Partnerships Officer
Salary: £40,663.00 per annum + benefits which include generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, life assurance, private health care, cycle to work scheme. We also have on-site parking.
Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week. The role is based in Cambridge, offering hybrid working. We are a family-friendly employer and take a flexible approach around personal commitments when agreeing work patterns.
We work to make the internet a safer place. Never has a truer word been spoken of the Internet Watch Foundation. Our work is trusted by police, governments and technology companies. Our tech-for-good services are used by over 200 companies, including some of the tech giants. And now you could be part of our team to help us in our mission.
About the Partnerships Team
The IWF is a leading child safety organisation handling one of the toughest and most sensitive online harms child sexual abuse and the Partnerships Team acts as a bridge between that work and the wider world, connecting mission, funding and momentum. This role is crucial, as it helps support the welfare of the IWF s front-line expert analysts and provides the means for the IWF to grow and innovate in its efforts to tackle child sexual abuse imagery online.
The Partnerships Team is driven by strategic focus, collaborative skill and mission-driven purpose, and helps the IWF to attract the support it needs to detect, disrupt, remove and prevent the spread of online child sexual abuse material.
Within that broader mission, the Partnerships Team plays a strategic and outward-facing role: it s responsible for building relationships, collaborations and income streams that strengthen the IWF s work.
Who we need
As we embark on our new three-year strategy, we are looking for an innovative and talented fundraiser with at least three years of fundraising experience to join the team alongside a Partnership Manager and Business Development Consultant to help us to generate new creative partnerships and opportunities.
As a small, growing team with ambitious fundraising targets and a global reach, we have the potential to expand several income streams, particularly trusts/foundations, government agencies, creative partnerships with corporations and wealth collaboratives.
We are looking for someone to generate new funding opportunities through creative out-of-the-box thinking which will identify and solidify relationships with philanthropists, corporations, global foundations and beyond.
The leading candidate will be able to conceptualise and deliver high quality proposals, projects and evaluation reports, and use their experience and knowledge to develop new ways of securing and nurturing large scale funds and partnerships. They will be able to drive change and create successful outcomes.
Existing funders include a mix of leading grantees/foundations, corporate partners/members, and government. There is significant potential for the development of high value individual partnerships within sectors such as technology/cybersecurity, telecoms and financial.
This role will play a big part in helping the organisation to deliver more than £2.5million in funding by the end of 2027.
Candidates will not be required to view criminal images.
This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Closing date
Closing date for applications is Sunday 22 February 2026. The formal interview will take place at our Cambridge office on Wednesday 4 March 2026.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Internet Watch Foundation, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.
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