Volunteer Senior Advisor Prize and Awards Sponsorship

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will work directly with the Founder & CEO and the senior management team to plan and lead the sponsorship fundraising campaign for our Prizes and Awards.  We are looking for an experienced and well-networked sponsorship professional with strong credibility and presentation skills as comfortable working on their own initiative and as part of a team. Ideally, we would like someone with experience and who enjoys creating, planning and delivery of big-ticket sponsorship. If you have experience running similar Challenge or Innovation Prize competitions this would be a distinct advantage but is not essential; otherwise, we are looking for a mix of related or transferable skills including sponsorship lead generation, excellent sponsorship negotiation, good knowledge of sponsorship contracts and a strong closer.

What are we looking for?

The ideal candidate would be an experienced sponsorship fundraising professional or with relevant transferable skills with a proven track of high value sponsorship business development who would enjoy working with a new social enterprise.  We are looking for in a volunteer are as follows: 

The creative leadership, experience and organisational ability to plan, project manage and deliver or to lead a team to deliver the sponsorship for the Prize Awards.  Sponsorship campaign planning to accurate and achievable targets and timetable Researching target sponsors Sponsorship negotiation and strong closing skills Sponsors will be aligned with our PR, Media and Communications strategy.  Inform the digital marketing strategy to support your sponsorship raising.  Excellent proposal writing skills (or the digital marketing team can create these and other marketing materials.) Advise on additional resources / sponsorship team as required

What difference will you make?

As Sponsorship Fundraising Lead your role will play a significant role in the future success of our Prize causes and campaign goals with a central theme focussing on youth across all our causes.