this could be commercial, Not-for-Profit or practice)
- Good communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral, able to communicate effectively with finance professionals, senior management and trustees, and non-accountants to achieve cooperation and results
- Ability to manipulate data, analyse information, identify anomalies and extract pertinent information. Excellent attention to detail
My client offers hybrid working with established training and team practices to ensure full support and engagement at all times.
If you are looking to develop your career in charity finance or change sectors, then this is the position for you.
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Would you like to work for an organisation dedicated to enhancing the lives of its members?
We are delighted to partner with a distinguished trade union representing over 500,000 healthcare professionals. Currently, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Business Change Manager to lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive change management strategy. The objective: To ensure a seamless transition to an innovative cloud-based HR/Payroll and Finance system.
About the Contract:
* Salary: £47,745 per annum pro rata* (plus £5,094 London Weighting per annum if applicable)
* Contract: 12-month Fixed term
* Hours: 35 hours per week (Flexibility required to meet job demands. Occasional UK travel, with overnight stays and extended days)
Benefits:
* Diverse Learning Opportunities: Enjoy access to a broad range of professional development programmes.
* Award-Winning Health and Wellbeing Programme: Prioritise health with exceptional wellness initiatives.
* Generous Leave Entitlement: Up to 32 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and three extra days for the Christmas break.
* Supportive Family Policies: Benefit from generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages.
About the Role:
In the role of Business Change Manager, you will be pivotal in ensuring the smooth integration of a new HR/Payroll and Finance system.
* Lead stakeholder engagement efforts to ensure alignment with business objectives.
* Develop comprehensive business change strategies and plans alongside HR/Payroll and Finance leads.
* Coordinate change activities across the organisation in accordance with the programme delivery plan.
* Collaborate with other business areas to align change initiatives.
* Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand needs, address concerns, and garner support for change efforts.
About you:
For this role, substantial experience as a Business Change Manager is essential, particularly in the implementation of cloud-based HR/Payroll/Finance systems. You will have demonstrable expertise in project management, with a proven history of executing successful change initiatives. Additionally, you should possess adept stakeholder management and engagement abilities,
If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity please get in touch now! We are reviewing CV's as they come in. The deadline for CV's is the 9th May
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
We're delighted to be supporting NSPCC, an incredible organisation with the mission to end cruelty to children in the UK. Leading on the recruitment of their next Senior Marketing Business Partner position, we're excited to speak to skilled marketing professionals from within and outside of the charity sector who can support the development, delivery and optimisation of the paid marketing strategy across a variety of campaigns. You'll work collaboratively with stakeholder and partner teams to reach and engage priority audiences.
Senior Marketing Business Partner
Contract: Interim one year contract
Location: This can be home based anywhere in the UK or a hybrid role with one day per week in the London office
Salary: £32,203 - £36,595 per annum plus either £500 home working allowance, or £3,666 London based allowance depending on contract
Closing date for applications: ASAP
In order to carry out its charitable work and achieve its strategic objectives, the NSPCC must communicate efficiently and effectively with the maximum possible impact, relevance and emotional resonance to engage all key audiences including supporters, professionals, service users, volunteers and the public across a variety of offline and online channels (paid, owned and earned).
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the NSPCC's talented Marketing and Planning to reach and engage priority audiences by delivering best in class marketing, encouraging them to do, give or learn. Core responsibilities within the role will include:
- Collaborate with stakeholder teams to deliver to strategic objectives by planning, delivering and reporting to best in class marketing solutions.
- Help teams to navigate the Marketing and Planning and Brand and Content departments and find the right expertise at each stage of the campaign.
- Leverage data and insight to feed into campaign planning, briefing and development.
- Project manage campaign work with internal and external stakeholders in delivering, optimising and reporting on campaigns in line with agreed key performance indicators, service level agreements and objectives.
- Lead on the delivery of engaging content for the NSPCC website and other marketing assets for our key audiences that is consistent with brand and style guidelines and accessible for online readers.
- Be flexible in supporting and responding to changing priorities as the remit of Marketing and Planning department evolves.
This is such a fantastic opportunity for someone with the following skills and experience:
- The ability to translate marketing strategies and propositions into best-in-class marketing, engagement, acquisition and fundraising messages
- Highly skilled in understanding marketing principles and practices, with a commitment to continuous learning and development.
- Able to plan, execute and track an omnichannel marketing strategy to secure and improve market position in a competitive, mature market.
- Strong project management and stakeholder skills
- Strong creative judgement and ability to articulate and deliver feedback.
- Effective interpersonal skills to work well as part of a team, give support to and recognise expertise in others.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills to understand, interpret and present complex information in a clear, confident and persuasive way for a range of audiences.
