Partnerships Specialist, Cancer Research
£47-53k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£47-53k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- An excellent relationship manager with the capacity to build strong networks and drive collaborative ways of working within a complex organisation
- Experience in delivering mutually beneficial partnerships with tangible successes
- A strong communicator with ability to inspire and engage a range of stakeholders with ideas and information
- Comfortable operating at a senior level and working collaboratively with senior stakeholders
- Ability to balance risks and opportunities and advise peers and senior stakeholders appropriately in decision making
- Able to think creatively and produce engaging content in order to develop new ideas and obtain buy in from a range of stakeholders
- Significant experience of influencing multiple stakeholders and communicating effectively and engagingly both internally and externally
- Sound understanding of the area of corporate partnerships and the needs of fundraising
What the job involves
- Partnerships Specialist (12 Month FTC)
- In this role, you will play a pivotal role in identifying, developing and delivering long-term strategic partnerships that bring external organisations closer to Cancer Research UK’s mission. Working closely with the Partnerships and Philanthropy teams, you’ll help to create and grow high-value corporate and wider partnerships that deliver meaningful impact beyond income generation
- You will focus on translating complex Policy, Information & Communications (PIC) activity into compelling and inspiring partnership opportunities, enabling fundraisers and potential partners to connect with CRUK’s work in innovative ways
- Have a clear overview of the activity and strategic priorities in Policy, Information & Communications (PIC) and identify appropriate PIC opportunities for Partnerships and major donors
- Act as a consultant, working collaboratively with relevant colleagues across teams to identify and build PIC funding and/or strategic opportunities for both existing and new partnerships
- Working in conjunction with the PIC directors and heads, and relevant Partnerships teams to facilitate the identification of strategic partnership and funding opportunities within PIC
- Provide oversight to delivery of key health partnerships including if required providing targeted partnerships delivery management
- Provide functional management of the health partnerships manager
- Build excellent senior relationships externally, both with partners and other charities, providing direction and managing escalations for delivery of health partnerships; this may include stewardship of key senior external stakeholders for a small number of partners
- Use effective communication skills and subject expertise to shape and deliver pitches with partners bringing our PIC work to life
- Accountable for robust tracking, measurement and impact reporting of core purpose PIC partnerships, reporting back to the business as required
Application process
- Closing date: 12 July 23:59
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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