Salary: Full-time starting salary £25,000 pa
Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week) however we will consider part-time hours (please see Application pack for more details)
Contract: Permanent
Start Date: As soon as possible
Location: Halesworth, Suffolk with opportunities for hybrid working
About the role
As Corporate Partnerships Officer, you’ll play a crucial role within our highly successful corporate partnerships team. Your primary responsibility will be to administer, steward and nurture relationships with existing corporate supporters. You’ll provide engaging correspondence to thank and inspire our supporters on the impact of their support to ensure their continued commitment and consistent income to achieve WLT’s mission.
Main duties and responsibilities
1. Provide the highest possible quality of experience and stewardship to WLT’s corporate partners.
2. Efficiently keep up to date with donation payment schedules to ensure pledges are fulfilled.
3. Issue Donation Pledge and Logo Use invoice requests.
4. Provide acknowledgement emails and certificates.
5. Stay informed with WLT’s core philanthropic and Carbon Balanced programmes and provide engaging email communications to our partners.
6. Maintain records and extract data from our CRM as required.
About you
We’re looking for a people-person who’s passionate about building long-term relationships and identifying opportunities to enhance stewardship. You’ll be a highly collaborative team player, with exceptional, warm and professional communication skills. You’ll have strong administrative skills and an investigative approach to resolving issues. Attention to detail, ability to plan and prioritise competing priorities, and strong numeracy skills are all skills which will help you succeed in this important role.
Ideally, you’ll have previous experience administering and stewarding an existing client base and supporting longer-term relationships. You’ll will also ideally have experience of working in fundraising in a non-profit organisation.
What We Offer
• 36 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) plus an additional discretionary day each year to volunteer for a charity or community organisation of your choice.
• Group pension scheme.
• Group life assurance.
• A supportive and flexible working environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and learning.
• The chance to contribute directly to protecting some of the world’s most important natural habitats.
How to Apply
We are working with Charity People to find our next team member so please send your CV and covering letter to Philippa Randle by Wednesday 21 May 2025 or call on 07563 030588 before then if you have any questions or would like to discuss the role further.
Please refer to our Application Pack which contains more details on the role, the process and our benefits.
Your covering letter is an important part of your application. This is an opportunity for you to share with us why you are passionate about working for World Land Trust, why this role interests you, and for you to provide examples of how your skills and experience match the person specification and make you a strong candidate.
Please confirm in your covering letter if you require permission to work in the UK and the covering letter should be no more than two pages, addressed to Tracey (Tracey Butler), who is our Partnerships Manager (Corporates).
We recognise that AI tools can be helpful for some people, however we encourage you to use your own voice to share examples of your experiences and skills within your application to ensure that your responses reflect what you can bring to the team as the unique individual that you are.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. They match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. They do this because they know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities they work with.