- Proven ability of demonstrating initiative and creativity to come up with new ideas and achieve desired outcomes.
If you're interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance.
Charity People and actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with 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.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
The LSO is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Corporate Partnerships Executive (New Business) to lead on identifying and engaging with a new portfolio of prospective corporate supporters, in liaison with the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager and Director of Development to develop new sponsorship opportunities, taking into account current corporate priorities and sector trends. This is an exciting time to join the team, as we develop our engagement opportunities and memberships to ensure they remain current and attractive in the new climate.
This role is initially on a fixed-term contract basis for 12 months, with the potential to extend.
Key Responsibilities:
Identifying and engaging a new portfolio of prospective corporate supporters
- Research and identify possible corporate partners for the LSO, preparing updates to discuss with the wider LSO Corporate Development team
- Lead on initial contact with cold prospects, securing introductory meetings for the LSO, preparing briefings and attending meetings with a colleague from the Development team
- Identify possible corporate supporters for particular areas of the LSO’s work, including Barbican concerts, international tours, accessible ticket schemes, education and community projects, major fundraising galas, as well as broader initiatives such as improving sustainability and fulfilling the LSO’s DEI plan
- Utilise LSO concerts at the Barbican and other LSO events to attract new prospects, ensuring that all leads are thoroughly progressed
- Work within the Corporate Development team to develop ongoing cultivation plans for the most promising contacts and prepare compelling proposals as needed, and maintain prospect planning within a wider corporate fundraising strategy
- Work with the Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager to develop new opportunities for support, and build a strong prospect pipeline, taking into account current sponsorship and corporate support trends
- Keep abreast of trends in corporate partnerships in the arts and the broader charity sector to ensure the LSO continues to offer competitive packages
We are looking for someone with experience in:
- Identifying and connecting with prospective corporate partners, either in the charity or commercial sector (at least two years experience)
- Writing compelling proposals in response to a business need or objectives
- Pitching and securing mutually beneficial partnerships with potential partners
- Achieving income targets
The capabilities and characteristics we are looking for:
- Organised, self-motivated, target driven and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent understanding of the corporate sector, and reasons why businesses engage with charities and the arts in particular
- Strong research skills
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to quickly assimilate large amounts of information and share it in a form tailored to a particular audience
- High level interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to engage and interact with individuals at all levels
- Motivated by the opportunity to support the work of the LSO, and its mission to share great music with as many people as possible
- Able to work collaboratively
- A commitment to high standards of service delivery and customer care
- IT literate with knowledge of relationship databases and current regulatory and best practice frameworks
- Willingness to attend events outside of normal working hours
Benefits
25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
Interest-free loan for a season travel ticket.
Subsidised catering facilities are provided by the Barbican Centre.
Membership in the company pension scheme is as follows:
• In line with auto-enrolment regulations during first year of service.
• 5% employer contributions and 2% employee contributions after 1 year’s employment.
• Cycle-to-Work scheme.
Employee Assistance programme.
Free tickets to LSO concerts at the Barbican and Lunchtime Concerts at LSO St Luke’s (subject to availability).
After completion of one year’s employment:
• Company income protection insurance.
• Eligible to opt into a non-contributory private healthcare scheme.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
King’s College London offers an intellectually stimulating environment, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. We are a multi-faculty institution, providing high-quality research, education and innovation across the social sciences, humanities, health, law, dentistry, and sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education.
The Finance, Procurement, Strategic Planning and Analytics directorate, led by the Chief Financial Officer / VP (Finance), comprises c.150 roles located across our campuses in central London. The Finance department of c.100 roles provides various accounting, assurance, advisory, decision support and financial processing functions for the whole university.
The Director of Finance Business Partnering (Operations) is a critical role within the Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance division that will lead, develop and deliver high quality finance business partnering and decision support to all the central services of the university, including providing financial planning, reporting and insight across revenue and capital funded activity.
You will support the senior Director of the Financial Strategy, Planning & Performance function in development and improvement projects. Examples include the development of a professional competencies framework to support career progression and performance at all levels, supported by learning and development opportunities, improving key processes, resource allocation and financial planning methodologies, and reporting on financial performance.
As part of the function’s senior management team, this role will lead a team of finance business partners who will provide outstanding partnering services to our central services including large functions such as Estates and Facilities, IT, Students & Education, Research Management and on other crucial ‘head office’ activities. Working closely with the corporate reporting team on the provision of management accounts, you will lead on financial performance support in-year and across our three-year financial planning framework. You will also undertake and provide professional support to your team on business partnering skills, financial modelling, business case development and financial appraisals. You will play a wider role as a senior member of the finance leadership team on cross-college initiatives and be asked to deputise for the senior Director of the division or their peers.
