Associate Director of Fundraising (Corporate / Commercial)

Sector Experience: Charity, Defence, Aerospace, Technology, Infrastructure or Corporate Sales / Strategic Partnerships

Lead Major Partnerships. Transform Income. Support the Armed Forces Community.

We’re recruiting an exceptional Associate Director of Fundraising on behalf of a leading national military charity — a role designed for a commercially driven senior partnerships leader who thrives on securing high-value, multi-year strategic deals.

This is not a traditional charity fundraising role. It is effectively a Head of Sales / New Business position, focused on personally securing six- and seven-figure partnerships across the defence, aviation, corporate and wider private sectors.

You’ll help build and convert a pipeline of major corporate partnerships (£500k–£5m+), while shaping a high-performance strategy that will define the organisation’s future income growth.

You will join at Associate Director level — above Head of Department, reporting into the Director of Fundraising. The title has been intentionally set to engage senior-level decision-makers in industry.

What You’ll Be Doing

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Personally lead high-value partnership acquisition, securing 5–7 new corporate agreements per year, each worth six-to-seven figures.

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Shape and deliver a multi-year commercial income strategy, focused...