Overview
Lead a team of partnership managers to build and nurture partnerships with private sector priority sectors, providing funding for Oxfam's work and enabling businesses to operate more ethically and sustainably.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and nurture partnerships with private sector priority sectors.
- Enable businesses to operate more ethically and sustainably.
- Work across co-created programme partnerships, sustainability and supply chain initiatives, flexible funding, cause-related marketing and emergency appeals.
- Drive team and individual performance.
- Develop and secure six and seven figure partnerships.
- Build a variety of corporate-NGO partnerships.
- Develop strong networks across a large and complex organisation.
- Understand the needs and drivers of others.
- Shape and influence a variety of approaches and priorities.
- Inspire prospects, partners, supporters, colleagues and peers.
- Plan and deliver long-term strategies.
- Make decisions consistent with strategy and values.
- Budget and monitor income and expenditure.
Required Experience
- Relationship building experience
- Influencing skills
- Experience of driving team and individual performance and helping people to develop, grow and achieve their potential.
- Commercial outlook based on experience developing and securing six and seven figure partnerships.
- Knowledge and understanding of corporate sustainability trends and their implications for NGO partnerships.
- Track record in building a variety of corporate-NGO partnerships (including programme partnerships, brand engagements, corporate philanthropy etc.) to drive income and support wider organisational objectives.
- Excellent negotiation and relationship building skills.
- Experience planning and delivering long-term strategies, focused on achieving results.
- Experience making decisions consistent with strategy and values in the face of complexity and ambiguity.
- Ability to budget and monitor income and expenditure.
