Asst. Manager

**Position title**: Asst. Manager / Manager Corporate Partnerships and Engagement

**Reports to**: Senior Manager, Corporate Partnerships

**About WWF-Singapore**

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organisations. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the earth’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. As one of WWF’s international hubs, WWF-Singapore supports a global network spanning over 100 countries. WWF Singapore works closely with local stakeholders towards a greener and more sustainable Singapore and the region around us. We work to address key conservation areas, such as climate change, sustainable finance, deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, marine conservation, and sustainable production and consumption, through collaboration, education and outreach efforts involving the community, businesses, and governments. For more information, please visit wwf.sg.

**I. Mission of WWF Singapore**:
To ensure a high performing WWF office with efficient operating systems, professional and skilled staff, and strong financial resources. WWF Singapore’s focus is on delivering corporate partnerships, individual donor fundraising, major donor fundraising and community engagement for WWF’s priority conservation and sustainability initiatives in Singapore and the rest of WWF’s global network.

**II. Major Functions**:
The Asst. Manager / Manager should be able to do business development and corporate stewardship within WWF-Singapore. The Asst. Manager / Manager will have the drive, knowledge and skills to engage business leaders in transformational change, delivering shared conservation and community objectives, which will enable Singapore’s businesses to be a leading force in achieving the country’s sustainability goals over the next 10-30 years.

**III. Major Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Strategic Direction and Leadership**
- Support the Senior Manager and Deputy Director of Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy to ensure that fundraising and acquisition goals are achieved and tracked, and contribute to the department’s overall fundraising objectives

**Product and Business Development**
- Work with relevant WWF Programme Teams, including WWF’s Education & Outreach team to develop innovative marketing products and strategies to on-board companies for the employee engagement programme.
- Identify and foster strong relationships with new corporate prospects via inbound and outbound leads.
- Engage with existing corporate partners, and top-up their support via employee engagement, to ensure long-term partnerships.
- Generate fresh leads via employee engagement activities and pave the way for the Partnerships Team to engage in new corporate partnerships.
- Develop the workplace giving channel and on-board the employees of WWF-Singapore’s corporate partners as regular donors through the programme.
- Develop the employee fundraiser channel as a source of corporate donations.
- Where applicable, be in charge of managing some key industry sectors for other types of partnerships beyond employee engagement.
- Collaborate with other teams within WWF and contribute to ongoing programme discussions regarding conservation and outreach projects based in Singapore.

**Event and Account Management**
- Lead in making sure that employee engagement events are delivered in collaboration with various teams within WWF.
- Complete the necessary tasks to ensure the proper delivery of employee engagement events, including but not limited to: external vendor and corporate client coordination; event facilitation; post-event impact reporting.
- Where applicable, ensure that employee engagement partners are properly handed over to the Stewardship / Corporate Business Development Team to follow up on the partnership for further relationship / expansion.
- Maintain the programme microsite with up-to-date campaign information, new engagement product offerings, and toolkits.
- Share best practices of local employee engagement strategies, and provide other WWF global network offices with recommendations based on WWF-Singapore’s successes.

**IV. Profile**:
**Required Qualifications**
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in marketing or business administration or equivalent industry experience.
- 1-2 years’ experience in B2B business development, account management, or events management is a must.
- Proven track record in one of the following areas:

- B2B Sales
- Event Management
- Loyalty programmes
- Account management or client servicing
- Business Development
- Must have a strong fundraising, sales or business development background.
- Passionate about fundraising for environmental causes and working in NGOs, and are able to utilise sales and marketing concepts to further WWF’s conservation goals.

**Required Skills and Competencies**
- Great at leading and facilitating small or big events.
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