Strategic Partnerships & Fundraising Executive

NHS Jobs; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Michaels Hospice seeks an energetic Corporate Partnerships role to lead fundraising opportunities, build a proactive partner pipeline across North Hampshire, and deliver strategic income growth.

You will coordinate with the Community Engagement Lead and Marketing to craft compelling proposals and ensure timely follow‑ups, sponsorships, and donor recognition. You will travel across North Hampshire, maintaining relationships with businesses, presenting tailored asks, and coordinating across

Responsibilities

• Work with the Community Engagement Lead to deliver the corporate fundraising strategy and achieve agreed gross income and activity targets.
• Take a proactive approach to researching, identifying and prioritising prospective corporate partners across North Hampshire, focusing activity where there is the strongest potential.
• Build and maintain a clear and well-managed pipeline of prospective and existing partnerships, with agreed next steps, timescales and consistent follow‑up.
• Build upon contacts made through networking and outreach by arranging meetings, understanding business interests and developing tailored proposals that lead to income and wider support.
• Confidently present partnership ideas, make clear and appropriate asks, negotiate mutually beneficial arrangements and bring opportunities through to agreement.
• Take responsibility for maintaining momentum across new‑business opportunities and ensuring agreed actions are followed through.
• Be an active and visible representative of the Hospice within the local business community, confidently initiating conversations and developing new contacts.
• Represent the Hospice at business networks, corporate meetings and events, ensuring contacts receive timely and purposeful follow‑up.
• Develop and deliver St. Michaels Hospice‑led networking and corporate‑engagement opportunities that generate new relationships, insight and business opportunities.
• Secure sponsorship for Hospice events and other agreed priorities by working with colleagues to develop relevant and appropriately valued proposals.
• Work collaboratively across Income Generation, Voluntary Services and other Hospice teams to identify opportunities and provide corporate supporters with a joined‑up experience.
• Work with Marketing and Communications to produce compelling proposals, presentations, case studies, impact materials and appropriate corporate recognition.
• Work with the marketing team to create compelling proposals, presentations, and promotional materials for corporate partners.
• Ensure recognition of corporate donors through social media, newsletters, and events.
• Maintain accurate records of corporate donations and partnership agreements.
• To actively support and promote the benefits of SMH to all our stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of prospective and existing relationships, communications, agreements and next actions on Raisers Edge and other agreed systems.
• Monitor income, pipeline value, progress and activity against agreed targets, providing clear reports and forecasts and identifying risks or opportunities at an early stage.
• Gather feedback and insight from businesses, evaluate activity and use learning to improve corporate opportunities and ways of working.
• Ensure corporate fundraising complies with relevant legislation, the Code of Fundraising Practice, data protection requirements, safeguarding procedures and Hospice policies.

Job description

St. Michaels Hospice seeks an energetic Corporate Partnerships role to lead fundraising opportunities, build a proactive partner pipeline across North Hampshire, and deliver strategic income growth.

You will coordinate with the Community Engagement Lead and Marketing to craft compelling proposals and ensure timely follow‑ups, sponsorships, and donor recognition. You will travel across North Hampshire, maintaining relationships with businesses, presenting tailored asks, and coordinating across