Assistant Director - Corporate Engagement and Partnerships

Assistant Director, Corporate Engagement and Partnerships
£55,000 to £65,000 per year
35 hours per week

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the UK’s largest breast cancer charity – and we’re dedicated to funding research into this devastating disease. We believe that if we all act now, by 2050, everyone who develops breast cancer will live.

The role

We are the largest UK breast cancer charity with a growing brand and an exciting new organisational strategy which offers a range of opportunities for companies to partner with us. This exciting role will maximise income and engagement from Corporate supporters to enable Breast Cancer Now to deliver its vision of making breast cancer a survivable disease by 2050.

We have a fantastic track record in Corporate fundraising, raising over £7m pa with flagship partnerships with M&S, Asda, Debenhams and EDF Energy.  Our Fashion Targets Breast Cancer retail campaign generates £900k per annum. Excitingly, and despite being one of the largest corporate fundraising programmes in the sector, we still have huge potential to grow.

The Assistant Director will lead a team of 15 to develop creative and engaging propositions to win new partners and build excellent relationships with senior contacts to maximise the potential of our existing partnerships.

About you

We are seeking an experienced, skilled and enthusiastic Assistant Director with expert knowledge of best practice in Corporate fundraising across a range of disciplines (employee fundraising, CRM, sponsorship etc).

You will lead the team and build excellent relationships with senior internal and external contacts to galvanise the huge potential of our corporate supporters to enable the research discoveries which will save lives.

This is an opportunity for the right individual to make a transformational impact on our fundraising programme.

Closing date 11.59pm on 16 July 2017
Interview date Friday 21 July 2017