Key information
Closing date: 10am, Friday 29 August 2025
Salary: £40,000 to £43,000 per year
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Location: Based in London SW8 / home and flexible working
Interviews: Online, Friday 5 September 2025
What you’ll be doing
Our Corporate Partnerships team’s work is vital to both the delivery of our mission and its sustainability, by leading our corporate and brand partnerships.
We are recruiting a Corporate Partnerships Manager to develop existing relationships and secure incremental income to support our work. As part of this, you will research, write, and present funding proposals, work with colleagues to support and grow partnership activity, and represent the organisation at a high level – both on a day-to-day basis and during partner or fundraising events.
You will work closely with staff from across the organisation, including members of the senior management team, as well as corporate partners at a range of levels.
This role is London-based, with some capacity to work from home around the requirements of your role. We expect in-person events and meetings may be up to two or three days per week at times, so you will need to be able to be in London on these occasions and unfortunately we are unable to cover travel expenses for this. However, there will also be times when the requirements to be in London are much less.
What we’re looking for
As well as having significant experience of stewarding high-level corporate partnerships, you will have worked in or with the voluntary sector with knowledge of CSR and fundraising expertise. You will have confidence in presenting and communicating, alongside skills in financial management and planning.
Why our work is so vital
Literacy changes everything.
It gives you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. It’s the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. It’s better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it’s harder to get where you want to go.
The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity helping people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words – reading, writing, speaking and listening. From first words, through school days to training, jobs and beyond.
- We work collaboratively in local communities, focusing our work in 20 areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
- We support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
- We campaign to make literacy a priority for politicians and decision-makers.
- We support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders’ institutions to build their literacy skills
What we offer you
Our team are passionate about our mission and we have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. We offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.
As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.
Application details
Our people are our most important asset and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase representation of these groups among our staff as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.
For more information and to apply, download the files below.
Please also complete our online equal opportunities monitoring form when you submit your application.
Unfortunately, we are unable to respond individually to applications so if you have not heard from us by the advertised interview date, this means we have not been able to shortlist your application this time.
Please note we do not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites.