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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and influential individual with impressive communication skills and a proven record of working in a fundraising / sales environment and managing high level external relationships to join us as our Philanthropy Manager. In this key role, you will work with trust and foundations to build strong relationships and raise money for programmes in the UK and round the world.

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

Working as a key member of our four-person Trusts team, and as part of the larger Philanthropy and Strategic Foundations team, our successful candidate will support the Senior Philanthropy Manager – Trusts to drive and implement our ambitious strategy to grow Trusts and Foundation income and help achieve the Partnerships & Philanthropy Department's ambitious target. We will count on you to manage a portfolio of medium to large existing and new trusts and foundations through a variety of personalised and creative approaches, including face-to-face meetings, phone calls, events and written and oral communications.

In this role, you will:

• Actively drive trusts new business, using a wide range of methods
• Provide excellent stewardship to thank and engage donors with Save the Children's work
• Produce high quality written proposals, tailored specifically to inspire and captivate donors and trusts
• Work closely with the wider trusts team to develop and continually evolve a strategy for developing successful relationships with mid to high-level trusts
• Contribute to the Trust Team's ambitious annual financial targets and forecasts
• Provide insight and advice on the best approaches in trust fundraising and input into the wider Philanthropy and Strategic Foundation's team strategy.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Experience of working in a fundraising / sales environment or similar experience where comparable skills can be used to work with potential high-level funders and supporters
• Good problem solving and numerical skills, including budgets, financial reporting and forecasting
• Strategic thinker with good understanding of current trends in the sector
• Understanding of supporter databases, data protection and fundraising best practice
• Impressive interpersonal, relationship-building 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: 16/03/23

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]