It is an exciting time to join the university as we are making a step change in our support and advice, particularly to directorate heads and our Senior Vice Principal (Operations), and onwards through the leadership roles across the central service directorates where financial and operational decisions are made.
This is a full time post (36 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract. We work in a hybrid way and there is an expectation of being able to work at least three days a week in our offices to help facilitate a collaborative working culture.
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
1. Professional Accountancy Qualification
2. Highly resilient with the ability to run multiple objectives, large senior teams and complex political processes concurrently
3. Exceptional understanding of running and leading financial planning, monitoring, forecasting and business partnering in a complex and large organisation
4. Exceptional leadership skills and a service approach in your professional work
5. Ability to operate and deliver change and improvements in a complex organisational environment
6. Exceptional business case financial appraisal and modelling skills
7. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in the written word and in person in a variety of formats including committee presentations and policy documentation
8. Numerate and IT literate with the ability to use the standard suite of office software together with excellent knowledge of one or more corporate finance/ERP and reporting systems
9. Significant recent experience of leading business partnering, financial support and advice functions and services
10. Experience of designing, delivering and improving capital planning and reporting processes
11. Leading teams to achieve complex and competing objectives over a variety of time horizons in partnership with other technical leads and partnered areas.
12. Ability to build and manage internal and external relationships
13. Self-management and ability to work independently to meet deadlines
14. Attention to detail and working to a high-level of accuracy
Desirable criteria
1. Degree level qualification
2. Leadership of technical / professional staff who manage their own work and activities
3. Experience of having worked in or with the university sector
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We have a strong equality, diversity and inclusion agenda and would expect the post holder to demonstrate these values.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. The deadline for applications is Sunday 19th May 2024. If you would like to discuss the role, please get in touch with Bryony Thomas via the Allen Lane agency website.
Shortlisting will complete late May and may include an initial conversation with Allen Lane, our recruitment partner for this role. First stage interviews with King’s College London are planned for early June.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates for this role who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
Senior Corporate Partnership Manager (Business Development)
Reference: MAR20243359
Location: Flexible in UK*
Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days annual leave
About the job
The RSPB are expanding our HQ Corporate Partnerships team as we continue to build on recent successes and increased public awareness of our efforts to collaborate with businesses, enabling collective action in support of nature's recovery.
Your work with us will allow you to play a vital role in raising awareness of the crisis that nature is facing and to make a significant impact in restoring habitats, saving species from extinction, and providing opportunities for people of all ages to connect more closely to nature - protecting it for the future.
About the Role
The Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager will be responsible for driving significant income growth from corporates - working with brands and businesses to reach challenging targets. Your role will incorporate close involvement in the ongoing stewardship of prospects and improvement of the RSPB's offer through engagement with stakeholders across the organisation.
This role will focus on securing investment in projects in England, as well as the RSPB’s wider corporate partnership offering across the UK. You will be working closely with colleagues across the Business Engagement function to deliver high-value partnerships which will have a significant impact in the fight against the dual nature and climate crisis.
What we need from you
The post-holder will be someone who thrives in relationship management and successfully securing new partnerships.
The successful candidate will have significant B2B new business experience and a proven track record of securing complex corporate partnerships with strategic communications packages and financial values of £1m+.
*Flexible location with regular travel across the UK to visit partners and attend events alongside scheduled working at the HQ in Sandy, Bedfordshire with team members - currently monthly.
Essentials:
- Experience in securing high-value, multi-dimensional partnerships in the private or third sector.
- Able to take a leading role in the partnership development strategy, generating ideas, bringing external insight, and delivering on agreed areas of work.
- Experience in developing and implementing ambitious sector strategies and producing tailored new partnership propositions that meet corporate and RSPB objectives.
- Able to proactively generate leads, build networks, and influence others, both internally and externally to secure multi-dimensional £1m+ value partnerships.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, effective proposal writing and correspondence to internal and external audiences.
- CRM system experience
Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 12th May 2024
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert at any time.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sectors. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
As part of this application process, you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above. If you wish to provide a cover letter with your application, please include this at the end of your CV document upload. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
No agencies please.
Role Outline and Purpose
On behalf of the trustees and accountable to them for providing strategic direction and day to day leadership and management of the foodbank.
This will be achieved by leading by example in upholding our values, ethos and culture by motivating staff and our wonderful volunteers, along with the Churches and others as strategic partners in successfully implementing the strategy to achieve our vision.
