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Are you passionate about building and maintaining positive relationships? Enthusiastic about all things corporate partnerships and fundraising? We have a role for you!

Mencap is looking for a tenacious Senior Account Manager to join our Corporate Partnerships team, working across New Business (60%) and Account Management (40%) until new partners are brought onboard. You will be joining a vibrant, highly-motivated and dynamic fundraising team – responsible for managing and developing transformational partnerships which help further our vision for the UK to be the best place for people with a learning disability to live happy, healthy lives.

Based in London, with lots of home-working flexibility, our working hours are Monday-Friday (37.5 hours per week) but you will need to be flexible to travel and attend meetings occasionally outside of working hours. You should expect to work from the London office 1 day per week.

This is a really exciting opportunity for a professional individual who wants to grow in their career. We need a someone with an abundance of confidence and positivity, combined with the determination to simply get the job done. You will have to manage important relationships with our key partners and build networks internally and externally, so having excellent interpersonal skills is essential.

Working closely with the Corporate Development Lead, you will be responsible for managing a varied portfolio of existing strategic and charity of the year partnerships, and support on developing new business opportunities.
We are an equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation and we particularly welcome and encourage disabled applicants and those from the Black and Asian communities to apply for the role as they are under-represented within the workforce.
You will be an experienced fundraiser who has demonstrated success and is looking for more responsibility with a new challenge. You will have worked on six-figure partnerships and use your skills to deliver, grow and extend these accounts. Ideally, you will have managed large charity of the year partnerships.

If you feel that this role is for you, please apply with a full and up to date CV that demonstrates how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the essential skills required in the role profile.

Job ID: 32606

Benefits
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.
24 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed
Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.
Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.*T&C's apply based on contract

About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.
Our work includes;

providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
providing advice through our help lines and web sites