National Partnerships Lead

Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. We’ve embarked on our 10-year strategy for ending homelessness. We know it is not inevitable. We know together we can end it.

Location: Based in any Crisis Skylight across Great Britain. This is a hybrid role with homeworking available in line with Crisis’ Hybrid Working Policy.

We’re the UK’s national charity for people experiencing homelessness. And we’re determined to end homelessness, for good.

We don’t just help prevent homelessness from happening, we deliver life-changing face-to-face services through our nine Skylight centres, and campaign fiercely to change policy in England, Scotland and Wales on issues including benefits and employment, health and wellbeing, housing, law and rights, and rough sleeping.

It’s an exciting time to join the high-value fundraising teams  only are we preparing to deliver our Crisis at Christmas campaign, we’re in the private face of a £30M campaign to acquire 100 homes that will provide stable housing for people experiencing some of the most severe forms of homelessness. At the same time, we are delivering a bold ten-year strategy that aims to see the beginning of the end of homelessness by 2034.

As a leading member of our corporate fundraising team, you will have the creative freedom and strategic backing to identify build, and secure new high-value corporate partnerships that transform our high value income.

This role will focus on identifying and securing big-picture new corporate partnerships across all sectors through new charity of the year, strategic partnerships, corporate foundations and GIK.

You will line manage the Senior National New Partnerships Manager, and play a leading role in growing our income, brand profile and audience reach through new national corporate partnerships.

From our iconic Crisis at Christmas campaign and slate of high-profile events, to our new housing delivery ambitions and our life-changing Skylight services, we’re looking for someone who can identify, shape and deliver innovative new corporate partnerships.

• You will be an experienced, tenacious, results-orientated senior new business fundraiser who will bring creativity to building a new partnerships pipeline and growth strategy that turbo-charges our income, grow our brand profile and audience reach.
• You’ll own your pipeline and, with the Senior National New Partnerships Manager, identify, build and convert new charity of the year and strategic partnerships, corporate foundations and GIK partnerships.
• You’ll be a self-starter and motivated by the challenge of building compelling and strategic high-value funding propositions.
• You’ll collaborate closely with the New Commercial Partnerships Team, and other teams across Brand, Marketing & Audience team to build relationships and pipelines, and package up new high-value corporate propositions at pace.
• You’ll know what excellent corporate new business looks like at a seven-figure level, from prospect identification and cultivation to developing brilliant proposals, pitches and employee vote strategies.
• We’re looking for someone who can adapt industry priorities, motivations and be able to spot new strategic opportunities for partnership collaborations that others may miss.
• You’ll be experienced at identifying, pitching and successfully securing six and seven figure new partnerships, and someone who loves building networks, external relationships and influencing internally and externally to get things done.

Please see the full Job Pack linked below, for a full list of requirements for this role. We realise that long lists of criteria can be daunting, and you may not want to apply for a role unless you feel 100% qualified. However,…