Sponsorship & Partnership Officer

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is hiring a Sponsorship & Partnerships Officer. This role involves managing a designated portfolio of cash and in-kind sponsors and partners, collaborating with internal teams to ensure agreed benefits are successfully delivered, persuading past partners to renew their support each year, and identifying new organisations for the Book Festival to approach.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage an agreed portfolio of cash and in-kind sponsors and partners up to a value or circa £10,000 – maintaining close, communicative and highly responsive relationships, and aiming where possible to increase value from year to year.

• Act as the driving force behind internal operations, logistics, and coordination of sponsorship at the Book Festival to ensure its effective and timely management throughout the annual festival cycle.

• Play a key role in the coordination and successful delivery of sponsorship benefits including hospitality, ticket allocation, branding, marketing, sampling and presence on site.

• Proactive research into relevant brands and new corporate prospects that reflect the

  values, ethos and aims of the Book Festival.

• Targeted approaches to researched prospects to secure meetings and develop

  relationships.

• Maintain the prospect pipeline with accurate record-keeping relating to prospects and

  approaches made.