Overview

• Contract: 3 Year Fixed Term Contract
• Closing date: Monday 15 September 2025
• Salary: circa £48-£55k per annum depending on experience
• Reports to: Global Head of Corporate Partnerships
• Location: Flexible. The Philanthropy Team is based between HALO's office in Wilton, near Salisbury, and a soon-to-be-open office in London. Depending on location, team members work from one of our offices at least weekly and we come together as a team monthly.
• Working patterns: This is a full-time role, with HALO operating a 40-hour working week (with the office closing at 3pm on Fridays). HALO is open to exploring working arrangements that meet the needs of employees whilst ensuring delivery against the role's objectives and our strategic goals.

About HALO

The HALO Trust's mission is to protect lives and restore the livelihoods of those affected by conflict. For over 35 years HALO has been saving lives and helping conflict affected countries recover from conflict, by making their land safe. When conflict ends, land is often littered with landmines and other dangerous explosives. Families live in fear and poverty. They are unable to plant crops or graze cattle and day-to-day activities like getting to school and fetching water are fraught with risk. HALO recruits and trains men and women to clear landmines in their own communities, take back control of their own livelihoods and rebuild their communities. HALO is now one of the leading humanitarian mine clearance organisations globally with programmes in 30 countries with 9,000 staff, most of whom are local employees.

About the role

The Corporate Partnerships Manager is responsible for growing HALO's philanthropic corporate partnerships through pipeline development and cultivating new and existing relationships with private donors. HALO has seen significant growth in philanthropic funding in recent years, including a substantial rise in UK and European income and strong support from US donors for Ukraine. The Global Philanthropy Team (12 people, UK-based) secures and steward donors across the UK, Europe and increasingly international markets, with a separate US team overseeing philanthropy strategy in the United States. This is an exciting time to join our high-performing team and contribute to the next phase of philanthropic growth.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead growth within a portfolio of five-, six- and seven-figure corporate partnerships through the development and delivery of relationship strategies, in collaboration with the Director of Global Philanthropy and Global Head of Corporate Partnerships.
• Personally cultivate key corporate partnerships, providing excellent stewardship.
• Personally develop and manage a portfolio of prospective partners, guiding them through the various cultivation phases and securing new funding in line with HALO's strategic funding priorities and global prospect list.
• Work closely with the strategic philanthropy team to leverage the corporate networks of HALO's major donor portfolio, ensuring seamless coordination in relationship management.
• Work with international programme teams to ensure the development of high-quality proposals and reports to tight deadlines.
• Work with the Global Communications team to develop public-facing partnership messaging and deliver brand visibility and recognition for corporate partners, as required.
• Manage donor records and correspondence in Salesforce.
• Contribute to departmental strategic priorities including supporting the stewardship of other major relationships, follow up of new opportunities, and the development of philanthropic products for wider use.
• Work closely with Philanthropy and Partnerships (Government funding) colleagues in the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East and overseas programmes as part of a distributed team to provide support to global fundraising efforts.

Requirements

• Extensive experience of personally leading successful relationships with high-value philanthropic donors, including corporates, giving at the six or seven figure level. In particular, commercial insights and an understanding of companies' CSR priorities in sectors such as extractives, global finance, agribusiness, and technology.
• Experience building effective relationships with advocates linked to philanthropic donors, particularly within corporate donor networks.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to build relationships with staff and colleagues in different cultural environments.
• Outstanding written skills with the ability to work with programme and finance colleagues to design robust project proposals, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Confident in working with financial information including project budgets.
• Excellent written and verbal skills with strong attention to detail.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills including the ability to demonstrate tact, sophistication and gravitas.
• Experience of working with a fundraising database to maximise relationship development.
• A commitment to HALO's mission and objectives.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and the ability to articulate HALO's programmes and strategies in a compelling way.
• Tenacious, self-starting, and able to thrive in a fluid, entrepreneurial context.
• Low-ego collaborative team player with strong ability to self-reflect.

Benefits

• Annual Leave: 25 days leave, plus 8 bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Non-contributory life insurance
• Pension contributions matched by HALO up to 5%
• Emergency medical insurance when travelling overseas (including on leave)
• Flexible working policy
• Cycle to work scheme

Equal Opportunity

The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. The HALO Trust is committed to a diverse and inclusive culture and to providing a safe environment that safeguards and promotes welfare for all who come into contact with the charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.