Partnership Manager (Mat Cover)

at  Comic Relief

COMIC RELIEF

Employment Type Contract 12 month fixed term contract (Maternity Cover)
Location Hybrid · London, City of, UK 2 days a week in our London Office
Salary £43,440 - £47,218 (GBP)
Team Partnerships

Seniority Mid-level

• Closing: 12:00pm, 31st Jan 2025 GMT

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week.
Comic Relief reserves the right to close the role early if a large number of applications are received.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Experience working with key internals stakeholders and cross organisationally.
• Experience working toward income targets.
• Experience working with global partnerships.
  Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

PURPOSE OF JOB:

The Partnerships Manager will take responsibility for managing relationships with a portfolio of corporate partners, throughout the year and for Comic Relief campaigns.
The role will build and manage long-term, multi-dimensional partnerships with UK and global organisations, ensuring they align with both Comic Relief’s goals and those of our partners. This role involves meeting fixed income targets, collaborating with internal teams to secure commitments that support our social change agenda, and delivering high-quality account management for a portfolio of strategic partnerships. By developing shared objectives and plans, you will maximise impact, fundraising, and partner satisfaction while fostering meaningful contributions such as financial support, employee engagement, and advocacy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Proactively develop multi-dimensional, long-term UK and global partnerships that delivers both Comic Relief and the partners’ goals, thinking holistically about impact.
• Take personal responsibility for delivering a fixed income target from specific partnerships with clear definition of restricted and core income.
• Work alongside the Legal, Finance and Impact & Investment teams to ensure that the commitments that frame the partnerships can be delivered and are in the best interest of Comic Relief.
• Account manage a portfolio of UK and global based corporate partners which include strategic multi-year partnerships (in and out of campaign), campaign specific partnerships and corporate products or projects.
• Develop shared plans and objectives for each partnership or project, to achieve partners objectives (regarding their own brand, impact, reach, CSR and internal engagement) as well as maximising fundraising and impact for Comic Relief. To ensure that these plans and objectives are met to partners’ satisfaction and to aid retention.
• Work with colleagues across the organisation ensuring that contributions from partners constructively support Comic Reliefs social change agenda, whether in the form of financial contributions, employee fundraising and volunteering, retail offerings or advocacy.
• Provide high quality relationship and account management of all Comic Relief’s major commercial partners, while being the first point of contact and internal resource to key partners.