Corporate Partnerships Manager

• Location: remote, UK.
• Salary: £38,000pa - £40,000pa
• Hours: 35 per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Application deadline: 2nd March 2025
• Interview Dates: W/c 17th March 2025
• Are you an experienced partnership development manager looking for your next step?
• Are you excited by growing relationships and working with partners who can make a real difference to peoples’ everyday lives?
• Are you passionate about having an impact to make lives better for people who are deaf, have hearing loss or Tinnitus, and persuading others to do the same?
  
  

This is a exciting and dynamic role focused on expanding RNID’s reach, amplifying our impact, and strengthening our ability to drive meaningful change through strategic corporate and brand partnerships. You'll collaborate across our four strategic programs—Inclusion, Health, Employment, and Biomedical Research and other teams—to create partnerships that make a real difference.

For example, you might work with partners to introduce our hearing check to new audiences or engage music lovers in protecting their hearing. Every partnership you develop will help us reach more people and create lasting change.

About RNID

We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus. Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus.

Join our team

We are a remote working organisation, with colleagues based across the UK in locations from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and everywhere in between. We come together in person three times a year for our Staff Summits. We know our colleagues have responsibilities and interests outside work and we want to support that, which is why we offer a sector-leading flexible working policy to all our staff from day one.

Our values are at the heart of how we work and communicate with each other. We strive to be an organisation that is connected, insightful, curious and passionate in everything we do.

Does that sound like a good fit? If so, we can’t wait to hear from you…

As our Corporate Partnerships Manager - (Strategic Programmes) you will:

• Collaborate with internal teams - Understand strategic programme needs and explore how partnerships can maximise impact and strengthen RNID’s reach and influence.
• Develop innovative partnership opportunities - Identify and create new collaborations that align with RNID’s strategic priorities, delivering measurable impact and mutual value.
• Secure strategic corporate support - Cultivate and manage long-term relationships with corporate partners to expand RNID’s influence and drive sustainable impact.
• Manage and optimise partnerships - Work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to maximise the value of partnerships and identify additional opportunities for growth.
  
  

We’re looking for a candidate who embodies RNID’s values—Connected, Passionate, Insightful, and Curious—and brings:

• Creativity and a curious mindset, always seeking new ideas and opportunities.
• Strong relationship-building skills, with experience aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals.
• Strategic thinking, with the ability to identify and capitalise on growth opportunities.
• A proactive approach, comfortable taking initiative and leading on projects and partnerships.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to develop and deliver messages to a range of audiences in a clear, inspiring and impactful way.
• Flexible, adaptable and proactively responses to change, and the ability to take initiative.
  
  

Experience:

Essential:

• Proven experience in partnership development, either in the charity sector or brand and marketing environment.
• Experience managing relationships across diverse teams and external stakeholders.
  
  

Desirable:

• A track record of successfully developing and delivering strategic, brand-focused, or Gift-in-Kind partnerships.
  
  

Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications needed for this role.

What We Can Offer You

• Your benefits include:
• 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
• Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
• Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
• Fully remote working with no core hours
• £26 remote working allowance every month
• In person whole staff conferences throughout the year
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Employee assistance programme that provides counselling sessions
• Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
• Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
• Access to an event ticketing platform
  
  

Our commitment to diversity

We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments. If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.

RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.