Corporate Partnerships Officer

Corporate Partnerships Officer  

£30,000 – £33,000 per annum
Permanent – 5 days per week  (Monday - Friday)
Core, 175 St John Street, London EC1V 4LW

Your new employer:

Place2Be is a leading children’s mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional well-being of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff.

In the last year we have worked with over 900 schools across England, Scotland and Wales, reaching a school population in excess of 142,000 children and young people, helping them to cope with wide-ranging and often complex social issues including bullying, bereavement, domestic violence, family breakdown, neglect and trauma.

Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play, and by supporting a child’s ability to engage in school life.

Our mission is to help build "mentally healthy" schools and communities where children can thrive and grow up with prospects rather than problems.

Who are we looking for?

The Corporate Partnerships Officer is a new role to support the growth of the Corporate Partnerships team. The role will be split between new business – researching, prospecting and developing new opportunities - and account management; you will have your own portfolio of partnerships and will support the team to deliver larger partnerships. You will manage engagement activity with our corporate partners including events with schools and mental health lunch and learn seminars.

At a time when interest in children’s mental health has never been stronger, this is an exciting time to be joining our dynamic organisation and make a real and tangible difference to children’s futures.

You’ll be an exceptional Corporate Partnerships Officer who is able to help us grow our corporate fundraising portfolio. You will be joining a small but dynamic team consisting of a Head of Corporate Partnerships, two Corporate Partnerships Managers and another Corporate Partnerships Officer. We have achieved significant growth in the past few years, securing a number of high-value partnerships such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Standard Life. The team has a 19/20 target of £2.2 million.

Proactive, results-driven and commercially aware, you will enjoy collaborating with others for the good of a business. Good administrative, organisational skills and strong written skills are essential.

The successful candidate:

As the successful candidate you’ll be able to demonstrate the following as part of your application:

• Demonstrable experience of working in a corporate partnerships or fundraising role, or relevant experience/ transferable skills.
• Proven track record of effective administrative work
• Experience of working towards financial targets and deadlines
• Experience of building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of organising fundraising and engagement events
• IT skills including Word, Power Point, Excel and Access and knowledge of databases
• Experience of working with in- house database systems

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Amazing offices in the heart of the city, a brisk walk from Farringdon Station
• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended maternity/paternity pay

A supportive organisation we offer strong and clear leadership as well as a fantastic working environment to ensure your early success.

Closing Date:  Sunday 16th June 2019 at 11:59pm

1st Stage Interviews: Friday 24th June 2019

Start:  ASAP

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity, we would love you to join us.  It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping give young people brighter futures.

Place2Be is committed to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.  We are keen to reflect the diversity of the partner schools we work in and are particularly interested in attracting applications from male candidates, as well as candidates from Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.