Department: Fundraising
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000
Location: Grantham
Hours of Work: Full-time - 37.5 hours per week
Reporting To: Director of Fundraising
Direct Reports: Partnership Managers
Closing date: 25 April 2010
Summary of Job:
The Woodland Trust’s priority aim within our new Strategic Plan is to enable the creation of more native woods and places rich in trees. You will head up an exciting new Partnerships team, tasked with helping to lead this step change in the Trust’s activity, through primarily achieving ambitious woodland creation targets on other organisation’s land. You will report to the Director of Fundraising and will focus on initiating and developing partnerships with large land-owning organisations and other relevant bodies. You will be expected to devise and deliver a package of land, advice and money, which achieves woodland creation.
Duties:
Manage and develop the Partnerships team:
- To lead, inspire and develop the team
- Take responsibility for devising and delivering our partnerships plan
- To measure, manage and report performance
- Work in collaboration with others across the organisation
Develop and maintain a portfolio of key partners who primarily can help us make our step change in woodland creation:
- To identify and prioritise prospective UK partners
- To create opportunities to reach and inspire these organisations
- Establish and build relationships with key contacts
Devise compelling, tailored proposals to secure support from these organisations:
- To research and work with others to compile and deliver persuasive business cases
To secure and manage partnerships:
- To negotiate and reach agreements that meet the Trust’s needs
- Co-ordinate the PR, communications and woodland creation advice for such partnerships
- To professionally account manage the partnership
Qualities Required:
- Results driven – ability to set clear goals and priorities and take responsibility for their delivery, demonstrating tenacity and enthusiasm in achieving them
- Persuasive - excellent negotiation and ‘sales’ skills
- Leadership – exceptional ability to lead, coach and inspire others (both internally and externally) coupled with excellent people management skills
- Innovative – ability to use own initiative and make sound decisions which translate our best creative ideas into reality
- Professional – very business-like and commercially aware, demonstrating excellent planning, organisational and customer focused skills
- Collaborative – excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work across teams
Desirable Qualities:
- Self Aware
- Passion for trees and woods
Knowledge Required:
- Very good understanding of conservation is desirable
- IT literate, preferably with MS Office experience
Experience Required:
- Relationship management – a very high performing developer of relationships with exceptional networking ability; able to spot opportunities and connections, evaluate them and act on them
- Leadership - exceptional ability to lead, coach and inspire others (both internally and externally) coupled with excellent people management skills
The post holder is expected to demonstrate alignment to, and willingness to support, the organisation's purpose and aims and commitment to its values and behaviours
We all have a duty to ensure that our acts or omissions at work do not impact on the health and safety of others and ourselves and that we abide by any safety measures as directed and in accordance with the Woodland Trust Health & Safety Policy.
The list of tasks shown above is not exclusive nor does their order indicate the priority attached to them.
The job holder may, therefore, be required to perform other duties which may reasonably be assigned to them by their manager or supervisor.
Provisonal Interview Date: 5 May 2010
Interviews to be held in Grantham