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What are we looking for?
Are you a confident relationship-builder who can spot potential in a conversation and inspire businesses to support a local cause? We are looking for a creative and results-focused Business Development Executive who understands what motivates businesses and can build mutually beneficial partnerships. You will develop new business, build relationships with prospective partners and create tailored opportunities that generate income and wider support for St. Michael’s Hospice, while helping existing corporate supporters deepen their involvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be an active and visible presence within the local business community, building new relationships through purposeful networking, meetings and consistent follow-up.
- Research and approach prospective corporate partners, identify shared opportunities and develop a strong pipeline of new business.
- Secure new income and support by presenting compelling ideas, making confident asks, negotiating effectively and following opportunities through to agreement.
- Develop fresh and creative partnership opportunities that go beyond traditional fundraising and offer genuine value to both the business and the Hospice.
- Grow existing corporate relationships by understanding each business’s priorities and identifying opportunities to increase or broaden its support.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the Hospice to shape and deliver successful corporate partnerships.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience in business development, sales, recruitment, account management, corporate partnerships or fundraising. Charity-sector experience is welcome but not essential.
- A proactive and self-motivated approach, with the confidence to take ownership, initiate conversations and actively seek out new opportunities.
- A track record of building strong relationships and securing new business, partnerships or other tangible results.
- Confidence in networking, presenting, negotiating and making a clear ask, combined with the determination to follow opportunities through.
- A creative thinker who can spot potential, generate new ideas, make a persuasive case for them and take responsibility for turning them into action.
- Highly organised, with a consistent approach to follow-up and the ability to manage multiple relationships at different stages.
- A collaborative approach, a full driving licence, access to a car and flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends.
Why work with us?
You will join a supportive and ambitious fundraising team with an established network of corporate relationships and a clear corporate strategy to build upon. This is an outward-facing role with genuine scope to take ownership, introduce new ideas, test different approaches and influence the next stage of our corporate development.
We offer office or hybrid working with an expectation to be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week and a location close to the hospice for ease of access. Plus, you’ll love working in an environment where every day brings new challenges and rewards.
St. Michael’s Hospice is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people. All staff are expected to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including a DBS check and provide satisfactory reference before starting the role.
About St. Michael’s Hospice
St. Michael’s Hospice (North Hampshire) is a registered charity and provides support to people diagnosed with a life-limiting illness. It is a Hospice for adults providing invaluable palliative and end-of-life care services in North Hampshire, offering comfort, support, and dignity to those facing life's most challenging moments.
As a charity, we depend on the kindness and support of our local community to continue offering our services free of charge. It may come as a surprise, but only 22% of our funding comes from the government. End-of-life care is an essential service, not a luxury, yet it is not funded like other care services. To keep the Hospice’s services running, we need raise an additional £15,000 every day.
Our benefits
We offer a competitive salary with attractive benefits, including, free parking, life assurance, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and an extensive health and wellbeing plan and company pension.
Interested?
For more information or an informal chat about the role, please contact the fundraising team.
How to Apply:
To be considered for this role, please submit the following:
- Cover letter explaining why you’re an ideal candidate for this position. Please note that applications without this will not be considered.
- CV outlining your relevant experience and skills.
Closing date: Friday 25 September at 12 noon
Interview Date: Wednesday 30th September in person at Millennium House, Priestley Road, RG24 9GZ
To be considered for this role, please submit the following :
• Cover letter explaining why you’re an ideal candidate for this position. Applications without this will not be considered.
• CV outlining your relevant experience and skills.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About Us
Forever Young People CIC delivers relationship-led community programmes across Hertfordshire, currently anchored by our community youth projects and our Dot to Dot mum and baby group. We're part of the wider Forever Young People family, which has spent years building trust-based, relationship-first work with young people and families across the county.
We're at a turning point: our CIC has a real track record and real potential, but no one whose full-time job it is to lead it. That's where you come in.
The Role
We're looking for someone to take genuine ownership of the CIC — its strategy, its funding, and its future programmes — reporting directly to our CEO. You'll line-manage our Trusts & Foundations fundraising consultant, decide which funding opportunities to pursue, and build the relationships and programmes that take the CIC beyond what we've already started.
This isn't a role where you'll be handed a finished playbook. It's a role for someone who wants to build one.
You'll:
- Set the CIC's strategic direction, in partnership with our CEO
- Own our funding pipeline and manage our fundraising consultant
- Spot and develop new community programmes rooted in genuine local need
- Support our existing Programmes as they continue to grow
- Build the relationships — funders, partners, commissioners — that the CIC's future depends on
About You
You don't need to have done exactly this job before — but you do need to have done something like it. You're someone who can set a strategy and still get your hands dirty. You've probably managed a freelancer or consultant before. You've built relationships with funders or partners when resources were tight, not abundant. And most importantly, you actually want to build something — not just keep an existing programme ticking over.
Experience with trusts and foundations fundraising, youth or family support work, or a background moving from a founder-led organisation toward distributed leadership would all be a bonus, though none are essential.
The Details
- Hours: 3 days/week to start, with planned growth in days as the CIC's income and pipeline grow
- Salary: £26,000–£30,000 FTE, pro-rata for 3 days/week, depending on experience
- Reports to: CEO, Ashley Howard
- Manages: Trusts & Foundations Fundraising Consultant; future CIC staff as the team grows
- Contract: Senior staff role — not a statutory company director
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Northern Ballet is looking for an organised, proactive and detail-focused Development Executive to join our friendly and ambitious fundraising team.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is a confident communicator, with experience in administration, fundraising or customer service who is looking to develop their career in arts fundraising. You’ll play an important role in growing support for Northern Ballet, nurturing relationships with our supporters and helping the Development team run smoothly.
What you’ll do
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Support the growth and administration of our Patron and individual giving programmes
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Help deliver engaging supporter stewardship
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Support donor and corporate events in Leeds and across the UK.
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Maintain accurate supporter and donor information within our Spektrix CRM database
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Support fundraising campaigns, appeals, trust and foundation applications, research and reporting
- Coordinate meetings, donor visits, backstage experiences, rehearsals and other supporter activities
- Provide high-quality administrative support and contribute to improving systems and supporter experience
- Work collaboratively across the organisation and support performances and events, including some evening and weekend work.
Why join Northern Ballet?
You’ll be part of a small, collaborative and purpose-driven team where your contribution really matters. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn, grow and make a meaningful impact through the work of one of the UK’s leading ballet companies.
Northern Ballet is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
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Northern Ballet is the UK's foremost narrative ballet company.
