Description

ABOUT SURF LIFE SAVING NZ

As Aotearoa’s leading beach & coastal safety, drowning prevention and rescue authority, we are truly unique, delivering proactive lifeguarding & essential emergency rescue services, a range of public education beach safety programmes, member education, training & development as well as a highly respected sport. With New Zealand having one of the highest rates of drowning (per capita) in the OECD, we are committed to changing this with a vision to have zero preventable drownings on our beaches.

We do all this as a charity and rely on the generosity of the public, commercial partners, foundations and trusts for donations and financial contributions in order to lead and support our incredible front line volunteer lifeguarding services. SLSNZ is the national association and represents 74 surf lifesaving clubs with 18,000+ members, including more than 4500 volunteer Surf Lifeguards. Our lifeguards, patrol over 80 locations in summer as well as providing emergency call-out rescue services throughout Aotearoa - saving hundreds of lives each year and ensuring thousands return home safe, after a day at the beach.

  OUR VALUES

Credibility • Transparency • Passion • Aspiration

POSITION PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to work with the Head of Commercial & Marketing to provide quality and timely support to our commercial partners - ensuring high levels of partner satisfaction through delivering top quality activations and interactions. It involves elements of sponsorship, business development, marketing, events, customer service and sales.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The role will be responsible for achieving targets. KPI’s to be discussed and determined by the Head of Commercial & Marketing & the Partnerships Account Executive.

Requirements

Partnerships Executive

• Looking for the next step in your sponsorship career, working for an incredible charity and with high profile NZ brands?
• Passionate about building relationships and ensuring partner activations are executed well?
• Wanting a challenging and varied role with great development opportunities?

Keen to progress your sponsorship career in a hands-on, fast moving charity, essential service and sports environment, where you can make a difference to saving lives?

 Across Aotearoa, our volunteer lifeguards have saved thousands of lives and ensured millions have come home safe after a day at the beach since 1910!

 Surf Life Saving NZ is truly unique, delivering proactive surf lifeguarding and essential emergency rescue services, a range of public education beach safety programmes and campaigns, member education, training and development as well as a highly respected sport.

 We do all this as a charity and rely on the generosity of the public, commercial partners, foundations and trusts for donations and financial contributions in order to lead and support our incredible front line volunteer lifeguarding services.

This is a great opportunity to join a friendly and talented team who are dedicated to helping achieve our vision of “no-one drowns on Aotearoa beaches,” whilst taking the next step in your career.

 The purpose of this role is to work with the Head of Commercial & Marketing to provide quality and timely support to our family of commercial partners - ensuring high levels of partner satisfaction through delivering top quality activations and interactions. It covers elements of sponsorship, business development, marketing, events, administration and sales. You will be involved in partner servicing and administration, new partner prospecting, fundraising opportunities, and coordinating our sport event exhibitors.

Personal attributes we are seeking include the ability to work under pressure, organised with high attention to detail, can work in a team or alone, initiative and reliability, enthusiasm and energy. You also need to have a genuine belief in our cause, a love of the beach and most importantly a great sense of humour!

The skills and qualifications we are looking for include:

• Proven experience and demonstrated success in a similar role where achieving targets and meeting deadlines was a requirement
• Ideally previous sponsorship experience managing multiple partners, working on activations and leverage opportunities and events
• A strong client focus and work ethic – willing to go the extra mile!
• A solid understanding of business, marketing and sales principles and practices
• Strong communication skills with the ability to connect to a wide-range of people
• Competent in all Microsoft Office packages including word, excel, power point, outlook
• Digitally savvy to help support our partners with online activations
• Organised multi-tasker with great time management
• Full driver’s licence is essential
• Desirable: commerce degree in Marketing, Business or Management (or a relevant field) and/or experience working in a not-for-profit environment and/or knowledge of surf life saving

 This is a genuine opportunity to develop your sponsorship skills and knowledge in a supportive environment with an experienced Senior Executive, willing to guide and mentor. 

 We have a fantastic team at Surf Life Saving NZ, an excellent group of partners and we take great pride in what we do, because we care and believe in our cause. Interested?  Please take a look at the Position Description. If you are keen to join our team and make your mark, please send in a COVER LETTER and your CV before or by 5pm Monday 20 March 2023.

 Please note that we are keen to fill this position as quickly as possible with the right person. We will start reviewing and interviewing appropriate candidates before the deadline so don't delay in sending in your application.