What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Corporate Partnerships position at Center for the Rights of Abused Children?
Director of Corporate Partnerships
Location: Flexible (Remote)
Our Mission
Our mission’s simple: every child deserves a safe, loving home, and we’re making that real. The Center for the Rights of Abused Children brings Americans together to do more and change more for abused children—because every child deserves a safe and loving home. Our work has already protected more than one million children, and we won’t stop until every child is safe and loved.
Position Overview
The 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 doesn't 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