Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Hope for Justice is seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Partnerships Development Coordinator to join our UK Philanthropy team.

As our Partnerships Development Coordinator you will have an important role in identifying, nurturing and securing income from new and existing monthly and annual donors, and growing the portfolio and income on a month by month basis. You will also identify and upgrade monthly donors into higher levels of our donor portfolio and promote regular giving and new sign-ups through church connections, including speaking engagements and events. Additionally, you will provide excellent customer service as a first point of contact for donors calling the organisation and you will provide comprehensive administrative assistance, focusing on fundraising and event support, effective database management, and reporting.

For more information on the role, please download the Role Profile.

A successful Partnerships Development Coordinator will have:

• Strong relationship management skills, and the ability to work effectively with very senior stakeholders and across a team based in different regional offices

• Excellent interpersonal, telephone and written manner

• Experience of reaching income targets and building relationships with a range of external/ internal stakeholders

• Experience of providing administrative support to a team or individual

• Highly organised and thrives on multi-tasking in a fast-paced and target-driven environment

• Excellent presentation and communication skills and high personal credibility

• Experience of monitoring, evaluation and analysis in a previous role

• Ability to work independently

• Experience of working with data and building reports within a CRM system

• Computer/IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Salary: Up to £30,000 per year, dependent on experience

Contract type: Full time (37.5 hours per week)

Closing date: 11th April 2024

Location: Hybrid - Minimum 1 day per week in our Manchester Head Office required.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

At Hope for Justice, our values act as guiding principles for everything we do, and we are committed to upholding our values of honouring and empowering our employees. Hope for Justice are a Living Wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff.

As part of Hope for Justice, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 1 day Marriage Leave
• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Company sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers
• Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family
• Professional development opportunities
• Professional memberships paid
• Flexible and hybrid working

Background Checks

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Rest assured that all applications are carefully reviewed, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, this is expected to be within 2 weeks from the job application close date. Thank you for your understanding