Accomplished business development and marketing professional with over 15 years of distinguished performance in the third sector. Portfolio of achievements includes increasing income, improving brand awareness and enhancing stakeholder relationships. Strategic thinker and solution focused with an unrelenting eye for detail and a dynamic ability to make things happen. Exceptional communicator, talented networker and confident negotiator committed to high standards of customer care. An extensive background in the following broad-based competencies: Business development; account management; strategic planning; prospecting; developing business cases; tender management; bid writing; innovation; service design; theory of change/ logic modeling; due diligence; contracting/ contract management; contract risk assessments; service mobilisation; implementation; project management; marketing/ cause-related marketing; fundraising (corporate, major giving, community, event, DDM and legacy); corporate social responsibility; sponsorship programmes; commercial participator negotiations; funding applications; strategic fundraising planning and implementation; event management; marketing communications; campaign creative and execution; copy writing; website creative and maintenance; social media; direct donor recruitment; staff recruitment, management and development; informal and formal mentoring; financial planning, budget management and achieving targets.
Listed skills include Fundraising, Event Management, Marketing Communications, Sponsorship, and 46 others.