Heart of Bucks is an established Community Foundation, providing a broad range of funding to charities and not for profit organisations across Bucks.
We are looking for a real "people person" to take on our Partnerships & Impact Officer role. You'll have a naturally curious personality with a genuine interest in finding out what motivates people in business to get involved with charitable work. Your aim will be to help us to build the best partnerships with local business to support their corporate social responsibility goals. Our aim is to ensure that their generously donated funds get right to the heart of our community, where they are most needed and can do the maximum amount of good.
This is a multi-faceted role often working as much with external partners as with your Heart of Bucks colleagues, so our ideal candidate will need to be confident talking to new contacts and businesses. You will, of course, be supported in the role by your Development Team colleagues but will often be working out in the community, and sometimes outside of office hours, so being a resilient self-organiser is essential.
You don't have to come to us "fully-formed" in the role, we love working with enthusiastic and committed learners, but you will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills to make it work for you (and us!). The role also calls for competent technical skills, as you will be involved in drawing out information from our Salesforce database and elsewhere to inform your activities, and to create compelling stories to illustrate the impact of our work.
We are happy to offer a hybrid working pattern, with some time in the office and some home working each week, with more time in the office whilst you are learning the role.
There is a full person specification in our Job Description.
Job title Partnerships and Impact Officer
Purpose ·
- Build and maintain a wide range of corporate partnerships with local businesses.
- Research and build new opportunities for our charitable company .
- Research, analyse, assess, and write-up impact reports for diverse audiences.
Reports to Development Projects Manager
Salary Range £15,736 to £18,615 per annum for 22.5 hours pw (FTE £26,226 - £31,026)
Job hours/days 22.5 hours p/w Mon-Fri
Location Hybrid home/office working with office base in Weston Turville, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Some travel around Buckinghamshire. Some lone working.
Closing date 22nd June 2026 - Interview date 14th July 2026.
Main Duties
- Work with the CEO to increase the type and variety of corporate partnerships with local businesses.
- Work with CEO to develop opportunities for our charitable company.
- Help to maintain excellent client and partner relationships.
- Research, analyse, assess, and write-up a wide range of impact reports for diverse audiences.
Specific Responsibilities: Please see the Job Description on our website for further details
Partnerships - identify, grow and maintain
Corporate Partnership Growth - identify, grow and maintain
Research Commercial Opportunities
Impact Reporting
Events - Contribute to the smooth delivery of HoB events
Record keeping and reporting
Person specification - see Job Description for Full Person Specification
It is essential for the role that:
- you have access to independent travel (for example a full driving licence and access to a car, or supported travel though Access 2 Work or similar)
- you are able to work out of hours (time off in lieu) - as a guide this would be 2-3 times per month
Responsibility Level
Moderate level of supervision and management input required.
More complex administrative tasks and processes, often in specialist areas, with some experience typically needed.
No people management responsibilities or strategic contribution required.
No budgetary control, but an understanding of finances, or detailed processes often required.
Regular use of systems and data processing.
Required to interact with external customers and stakeholders with requests of moderate difficulty.
Tasks timeframe typically measured in weeks or days.
Application process
Please take a minute to read our Job Description and Person Specification before applying.
Then submit your cv and a covering letter, outlining how your knowledge and skills are a good fit for this role, via email to [email protected]. Please consider each element of the person specification with reference to your experience, skill, and knowledge gained in employment, voluntary work, studying, or a personal setting.
We want to give all applicants a fair chance at the role, so IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT A COVERING LETTER WE ARE UNLIKELY TO CONSIDER YOU FOR INTERVIEW.
Heart of Bucks is a Disability Confident Employer, committed to equality of opportunity and celebration of diversity. We are signatories to the Mindful Employer Charter and are a Living Wage Employer. We take great care to ensure that our actions as an employer reflect our values. We promote equality of opportunity and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates. We select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience and will ask about any reasonable adjustments you may require when inviting candidates to interview.
Applicants with “unspent” convictions are asked to disclose this as a separate appendix to your covering letter so we can work with you to assess what impact (if any) this may have on your potential employment with us. There is more information about this here: https://www.gov.uk/tell-employer-or-college-about- criminal-record/what-information-you-need-to-give
Closing date for applications is 22nd June 2026.
I*nterviews for shortlisted candidates will take place on 14th July 2026.*
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 24 months
Pay: £26,228.00-£31,026.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Aylesbury HP22 5QT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have access to independent travel for business purposes?
- Are you able to work out of office hours on a regular (2-3 times per month) basis?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Aylesbury HP22 5QT
