Job Description

Corporate Partnerships Manager (Northeast Regional)

Reporting to: Director of Fundraising & Communications

Salary: £35,000-£38,000

Location: Remote working (with 2-4 days per month working from a corporate partner
office in Newcastle)

Hours: 9am to 5pm

ABOUT THE ROLE

Variety is looking for a Corporate Partnerships Manager to join the fundraising team as we
launch  a  new  multi-year  partnership  in  January  2026.  This  role  is  a  new  position  at  the

charity  to  support  our  ambitious  growth  to  deliver  award  winning  partnerships  and  raise
money from corporate partners across the Northeast region. This key role on our team will

ensure  our  work  to  fund  life-changing  practical  support  to  disabled  and  disadvantaged
children and young people continues across the UK.

You will be joining the charity at an exciting time as we are launching a three-year strategy

to drive growth with lots of new fundraising plans in place alongside a great team and a
new  Director  of  Fundraising.  You  will  have  a  large  partnership  in  the  property  sector  to

manage,  and  with  your  experience  you  will  develop  new  partners  in  the  Northeast  of
England, ensuring we maximise leads and introductions. You will play an important role in

our collaborative and high-performing team

to deliver the partnership strategy.

ABOUT VARIETY

There  are  1.8m  children  living  with  disabilities  in  the  UK  with  600,000  children  living  in
poverty. Variety exists to improve their lives. We believe every child has a right to live their

best life and reach their full potential, whoever they are. We fund and deliver life-changing
programmes that enhance their quality of life and give children and young people across
the UK a better future.

Over the past 75 years we have supported over one million children by funding almost 6,000
Sunshine Coaches, almost the same number of wheelchairs, and giving thousands of grants
to individual children, schools, youth clubs and other organisations for specialist equipment.

In  addition,  each  year  thousands  of  children  take  part  in  day  trips,  special  events  and
educational activities as part of our Variety Great Days Out programme and every single
day we are improving more young lives. We do it with practical, tangible help, that makes a
real and immediate difference.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

●  Lead  account management of  a  large national  corporate  partnership,  delivering  a
six-figure fundraising target and giving first class stewardship to ensure engagement

with all staff across multiple sites in the UK

●  Develop engaging marketing and communications for the partnership and develop
new business materials for their suppliers and customers, to get them involved in the
partnership

●  Travel  across  regional  offices  for  fundraising  and  volunteering,  engaging  staff  and

working with our beneficiary schools on engagement events

●  Write  and  deliver  quarterly  impact  reporting,  making  presentations  at  head  office

with partnership updates

●  Track income and expenditure for the partnership
●  Develop new business by introductions from the partnership and also work across the

Northwest to develop new leads for the corporate fundraising pipeline

●  Plan volunteering days for corporate partners, coordinating with our school’s network,

sending briefs and attending some events to ensure smooth coordination

●  Attending  regular  partnership  meetings  and  keeping  all  account  plans  up  to  date

utilizing our CRM system Salesforce

●  Attend  Variety  fundraising  and  awareness  events  representing  the  charity  and

speaking confidently about our work

●  Collaborate  with  the  programmes  team  to  plan  partner  Sunshine  Coach

presentations, Great Days Out, and visits to partner schools

●  Participate  in  staff  meetings,  fundraising  team  meetings  and  contribute  to  the

success of Variety’s fundraising strategy

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Essential

•  Two years’ experience working on a charity fundraising team

•  Experience managing corporate partnerships at a national level
•  Experience of excellent donor stewardship
•  Good writing and communication skills
•  Good organisational skills and multi-tasking during busy periods
•  Enthusiastic, energetic, self-motivated and passionate about the Third Sector

MAIN BENEFITS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS

25 days holiday (we also normally give between Christmas and New Year off, but this is
not contractual). In addition, after one year's continuous service, there will be an extra 2
days annual holiday for every complete year of service, up to a maximum of five days'

extra holiday.

Pension 7%, Life Assurance 4% of annual salary, Company sick pay scheme, medical cover.

HOW TO APPLY

Please  submit  your  CV  with  a  cover  letter  to:  recuritment@variety.org.uk  explaining  why
you’d make a great candidate for this role. Applications will close on Thursday, 6 November
at 5pm with first round interviews taking place week commencing 10 November and second
round of interviews on 17 November 2025. Please let us know if you have any accessibility

requirements or need any adjustments for the interview.

If you would like  to have  an informal chat about the role, feel free to email  Lindsey Cape,

Director of Fundraising and Communications at Variety on: lindsey.cape@variety.org.uk

EQUALITY DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Inclusion is one of our key values and it is our ambition to recruit great people from diverse

communities.

We welcome and encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of
age, disability, sex, gender reassignment/identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity

and or marriage/civil partnership status, race, religion or belief.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements which we might need to consider in
relation to the selection process.