Strategic Corporate Partnerships Manager

WaterAid

full-time

Posted on: 3/10/2026

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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💰 £44,168 - £46,493 per year

About the role

Use your partnership management skills to develop high impact, shared value partnerships.
Deliver high quality proposals, pitches and reports
Develop a strong knowledge of the sectors you work with, to be an informed and respected stakeholder
Work with a range of contact types both internally and externally.
Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding.

A proven track record of managing complex, multi layered corporate partnerships to deliver shared value
Experience of developing and implementing partnership development strategies including stakeholder stewardship
Ability to network with, and influence, senior people both internally and externally
Experience of writing high quality, engaging proposals and reports for a corporate audience, as well as experience of making presentations to senior-level contacts and/or large groups of employees
Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:
Experience of corporate fundraising and developing 7 figure corporate accounts.
Experience of new business generation

Benefits

36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
Option to buy an extra 5 days’ annual leave
Employer pension contribution up to 10 %
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
Season ticket loan
Free annual eye tests
‘Give as you Earn’ charitable giving scheme
Enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption/surrogacy, shared parental and paternity)
Sabbaticals
One paid volunteer day each year

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Hard Skills & Tools

partnership managementproposal writingreport writingpresentation skillsstakeholder stewardshipcorporate fundraisingbusiness generation

Soft Skills

networkinginfluencecommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinking