NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

Location: Hybrid, remote with travel to Bristol / London
Salary: £29,450 (Grade 3) per year (plus Inner London Weighting of £3,483.94, if eligible)
Length of contract: Permanent
Hours per week: 37
Closing date: We reserve the right to adapt the advert at any time per organisational circumstances and to close this vacancy early for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Interviews: Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis

PURPOSE OF THE NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER ROLE:

To play a vital role in advancing Women’s Aid strategy across both earned and voluntary corporate income streams. The post-holder will be responsible for building a pipeline of new business opportunities and converting these into income generation opportunities. Working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners, the post-holder will build strong, trusted relationships to expand Women’s Aid’s portfolio - through tailored proposals, events, and other strategic fundraising activities to generate income and achieve ambitious targets. Using confident communication and influencing skills, the role will lead on developing tailored proposals, managing events, and delivering targeted fundraising activities to engage new and existing donors across various departments and industries.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER:

• To implement a robust strategy to secure income from corporates and earned income.
• To support the generation of creative and impactful collateral across the team, to ensure proposals, presentations and information (aligned with the WA strategic objectives and messaging) attract and retain donors.
• To support and deliver appropriate bespoke donor journey.
• To work with the Partnerships & Development Manager to develop and deliver commercial products alongside service delivery teams.
• To identify new business opportunities and potential donors through external information, WA’s database, and through WA’s extended networks, as well as identifying prospects with a likely interest in our cause.
• To lead and directly manage a portfolio of key donor relationships.
• To implement network mapping, research profiling and identification of new prospects with the capacity and propensity to donate at all levels whilst maintaining accurate records, and growing our corporate supporter database.
• To support the account management and stewardship of all donors, liaising with appropriate teams, ensuring that objectives of the donor are fully met.
• To track progress using the organisation’s database and other prospect tracking tools ensuring the General Data Protection Regulations (2018) are adhered to across all relationships and ensure that all data collection is in accordance with the regulations.
• To manage a timetable of deadlines to ensure donors receive reports and other correspondence as required, in liaison with other team members.
• To ensure all information relating to donor relationships is accurate and well-organised on the internal CRM system.
• To support the wider team in the tracking and recording income on a regular basis in relation to corporate income from earned and voluntary sources.
• To process all incoming donations in line with internal procedures and ensure prompt and appropriate acknowledgement of all income.