Corporate Partnerships Officer

**Job Title**: Corporate Partnerships Officer

**Reporting To**: Corporate Partnership Manager

**Salary/Rate**: £27,000 - 30,000 Per annum

**Contract Type**: 6 month, FTC contract, with ability to extend or reduce hybrid

**Location**: Across Felix’s sites in London (Deptford, Enfield, Poplar, Park Royal, Western International Market, Greenford) and Field based

**About The Felix Project**

The Felix Project is London’s largest food redistribution charity. Started in 2016, its vision is a London where good food is never wasted, and no one goes hungry. In 2024 our workforce of over 200 staff and 13,000 volunteers collected and distributed the equivalent of 38 million meals to Londoners in need. This is done through a network of 1,200 community organisations and schools who are working on the frontline to feed people who are experiencing hunger and cannot afford to regularly buy the food they need. The Felix Project works with hundreds of suppliers from across the food industry, including supermarkets, wholesalers, farms and restaurants to rescue high quality surplus food, that cannot be sold and would otherwise go to waste.

In London, one in four working families regularly struggle to afford to feed their children, equating to an estimated 325,000 families across the capital. The cost of food has increased by 30% in the past three years and one in eight working families have less than £3 a day for food, after paying their bills. About 20% of working families have been forced to access a food support service for the first time during 2024 due to the rising cost of living.

Our work has never been more needed, and demand continues to grow: we are building our expertise and impact in response. The Felix Project now operates from four main depots in North, South, East, and West London, with ‘point-to-point’ projects in Central London and Canary Wharf. Felix’s Kitchen in our East London depot produces up to 5,000 meals per day from surplus food. Felix’s Multibank in West London distributes non-food items to those who need it most. As part of the charity’s involvement with The Coronation Food Project, we are launching an innovative food processing lab - The Felix Food Factory.

**Purpose of the Job**
The Felix Project is looking for a talented individual to help manage and support on implementing their corporate partnerships strategy. This role will sit within our growing Corporate Partnerships Team as part of the wider Fundraising & Marketing Team. The purpose of this role will be to lead on the development of new business in conjunction with the Corporate Partnership Managers, while also building upon our existing pipeline of future opportunities. As a key member of the fundraising team we expect the Senior Officer to actively contribute to the implementation of The Felix Project’s fundraising strategy.

Your focus will be to ensure income growth from corporate sources and activity based in new business development however there will be some account management responsibilities alongside this. There will be a focus on management of the corporate pipeline and highlighting relevant opportunities to the wider team. As a growing team we have networks and pipelines in place but there will be a requirement for the post holder to innovate and develop new ways of working in-line with the fast-paced operational requirements of the charity.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Corporate Fundraiser looking to take the next step in their career to build and develop new high value corporate relationships across a number of sectors.

**Duties and Accountabilities**

**1.** **Strategy**
- Play a role in implementing the fundraising strategy, allocate time to plan budgets, meeting specific financial and organisational objectives, targets and KPIs

**2.** **New Business**
- Proactively source and develop leads for future funding opportunities and partnerships, taking them through our prospect journey from identify to close.
- Working with internal stakeholders to transform ideas, projects, and priorities into strategic fundraising proposals.
- Identify and build relationships within brand new industries for the charity.
- Support on implementing an attractive volunteering ask to a range of Corporate Partners.
- Utilise current supplier relationships to leverage income generating activity.
- Support on the development of pitch and proposal materials.

**3.** **Account Management**
- Support current and new partnerships, setting goals, and developing partnership agreements, developing strategic relationships with a view to long term retention and over achievement on targets.
- Provide inspirational and emotive reporting, showing impact of support.
- Drive corporate participation in key Felix events such as World Hunger Day and Food Waste Action Week

**4.** **Administration**
- Undertake routine financial management of partnerships.
- Work with internal stakeholders to create and implement effective fundraising reports through