Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Regional Fundraising & Engagement team as a Central Fundraising & Engagement Executive.

In this varied role, you'll help deliver an excellent experience for Save the Children's supporters, volunteers, fundraisers and companies, building strong relationships and supporting fundraising activities across the UK.

You'll work closely with community volunteers, individual fundraisers and corporate supporters, as well as supporting and maintaining our volunteer-led branches. You'll also create engaging communications and fundraising resources, and support key events and campaigns.

You'll play an important role in reviewing and improving departmental processes, identifying opportunities to simplify ways of working and make things more efficient and effective for supporters, volunteers and colleagues.

This is a hybrid role, working from our London Farringdon office 1-2 times a week.

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 the Team

The Regional Fundraising & Engagement department exists to raise money, inspire thousands of fundraising actions throughout the UK, and to ensure that Save the Children is at the heart of local communities. It is responsible for managing relationships with a range of supporters from community volunteers to individual fundraisers, challenge events participants and companies.

The Central Fundraising & Engagement team provides business critical support to the wider Regional Fundraising & Engagement department, which is responsible for managing relationships with a range of supporters from community volunteers to individual fundraisers and companies. The Central F&E team's primary objective is to enable the department to deliver an excellent supporter experience, build deeper relationships that last and maximise income generation and engagement. It does this through designing efficient and effective processes; developing engaging communications and resources; stewarding supporters and managing key products and campaigns.

Your Role:

As the Central Fundraising and Engagement Executive you will manage relationships with volunteers, fundraisers, and companies to deliver excellent supporter experiences and boost fundraising for Save the Children. This includes supporting and maintaining our volunteer-led branches, and supporting in our challenge events space.

The role involves creating engaging communications across various channels, collaborating internally, and supporting operational tasks to enhance overall team success.

You will also manage and improve processes within the department to ensure they are efficient, consistent, and easy for supporters, volunteers, and colleagues to use. This means regularly reviewing how we work, spotting where things can be simplified or streamlined, and putting practical improvements in place.

About the role 

This role requires you to come into the London (Farringdon) office 1-2 days a week. 

In this role, you will: 

• Be the first point of contact for Regional Fundraising & Engagement supporters, using experience and knowledge to provide an excellent supporter experience
• Remotely manage relationships with key supporters including community volunteers, individual fundraisers and corporate contacts.
• Develop and implement comprehensive and timely stewardship plans to maximise fundraising & engagement through supporters
• Contribute to departmental income forecasting and pipeline management
• Create sharp, engaging, and flawless communications that inspire supporter action
• Support the development of fundraising resources to equip supporters with the ideas and tools needed to deliver successful activities
• Provide operational and communications support for key projects and campaigns, including emergency appeals and Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day
• Respond to internal queries and requests relating to Regional Fundraising & Engagement operations and communications
• Lead on data analysis and make recommendations on process improvement
• Maintain and support volunteer-led branches, including operational guidance, income handling, and branch closures, so volunteers feel supported and confident
• Support supporter and branch-led events, ensuring a smooth experience for everyone involved
• Review, simplify, and improve departmental processes, putting practical changes in place so they are efficient and easy for supporters, volunteers, and colleagues to use
• Work closely with colleagues across the organisation, including Finance and other fundraising teams, to resolve queries and keep things running smoothly

About you 

To be successful, it is important that you have: 

• Proven experience of delivering exceptional fundraiser/customer care
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for internal and external audiences
• Experience of using a CRM database (preferably Salesforce)
• A good understanding of fundraising rules and regulations
• Confident user of all key Microsoft programmes, including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Confident user of Canva for creating engaging supporter communications and fundraising resources
• Experience of using Trello (or similar tools) to manage tasks, projects and workflows
• Experienced relationship manager with ability to build strong relationships with colleagues, supporters and suppliers
• Highly organised with excellent project management skills
• A proven team player. Someone who is open and who is able and willing to deliver beyond their personal brief

What we offer you 

We promote flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, and wellbeing both at work and beyond, and offer a wide range of benefits designed to reward your hard work and inspire you to help improve the lives of children every day. 

Some of the benefits you can expect include: 

• Generous Annual Leave – Starting at 27 days per year (pro rata for part-time employees) increasing with service up to 32 days, plus public holidays and our annual 'Save the Children Day'. 
• Family Leave – Up to 39 weeks of maternity/adoption pay (including up to 21 weeks full pay) and paternity/adoption leave of 10 weeks full pay (plus statutory entitlement).  
• Special Leave – Up to 10 days paid leave per year (pro rata) for urgent or exceptional personal circumstances, without using annual leave.  
• Volunteer Leave – Up to 3 days paid leave per year to support volunteering and give back. 
• Pension & Life Assurance – Helping you plan for the future with up to 7% employer pension contributions. 
• Employee Discounts – Access thousands of deals across groceries, retail, tech, travel, fitness, and more.  
• Health & Wellbeing Support – Including access to a 24/7 Virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling, eye care support, and seasonal flu vaccinations. 

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.

Location & Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office (usually between 2–4 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact.

This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage.

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 structural inequality is actively addressed, and all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can thrive. 

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and are especially interested in hearing from people with diverse and intersecting identities such as lived experience of poverty, people of faith, people of colour, people with disabilities, with experience of migration and/or refugee status, care-experienced people, the LGBTQIA+ community and individuals with experience living in diverse families.  

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 know that different voices working together will enable us to do our work better, improving the lives of children around the world. 

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: Save the Children | Careers

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 - As a committed member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, as part of our onboarding process, Save the Children UK will undertake a minimum of 2 references, and any additional references required to collectively cover the last 5 years of your employment history.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here.

For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk