Corporate Partnerships Manager (Maternity Cover)

Reporting to: Head of Corporate Partnerships

Location of work: Flexible, this post holder can be based at home, our London office or a hybrid approach working from home with office visits as required for partnership and organisational meetings. The role may involve some irregular travel throughout England and Scotland. Expenses will be paid in line with our Travel and Expenses policy.

Contract type: Ideally full-time, 35 hours per week, although part time / flexible hours maybe considered. The role will require occasional evening and weekend work

Contract Length: Fixed-term contract, 12 months

Salary: £37,500

BACKGROUND

Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools. Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England. Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition they need to be able to make the most of their morning lessons.  Magic Breakfast also undertakes research, and campaigns for long-term solutions to end hunger as a barrier to learning.

This is an exciting time to join Magic Breakfast if you wish to make a difference to the lives of children. We are expanding our team to meet the challenge of ending child morning hunger, both for now and for good.

JOB PURPOSE

As the Corporate Partnerships Manager, you will be responsible for the management and delivery of some of the charity’s most visible and multi-faceted partnerships that support our vision of ensuring that no child or young person is too hungry to learn. With significant corporate supporters like Amazon, Heinz, Kellogg’s, Arla, Warburtons and many others, this is an exciting time to join Magic Breakfast and take ownership of a portfolio of partners and support the team’s objectives

The role will work closely with the Head of Corporate Partnerships, other Fundraising and Development colleagues and cross-organisationally, to deliver high quality, mutually beneficial and impactful corporate partnerships unlocking and fulfilling opportunities to support our charity mission. Working collaboratively across the organisation to deliver best-in-sector corporate partnerships that meet multiple objectives and generate income.

In addition, you will support the development and delivery of our Corporate Partnerships team strategy; forecasting income from your partnerships, reporting and building the capacity of the account management function to enable maximise the potential of our partnerships.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide excellent account management and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that partnerships are effectively stewarded, and objectives are met.

• Ensure all partnerships are well governed with clear partnership vision, objectives and KPIs, with governance structures in place to allow for co-delivery and evaluation of partnership activities.

• Where necessary, liaise with corporate partners and across the charity to launch new partnerships putting requisite processes in place to support their success.

• Seek opportunities to uplift and creatively add value to partnerships by having a thorough understanding Magic Breakfast’s restricted and unrestricted funding needs, including our Gift in Kind requirements.

• Work with wider Fundraising team to help create and deliver stewardship events, and identify referral opportunities (such as new major donors)

• Work closely with the Policy and Engagement team to maximise marketing and communications opportunities for the charity and make use of our corporate partnerships to amplify campaigning messages.  

Please read the full job description here.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Magic Breakfast we value our employees and work hard to develop offer a supportive, respectful culture which enables everyone to bring their whole self to work.

• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

• long service leave ( 1 additional day per year)

• end of year closure

• enhanced pension

• cash back health plan

Please see our job pack for more information here 

Visit our website here

APPLICATION PROCESS

Should you wish to ask question about the the role before applying please email our People and Culture Team, hr@magicbreakfast. com

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Shortlisting - 19th - 21st August 

First interview -  29th - 30th August 

Second interview -  9th - 10th September