SVP, Corporate Partnerships

Overview

Since 1972, Covenant House has served and advocated for youth and young families experiencing homelessness, human trafficking, and exploitation. Our overarching goal is to end homelessness among youth and young families by helping them achieve housing stability, heal from trauma, tap into their innate resilience, and hone their interests and skills to forge new pathways to independence. This work is carried out across Covenant House sites in 34 cities in the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

About the Role

The Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships is a strategic and entrepreneurial revenue leader responsible for developing and executing Covenant House International's corporate partnership strategy. Reporting to the Chief Philanthropy Officer, the SVP will lead a high-performing team responsible for retaining, growing, and stewarding an existing portfolio of corporate partners while securing significant new corporate relationships across a diverse range of partnership types.

The SVP will drive revenue growth through philanthropic grants, corporate sponsorships, employee giving and engagement programs, cause marketing campaigns, point-of-sale and customer fundraising initiatives, licensing arrangements, and other innovative partnership models. This leader will possess deep experience across the full spectrum of nonprofit-corporate partnerships and demonstrate the ability to identify emerging trends and create new pathways for sustainable revenue generation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Corporate Partnership Strategy and Revenue Growth

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Deep expertise in the corporate philanthropy and nonprofit partnership landscape, including corporate grants, sponsorships, employee giving, workplace campaigns, matching gifts, volunteer engagement, cause marketing, consumer promotion programs, licensing arrangements, and earned revenue partnerships

• Demonstrated ability to create and scale innovative partnership strategies that generate significant revenue and long-term value

• Strong understanding of corporate social responsibility, ESG, purpose-driven marketing, brand partnerships, and employee engagement trends

• Exceptional business development, negotiation, and relationship management skills

• Proven ability to develop compelling partnership proposals and value propositions tailored to corporate objectives

• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue planning, and portfolio analysis

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and influencing skills

• Ability to engage and inspire C-suite executives and other senior stakeholders

• Outstanding project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and complex initiatives

• Demonstrated success leading high-performing teams and managing through growth and organizational change

• Strong emotional intelligence, judgment, and interpersonal skills

• Passion for Covenant House's mission and demonstrated commitment to mission-driven leadership
  

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 12-15 years of progressive fundraising, business development, corporate partnerships, sponsorship, marketing partnerships, or related experience, with significant leadership responsibility

• Proven track record of securing and growing multimillion-dollar corporate partnerships and consistently achieving ambitious revenue goals

• Demonstrated success managing both new business acquisition and long-term relationship portfolios

• Experience leading teams responsible for corporate prospecting, account management, partnership fulfillment, sponsorship activation, and employee engagement

• Extensive experience working across multiple partnership channels, including philanthropic grants, sponsorships, employee giving programs, cause marketing, and earned revenue initiatives

• Experience developing integrated partnership opportunities involving multiple organizational stakeholders and departments

• Demonstrated success collaborating with executive leadership, board members, and external stakeholders

• Experience engaging corporate executives as both institutional partners and individual philanthropic supporters is strongly preferred
  

Expected Leadership Competencies

Travel Requirements

Our Community

Our critical mission demands that we have all voices at the table. A team of diverse people, perspectives, and experiences is smarter, stronger, and more effective for our young people. At Covenant House, every team member is valued, respected, heard, and supported, and we welcome honest and courageous self-reflection on any aspects of our work that are based on biased or outdated viewpoints. We deliberately create opportunities for our staff to grow and thrive.

Covenant House International is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind: CHI is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at CHI are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, family or parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. CHI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics and encourages all qualified applicants to apply.

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