Income Generation and Partnerships Lead
Location: Head Office (Alloa) / Remote Working - Hybrid Working
Full Time - 37 hours
Salary: £51,487 - £55,066

About us:

Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support. We help build a more caring, compassionate, and inclusive Scotland; relationship by relationship. Our people work in teams, supporting each other through the challenges and triumphs that happen every day.

About the role:

Reporting to the Director of Practice and Innovation, the focus of this role is to lead our income generation strategy; manage corporate partnerships; and to support business development as we diversify and grow of our service offerings. The post holder will oversee income generation through:

- community fundraising;
- grant and trust applications;
- developing corporate partnerships.

You will identify and nurture corporate partnership opportunities, stewarding relationships with corporates and business ambassadors.

In addition, you will provide business development support for our external training consultancy for the 3 year start-up period, implementing processes such as mapping customer journeys; relationship management; record keeping; and risk mapping.

You may also be asked to provide advice on business development across the organisation when growth and development opportunities arise.

In this role you will:

- Work with the Director of Practice and Innovation to develop and deliver Scottish Autism’s income generation strategy.
- Manage a fundraising team responsible for community fundraising and events, grant and trust applications, and corporate partnerships.
- Work collaboratively with others to generate project funding.
- Support the creation of a business development plan, marketing activities and customer relationship management of the new training and consultancy offer.
- Advise on business development plans for new and growing services that rely on diverse income streams.
- Manage the relationship and stewardship of large donors, corporate partners, and business ambassadors.
- Identify new leads for corporate partnerships, including potential training and consultancy opportunities and to record and follow up with leads provided by colleagues.
- Monitor and report regularly on the different strands of income generation in order to manage risk and ensure that resources are optimally deployed.
- Monitor and ensure that investment in fundraising activities generates appropriate levels of return.
- Communicate and work with the wider leadership team and other colleagues to share the income generation strategy and keep them abreast of activities.
- Ensure all our fundraising and income generation activity complies with legal and regulatory requirements including OSCR requirements on reporting and monitoring.

About you:

The successful candidate will have:

- Commitment to and demonstration of our organisational values
- Ability to work collaboratively across the organisation
- Communication skills including preparing papers and making presentations
- Proactive, self-motivated and goal-orientated
- Influencing and networking skills
- Project Management and planning skills including monitoring and reporting areas of risk
- Customer service/relationship management skills
- Ability to adapt and work collaboratively with external partners
- Ability to manage multiple and complex workstreams
- Budget development and management skills

Scottish Autism offers you:

- 32 days’ holiday pro rata (which increases with your length of service)
- Non-contributory life assurance scheme
- Workplace Pension (Employer matched up to 9%)
- Employee Discount Platform
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Personalised learning pathway - We keep it simple with 3 pay points. You progress at your pace as you develop. We benchmark regularly to ensure the rates are competitive.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.

Closing Date: Sunday 4th August 2024

Interview Date: Friday 16th August 2024

Be Here, Be You, Create Change

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values. We encourage and welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.

Registered charity number is SC009068.

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