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Drive meaningful change for disabled children while building your career in corporate partnerships. This role offers the chance to secure major new business partnerships that directly fund life-changing equipment for children who need it most.
Location: Remote with 3 days in the office per month
About Newlife
As one of the UK's leading charities providing essential specialist equipment to children with disabilities, Newlife is dedicated to making life better - for the families we serve, and for the people who help us to make that happen.
Through grants and emergency equipment loans, we ensure children get the vital equipment they need, when they need it, while our free nurse helpline offers crucial support and information. Our campaigns help to give children with disabilities and their families a voice, advocating for change to benefit the families we serve.
Across the whole of Newlife, our teams are crucial to our success – it's not just a job; here you'll be helping us to change lives every day.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checking may be necessary for this role.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll drive sustainable income growth through acquiring new corporate partners and managing existing supporters. This role focuses heavily on proactive business development, working with our stock donation team to identify, approach and secure new corporate supporters.
New Business Development:
- Develop and deliver a corporate new business strategy to secure significant income growth
- Identify, research and prioritise prospective corporate partners aligned with Newlife's mission
- Build and manage a strong pipeline across retail, logistics, manufacturing, professional services and consumer brands
- Generate opportunities through networking, outreach, referrals, events and LinkedIn engagement
- Lead on preparing tailored pitches, proposals and presentations
- Conduct face-to-face and virtual meetings with senior decision-makers including CSR, ESG, HR, marketing and executive teams
Partnership Types:
- Charity of the Year
- Strategic partnerships
- Cause-related marketing
- Employee fundraising
- Sponsorship and payroll giving
- Corporate volunteering
- Gifts in kind
Account Management:
- Manage and develop a portfolio of corporate partners to maximise long-term value
- Deliver excellent stewardship and relationship management
- Create impactful partnership plans and reports demonstrating social impact
- Identify opportunities to grow existing partnerships through multi-year agreements
Performance Management:
- Deliver agreed income and KPI targets for corporate fundraising
- Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting and reporting
- Monitor ROI and ensure partnerships deliver strong value
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience:
- Proven experience in corporate fundraising, sales, business development or account management
- Strong track record of securing new business and achieving income or revenue targets
- Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills
- Confident presenter with strong written proposal and pitch-writing abilities
- Commercially aware with ability to identify mutually beneficial partnership opportunities
- Highly organised with strong pipeline and project management skills
- Self-motivated, proactive and results-driven
- Passionate about improving outcomes for disabled children
Essential Skills:
- Strategic thinking and communication
- Negotiation and relationship management
- Resilience and persistence
- Commercial awareness and collaboration
- Initiative and creativity
Desirable:
- Charity sector experience
- Knowledge of CSR, ESG and corporate giving trends
- Experience using CRM databases such as Salesforce, Raiser's Edge or Donorflex
- Existing network of corporate contacts
If you're ready to build meaningful partnerships that change children's lives while advancing your career, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join our mission.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
The UK’s largest charitable provider of specialist equipment for disabled children.
Thank you!
Location: Home based, remote role, Europe or Asia. Competitive pay based on location.
You must have the right to work in the country you live in (please note we are not able to offer sponsorship for a business visa or work permit at this time).
Contract: Between 0.8-1 FTE, with flexibility for the right person.
About us
Action Speaks Louder (ASL) is a not-for-profit galvanizing people around the world to hold
major corporations to account for their climate promises. We focus on pressuring corporations to walk the talk on climate, in order to help deliver international climate goals. If we can pressure large consumer-facing, brand-sensitive corporations to live up to their climate commitments it will transform the landscape – dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting renewable energy procurement, whilst creating the political space for governments to increase ambition.
Action Speaks Louder has built a diverse team of campaigners across multiple countries, and
has a strong track record delivering outcomes from multinational companies. We are
committed to offering equal opportunities in a diverse, flexible, family-friendly, supportive
working environment.
The role
We are looking for a sharp, experienced communications professional to lead ASL's voice and drive its communications strategy at a pivotal moment in the organisation's growth. This is a senior, strategy-led role for someone who combines rigorous campaign instincts with genuine digital fluency.
About you
You have at least 8 years' experience in senior communications roles, ideally within campaigning or purpose-driven organisations. You have a track record of delivering communications campaigns with measurable real-world impact.
Critically, you are a digital native. You understand how campaigns live and die on social platforms, how to build and activate online audiences, and how to use data to test, iterate and sharpen messaging in real time. You are confident navigating the rapidly changing media landscape and as comfortable crafting a social campaign as you are pitching a broadsheet journalist.
You know how to tell complex stories simply without losing rigour. You understand that both message and messenger matter, and you know how to target both to diverse audiences across different markets and cultures.
Duties and responsibilities
Strategy
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Lead and continuously refine ASL's communications strategy
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Develop integrated campaigns that combine digital, earned media and stakeholder engagement to maximise impact
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Identify emerging opportunities and risks in the communications landscape
Digital campaigning
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Lead ASL's digital campaign strategy across social, email and content channels
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Oversee content production, ensuring quality, consistency and platform-appropriate storytelling
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Harness data and analytics to test messaging, track performance and optimise campaigns
Media liaison and PR
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Develop and maintain relationships with key journalists across target markets
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Build and manage media contact databases
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Develop pitch content, press materials and key messaging
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Identify and capitalise on media moments
Management
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Manage external contractors and agency relationships
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Lead a diverse, distributed team
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Support spokespeople with messaging, briefings and media preparation
Selection criteria
Essential
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Demonstrated experience developing and executing communications strategies for international campaigns with measurable outcomes
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Strong digital campaign experience: social strategy, content, community building, analytics and paid amplification
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Demonstrated experience securing top-tier targeted media coverage across varied markets
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Experience crafting, testing and iterating topline messages
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Ability to communicate complex material clearly without sacrificing accuracy or credibility
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Comfortable leading a remote, globally distributed team
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Fluency in English.
Desirable
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Experience working across diverse regions and stakeholder communities
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Experience with AV production and multimedia content
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Media training skills
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Familiarity with corporate climate accountability, energy transition or adjacent issue areas
What we offer
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A genuinely significant opportunity to shape a dynamic, fast-growing international organisation with strong connections to global philanthropy
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Work that matters — with a team that combines passion with rigour and a results-oriented approach
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Real autonomy to shape and develop your role over time
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A fully flexible, remote working environment
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. All applications will be treated confidentially.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.