United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Corporate Development and Partnerships Assistant (Volunteer)

1.1. Background & Description of the role

War Child’s mission is to support and strengthen the protective environment for children who, as a result of conflict, live with a combination of insecurity, poverty and exclusion.

Over the next five years War Child will develop its organisational capability to benefit, directly and indirectly, 10% of the most marginalised children, living in ten of the worst conflict affected countries in the world. War Child will campaign to persuade decision makers to begin allocating the level of financial and political commitment needed to reduce the number of children dying and suffering from the effects of war. We will harness the credibility and learning from the increased scale of our programmes work to make a significant contribution to the conditions, in which others are encouraged, enabled and compelled to benefit those children marginalised by conflict that War Child is unable to help directly.

The Corporate Development and Partnerships Assistant (Volunteer) role is crucial for our award-winning, creative Fundraising Division, in supporting the team in raising funds to continue this rapid growth and expansion of our impact. The Corporate Development and Partnerships Assistant role will have a focus on supporting War Child’s corporate accounts and supporting the corporate development team with prospecting and researching.

1.2. Key Responsibilities

· Provide support in account managing War Child’s existing partnerships.

· Maintain individual corporate contacts and organisations on War Child’s fundraising database.

· Provide support in pinpointing new business opportunities.

· Utilise War Child’s fundraising database as a relationship management tool to record, monitor and report on existing partnerships, new fundraising opportunities, and update records for individuals and companies.

· Conduct and write research reports on potential new corporate partners.

· Research and explore new areas of fundraising (individual, corporate and challenge) for War Child.

· Support the Corporate Partnerships team with resource collation for corporate proposals and applications.

· Support the wider fundraising team with tasks where appropriate.

1.3. Working With

The role involves working closely with the following stakeholders:

· All staff in the Fundraising Directorate

· All staff in the Programmes Directorate

· Other War Child colleagues

· War Child’s Corporate Partners

· War Child’s Key Supporters

1.4. Responsible for

o Providing indirect support to the Corporate Development and Corporate Partnerships team.

1.5.Contractual Terms

· This role will be a 4-6 month placement, working 5 days a week.

· This is a voluntary position, with lunch and travel costs provided (for travel within zones 1-6 of London Underground).

· Any offer made will be conditional on receipt of 3 favourable written references, (from your most recent employer, any other previous employer and a character reference). War Child reserves the right to call the referees.

· The successful applicant will be expected to undergo a DBS check, be compliant and sign up to War Child’s Child Protection Policy prior to offer being made.

2. Job Description

2.1.Corporate Fundraising

Support the Corporate Partnerships team in developing War Child’s portfolio of corporate partners committed to supporting the charity in a wide range of corporate fundraising activity (including but not exclusively Charity of the Year, Gaming, Cause-Related Marketing, Sponsorship and Corporate Foundations).

Corporate development and account support:

· Provide day to day support for current corporate partnerships working with Corporate Partnerships Manager to maximise income.

· Support in the development of corporate partnership proposals.

· Build excellent working relationships across the organisation, with teams who help to deliver War Child’s corporate partnerships.

· Build excellent working relationships with staff who work for War Child’s corporate partners.

· Support at corporate events as required.

· Maintain information on corporate contacts and organisations on War Child’s fundraising database.

3. Personal Specification - Essential Requirements

War Child’s office is a fun and lively environment made up of small group of extremely dedicated staff and volunteers. We’re looking for someone who can fit in well and bring their own personality and creativity to our fundraising and the wider charity.

3.1. Experience

· Conducting desk research

· Some understanding of charity fundraising mechanisms

3.2. Expertise

· Confident to work independently

· Relationship development

· IT literate with good knowledge of Microsoft Office and databases

3.3. Legal

· Eligible to work in the UK

3.4. Key Competencies

· Commitment to the vision and mission of War Child UK.

· Ability to be creative for continuous improvement and to contribute towards a culture of innovation along with knowledge impact.

· Flexibility approach to work including some weekend working and occasional visits to the network.

· Ability to effectively organise and prioritise own workload whilst making effective decisions.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Ability to collaborate and form effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

· Attention to detail with a key focus in achieving results.

4. Personal Specification - Desirable

· Involvement on a marketing or fundraising project

· Involvement in proposal applications

· Experience of using/managing relationship databases

· Experience of managing own projects

· An understanding of or experience of delivering fundraising events

· Interest/knowledge of the charity sector

Please send your CV and a brief covering letter which outlines how you meet the person specification to Sheena Bourke, Corporate Development Manager sheenab@Warchild.org.uk by 5pm of Monday 1^st February 2016. Program Files