Director of Brand Partnerships

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Non-profit • Charity • Social Impact

charity: water is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. The organization funds sustainable, community-owned water projects in remote locations around the world. charity: water ensures that every public donation is used solely to fund water projects, with a separate fund covering operational costs. Their impact includes over 171,469 water projects in 29 countries, serving millions of people.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• Leading the development and management of an end-to-end pipeline of brand partners - from prospect to advocate/champion. • Owning the long-term strategy and performance for multi-year and repeat partners, ensuring that we meet or exceed our annual revenue targets. • Serving as a team leader and thought-partner to the VP of Global Marketing & Partnerships in working towards our organizational goals, including blue sky brainstorming and targeting strategic new partners. • Collaborating with other leaders on Global Partnerships to ensure products, resources, moves management and program excellence is maintained and optimized. • Stewarding a small portfolio of strategic partners with sophistication and passion, identifying opportunities for growth and expansion within those relationships. • Acting as internal thought leader to drive brainstorming, collaboration and creative ideation that develop meaningful partnerships. • Overseeing a team of at least three Brand Partnership staff, helping them grow their annual portfolio revenue year over year through both developing new partnerships and maximizing current. • Meticulously track the partnership journey within Salesforce as it relates to revenue opportunities, targets and team engagements. • Representing the organization in brand partner meetings and at various virtual and in-person events to engage current partners and prospective brands, and identify fruitful partnership opportunities. • Supporting our Leadership Team with brand partner engagements, including research, presentation materials and follow-up, where needed. • Learning, studying, and becoming an expert on charity: water’s programmatic work and the international WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) sector in general. • Partnering with leaders across the organization to innovate, and developing new offerings, activations and campaigns that position charity: water as the best-in-class charitable brand partner.

🎯 Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or similar • 8+ years of fundraising experience • 6+ years working in brand/corporate partnerships or account management • 5+ years of people management experience, overseeing and supporting a team of direct reports • Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to represent the organization to senior-level partner stakeholders • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Strategic mindset and ability to connect our mission to larger goals and build compelling cases for support • Acute attention to detail and ability to stay on top of critical deadlines • An incredible passion for our mission that invigorates and excites everyone with whom you share it with • Experience working in a collaborative environment with creative, marketing, and finance teams • Proven expertise with live event activations (added plus) • 5+ years marketing experience (added plus) • Experience effectively using Salesforce as a CRM tool (added plus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Summer Fridays • 6-week paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of employment • Annual bonus potential through The Pool • 401k plan + employer match • Medical covered at 85% + Dental/Vision contributions • FSA + dependent day care FSA • Employer-paid life insurance, STD, LTD • 16-week paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents • Stipends for Home office, Professional Development, and a You-do-You Perk • TSA Pre-check reimbursement • 2-4 annual travel requirements that foster team alignment, connection and in-person collaboration