You can download an application pack for this role here.

Closing date for applications: 10am, Monday 6 July 2026

Date for interview: Wednesday 15 July 2026

We are looking for a senior partnerships officer who will ensure our vital work to address the environmental crisis is well funded, working to secure new partnerships and stewarding existing funder relationships

This multifaceted role works across teams to coordinate and deliver Green Alliance’s fundraising activities and grant management. Collaborating with the organisation’s policy and political experts, you support the creation of creative and impactful new project proposals that address environmental problems and support the organisation’s strategy. You will identify funders for this through prospecting and relationship building and will guide proposals through processes to secure funds. You will monitor the organisation’s progress against fundraising targets and lead on management of our funding pipeline.

Stewardship of existing funding relationships is a significant part of this role which means ensuring we have excellent communication with our funders, making sure they receive high quality reports on Green Alliance’s impact and supporting the team to see our funders as partners. You will manage our Business Circle and maintain relationships with its members and support efforts to recruit new business members into Green Alliance Task Forces.

Excellent communication skills are at the heart of this role, both written and verbal. You will be confident, efficient, and resourceful; calm under pressure and enjoy building strong relationships with a variety of senior stakeholders, as well as working independently. Strong skills in relation to organisation, administration and prioritisation are essential.

You will need to understand, or be willing to learn about, the political and environmental policy contexts we work in.

Position in organisation

This role reports to the deputy chief executive and liaises with staff across the organisation – senior management, politics, policy and operations teams. The post will co-ordinate proposal development and project reports for funders and will help to develop new funding opportunities to ensure Green Alliance has the robust and long-term financial support to fulfil its strategy.

You will manage our Business Circle, building relationships with and organising roundtable talks for members. The post holder will also work closely with the communications team on event sponsorship opportunities and communicating the impact of Green Alliance to help raise our profile to funders.

Duties and responsibilities

• Build and manage relationships with funders and other partners.

• Use and develop your understanding of philanthropic fundraising and its processes and work with team members to develop projects that enable Green Alliance to achieve its goals as articulated in the organisational strategy. This includes staying on top of funder trends.

• Develop creative and impactful project ideas into persuasive and successful funding bids, sometimes with the support of the deputy chief executive and sometimes working more independently.

• Lead on relationships with some funders, ensuring they understand the work of Green Alliance and are well supported by us.

• Own all administrative systems for keeping our fundraising and stewardship on track. This includes understanding progress against fundraising targets, ensuring we are producing high quality funding reports and renewals to schedule, tracking and logging engagement with funders across the organisation, responding to funder requests and liaising with the operations team on contract details and grant payments.

• Lead on prospecting potential new funding sources and either lead approaches to them or supporting senior members of staff to do so.

• Organise funder events such as funders lunches, with support as necessary from our events and engagement manager.

• Co-ordinate the Business Circle, identifying new members and creating partnership opportunities.

• Represent Green Alliance externally, attending events, developing strong relationships with the Environmental Funders Network and fundraising staff in other similar NGOs and provide support at Green Alliance events.

• Be an active member of the Green Alliance staff team, contributing to a collaborative and inclusive work culture.

• Support the deputy chief executive in the fulfilment of their role and carry out any other task which may reasonably be requested to be undertaken within the scope of this position.

Key relationships

Internal

• Deputy chief executive

• The senior management team

• Head of finance

• Heads of themes and project leads

External

• Members of the Business Circle

• Funders: trusts and foundations, businesses, NGOs, public bodies, major donors

• Fundraisers at other organisations and funder networks such as the Environmental Funders Network

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential:

• At least two years’ experience of working in fundraising roles, successfully raising money from charitable trusts and foundations

• Motivation to work in a purpose-driven organisation, working towards a world where people and the environment thrive together.

• Experience of developing successful funding bids

• Proven experience of building and maintaining professional relationships, including with senior staff

• Experience of writing funding proposals and impact reports to funders

• Experience of managing and delivering projects to deadline

• Interest in / knowledge of UK environmental policy

• Interest in / knowledge of UK politics

Desirable:

• Experience working for an NGO, charity or funder

• Experience of working with businesses to secure funding from them

• Understanding of how to influence government policy

Skills and competencies

• Confident, and skilled at building good relationships with partners and colleagues

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including attention to detail

• Able to work effectively as part of a team and work independently with initiative and drive.

• Calm, methodical and organised; able to juggle a number of priorities

• Ability to get up to speed with new issues quickly and research new fundraising opportunities

• Willingness to actively contribute to achieving to our equity, diversity and inclusion objectives

• Comfortable learning how to use core IT systems such as Microsoft Dynamics Business Central project management system and Civi CRM database

In your application we’ll ask you to provide evidence for how you meet the key criteria for the role, which are the ones in bold above. We will assess all aspects of the person specification across the different parts of the recruitment process. If you feel you meet the essential criteria, but not any or all of the desirable criteria, then please still consider applying.

How to apply

For your application, we would like you to answer three questions that address the key criteria highlighted in the person specification. We will also ask you to upload a CV with details of your education and work experience. We recommend that you prepare your responses to the questions before starting the application process as you will be unable to save your application and return to it later.

Application questions

1) Why do you want to work for Green Alliance? Summarise your experience of working in fundraising, and the key skills you would bring to the role.

2) Tell us about a successful fundraising bid that you led and are most proud of. What contributed to its success?

3) Tell us how you developed a relationship with a new funder and persuaded them to consider a funding proposal.

We recommend that each answer is no longer than 300 words. Where you can, give examples of the experience, knowledge and skills you have gained through employment, study or voluntary activities.

To apply:

• Prepare your answers to the three questions above.

• Click on "Apply for this job" below. You will be asked to confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the UK.

• Cut and paste your answers to the three application questions online. Upload your CV.

• Review and submit your application. You will receive a confirmation email to acknowledge your application.

Approach to AI

We recognise that some applicants may choose to use AI tools as they prepare their applications. We strongly encourage you to ensure that your application is personalised and accurately reflects your own experience, insights and voice. AI should not replace your own input or authenticity. We want to hear your perspective, not a generic response and reserve the right to reject applications that closely resemble AI generated answers to our application questions.

We are genuinely interested in learning about you, your motivation, your experiences and what makes you a great fit for the role. Your application will be reviewed by one of our team members and we look forward to reading it.

Right to work

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship, so you will be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK during the recruitment process. We are unable to sponsor the renewal of work visas for people who have short-term permission to work in the UK.