HR & Admin Support Service Provider

Scope of Work: The Corporate Partnerships Officer builds and manages strategic partnerships with private sector organisations to promote environmental sustainability and generate funds for WWF Philippines’ programs. The role involves identifying prospects, developing proposals, managing partner relationships, and ensuring successful project delivery aligned with WWF’s mission and brand.

Unit: Resource Generation and Partnerships

Works with:

• Internal: Within WWF-Philippines, this post reports to the Corporate Partnerships Manager and the Head of Resource Generation and Partnerships; Works in coordination with the Corporate Partnerships Team, Individual Fundraising Team, Program Managers/Coordinators, Communications Unit, and Admin and Finance Units
• External: Serves as the main WWF contact person for potential partners.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute towards achieving the goals and target outputs of the Corporate Partnerships team by forging partnerships with organizations in the private sector, with the goal of helping corporations understand and incorporate environmental sustainability in their business approach, and raising funds for WWF-Philippines’ programs.
• Understand the areas where WWF-Philippines and corporations can work together to form strategic and/or project-based partnerships using drivers of corporate performance and creating synergies for the mutual benefit of both organizations.
• Be well-informed on developments in WWF global corporate engagement guidelines as well as WWF global programs and corporate partnerships, with an eye toward local opportunities.
• Understand the details surrounding the different programs of WWF-Philippines in order to effectively market the programs to target corporations.
• Be well-informed on developments in all business sectors and identify risks and opportunities for WWF-Philippines partnership objectives.
• Identify prospective corporate partners to be engaged.
• Conduct the necessary research and due diligence on target corporations to be approached for potential partnerships.
• Work with the Conservation Programs Team and the Resource Generation and Partnerships unit in identifying project partnership opportunities to be proposed to prospective partners.
• Create and deliver pitch presentations to prospective partners, and conduct negotiations together with the WWF working team towards securing new corporate partners.
• Draft proposals and prepare Memorandum of Agreements, billing statements, and other related coordination tasks.
• Manage the existing roster of corporate partners assigned – coordinate with the Program Managers in ensuring the timely and excellent delivery of project outputs, communicate with existing partners to ensure they are updated with status and progress of the projects, ensure that accurate and complete reports are submitted to donors on time, look out for opportunities to further grow the existing donor funds and provide value-added services to partners.
• Participate in major fundraising events/campaigns and, at times, lead and coordinate those activities.
• Liaise with the Media and Communications Manager in looking for opportunities to highlight and communicate initiatives surrounding the different corporate partnerships, as well as co-branding and other marketing and media-based tie-ups.
• Manage and adhere to WWF-Philippines’ brand position, mission, and standards at all contact points with corporations.
• Perform other relevant and related tasks not specifically mentioned in the foregoing.

KEY OUTPUTS / DELIVERABLES

• Deliver specified target restricted and unrestricted funds to meet the Corporate Partnerships’ fundraising target.
• Secure corporate partners for cash and in-kind support for WWF-Philippines and related programs.
• Manage existing corporate partners by keeping abreast with the progress of projects and updating partners on the projects they are funding.
• Perform other duties that may be assigned by the supervisor from time to time.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferably a graduate of Marketing, Business, Social Sciences, or any related field.
• An understanding of general business practices and the local business environment.
• Ability to understand internal business processes of all sectors and identify collaboration opportunities.
• Excellent organizational skills with a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Must have people skills and be able to work as a team.
• Must be willing to learn about WWF and the various conservation projects.
• Must be computer literate.
• Experience in Account Management / Relationship Management is a plus.

HOW TO APPLY