Partnership Executive

City of London E1 8QS and we are a hybrid working organisation

This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week.

Purpose of Role

Our corporate partnerships are crucial to the success of Comic Relief, they are fundamental in helping us tackle poverty in the UK and around the world. We work with a range of organisations and brands, many of them have been with us for years!

 The Partnerships Executive will play a vital role in supporting the day-to- day management of some of our strategic, seven figure partnerships at Comic Relief. The successful candidate will support the Partnership Managers (PM) in both the day to day running of the partnerships and project manage the logistics of our Red Nose Day merchandise.   

Key responsibilities:

The core areas of focus for this role are supporting partnership management, merchandise logistics and staff engagement by organising project visits with our brilliant funded partners.

Partnership Management

• Support the Partnership Managers with all aspects of the day-to-day partnership management on several key strategic and merchandise partnerships.


• Manage relationships with our partners through effective communication, problem solving, and responding to requests in a timely manner.


• Work alongside key teams within Comic Relief including marketing, creative, PR, legal, talent, fundraising, finance and funding to ensure we are delivering against our partnership objectives.


• Act as the key point of contact between our Schools team and our partners, ensuring that partner related activity is audience led and meeting cross organisational objectives. 


• Support New Business team on prospect research as required.

Staff Engagement

• Support staff engagement initiatives for our partners, working closely with both the funding team at Comic Relief and funded partner organisations to plan and execute corporate visits (virtual and in-person) to continue to engage partner employees with Comic Relief’s work.

Red Nose Day Merchandise 

• Project manage the partner aspects of Comic Relief’s online shop. Work closely with teams across the organization including tech, finance, legal and partner organizations to support the setup of Comic Relief’s online shop ahead of the Red Nose Day campaign.


• Support the PM in the development of Comic Relief’s merchandise range, including our iconic Red Nose. 


• Organise merchandise for campaign shoots, making sure transport and couriers are booked.


• Manage the reporting of merchandise sales

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Organised, with a strong attention to detail and great time management skills.


• Proven ability to build and manage strong relationships with senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.


• Excellent verbal and written skills that enable effective, emotive communication. 


• Strong problem solving skills.


• A passion and enthusiasm for Comic Relief’s brand and work.


• Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

Desirable criteria 

• Experience with marketing and brand campaigns


• Awareness of corporate partnerships within the charity sector.

Perks and benefits:

• Flexible working hours


• Work from home option


• Life Insurance


• Wellness programs


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave


• Paid emergency leave


• Sabbatical Opportunities


• Professional development


• Mentoring/coaching


• Paid volunteer days


• Payroll giving


• Salary sacrifice


• Team social events


• Extracurricular clubs


• Cycle to work scheme


• Free fruit

To apply please visit our website via the link and apply online.

Closing: 11:55pm, 24th Jul 2025 BST

Comic Relief reserves the right to close the role early if a large number of applications are received.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why work at Comic Relief

There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London,

There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work.

Disability Confident Employer

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV and application questions.