We’re now recruiting for a Corporate Partnerships Co-ordinator to join our Glasgow team.
Key information
Job title: Corporate Partnerships Co-ordinator.
Hours: 35 hours per week.
Salary: £29,000. Salary is currently under review.
Location: FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland, South Street, G14 0AP. Opportunity for hybrid working.
About our Corporate Partnerships Co-ordinator
Move On has created the new role of Corporate Partnerships Co-ordinator, with responsibility for developing and nurturing high-value relationships with corporate partners. This role will be crucial to the ongoing development of FareShare Glasgow and its long-term sustainability, generating new relationships and income from the corporate sector. In the role, you will secure new innovative collaborations such as charity partnerships, commercial brand licensing deals and multifaceted sponsorships/partnerships to support the important work of FareShare Glasgow and Move On, playing a key role in helping to secure the ambitious targets for the Glasgow Coronation Food Hub.
What we’re looking for
The successful candidate will be highly motivated, with a strong track record of developing and stewarding successful relationships with corporate partners, securing income, sponsorship, volunteering support, pro bono support and business know how. An excellent communicator and creative thinker, you will have the proven ability to work under your own initiative and work effectively as part of a wider staff team. Motivated by Move On’s mission and core values, you will be target driven and ambitious to maximise the potential of your role.
About Move On
With a vision of a Scotland where every person can confidently navigate through the ups and downs of life and achieve their potential, Move On supports people experiencing significant disadvantage to achieve personal goals and make positive lasting change in their lives.
Move On offers a range of services, which meet the needs of our service users and volunteers, which are flexible and innovative. Our mentoring and employability services enable people to set goals, develop their skills, build confidence, grow their social networks and gain the qualifications and work experience they need to reach their potential and achieve a brighter future.
Move On’s services are delivered in a manner which is trauma informed, person-centred and asset-based. We are committed to supporting people where they need it, when they need it and for as long as they need it.
About FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland
FareShare UK works with the food and drink industry to save good quality surplus food from going to waste and distributes it to frontline organisations and community groups, including homeless hostels, refuges, children’s breakfast clubs, community centres and older people’s lunch clubs.
With FareShare regional centres across the UK, Move On manages the Glasgow ansd the West of Scotland regional centre. FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland redistribures surplus food across 13 local authority areas, reaching over 80,000 beneficiaries every week. Serving meals is a way for organisations to directly engage with the people they support and using FareShare food enables them to redirect funds into improving their own services, benefiting individuals, and strengthing communities.
FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland also offers a range of different training, volunteering and practical work experience opportunities for young people and adults, including driving lessons and forklift operator training.
About the Coronation Food Project
The Coronation Food Project is a partnership between Felix/FareShare UK and the King Charles III Charitable Fund, with three main aims:
- Saving more surplus food.
- Supercharging food distribution networks to ensure surplus produce can reach those who need it most, through the creation of Coronation Food Hubs (CFH).
- Delivering a flexible funding programme to support the wider sector and a consortium of pioneering food-rescue initiatives.
Glasgow has been chosen to be one of ten Hubs and investment has been secured to fund the capital and a proportion of the revenue costs of the Glasgow Hub for the next three years. During this period we will be increasing all income streams to ensure long-term sustainability. The capital build phase, due to complete in April, will deliver high quality premises for our surplus food activities, while at the same time expanding and developing our employability, training and volunteering opportunities. Our new kitchen and training spaces also offer huge potential for engaging new corporate partners.
What Move On can offer you
We strive to ensure that Move On is a great place to work by supporting, developing and valuing our people. We offer:
- 25 days annual leave and 9 public holidays for the first 2 years of service, increasing to 28 days and 9 public holidays after 3 years (pro rata’d for p/t time staff)
- Flexi-time
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- Opportunity for hybrid working
- Regular formal and informal support
- Ability to progress incrementally through salary band
- Annual personal volunteering day
- Strong focus on promoting staff health and wellbeing, through an active staff-led health and wellbeing Group, with an allocated budget
- Training allowance and commitment to CPD
- TOIL system
How to apply
To apply for our Corporate Partnerships Co-ordinator vacancy, please read the job description then send a completed application form to our Executive Director, John Hinton, on john@moveon.org.uk.
If you have any questions about the role or application process, please email john@moveon.org.uk.
The deadline to apply is Wednesday 29th April at 5pm.