Army Benevolent Fund - Corporate Partnerships Executive

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Take the next step in your career and work with major companies, making a difference to the lives of soldiers, veterans and their families. This is an exciting time to join the successful, growing Corporate Partnerships team at the Army's national charity. The team manages a range of exciting corporate relationships, from large-scale, long-term funding partnerships to new corporate membership, cause-related marketing and staff fundraising relationships. The successes of the team in recent years, as well as internal promotions, have led to the creation of this new role. You will join the team at an exciting time as we continue that growth, benefiting from our healthy pipeline of prospects and the charity's popular events programme.

In this role you will have the opportunity, with support from the team, to manage relationships with existing partners through planned communications and activity, as well as identifying, engaging and pitching to prospective supporters, building income across our corporate programmes. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious fundraiser to develop their skills and expertise while making a real difference to the Army community. The successful candidate will sit within the wider Corporate and Events team, reporting to the Corporate Partnerships Manager and working with colleagues within and beyond the team, including our 12 regional offices. Depending on your experience and interest, this role would provide opportunities to focus on new business or partnership management.

This role would be a good fit for a confident and able communicator with experience of sales or relationship management. You might currently be working as an Assistant in a fundraising team and be ready for the next step, be an Executive interested to focus on corporate partnerships and develop your skills, or have a background managing business relationships or b-2-b sales and an interest in moving into the charity sector. You will be confident presenting, both in person and in writing, and engaging with senior figures with gravitas. You will be an organised administrator and, ideally have experience of Salesforce or similar CRM systems.

The Army Benevolent Fund is the Army's national charity, here for soldiers, for life. ABF funds housing, employability, mental wellbeing, family, elderly care and independent living support for the Army family. Last year we supported over 75,000 soldiers, veterans and their families through this work including by funding 86 charities, from Combat Stress and Walking with the Wounded to smaller local organisations. Corporate partnerships play an important role in funding this work.

The starting salary is £34,500. After a probationary period of 6 months the successful candidate will benefit from the Charity's full range of employment benefits including an income protection scheme and an employer contribution pension. There will also be opportunities to participate in key Charity events and activities with a TOIL scheme in place. This is a full-time post for 35 hours per week, on an initial two-year fixed term contract based at the Charity's Office in London, Victoria. (The Charity currently operates a minimum of 2 days in the office).

If you have the relevant experience for this role, please apply by sending your CV and supporting statement to our HR Team -