BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity, which uses media and communications to tackle poverty and contribute to long-term change in some of the world’s poorest places. We do this through partnering with civil society, media and others to produce creative programmes and other outputs which inform and engage audiences on key governance, health and resilience development issues. We also strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure.

We are looking to hire a Partnerships and Philanthropy Executive who will provide support and assistance to our fundraising teams.

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Fundraising, the successful candidate will support the fundraising team to develop and build the corporate and philanthropy income pipeline to deliver more income for the organisation. You will focus on supporting and developing BBC Media Action’s prospecting strategy which will involve prospect identification, research, initial outreach and follow up where required.

You will also identify and qualify new prospects, engage existing and lapsed donors, and work collaboratively with corporate fundraising and philanthropy colleagues to developing an in-depth understanding of the audience, at the individual relationship level, which will enable them to create and deliver high-quality, tailored written, visual, and digital resources.

To be successful in this role applicants will demonstrate:

• Experience of providing administration or research support in at least one organisation.
• Organised with ability to prioritise own workload effectively, to co-ordinate activities and conflicting demands to ensure that tight deadlines are met.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to work well with range of people at all levels.
• Ability to research, gather, analyse, collate and present information as required.
• Proficient computer literate skills, with strong experience of office software packages (i.e., Word, Excel and PowerPoint.).
• Ability to use own initiative with minimal supervision and deal with routine queries as they arise escalating others as necessary.
• Strong attention to detail.

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Contract: 12 month fixed term contract/attachment

Location: Ibex House, London

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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