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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, influential, and collaborative individual with an extensive experience of working within a philanthropy setting, delivering a high value fundraising and stewardship events portfolio to join us as our Head of Special Events.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About you

In this role, you lead a high performing team responsible for delivering our high-value fundraising and stewardship events. These events are deigned to generate vital unrestricted income, engage donors, and stakeholders, and introducing new individuals to the organisation.

You will also work closely with the Partnerships & Philanthropy senior leadership team to proactively drive new business, grow income, and support the stewardship of long-term committed relationships. As a member of the Partnerships & Philanthropy Senior Leadership Team, you will ensure that we continue to evolve our approach to high value engagement and stewardship of partnerships to maintain our sector leading position as partner of choice for companies, foundations and philanthropists.

In this role, you will:

• Provide strong leadership to drive and empower your team to deliver outstanding fundraising and stewardship events
• Develop and implement the Special Events strategy to reach income goals
• Have a solid understanding of donor motivations, philanthropy and event trends & deliver a bespoke journey to ensure continuity of their engagement with Save the Children
• Lead the financial planning and budget setting for Special Events and reporting monthly on forecasting figures.
• Work proactively to generate new leads through peer-to-peer approaches, and active networking to introduce new event committee members.
• Work with the CEO's office, trustees, and senior volunteers to seek new opportunities and to deliver stewardship at the highest level.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• A proven track record of personally delivering to defined goals.
• Experience of developing, networking, and enhancing fundraising committee and donor relationship
• Demonstrable experience of delivering high level stewardship
• Experience of leading and developing teams and building a positive culture to succeed.
• Excellent program & project management, planning and prioritising skills.
• Impressive influencing, people, and communication skills, both verbal and written
• A commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, and values.

What we offer you:

• Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
• To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health, and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
• You can find is our employment offer here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Closing date: 22/03/23

Please note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]