The Corporate Partnership Manager will take the lead to contact potential donors, maintain strong connections with potential new funders, manage existing donor relationships, organise events, meeting partners, record donor relationships and gift, and work to achieve or exceed a fundraising target.

Responsibilities
• Design and implement an annual fundraising strategy, integrating the whole range of fundraising possibilities
• Build and manage personal and sustainable relationships with donors, including making cold calls to potential donors and building relationships with them
• Undertake research on prospective corporate, major, trust and public donors
• Develop new fundraising products and events and market them
• Update donors on how their money is being spent and write case studies on the impact of the organisation’s work
• Write funding applications to trusts and foundations or charity of the year proposals to corporates
• Write reports for trusts and foundations on the use of existing grants
• Maintain and update donors’ records on a Donor Management application software
• Write internal reports, analysing fundraising progress on a monthly or periodic basis
• Arrange fundraising events and tours of the charity’s projects for potential donors
• Evaluate the success of previous fundraising events by making risk analyses and balancing time-cost ratios to focus efforts on the most appropriate fundraising activities with the highest success rate.