My day-to-day ranges quite significantly, depending on the partners I am managing and their priorities at the time. For example, I can spend one day attending a corporate stewardship event or presenting to a partners’ Board of Directors, and the next bucket collecting in London tube stations alongside a partners’ employee volunteers. As a Corporate Partnership Manager, you have to remain adaptable and always be willing to get involved in any fundraising activities alongside your partners.

Some days are office-based, where I spend my time working on partnership proposals, building account management plans or finalising the details of an upcoming fundraising activity. I also spend a portion of my time building an in-dept understanding of the charity, working closely with the Service Delivery Teams to learn about the charity’s priorities and the programmes that are run. This means I can confidently communicate the impact of the support of our corporate partners and also have compelling conversations to encourage an increase where possible.

The other half of your time is spent with your corporate partners. This could include meetings with your key Account Manager to plan upcoming fundraising activities to running all-staff engagement events or presenting to senior leadership. Throughout all of these activities, your main priority is to ensure that the charity becomes an integrated part of the corporate partners’ business, encouraging engagement from employees and/or the companys’ customers to maximise contribution to the charity’s objectives.