Senior Partnerships & Business Development Lead

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Do you thrive at acquiring new business and developing fruitful partnerships?

Would enhancing the social mobility of underrepresented young people drive you?

This is a brand-new position for a tenacious revenue generating professional to become the charity’s first Head of Business Development within 12 months.
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Start date: April/May/June 2026

Reporting to: Director of Development

Contract & hours: Permanent. Full-time or part-time (min 4 days pw)

Direct Reports: None

Hybrid: 1-2 days pw in East London

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A London-based social mobility charity is excited to create an emerging role to join their growing business development and partnership’s function.

You will be tasked with:

* Identifying new business development opportunities

* Developing and building a robust pipeline of new prospect

* Securing multi-year agreements with corporates across the Corporate and Trust and Foundations sector

* Work with the SLT to develop and implement their longer-term income generation strategy

The Senior Partnerships & Business Development Lead will have:

* Successfully of identified, secured, and developed multiple long-term corporate partnerships at 5-6 figures

* Experience in planning and managing corporate fundraising programmes

* An understanding of corporate CSR programmes

* A background of working across the education, employability and/or the charity sector

If your expertise is in sales and new business acquisition, pipeline development and nurturing productive relationships, and if you are enthusiastic about advancing social mobility and inspired to support the futures of young people, we would love to hear from you!

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To apply, please submit your CV to Louis Eastwell ASAP. We will be engaging with interested candidates on a rolling basis. Interview dates are currently TBC.

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Hire Purpose champions inclusive recruitment.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and lived experiences. We uphold equal opportunity principles and challenge bias at every stage, partnering only with organisations that share our commitment to integrity, diversity, equity and inclusion.

Hire Purpose is also proud to be an active member of The TEAM Network, the UK’s largest recruitment community of independently owned recruitment businesses
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Location:
London
Salary:
£50,000 - £55,000 /annum Flexible working arrangements
Job Type:
PartTime
Category:
Charity

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