Partnerships & Impact Officer - Heart of Bucks

Buckinghamshire Council; Weston Turville; Hybrid; GBP 31,000; Part time

Job summary

A community foundation in Weston Turville is seeking a Partnerships & Impact Officer to build relationships with local businesses, facilitating their charitable contributions. The role offers hybrid working and requires excellent communication skills. Ideal candidates will have a curious nature and strong interpersonal abilities. This position is part-time (22.5 hours per week) with a fixed-term contract of two years.

Benefits

Hybrid working opportunities

Supportive work environment

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Curious personality with a genuine interest in charitable work.
• Confidence in talking to new contacts and businesses.
• Ability to work outside of office hours if necessary.

Responsibilities

• Build partnerships with local businesses for corporate social responsibility.
• Inform activities by drawing information from databases.
• Create compelling stories to illustrate the impact of work.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Resilient self-organiser

Competent technical skills

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Partnerships & Impact Officer - Heart of Bucks

Location: Weston Turville

We’re looking for curious people who love to get out and talk to new people and businesses to find out what motivates them to work with charities and their community.

The post is 22.5 hours per week, with some hybrid working available.

Job Salary Up to £18,073 per annum (£30,123 FTE)

Contract Type Fixed term, two years

Closing Date for Applications 12 th August 2025

About us

We are Heart of Bucks, the Community Foundation for Buckinghamshire. Heart of Bucks is a registered charity working with some amazing donors, both individuals and businesses to provide a broad range of funding to other charities and not for profit organisations across Bucks. Our programmes range from those helping to address health inequalities or community safety, through poverty and inclusion projects, sports and leisure, to education, arts and culture programmes, and everything in-between.

We are looking for a real "people person" to take on our Partnerships & Impact Officer role. You'll have a naturally curious personality with a genuine interest in finding out what motivates people in business to get involved with charitable work. Your aim will be to help us to build the best partnerships with local business to support their corporate social responsibility goals. Our aim is to ensure that their generously donated funds get right to the heart of our community, where they are most needed and can do the maximum amount of good. You would be joining us at an exciting time as we are also in the early stages of developing partners for our new charitable company.

We are happy to offer a hybrid working pattern, with some time in the office and some home working each week, with more time in the office whilst you are learning the role.

About you

This is a multi-faceted role often working as much with external partners as with your Heart of Bucks colleagues, so our ideal candidate will need to be confident talking to new contacts and businesses. You will, of course, be supported in the role by your Development Team colleagues but will often be working out in the community, and sometimes outside of office hours, so being a resilient self-organiser is essential.

You don't have to come to us "fully-formed" in the role, we love working with enthusiastic and committed learners, but you will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills to make it work for you (and us!). The role also calls for competent technical skills, as you will be involved in drawing out information from our Salesforce database and elsewhere to inform your activities, and to create compelling stories to illustrate the impact of our work.

There is a full person specification in our Job Description.

Other information

Please e-mail your CV and a covering letter (maximum 1 side A4) outlining why you think you are suited to the position.

INTERVIEWS: We expect to interview in week commencing 18 th August 2025 at our office in Weston Turville where you would be based.

Hint: It will help us shortlist you if you consider each element of the person specification (it’s in the Job Description) and explain in your covering letter how you meet the specifications. This may be by reference to your experience, skill, and knowledge gained in employment, voluntary work, studying, or a personal setting.

Heart of Bucks is a Disability Confident Employer, committed to equality of opportunity and celebration of diversity. We are signatories to the Mindful Employer Charter and are a Living Wage Employer. We take great care to ensure that our actions as an employer reflect our ethos of inclusion. We actively promote equality of opportunity and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates. We select all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.