Corporate Partnerships Manager

Contract: 3 Year Fixed Term Contract

Closing date: Monday 15th Sept 2025

Salary: circa £48- £55k per annum depending on experience

Reports to: Global Head of Corporate Partnerships

Location: Flexible. The Philanthropy Team is based between HALO’s office in Wilton, near Salisbury, and our soon-to-be-open office in London. Depending on their location, team members work from one of our offices on at least a weekly basis and we try to come together as a team monthly.

 Working Patterns: This is a full-time role, with HALO operating a 40- hour working week (with the office closing at 3pm on Fridays).

We are open to exploring working arrangements that meet the needs of employees whilst ensuring delivery against the role’s objectives and our strategic goals.

About HALO:

The HALO Trust’s mission is to protect lives and restore the livelihoods of those affected by conflict. For over 35 years HALO has been saving lives and helping conflict affected countries recover from conflict, by making their land safe. When conflict ends, land is often littered with landmines and other dangerous explosives. Families live in fear and poverty. They are unable to plant crops or graze cattle and day-to-day activities like getting to school and fetching water are fraught with risk. HALO recruits and trains men and women to clear landmines in their own communities, take back control of their own livelihoods and rebuild their communities. HALO is now one of the leading humanitarian mine clearance organisations globally with programmes in 30 countries with 9,000 staff, most of whom are local employees.

About the role:

The Corporate Partnerships Manager is responsible for growing HALO’s philanthropic corporate partnerships through pipeline development and cultivating new and existing relationships with private donors.

Although HALO is over 30 years old, it had until recently a relatively small philanthropy programme. This has changed over the past five years, with total income from philanthropic donors (including US donors) increasing from £4 million to £44 million in 2023/4, including a rise in UK and European philanthropic income from £3.6m to £8.9m. The most recent increase has been generated by exceptional US donor support for Ukraine.

HALO’s dedicated 12-person Global Philanthropy Team, based primarily in the UK, is responsible for securing and stewarding donors across the UK, Europe, and increasingly international markets such as the Middle East. A separate US team oversees philanthropy strategy and implementation in the United States.

Underpinning this growth in six and seven figure partnerships with philanthropists, corporates and foundations, is support from our well-connected network of trustees and ambassadors. Our existing portfolio of corporate partners is concentrated in the extractives, agribusiness and global finance sectors, where there is strong alignment between our mission, their strategic priorities, and our shared geographic presence.

 Following the success achieved to date, HALO has recently taken the decision to invest further in growing philanthropic funding to diversify our income portfolio and provide greater agility in the face of a decline in government funding. This will include developing mass market individual giving as well as bolstering our major gifts and corporate fundraising capacity through recruitment to new roles over the coming year.

This is an exciting time for an experienced corporate fundraiser to join our high performing team and contribute to the next phase of philanthropic growth. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead growth within a portfolio of five, six and seven figure corporate partnerships through the development and delivery of relationship strategies, in collaboration with the Director of Global Philanthropy and Global Head of Corporate Partnerships. 

• Personally cultivate key corporate partnerships, providing excellent stewardship.  

• Personally develop and manage a portfolio of prospective partners, guiding them through the various cultivation phases and securing new funding in line with HALO’s strategic funding priorities and global prospect list.  
• Work closely with the strategic philanthropy team to leverage the corporate networks of HALO’s major donor portfolio, ensuring seamless coordination in relationship management

• Work with international programme teams to ensure the development of high-quality proposals and reports to tight deadlines. 
• Work with the Global Communications team to develop public-facing partnership messaging and deliver brand visibility and recognition for corporate partners, as required.

• Manage donor records and correspondence in Salesforce.  
• Contribute to departmental strategic priorities including supporting the stewardship of other major relationships, follow up of new opportunities, and the development of philanthropic products for wider use.
• Work closely with Philanthropy and Partnerships (Government funding) colleagues in the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East and overseas programmes as part of a distributed team to provide support to global fundraising efforts.

• Extensive experience of personally leading successful relationships with high value philanthropic donors, including corporates, giving at the six or seven figure leIn particular, commercial insights and an understanding of companies’ CSR priorities in any of the following sectors: extractives, global finance, agribusiness, technology.
• Experience of building effective relationships with advocates linked to philanthropic donors, particularly within corporate donor networks.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to build relationships with staff and colleagues in different cultural environments 
• Outstanding written skills with the ability to work with programme and finance colleagues to design robust project proposals, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation 
• Confident in working with financial information including project budgets 
• Excellent written and verbal skills with strong attention to detail 
• Outstanding interpersonal skills including ability to demonstrate tact, sophistication and gravitas   
• Experience of working with a fundraising database to maximise relationship development 
• A commitment to HALO’s mission and objectives    
• Strong intellectual curiosity and the ability to articulate HALO’s various programmes and strategies in a compelling way 
• Tenacious, self-starting, and able to thrive in a fluid, entrepreneurial context  
• Low-ego collaborative team player with strong ability to self-reflect.

• Annual Leave: 25 days leave, plus 8 bank holidays.
• Private medical insurance.
• Non-contributory life insurance.
• Pension contributions matched by HALO up to 5%.
• Emergency medical insurance when travelling overseas (including on leave).
• Flexible working policy.
• Cycle to work scheme.

The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

The HALO Trust is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

The HALO Trust is committed to ensuring that it provides a safe and trusted environment which safeguards and promotes the welfare and wellbeing of anyone who comes into contact with, or is part of, the Charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.