About This Role
This role is fundamental to ensuring service users, stakeholders, and partners experience trauma-responsive support in daily delivery. The Partnerships Manager will develop relationships with organizations, major donors, and other partners, growing FearFree's sustainable and unrestricted income. This relationship-led fundraising role combines strong commercial instincts with the empathy and judgment needed to represent a specialist domestic abuse and sexual violence charity.
Responsibilities
- Live and embody the FearFree values
- Promote the service to external agencies where applicable
- Have a responsibility around safeguarding of both adults and children, maintaining knowledge of appropriate policies and procedures and integrated working
- Support colleagues in all services across FearFree as required
- Engage in and contribute to effective team working with a flexible and pro-active approach, including cover for other team members’ holidays and sickness
- Undertake all statutory and mandatory training, as required by the organisation
- Develop a pipeline of medium and large employers capable of entering significant, multi-year relationships with FearFree
- Secure Charity of the Year partnerships, corporate donations, sponsorship, employee fundraising, social-value commitments and other strategic partnerships
- Build relationships with senior decision-makers including HR, People, CSR/ESG, Social Value, procurement and executive leaders
- Work closely with the Head of Income Generation to develop larger opportunities arising through FearFree at Work and other commercial relationships
- Ensure corporate partnerships deliver genuine mutual value and are consistent with FearFree’s ethical fundraising standards
- Develop FearFree’s approach to major donor fundraising
- Identify, research, cultivate and steward individuals capable of making significant gifts
- Develop tailored engagement and stewardship plans that deepen donors’ understanding of FearFree’s work
- Create opportunities for senior colleagues, trustees and existing supporters to help open doors and build relationships
- Develop compelling cases for unrestricted and core-cost support
- Identify emerging income opportunities including social value, professional partnerships and new commercial collaborations
- Support the development of FearFree at Work where relationships have the potential to generate both commercial and charitable income
- Attend networking events, conferences and business events and confidently represent FearFree with senior external stakeholders
- Develop propositions that translate FearFree’s expertise into language that resonates with businesses and funders without compromising the organisation’s values
