Campaign Manager – Communities

Closing Date: 14 July 2024

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative individual with leadership qualities and organising experience to join us as our Campaigns Manager for Communities where you will work with a variety of volunteers and community organisers to make change for children in the UK and across 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 the role 

As Campaigns Manager for Communities, you will ensure that our campaigners around the UK have a meaningful experience with Save the Children UK, building localised campaigns and networks for realising children's rights. You will lead the development and implementation of projects that deliver our strategic objectives, working collaboratively with a variety of colleagues to do so. You will be a strong leader and manage a small team of campaigners working across our key strategic focus areas.  

The projects you will work on will be varied. From supporting our network of climate campaigners, to working with parents in poverty and diaspora communities working for peace. Your role will focus on building up in our community organising across the breath of our work. 

In this role, you will:  

• Lead Save the Children UK's campaign strategy to engage and build our communities and organising work. 
• Lead the development and implementation of campaigning and organising projects that are engaging, impactful and deliver our strategic objectives. 
• Work closely with mission colleagues to ensure that their work represents campaigning and organising best practice and innovation, and with Fundraising & Marketing colleagues to deliver our Supporter Engagement strategy.  
• Ensure the direct reports are given clear direction, strong performance management, support, feedback and development opportunities. 
• Responsible for providing coherent and meaningful experience for our supporters across the missions and other areas of SCUK's work.  
• Lead a community of practice in the team that keeps abreast of best practice and external trends and innovates to maximise impact for children.  

About you 

To be successful, it is important that you have:  

• Experience of leading development and delivery of impactful campaign strategies, with knowledge and understanding of a range of campaigning and organising tactics, and a track record of success. 
• Excellent understanding and experience of mobilising public audiences to affect policy change. 
• In-depth knowledge of and experience of working with a wide range of campaigning and organising techniques and tactics and across diverse digital campaigning platforms.  
• Knowledge of working with civil society actors to deliver change and ability to effectively manage and work within networks and coalitions. 
• Line management capabilities including the ability to delegate and prioritise for self and others, planning and goal setting, motivational and strong communication skills. 
• Delegation experience and ability to identify areas of interest and skills across a team. 
• 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. 

• 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.

Closing date: midnight Sunday 14th July 

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.