Corporate Partnerships Coordinator

Salary: £28,331 pro rata per annum plus London weighting of £2,339 if applicable

Location: This is a flexible/hybrid role, and while you can be based anywhere in England, a willingness to travel to our London office is essential. The office address is 8-10 Fivefields, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH.

Deadline:Sunday, 28th September 2025

Interviews:The first round of interviews will be held online on Wednesday, 15th October, and the second round will happen in person, with the location dependent on the applicant's address.

Start date:Ideally Monday 24th November 2025

Contract and hours:Full-time fixed-term contract of 12 months. We offer flexible hours with 9.30-4 as core hours. A full working week is 37.5 hours.

Working closely with the Corporate Partnerships Manager and the wider Philanthropy Department, the Corporate Partnerships Coordinator will identify and cultivate fruitful partnerships with a range of small, medium and large businesses. They will help maximise the potential of corporate and other organisations for funding, volunteer recruitment, and other philanthropic opportunities, to enable growth and sustainability for Action Tutoring. This will be achieved by securing and nurturing small to medium-sized organisations to provide financial support for programmes. Additionally, the Corporate Partnerships Coordinator will engage with businesses to generate volunteers from across the country to deliver both online and face-to-face tutoring.

• Identify and persuade small to medium sized businesses to fund specific schools in Action Tutoring regions as part of a pilot of a 'local champions' scheme.
• Drive new applications from potential corporate volunteer tutors, ensuring a strong supply of high quality applications to meet growth targets in each region, for both face to face and online delivery.
• Generate regular reports and communicate updates to volunteer partners to demonstrate the value and impact of their volunteers and financial support.
• Support programme staff to develop local partnerships, through businesses and public sector links.
• Maintain accurate records of recruitment channels and relationships; use data to analyse the effectiveness of different recruitment channels, using this information to inform future work.
• Any other ad hoc responsibilities as deemed relevant by the CEO.
• The right to work in the UK.

We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:

• Excellent relationship building and networking skills with the ability to communicate with and manage a range of different stakeholders.
• Ability to manage a varied workload and work on your own initiative.
• Highly organised, able to multitask and prioritise, and complete activities to a high standard; excellent time management skills.
• Enjoy using data and creativity to suggest improvements and inform your approach to work and partnerships.
• Able to demonstrate resilience when challenges arise.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, able to effectively adapt communication depending on the audience.
• Confident public speaker; able to present well, both in-person and online, to a range of audiences, able to be persistent and persuasive when required.
• Is able to collaborate effectively with team members and external stakeholders.
• Open to new ideas and learning. You will be willing to adapt and grow with the development of the organisation and the Philanthropy team.
• Have high computer literacy; familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (desirable).
• Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Committed to the mission and values of Action Tutoring.
• Committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children.

You will be likely be more successful in this role if you have:

• Experience in managing or building partnerships/relationships with corporations (or other institutions/sectors e.g. Civil Service, universities or schools)
• Experience in corporate (or other) fundraising.
• Experience in a sales-based role.
• Experience in using databases.
• Evidence of an interest in education and/or the third sector.
• Hybrid working – We offer a flexible combination of office and home based working.
• Holiday – 25 days holiday a year (plus UK public holidays), increasing by a day for each complete year of service (up to five extra days). 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year.
• Flexitime and TOIL – We have a flexible policy for working hours, and offer TOIL where staff have to work particularly early in the day or late in the evening, so that they can reclaim those hours at another time.
• Team away days – The whole team across the UK gets together three times a year.
• Pensions – We have a workplace pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.
• Sabbatical leave – We offer paid and unpaid sabbatical leaves to our long standing colleagues.
• Culture of celebrating – Regular thanks and praise and monthly recognition of 'heroes' to celebrate employees going above and beyond.
• Knowledge-sharing – Lots of opportunities to learn from others in the organisation, including policy briefings, shadowing colleagues and peer-to-peer development.
• Socials – Team socials around team days, regular bring-and-share team lunches and other activities.
• Proofreading Team – As well as checking the accuracy of all content Action Tutoring shares with external audiences, our proofreading team supports individuals who would value an extra pair of eyes on their writing.
• Ad hoc projects – Interested in other exciting topics relevant to our charity? Then join one of our working groups (including policy, diversity and inclusion, curriculum and training, socials, data and insights) and support with ongoing projects.

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