The role of Senior Events and Partnerships Manager will lead the Events and Partnerships Teams to deliver their strategy and plans. Working with the Head of Public Fundraising the Senior Events and Partnerships Manager will carry out a programme of continuous improvement to shape our programme of events for supporters, the local community, our children, young people and their families and retain and grow our partnerships and community fundraising programmes. This work is vital in helping us to achieve our strategic aims of increasing our net contribution and growing our supporter base.
The successful candidate will proactively lead our Events Team to review and overhaul our current events programme before implementing a varied and exciting refreshed programme which will engage new and current supporters as well as the local community and our children, young people and their families. They will also lead our Partnerships Team to develop and maintain and grow long‑term, high value and multifaceted community, group and corporate partnerships to maximise income, value and influence for The Children s Trust. You will lead a small team of events and partnerships managers to secure and manage a range of new and existing partnerships and events (including owned and third party).
Income Generation and Strategy
* Lead the implementation and delivery of the strategy for the Events and Partnerships teams and work with the Head of Public Fundraising and the teams to develop and review strategies to maximise income from events and partnerships
* Utilise audience insight to develop a broad and innovative range of income generating products to engage new and steward existing partners (including community supporters, businesses, groups and schools)
* Lead the Events team to review and overhaul our current events programme so that we are maximising net income and ROI as well as meeting the needs of our supporters and local community, and building connections and long‑term relationships with our events supporters
* Manage partnership pipeline including building opportunities with new businesses to increase the range, value and number of partnerships for The Children s Trust
* Work with the Partnerships team to implement processes that streamline and integrate relationship management across the team
* Lead the team to maximise growth and opportunities from businesses, community supporters, groups and schools through supporter journeys, stewardship, and cross‑sell
* Work across the Retail, Fundraising and Communications directorate to maximise opportunities for contact mapping, cross‑sell and support the activity of other teams within the directorate (including but not limited to stock donations, sponsorship of committee‑led events, pro bono support, gifts in kind etc.)
Events and Relationship Management
* Build and maintain strong relationships with both new and existing corporate partners, groups, supporters, senior volunteers and committees
* Work with the Events and Partnerships Managers to create account plans for corporate partners, groups and schools, as well as supporter journeys for community supporters and participants in our events programme
* Work with Events and Partnerships team to ensure that we are maximising opportunities within our relationships, achieving long‑term growth and retention of all supporters and working with teams across the directorate to cross‑sell other appropriate opportunities for support
* Develop relationships with colleagues across the Public Fundraising Team, wider directorate and organisation to ensure that opportunities for engagement, integration and promotion of events and partnerships are maximised and publicised
* Bring the Events and Partnerships teams together to ensure that we are seizing opportunities to integrate the programmes, for instance through corporate sponsorships of events, employee volunteering or participation, donated goods for raffles and auctions, match funding and more
Staff Benefits
In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits on our staff flexible benefits platform, on‑site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, time‑out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefits include free on‑site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on‑site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teachers pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met — including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark our broad EDI group. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.
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