Job Title: Account Executive
Responsible to: Senior Business Development Manager
Department: Income Generation and Communications
Contract: Permanent – Full time
Salary: £32,041 inc ILWA
Location: 20 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4LX – hybrid, one or two days in the office
Introduction
Carers UK is the leading national charity for unpaid carers. Our support, advice, information and campaigning work are needed now more than ever, as unpaid carers are providing more and more care, adversely impacting on their own health and wellbeing.
This is a pivotal time for working carers as the Carer’s Leave Act has become law, making it a statutory requirement for all employers to support unpaid carers by giving five days unpaid carers leave.
Our exemplar best practice employer forum, Employers for Carers (EfC), is best placed to help businesses with this change in legislation by creating carer friendly workplaces through policy and practice.
We are seeking a new Account Executive to help grow the membership of Employers for Carers at this exciting time. This is an income generating role as part of Carers UK earned income stream and sits within the Income Generation and Communication directorate.
The Account Executive will:
• Research, identify and prospect corporate businesses for new business sales
• Liaise with and provide support to existing clients, grow client prospects, and assist relationship building through active client engagement.
• Provide related events, communications and administrative support.
Diversity and inclusion
Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.
To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.
As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.
Benefits
We understand what you need from us as an organisation and recognising that, offer you a rewarding role in a truly flexible and supportive working environment with many attractive benefits. We’ve developed inclusive policies, flexible working arrangements with your wellbeing at the heart of Carers UK.
• A work life balance commitment with flexible working arrangements available in a truly flexible working culture
• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) rising to 28 days with long service
• An additional 3 days leave over Christmas and New Year when the office is closed
• Up to 10 days paid carers leave
• Health Cash Plan including access to a 24-hour advice and support helpline; GP access; a wellbeing app; cashback for dental, optical and other health treatments plus retail discounts
• Free life insurance cover 2 times your annual salary
• A commitment to staff learning and development including access to a learning management system
• Recognition scheme including a value’s winner of the month
• 6% contribution to stakeholder pension scheme
• A commitment to staff wellbeing including Wellbeing Wednesdays and training
• Equality, diversity and inclusion staff networking groups
• Induction and buddy scheme
• Loans for bikes when you have been with us for 6 months
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Central London location with excellent transport links, beautiful views of London and close to Borough Market
• Socials such as weekly quizzes and ad hoc events
• Two paid volunteer days per year
We are proud to be an Employer for Carers and Carer Positive member and a Living Wage Employer. We have signed the ‘Happy to Talk Flexible Working’ initiative and are committed to building the best possible environment to help carers in the workforce. Carers UK have signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge and have achieved the Disability Confident Commitment.
As a responsible organisation, we have taken a proactive approach to managing our impact by conducting an external eco-audit of the organisation. We already have an environmental and energy policy and together with the audit recommendations which we will be working to implement we will continue to work to manage our impact. We expect all employees to help us achieve our aim of being an environmentally responsible charity.