Partnerships Researcher : part:time (32 hours per week)
Salary: GBP 35,853 : GBP 42,181 pro rata (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part Time
Additional information: 32 hours per week : working days to be agreed (ideally one of the days to be Tuesday)
Location: Poole, Dorset, England
Location description: Hybrid between home and Poole with occasional travel to Poole as required by the role (approximately once a month)
Closing Date:
Reference: 21487
About us
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity that provides a 24:hour lifeboat search and rescue service, seasonal lifeguards, and water safety education and initiatives. Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards need a dedicated, professional and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to help save lives every day.
We re looking for a Partnerships Researcher to join our Partnerships Research Team, which is part of our Research Team. The Research Team supports the RNLI by delivering insight and recommendations, generated by robust and ethical research, to enable the RNLI to make sound evidence:based decisions.
The Partnerships Research Team conduct desk:based research, produce accurate, thorough, and insightful research reports, and promote the role of research in organisational decision:making, ensuring customers and decision makers at all levels have the information, research, and evidence required.
It s a fascinating role offering the chance to make a real difference to our charity.
Some of the benefits
: Salary : GBP 35,853 to GBP 42,181 pro rata (dependent on experience)
: Flexible working
: 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)
: Competitive pension scheme
: Life assurance
: Health and dental cashplan
Your Role
As a Partnerships Researcher, you will be tasked with the following:
: Undertake up:to:date, accurate and efficiently produced research, including complex and standard due diligence, prospect research profiles, network mapping, guest list research, and corporate risks and opportunities reports, translating research findings into accessible evidence that tells a story and provides recommendations that can be used by decision makers at all levels.
: Effectively build and manage successful working relationships with all customers, stakeholders and internal analysts, promoting the role of Partnerships Research in strategic and operational decision:making, and provide expert guidance on corporate associations and donations acceptance.
: Proactively develop and maintain a prospect research pipeline to support the Corporate, Trust and Philanthropy teams as they develop these prospects and convert them to supporters and partners.
: Promote the use of good research practice and demonstrate how it can add value across the RNLI.
About You
You ll be proactive, inquisitive and questioning, have a strong moral compass and enjoy working independently and as part of a team. You will be comfortable communicating at all levels, understand and be able to communicate the importance of a strong evidence base, enjoy undertaking and managing varied projects, and have a high attention to detail. With proven experience in a research/information gathering role, you will ideally have a research and/or fundraising background in the charitable/not:for:profit sector.
To be considered as the Partnerships Researcher, you will need:
: A good degree with a demonstrable research component or equivalent experience
: Proven experience in a research/information gathering role
: Experience of producing and translating research and evidence into actionable recommendations, and the ability to communicate these to all levels
: Experience of managing multiple projects
: Experience of successfully proactively working with and influencing multiple stakeholders and customers
: Strong written and verbal, analytical,