Jobs at the Internet Watch Foundation

Job Opportunities

Partnerships Officer

As we embark on our new three-year strategy, we are looking for an innovative and talented Partnerships Officer with at least three years of fundraising experience to join the team alongside a Partnership Manager and Business Development Consultant to help us to generate new creative partnerships and opportunities.

As a small, growing team with ambitious fundraising targets and a global reach, we have the potential to expand several income streams, particularly trusts/foundations, government agencies, creative partnerships with corporations and wealth collaboratives.

Given the current challenging economic and philanthropic environment, we are looking for someone to generate new funding opportunities through creative out-of-the-box thinking which will identify and solidify relationships with philanthropists, corporations, global foundations and beyond.

The leading candidate will be able to conceptualise and deliver high quality proposals, projects and evaluation reports, and use their experience and knowledge to develop new ways of securing and nurturing large scale funds and partnerships. They will be able to drive change and create successful outcomes.

Existing funders include a mix of leading grantees/foundations, corporate partners/members, and government. There is significant potential for the development of high value individual partnerships within sectors such as technology/cybersecurity, telecoms and financial.

We are a collaborative and dynamic team and are looking for a colleague with valuable experience, an innovative and creative personality and the ability to build meaningful and profitable relationships with our partners and supporters to enable us to reach our ambitious fundraising plans.

This role will play a big part in helping the organisation to deliver more than £2.5million in funding by the end of 2027.

Download the Recruitment Pack for more info.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 22 February 2026.

Applicants will need to complete the following:

Application form
Equal Opportunities Monitoring form
Self Disclosure form

Applications and questions about the role can be emailed to [email protected]

Caring for our staff

IWF may operate in a highly advanced technological world, but it’s the expertise and experience of our analysts that sets us apart. We give all our staff the flexibility and reassurance they need to manage their home and work life.

All new analysts go through a specially developed induction training programme to help them mentally process and cope with exposure to disturbing images.
Our analysts’ working hours are restricted; they take regular timetabled breaks and are encouraged to take more breaks as and when they need.
All our staff work shorter days to ensure their personal lives don’t suffer, and we don’t allow analysts to work overtime.
Each month our analysts have individual mandatory counselling sessions and all employees who see criminal imagery have an annual full psychological assessment.
Everyone who works for us is offered counselling support.

We work in partnership with internet service providers, telecommunication companies, mobile operators, software providers, the police, Government, the public, other NGOs and charities to minimise the availability of child sexual abuse images and videos online. Our tech-for-good solutions make the internet safer for everyone to use and help children move on from their traumatic experiences.