Best Friends Animal Society · 4 hours ago
Corporate Specialist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$81K/yr - $103K/yr
5+ years expBest Friends Animal Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to animal welfare, and they are seeking a Corporate Partnerships Integration Lead. This role is responsible for orchestrating corporate partnership fulfillment, ensuring seamless activation and stewardship of partnerships throughout their lifecycle while collaborating with various teams to meet organizational goals.
EducationGovernmentNon Profit
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Teresa Carvajal
Responsibilities
Serve as the single internal owner of partnership fulfillment, responsible for coordinating timelines, dependencies, approvals, and deliverables across teams
Translate contracts and Plans on a Page (POPs) into actionable partnership roadmaps with clear owners, deadlines, and escalation paths
Partner with marketing on overall activation strategy, benefit alignment, and annual reconfirmation of partner deliverables
Coordinate with assigned Marketing Leads, who execute channel-specific deliverables, ensuring work is sequenced, prioritized, and completed accurately
Act as the escalation point when timelines, scope, or capacity are at risk—proactively resolving issues rather than passing them downstream
Represent corporate partnership fulfillment needs in cross-departmental planning forums (quarterly calendar planning, year-end reviews, working groups)
Oversee activation planning and fulfillment for corporate and in-kind partnerships, including sponsorships and integrated campaigns
Coordinate partner activation components for key organizational moments, including Gala, Super Adoption, and National Conference
Support business development and account leads on renewals and growth opportunities by: Identifying activation enhancements, supporting contract refinement, and ensuring partner integration into priority campaigns (e.g., home campaign)
Ensure post-activation wrap-up reports, campaign summaries, and case studies are completed consistently. Work with marketing leads to gather reporting information and compiling into a wrap report with support of fundraiser/partner manager
Lead operational infrastructure for the corporate partnerships team, including legal contract routing, HERO data quality, governance, and training, Tableau dashboards and reporting, ASANA adoption, and continuous improvement of tools and workflows
Manage contract administration from execution through close-out, including internal distribution and compliance tracking
Support fundraisers by reviewing invoicing and payment terms, creating invoices when needed, and following up on payments – tracking and flagging at risk accounts
Coordinate end-of-year partner scorecards, compiling and sharing with accounting for auditing purposes
Develop and maintain comprehensive partner case studies, impact reports, and wrap-up materials to demonstrate partnership value and ROI
Draft and distribute the bi-weekly Corporate Partnerships update email
Ensure the Director of Corporate Partnerships has clear visibility into progress against commitments, risks and bottlenecks, and resource needs and upcoming decisions
Serve as a steady, reliable point of coordination for internal partners across marketing, digital fundraising, stewardship, foundations, development operations, regional programs, network partners, and more
Lead the annual 'Favorite Things' corporate partner holiday social media campaign
Support priority initiatives including Leadership Summit content and execution, corporate team retreats, and strategic partnership pilots
Support National Pet Month partnership with major retailer: assist with the planning and execution of 20 national events, support new business team with onboarding 20 partnerships for this campaign, and ensuring their acknowledgments are executed, and assist with the creation of wrap-up reports for partnership, supporting partnerships, and any other cultivation/stewardship materials
Qualification
Required
5-7 years of experience in marketing, partnerships, or account management (nonprofit or brand-side preferred)
Strong project management and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
Must be a creative thinker, have strong analytical, project management and decision-making skills to develop and manage unique partnerships
Work requires continual attention to detail. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple programs and meet strict deadlines. Outstanding organizational and time management skills are imperative for success
Results-oriented, creative and collaborative work style
Strong technical aptitude including experience working with a variety of computer software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, research, and presentation software (Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook). Comfortable learning new software programs and using online information systems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A passion for animal welfare and alignment with Best Friends' mission and values
Must be willing and able to travel, including some weekends
Valid Driver's License with access to transportation to travel on organization business
Benefits
Great benefits
Company
Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a nonprofit organization,operates the nations largest sanctuary for homeless animals,provides adoption.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.31MKey Investors
Maddie's Fund
2023-06-28Grant· $0.03M
2022-12-23Grant· $0.78M
2019-07-17Grant· $1.5M
Leadership Team
Gregory Castle
CEO Emeritus
Julie Castle
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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