Head of Corporate Partnerships (Retail)

Contract Type: Fixed Term up to 12 months (Maternity cover starting early January 2020)

Hours: Full time, 35 hours a week

Location: Prince's Trust House, London

As our Head of Corporate Partnerships (Retail) you will be a key part of our partnerships team and will work closely with colleagues across the fundraising team to develop high value partnerships and help us raise over GBP 70million each year so that we can deliver our mission and help young people transform their lives by developing their confidence and skills to live, learn and earn.

You will build and manage relationships with new and existing retail partners to deliver corporate funding and non-financial support, such as providing jobs for young people as part of our programmes. Working with internal teams, such as events, business development and public sector teams,will allow you to grow these relationships and maximise funding.

To be successful in this role, you will be passionate about helping young people transform their lives, it is at the heart of everything we do, you will also be an experienced fundraiser and a motivational manager with fundraising or commercial skills and the ability to lead and network with senior personnel in the private sector. You will also have strong financial, and project/account management skills.

Ideally, you will also be able to demonstrate that you understand the challenges that face disadvantaged young people and be able to quickly understand the fundamentals of Prince's Trust operational delivery.

To learn more about the role, please download the job description.

About The Prince's Trust

We are a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome!

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years.Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world.We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of the children and young people we work with. Successful applicants to roles at The Prince's Trust will be subject to criminal vetting checks, and where necessary for the role, a check at an enhanced level will be required.

To apply for this vacancy please go to our website and complete the online application.To help you with the supporting statement section, you may want to download a copy of the Prince's Trust Behavioural Framework.

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