Our History
In 1879, Father Bernard Donnelly established Mount St. Bernard’s Orphanage in Kansas City. With that one act of faith, hope and charity, many lives — and a community — were transformed.
And, from that humble beginning a strong tradition of compassionate care and social service took root, thrived, and grew to become Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
Catholic Charities empowers at risk people to create a pathway out of poverty by alleviating their immediate crises to create stability; then providing robust support to lift them to dignity and self-reliance.
Today, millions of lives have been transformed, in the communities we serve. We have office locations in the Kansas City metro-area, St. Joseph, Missouri, a Food Pantry in Kansas City and another in Cameron, Missouri, while serving a 27-county region.
Our Culture/Mission Characteristics
While performing job duties, staff will:
- Follow the Catholic Social and Moral Teachings in all aspects while performing job duties.
- Work collaboratively to achieve goals and resolve conflict to achieve the greater good.
- Respect the diversity of talents and gifts of others and believe in cultivating those to promote personal and professional development.
- Demonstrate compassion and commitment for helping others improve their own lives.
Mission
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us.
Vision
By lifting people in need to the dignity of self-reliance, and encouraging others to help, our communities will become one human family.
Values
Hope/Faith, Trust, Commitment, Collaboration
Position Objective
The Director of Business Partnerships will develop and foster mutually beneficial strategic relationships with businesses, not only to advance the mission of the Agency but also to help them attain their corporate social responsibility goals. Key responsibilities will include identifying potential partners and the benefit to each organization, establishing and cultivating those relationships, executing engagement strategies, coordinating events, and monitoring and evaluating the success of initiatives. Key skills required include strategic planning, strong communication and presentation skills, negotiation, project management, and business acumen especially around corporate social responsibility. While this position will be filled in our Kansas City, Mo and many of our business partnerships will likely be in the metro-area, we serve 27 counties of Northwest Missouri, and this position will travel to meet with businesses throughout this service area. Salary range: $54,000-$60,000 depending on qualifications and experience.
Essential Duties
- Identify and cultivate new business/corporate relationships that align with the Agency’s mission, vision, and strategic goals and result in: increased volunteer service hours, in-kind donations, and/or monthly donor arrangement through the employer’s payroll.
- Generate strategic, integrated, viable and mutually beneficial partnerships that benefit both Catholic Charities of Kansas City – St. Joseph and the partnering business.
- Develop, implement, and manage comprehensive corporate engagement strategies, projects, and initiatives from conception to completion. Partnerships will include:
- Small Businesses - a for-profit, independently owned and operated entity that is not dominant in its field with fewere than 50 employees.
- Medium Businesses – a for-profit entity with 50-500 employees.
- Large Businesses – 500-1,500 employees
- Corporate – 1,500+ employees
- Develop new partnerships annually as follows:
- Small Businesses – 10 new relationships/partnerships
- Medium Businesses – 8 new relationships/partnerships
- Large Businesses – 5 new relationships/partnerships
- Corporate – 2 new relationships/partnerships
- Work with internal teams and executive leaders to ensure alignment with Agency goals.
- Plan and facilitate corporate events, group service projects, in-kind donation drives, engagement meetings, and corporate volunteer recruitment events. Will also speak at parishes during Second Collection each year.
- Collaborate with internal teams and programs when bringing business/corporate groups onsite for group service projects or other group activities. Collaborate with the Development team to ensure the agency is not double dipping, or sending multiple people from the agency to speak with businesses/corporations for the same purpose.
- Ensure data entry into Volgistics (volunteer service hours/group service projects) and Bloomerang (in-kind and monetary donations) is completed timely and with accuracy.
- Track, analyze, and report on the effectiveness and outcomes of all business/corporate engagement initiatives. This recordkeeping is critical so that all at the agency are aware of the relationship, the staff person working with the business/corporation, and in what capacity. Notes should include details around each activity, collaboration, or event that this position has arranged with said business/corporation.
- Achieve established target goals related to the number of business partnerships, in-kind donations, group service projects, volunteer service hours, and other methods of business engagement.
- Plan, manage, and guide the execution of multiple projects simultaneously.
- Build and manage collaborative environments both internally and externally.
