Corporate Partnerships

Corporate Partnerships - New Business Manager page is loaded Corporate Partnerships - New Business Manager Apply locations Milton Keynes, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR31323

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories

Key Responsibilities:

Job Title: Corporate New Business Manager

Location: Milton Keynes – Hybrid – 2 days per week office based.

Salary: CIRCA £42,750 + A good range of benefits

Contract: Permanent. Full time 36.5 hours per week.

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories

Founded on a prayer 70 years ago, World Vision helps all children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender in some of the world’s most dangerous places. Inspired by our Christian faith, we help children and families overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life.

Context for the Role

World Vision UK has identified private sector partnerships as key for increasing our impact on the world’s most marginalised children. The New Business manager will create opportunities for funding partnerships by developing and implementing tactics that deliver our new business strategy. The strategy aims to deliver multi-year, transformational partnerships through diverse types of corporate giving, across a range of sectors.

About you

We are seeking an established corporate fundraiser with a professional background or education in international development, humanitarian, or peacebuilding. You will have an income focused mindset, proactive and broad business development experience, and will have developed international charity-corporate partnerships.

You will have a startup mentality, working with limited resources to find ways to engage businesses with World Vision’s work. You will have the freedom develop and implement engagement and partnership development tactics, and to use creative approaches. Your approaches will overcome World Vision’s lower brand awareness in comparison to other child focused international causes.

Alongside this, you will have great attention to detail that is necessary to support proposal, budget, and contract development to effectively reflect World Vision and the prospective partner’s interests. For this you will have great writing and presenting skills, that enable you to develop strong relationships based on mutual interest and trust.

You will be able to balance conflicting priorities, manage a pipeline of prospects, and adopt a proactive and long-term approach to creating leads and partnerships.

Job Purpose

This role solely focuses on new business development for income generating corporate partnerships. The goal is to secure a range of 6 and 7 figure, long term partnerships via companies and their foundations which transform children’s lives in some of the most challenging contexts.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver against ambitious targets to deliver high value partnerships and donations from businesses by developing 6 and 7 figure multi-year partnerships.
• Create inspiring propositions, products and engagement opportunities that inspire and engage the private sector.
• Unearth prospects and opportunities and cultivate them to feed a self-managed pipeline.
• Use creativity to target and engage prospects.
• Lead prospect meetings and pitches, and develop tactics to move businesses towards partnership.
• Communicate proactively with prospects and use problem solving approaches that enable you to create tailored, effective proposals.

• Influence in each stage of the solicitation process, able to lead throughout the pitch and development stage and to negotiate on contracts and proposals.
• Conceptualise, plan and deliver events that engage prospects.

• Stay abreast of the private sector sustainability landscape, with a particular focus on social impact, and trends in international development-private sector partnerships.
• Build mutually beneficial internal relationships that enable you to get things done.

The successful candidate must have:

• Experience in corporate fundraising.
• Utilised a variety of new business tactics.
• A professional background or education in international development, humanitarian, or peacebuilding.
• Developed international charity-corporate partnerships from first engagement to contract signing.
• A creative, startup mentality and demonstrable experience of developing and implementing partnership development tactics.
• Great attention to detail with experience in proposal, budget, and contract development.
• Strong writing and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable relationship building skills.
• Understanding of the private and INGO sectors’ dovetailed agendas and interests.
• Experience in balancing conflicting priorities.
• Experience of managing a pipeline of prospects.

Closing Date for applications: 7th May 2024

Please note, we reserve the right to interview and appoint before the advertised closing date.

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in this advert.

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith (Permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010) and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations. Reflecting our commitment to keep Christ at the centre of all we do, the international partnership of World Vision (WVI) have identified ‘living out our Christian faith and calling with boldness and humility’ as a strategic imperative, acknowledging our full dependence on God in all that we do. WVUK has sought proper legal advice with regard to the OR and are compliant with current employment legislation in the UK, as well as the 2010 Equality Act.

As a Disability committed employer we encourage qualified individuals with a disability to apply and request a reasonable adjustment if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access as a result of your disability. 

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family. As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community.

As a child-focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

World Vision UK is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be requesting they complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see:

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the WV Policy.

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Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

As a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Our organisational culture reflects a "Partnership" of World Vision offices in 100 countries and 33,000+ staff working towards one vision: life in its fullness for every child.

A career with World Vision is a God-given calling, and we believe that every staff member has been brought to World Vision for God’s purposes. Whether working from home, in an office, or with children and community members, we celebrate and embrace each staff member’s diverse background and talents – knowing that together, we can make a difference. Together, #WeAreWorldVision.

Each staff member brings their unique experience and God-given talents to the organisation – and in return World Vision provides employees a competitive "Total Rewards" package tailored to the context in which they work.

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