Job Description

Salary
Grade F
Vehicle
A vehicle will be made available to carry out your duties
Contract type
Temporary: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment
Hours
Full Time
Location description
Homebased
Interview date
16 October
Closing Date
01-10-2025
Reference
20325
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Internal vacancy
The RNLI actively promotes continuous development within the organisation and is only seeking applications from current RNLI employees and volunteers at this time. If this position is not filled internally it may be re-advertised openly. #LI-DNI
The successful candidate will be the go-to person for partnership and fundraising expertise in London, responsible for delivery of locally focused corporate partnerships, and achieving agreed income targets. Working as one crew locally, regionally and across the organisation, the post holder will support strategic planning, and identify and lead development opportunities to grow income.
Your role
As a Fundraising and Partnerships Lead you will be tasked with focus on the following areas:

• Lead development of new income in London, through partnerships, with an ambitious income target to achieve
• Support the delivery of the national partnership strategy at a regional level and facilitate content delivery and stakeholder management regionally and locally
• Monitoring and managing fundraising and partnership income and expenditure budgets and prospect pipelines
• Troubleshooting and mitigating risks and issues in order to ensure the delivery of results
• Monitoring and managing operational risk, including compliance with internal and external standards, policies and procedures for fundraising and partnerships activity
• Working collaboratively as one crew with the wider regional team and fundraising, marketing and media department (incl. legacy, philanthropy, F2F etc.) to achieve goals and KPIs

About you
You'll be passionate about making a real difference for our supporters, volunteers and customers. You will be highly motivated and enjoy tackling challenging goals and targets whilst being creative in finding solutions to problems. You will be a natural leader and be able to inspire and influence at all levels to drive and embed changes and improvements, keeping the supporter, volunteer and customer experience front of mind.
To be considered as the Fundraising and Partnerships Lead you will need:

• Significant experience of engaging corporate supporters, volunteers and the general public in order to generate funds
• A proven track record of results delivery in the areas of fundraising and partnerships, and stakeholder management
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and engagement skills are a must as well as active listening skills and the ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• People leadership experience is vital, ideally in leading field-based teams in a collaborative environment

This role, whilst 37 hours per week, will require flexible working across all 7 days of the week. Whilst core days will be defined, it is expected that there will be a degree of weekend and evening working required. Extensive travel will be required across London with some requirement to travel across the South East for team meetings.
This post requires a valid driving licence.
Safeguarding
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person's health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.

Skills Required