Position: Corporate Business Development Officer
Location: Abingdon (OX14)
Salary: £24,000 – £27,000
Hours: 35 hours (Monday – Friday)
Experience: Sales, Corporate Fundraising, Charity, Lead Generation, New Business Development, Sales Executive, Presenting

The Opportunity:

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working with a well-established charity with offices in the Abingdon area, who are looking to recruit a passionate Corporate Business Development Officer to encourage partnerships across the local area.

As Corporate Business Development Officer, you will be responsible for generating corporate fundraising leads, where you will manage, maintain and grow working relationships with businesses to help support the income for the charity but also to ensure the businesses gain absolute benefit.

Whilst you will be based in Abingdon, you will regularly attend networking events and client meetings to pitch and present the charity, to encourage business involvement. Additionally, you will organise fundraising events and campaigns to encourage new sponsorship and also assist the marketing team, in order to promote such events.

The successful Corporate Business Development Officer will be empathic and passionate about charity but equally, commercially aware and creative with ideas of how to build pertinent relationships with businesses locally.

The Company:

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working with a well-established charity, who are passionate about finding solutions that promote a better future, both for their clients and further afield.

Whilst they are supporting such a worthwhile cause, they completely rely on fundraising from events, corporate partnerships and their generous supporters, therefore the role of Corporate Business Development Officer is such a vital one.

Requirements:

• Full UK driving licence (you will be required to travel nationally)
• Ability to work flexible hours
• Experience in fundraising sales (or a comparable role)
• Confident to deliver and pitch presentations to potential sponsors
• Be able to retain business and also grow businesses’ existing sponsorship
• Enthusiastic about the charity and the desire to grow the income of the charity
• Strong administrative and organisational skills
• Excellent telephone and face to face communication skills

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment (thompsonandterry.co.uk) are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in the sourcing of Sales, Marketing and office administration candidates in Oxfordshire. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, gender, age or sex.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.