Partnership Researcher

Do you have excellent research skills, excellent attention to detail and a love of Excel?
Are you looking for a role where you can combine these skills and play your part in the release of children from poverty in Jesus’ name? Yes?

Compassion UK is recruiting for a **Partnership Researcher** who will work in our Partnerships department to provide the Regional and Relationship Fundraising teams the resources they need to cultivate existing and new relationships with major donors and prospects, churches, and Christian event organisers by providing detailed and relevant profiles for the team.

At the heart of Compassion’s ministry is a relentless passion to act on our faith and empower every child left vulnerable by poverty. Our work is **Christ centred, child focused,** and **church based.**

**Location**:
**Office-based** at Compassion House, Fleet, Hampshire.
- **Hybrid working is offered** as a benefit with a minimum of 40% of hours in the office. A higher proportion of remote working hours may be considered based on a number of criteria, including a difficult or excessive commute.

Hours:

- 35 hours per week

**Salary**:

- Fixed starting salary of £29,509.00 per annum
(This is within the pay grade £27,000 - £33,000)

About the role

As **Partnership Researcher**, you’ll work in our Partnership Support team to provide the Regional, Events and Major Donor teams the resources they need to cultivate existing and new relationships with major donors and prospects, churches, and Christian event organisers.

You will identify and subsequently research high net worth individuals, prospective churches, and events, providing detailed and relevant profiles for the team. You will also devise research projects, develop databases, and undertake data analysis that will contribute to the development of realistic fundraising strategies that will enable Compassion UK to significantly grow income, thereby releasing more children from poverty.

**Responsibilities**:

- Actively maintain and promote Compassion UK’s Christian ethos and values
- Relationship Fundraising Research
- Church and Event Research
- Management of Compassion UK’s CRM systems and databases for research
- Reporting

About you

To flourish in this role, you'll need:

- **Excellent research skills.** You must be able to demonstrate experience of conducting high calibre research, from either higher education (undergraduate degree level) or a minimum 2 years of professional experience.
- **Excellent attention to detail.** You need to work accurately with large datasets, as well as create precise, well-written communication and research.
- **Knowledge of the church.** You must be familiar with the concept of the church, how it operates, its mission and how that would tie in with Compassion UK’s mission. You must also be familiar with UK church denominations, networks and Christian events.
- **Education** to A-Level standard and/or be able to show relevant work-based experience.
- **Core office/administrative skills.** You must be fluent in English and competent in written and numerical work, with experience of basic office systems such as Microsoft Office. In particular, you must be very familiar with Microsoft Excel, with a minimum of 2 years' experience in a research environment and know how to use formulas to manage large amounts of data.

It would help (but isn’t essential) to have:

- Experience of using a CRM system.
- Good project management skills. Professional project management experience is not necessary, but you must be a well-organised person, able to show your ability to initiate, monitor, and complete projects.
- Experience of working within a major donor fundraising team.
- Experience working within the NGO Development sector.

We need you to be:

- Personally committed to the Christian faith. There’s an occupational requirement for the holder of this role to be a practicing Christian, in order to promote Compassion’s ethos and help others to experience, explore and express the faith-based motivation of our work. (You can read more about this in our Policy on Posts to be Held by Christians.)
- Deeply connected to Compassion’s ministry to children
- Aligned to Compassion UK’s cultural attributes
- Able to work independently and collaboratively across other teams.
- A great listener and communicator.
- Able to innovate and use your initiative.
- Able to work to tight deadlines and work extended/flexible hours if required.
- Able to keep all research, conversations and communications with major donors confidential.

Location & Benefits
- This is an office-based role in our modern, ‘agile’ office with free parking, just a 15-minute walk from Fleet station.
- Hybrid working is offered as a benefit with a minimum of 40% of hours in the office. A higher proportion of remote working hours may be considered based on a number of criteria, including a difficult or excessive commute.

Benefits include enhanced pension scheme