Why this job matters
We have a fantastic opportunity within our social impact team to join as our Charities Partnership Manager. Our main focus in the Social Impact team is to build a strong leadership position on a major issue for the UK - Tackling the digital skills gap and championing digital inclusion.
The role of Charities Partnership Manager will lead campaigns with charity partners and helping with colleague engagement on fundraising and volunteering for the charity. It is the perfect position for someone who is a self starter, comfortable leading on your own projects and further contributing to the fantastic work the wider social impact team are doing. If you are someone with previous knowledge of charity governance and compliance, who is ready for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you!
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What you’ll be doing
Partnerships and stakeholders
- Manage partnerships and this will need careful management to ensure it thrives and is able to engage colleagues in fundraising and volunteering (a key metric both for our team and the wider business now) as well as ensuring that the best parts of our digital skills progarmmes are brought to life through this partnership with impactful results.
- Charity requests made to CEO and Chairman’s office (and other senior stakeholders) regularly and careful and considered replies must be drafted to politely refuse where activity does not support strategy, in a way that does not damage BT’s reputation or the seniors leaders relationships.
Payroll Giving
- Support the management of the Payroll Giving Programme across BT and EE, (supports on Plusnet and Openreach) – including one-off gifts, supporting Senior Exec giving, overseeing Corporate fund match.
- Partner/supplier management - including contract
Policies, procedures and governance
- Support volunteering and charity policies, ensures all parts of BT adhere to our policy.
- Responsibility for compliance authorisation of charity payments made by any part of BT and due diligence in line with BT’s anti-bribery and corruption policy.
- Support billing error payments and approval in line with BT’s regulatory commitments.
- Authorisation of BT assets donated to charity eg. BT Tower, Info Band, sporting tickets etc.
Campaigns and communications
- Supports CFU wide campaigns – eg. Unicef fundraising
- External campaigns - (light touch) support where relevant
- Owns and updates relevant comms channels including ‘Supporting Good causes’ pages
- Events – owns and manages relationships and fundraising at partner events eg: Wembley Cup, SoccerAid, Royal Albert Hall Christmas Concert, and any ad-hoc events
- Represent BT at external charity / industry events
The skills you’ll need
- Knowledge of charity governance and compliance
- Self starter – Real autonomy
- Previous experience leading a team – putting your own ideas into practice
- Good communication and external engagement experience
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Strong project management skills
Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
- Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
- 3 volunteering days per year
- Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products
- Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile
- Access to our brand new, innovative office spaces, including our new office in London which opened this year
- Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.