The role also entails leadership with building high-performing partnerships with all those able and willing to support the vision to end the need for foodbanks in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
·To develop and deliver Greenwich Foodbank’s strategic vision as a pathfinding foodbank working to eliminate food poverty in the borough and ensuring alignment with our vision, values and strategy
·Be accountable to the Greenwich Foodbank Board and work with staff, volunteers and all the key stakeholders to create the right culture and practices to uphold our values and achieve our vision
·Engage staff, volunteers, those we exist to serve and the board to translate the Greenwich Foodbank vision into operational strategies, demonstrating clear thinking and inspiring leadership and focussed on continuous improvement
·Ensure there is a an effective performance monitoring system in place to measure progress
Interpersonal Excellence
·Leads by example
·A strong sense of responsibility and accountability, demonstrating high levels of self awareness and emotional intelligence
·Able to work collaboratively and delegate well, giving and receiving feedback at all levels
·Is credible, confident and resilient, able to operate successfully at the highest level
Financial Management
·Demonstrates a good understanding of finance, budgeting, governance, strategy and legal requirements in the third sector.
·Accountable for financial decisions to ensure longer term financial security
·Demonstrates good understanding of budget and the underlying principles
·Able to use financial data to oversee the effective allocation of resources and expenditure is within budget
Person Specification
Essential Experience
- Significant proven record of achievement in a senior position within a charity/not for profit organisation.
- Experience of managing staff and working with volunteers
- Experience of business planning and development
- Financial management skills, including budgeting and delivery of cost and income targets
- Evidence of having a robust approach to governance with experience of risk management
- Evidence of having fostered senior level relationships with partner organisations
Desirable Experience
- Experience of planning and delivering fundraising strategies
- Experience of handling the media (broadcast, print and social media)
Behaviours and Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial, empathetic, proactive, inclusive and flexible
- Confident and committed to Greenwich Foodbank’s vision and our values
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Applications will be reviewed on 29th May 2024, with interviews taking place on Wednesday, 5th June 2024, on-site at Greenwich Foodbank.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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If you share our vision that ‘every young person should be empowered to gain the confidence, independence and skills they need for a better and brighter future’ we might have the perfect role for you!
ThinkForward is recruiting a Development Manager in London to join our team fundraising for our unique programme supporting young people into further education and employment.
About ThinkForward: Why we exist
ThinkForward exists to empower young people to create better and brighter futures. We want them to be able to identify, realise and shape their aspirations and be ready to make a successful transition into work.
Young people experiencing barriers such as challenging relationships, living in low income households, or growing up in areas with a lack of access to opportunities can be confronted with hurdles. Without the right support these can lead to high risks of unemployment and long term effects on their career and life chances.
There are more than 800,000 16 24 year olds in the UK who aren’t at school or college, or don’t have a job or training place. Our ambition is to prevent young people becoming one of these statistics.
About ThinkForward: What we do
We run three programmes that help young people to gain the independence, skills and confidence they need to fulfil their potential and have happy and successful futures. In an ever changing world we support them to prepare for their move to adulthood, the working world and the start of the rest of their lives.
Overview of the role
Our Development Manager will play a key role in supporting ThinkForward to achieve ambitious growth targets and deliver on our mission to support young people facing challenges to build a brighter, better future.
You will work flexibly across all income streams to identify and convert high-value funding opportunities from trusts and foundations, corporate partners and high-net-worth individuals, as well as supporting excellent stewardship for our existing funders. You will bring technical excellence in relation to the highest standard of compelling application and report writing, and you will develop strong relationships internally to facilitate a collaborative approach to income generation. Ideally, you will also bring expertise in at least one of ThinkForward’s identified income streams. The Development Manager will be comfortable working with healthy pressure within a supportive and collaborative team culture and will be able to maintain a high level of productivity, pace and resilience in what is a challenging funding environment.
If this sounds like a good fit for you, please read the job pack attached to this post and apply via Charityjob with your CV and cover letter.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Thurrock CVS are passionate about supporting, developing and promoting the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise Sector, and recognise that as a sector, we are better together.
We are looking for someone who can take a lead in supporting three of the four key functions of infrastructure and includes leadership & advocacy, partnerships & collaborations and capacity building for the sector. These characterise the role of Thurrock CVS and help to support and strengthen locally based voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations and showcase the strength and worth of the sector.
In addition to the support to the sector, you will manage a fund developed to support the sector, overseeing the administration and governance of the fund, and supporting a wider team in building relationships with businesses to drive the social responsibility agenda.
We are looking for someone with experience of working and developing the VCFSE sector, including organisational structures such as in incorporated charities, CIC’s etc, training, funding advice, policy guidance and general support around funding and grant applications
This is a demanding role and requires someone with tenacity and a real interest in people and social action. Superb communication skills are a must, at all levels, as well as a good understanding of an organisations development and structure.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.