Islington Giving is looking for a Senior Partnerships Manager to lead our work with businesses, housing associations and corporate foundations, building partnerships that help tackle poverty and inequality in Islington. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and grow strategic partnerships that make a lasting difference to people’s lives.
Cripplegate Foundation is the parent charity of Islington Giving. Read more about the connection in our FAQs here.
About the role
- Do you have significant experience in developing managing partnerships with businesses, corporate foundations, housing associations or other strategic partners?
- Could you identify opportunities to raise the profile of Islington Giving, develop and deliver a strategy for engaging new prospects, and grow our income?
Islington is home to businesses of every size, from major international companies to thriving local enterprises, and sits alongside the City of London. As a place-based charity, we can offer partners a direct connection to local organisations, communities and impact.
The role will also work closely with the BIG Alliance, founded by Islington Giving, Macquarie Foundation and East London Business Alliance, and benefit from being part of the wider network of place-based Giving schemes across London and beyond.
You will develop and manage a portfolio of business supporters, housing associations and corporate foundations, identify new funding opportunities and create engaging ways for organisations to contribute through philanthropy, employee engagement and strategic partnerships. There is also opportunity to work on bids to trust & foundations (along with the Director of Development & Communications).
As part of a small and collaborative team, you will work closely with the CEO, Director of Development & Communications, Individual Giving Manager and Digital Communications Manager.
Why apply?
- You’ll build on strong existing relationships, build new connections with businesses and funders, and explore the potential of Islington’s vibrant business community to tackle poverty and inequality locally.
- You’ll have the scope to develop creative partnership opportunities, influence senior stakeholders and connect organisations with the communities they can help support.
- You’ll join a small, collaborative team, you’ll play a pivotal role in growing our income, raising our profile and bringing people, resources and ideas together to create a fairer Islington where everyone can thrive.
- Read the full benefits package in the Senior Partnerships Manager Candidate pack.
How to apply
Please read our Senior Partnerships Candidate pack before applying.
If you would like to apply for this role, please send us a copy of your CV, with a covering letter of no more than two A4 pages setting out why you are interested in the role, and the experience and skills that you can bring to it.
Please also complete and attach to your application the Equalities Opportunities Monitoring form. This will not be used as part of the selection process. The information given will enable us to monitor accessibility and ensure that our equal opportunities policy is being carried out. The information given will be kept strictly confidential and only used for monitoring purposes.
Please email your completed application form to recruitment@cripplegate.org.uk. We will contact all applicants via email to let you know whether or not we will be progressing your application to the next stage of the process.
Use of AI: While we understand that you may use AI to improve and target your CV towards this role, we would prefer that you wrote your covering letter without AI support. We want to hear about your personal motivations, skills and interest in this role, and AI is likely to generalise the very things that make you an individual.
Recruitment timeline
- Deadline for applications: Sunday 1st November
- Interviews: Week commencing 9th November
- Second interview (if needed): Week commencing 16th November
- Decision made and candidates notified: Friday 20th November
Contact Us
If you would like to talk about this role before you submit your application, please contact: George Pope (line manager for the role) at george.pope@islingtongiving.org.uk or call 020 7359 4801.
Email your application: recruitment@cripplegate.org.uk
Mainline number: 0207 288 6940
We value diversity, equality and inclusivity. Applications are especially welcomed from under-represented backgrounds, including but not limited to gender, race, age, sexual orientation and religion. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from people with experience of living or working in or with communities facing poverty and exclusion, and/or a knowledge of living and working in the London Borough of Islington.