Director of Corporate PartnershipsLocation: Flexible (Remote)
Position OverviewThe Center for the Rights of Abused Children seeks an experienced, driven leader to secure six- and seven-figure corporate partnerships that fund the rescue and protection of abused children nationwide.
This is not a traditional fundraising position.
Across America, companies are choosing causes to champion through cause-marketing campaigns, co-branded products, and multi-year philanthropic commitments. Brands like TOMS built their identity around giving. From new startups to blue-chip companies, businesses are actively looking for a mission their customers believe in. In Hollywood, studios, talent, and their foundations are looking for the same thing: a cause worthy of their platform. Few missions resonate like this one: every child deserves a safe and loving home. And few organizations have had the outsized impact the Center has had, having helped more than 1 million children with pro bono legal advocacy and common-sense reforms.
We are looking for an entrepreneur-a leader who doesnt wait for doors to open, but finds them, knocks, and walks through.
Qualifications - Experience: Has at least 5 years of experience in corporate partnerships, cause marketing, business development, or major-gift fundraising, with a track record of closing sizeable agreements.
- Strategic Research: Knows how to research, identify, and prioritize companies whose brands, products, and customers align with child protection.
- Communication: Is a confident, polished communicator who can pitch a CEO, a brand team, or a corporate board with equal ease.
- Business Development: Is a true hunter who can go in cold-identify the right company, find the right decision-maker, get the meeting, and close the deal without waiting for an introduction or leaning on the CEO.
- Relationship Building: Can also take a warm introduction-from our board, our leadership, or our supporters-and convert it into a structured, lasting partnership.
- Partnership Development: Understands how to design partnership models that work for the company as well as the cause: cause-marketing campaigns, percentage-of-sales programs, co-branded products, employee giving, and multi-year grants.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Is entrepreneurial, self-directed, and relentless-builds their own pipeline, generates their own leads, and follows through until the deal is signed.
- Mission-Driven: Is mission-driven and can speak about our work-pro bono legal advocacy and common-sense protections for abused children-with fluency and conviction.
Key Responsibilities - Corporate Partnership Pipeline: Building and managing a pipeline of corporate partnerships.
- Proposal Development: Developing tailored partnership proposals, sponsorship packages, and cause-marketing concepts.
- Partnership Management: Negotiating and closing partnership agreements, then stewarding those relationships to renewal and growth.
- Ambassador Cultivation: Cultivating ambassadors who can lend their voice, platform, and networks to the mission.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with our communications team to deliver the visibility, storytelling, and impact reporting partners expect.
- External Representation: Representing the Center at industry events, corporate meetings, and speaking engagements.
- Reporting: Reporting on pipeline, revenue, and partnership outcomes to the CEO and Executive Director.
Benefits - Join a nationally recognized team with awards including the Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award and the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.
- The Center offers flexible scheduling and a mission-driven, family-friendly work environment.
Our work has helped more than one million children. With the right corporate partners, we can help millions more-and we are looking for the person who will bring those friends to the tabl
