Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a strategic and ambitious individual with significant brand and communications experience to join us as our Brand & Marketing Lead for the Baby Bank Alliance where you join the Baby Bank Alliance team and work with Save the Children UK and Purposeful Ventures in partnership.  

Please note: This is a 12-month FTC/Secondment. This role can be flexible in being either full time or part time (28 hours), to be discussed at interview. 

About Save the Children UK  

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 Baby Bank Alliance  

The Baby Bank Alliance (BBA) is a new and ambitious organisation advocating and supporting a community of over 300 UK baby banks to ensure babies and children have the essentials they need to thrive. The Alliance has been founded by four organisations:  Save the Children, Little Village, Baby Bank Network Bristol and Purposeful Ventures, and is being incubated by Save the Children and Purposeful Ventures who provide fundraising capacity and resource. It is an exciting time to join the growing team and play a vital role in taking the Alliance and the impact it has to the next level.   

About the role  

As the Baby Bank Alliance Brand & Marketing Lead, you will collaborate with both Baby Bank Alliance team and our incubating partners—Save the Children UK and Purposeful Ventures—in leading the creation and implementation of compelling, high-impact marketing communications. This role is perfect for a strategic thinker with exceptional collaboration skills. A natural ability to influence, persuade, adapt, and think quickly is essential. Line management is a key element of this role and you will need to lead others and support. 

This is an incredible time to join our growing organisation and be part of taking it to the next level.  

In this role, you will:   

• Develop and deliver the brand, marketing and communications strategy for the Baby Bank Alliance  

• Champion the BBA brand  

• Lead on developing strategic and influential relationships with external partners and creative agencies Connect between baby banks and corporate partners with effective 

• Support the Media Manager and wider BBA team to develop and execute a press and media opportunities, 

• Line manage and lead by example 

• Lead on forming Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to improve our brand and communication results. 

About you  

To be successful, it is important that you have:   

• Extensive experience in developing brand and communication strategies. 

• Proven success in managing impactful brand marketing projects across various channels, achieving multiple goals effectively. 

• Line management experience 

• Brilliant relationship builder, strong influencing and persuasion skills, with the ability to build credibility and relationships across multiple stakeholders.  

• Excellent communication skills, including experience developing and delivering presentations and training materials.  

• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.  

Closing date: Tuesday 28th January at midnight

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:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

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-benefits/

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here. For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk