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Location: London hybrid

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Salary: £29,000

For nearly 30 years, In Kind Direct has been at the forefront of product redistribution in the UK, ensuring that no one misses out on life's essentials. Founded by HM The King, we partner with leading brands and retailers to channel everyday good hygiene items, household products, toys, clothing and more to over 6,000 community groups. Every week, we help more than half a million people in need. Yet, poverty and exclusion remain as key challenges within the UK, and we're on a mission to reach even more people with more products.

We are looking for a talented individual to support the work of our high achieving and target driven Corporate Partnerships team and ambitious five-year growth strategy. Working closely with the Head of Business Development and Head of Corporate Partnerships this role will serve as a vital administrative and operational support function within the Corporate Partnerships (CP) team enabling them to focus their energy on cultivating and strengthening key partner relationships and work closely across our ecommerce, network and marketing functions to bring impact to life. They will also get the opportunity to learn about charity / corporate partnerships, manage their own smaller scale corporate relationships and new business opportunities with targets against them.

The aim is to enable growth and efficiencies across the corporate partnerships team to unlock more product donations from our corporate partners, which directly support the charitable organisations in our network.

This is a varied and interesting role, and a great development opportunity for someone looking to start their career in the charity sector.

Crucially, you will have experience coordinating and multitasking, managing different projects with different stakeholders at any given time. This really is a chance to make real change and impact the lives of so many people.

The role is based out of our London Bridge office. We operate a hybrid working practice and expect the individual to be in the office a minimum of 2 x days a week.

• Strong administrative skills, ideally experience of using databases
• Excellent written communication skills
• Well organised and able to prioritise a busy workload
• Strong communication skills, comfortable speaking and presenting to different audiences
• Ability to build relationships and ability to work with a variety of stakeholders
• A collaborative working style, adaptable to different team styles
• Ability to take responsibility for agreed objectives and targets
• Experience of developing presentations, reports and analytics using PowerPoint and Excel
• Some experience with CRM databases
• Demonstrable interest in the charity sector, corporate responsibility, social enterprise and In Kind Direct's area of work
• Aligned with IKD values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation

As well as having the chance to work in a charity that helps thousands of people each year, our team benefits include volunteering days, 25 days holiday each year (including 3 days between Christmas and New Year, excluding public holidays), an interest‑free travel loan, and a generous pension scheme entitlement. We are an equal opportunity employer and support our team to succeed in their roles through training, adaptations, flexibility in working, access to our Employee Assistance Platform, and a range of policies to support people in their personal, family and care responsibilities.

We are an accredited Great Place to Work and have additionally been recognised as a Great Place to Work amongst small Charities and a Great Place to work for Women.

We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to our values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation. We are on an organisational journey to achieving our EDI vision and welcome any questions about our progress and aspirations.

We especially welcome applications from anyone with lived experience of being on a low income or working with smaller charitable organisations.

We will meet all reasonable expenses that will support anyone invited to interview to be able to participate.

If there's anything such as a disability or other circumstance that might affect your ability to take part in any stage of the application or interview process, please don't hesitate to contact us. We'll do our best to provide any support or adjustments you may need to take part fully and comfortably. Sharing this information will not affect your application in any way.

The deadline for applying for this role is 9am on Monday 5th January 2026. We ask all applicants to complete an Equal Opportunities Monitoring form, either through our website or our online application process.

To apply, please submit your CV and a brief supporting statement (max. 500 words) through our online application portal. Please note, a supporting statement is required for all applications.

Applications submitted without a supporting statement may not be considered.

1st‑stage interviews will take place week commencing 12th January 2026

2nd stage interviews will take place from week commencing 19th January 2026

You may also have experience in the following roles: Charity Partnerships Coordinator, Corporate Fundraising Officer, Business Development Executive, Corporate Relations Officer, Partnerships Administrator, Fundraising Executive, Corporate Engagement Officer, Partnerships Support Officer, Business Partnerships Executive, Corporate Social Responsibility Coordinator, etc.