Corporate Partnerships and Volunteer Manager

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our mission, building partnerships that inspire community involvement, organizing impactful events, and recruiting dedicated volunteers. We’re looking for someone who’s not only organized but also skilled at nurturing connections. Whether you’re a teacher, event organizer, or volunteer manager, your ability to juggle multiple projects and engage with a range of stakeholders will be invaluable.

The Corporate Partnerships and Volunteer Manager is responsible for managing/maintaining our relationships with our longstanding corporate partners, and for recruiting and engaging their volunteers for our school programmes.

A key element of the role is identifying and presenting volunteer opportunities to prospective corporate partners, fostering new relationships, and expanding the organisation’s volunteer network. The Corporate Partnerships and Volunteer Manager will actively seek to diversify our corporate partnerships by engaging companies across wider industry sectors. 

In addition to recruitment, the Corporate Partnerships and Volunteer Manager oversees all volunteer logistics, including maintaining volunteer records and distributing relevant briefing materials to ensure volunteers are well-prepared for their roles. 

About You

The following skills may have been gained from a variety of previous roles. You may have managed volunteers or being an account/relationship manager for corporate clients. You may have been a teacher, managing classroom dynamics and education systems. You may have experience coordinating events or conferences where you were responsible for looking after delegates from booking to post event. Or you may come from a training provider or similar where you coordinated a calendar of events and interfaced with organisations and individuals.

Essential:

·        Excellent relationship management of stakeholders.

·        Confidence in public speaking and presenting opportunities to diverse audience and conducting one-to-one meetings and calls. 

·        Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders.

·        Solutions-focused, with a forward-thinking approach to problem-solving and planning.

·        Commercially minded, with a focus on identifying opportunities to upsell and create new revenue-generating volunteer programmes.

·        Proficient in IT, with experience using Microsoft Office and platforms such as CRMs.

·        Written and oral communication should be of a high standard

·        Deeply committed to advancing social mobility and creating empowering opportunities for young people.

Desirable

·        Experience working within a charity or in a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) department.

·        Experience of collecting and analysing impact data

·        Knowledge of the youth employment agenda and the labour market opportunities for young people

·        Knowledge and experience of the Tower Hamlets area

·        Experience of volunteering

This role will require an enhanced DBS check. We operate a safer recruitment policy and we will check on multiple references before employment starts.