Campaign Manager

Hybrid - London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester or Homebased in the UK

Closing Date: 1 December 2024

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and experienced campaigner to join us as Campaign Manager (UK Child Poverty) on a 12 month contract basis. 

In this key role for us, you will lead our impactful campaigns to address child poverty in the UK, collaborating with communities, partners, and policymakers to bring about meaningful change. 

This role offers the potential for hybrid working.  We have offices based in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh. 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.  

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, their voices are heard, and lasting results are delivered for millions of children, including those hardest to reach. 

About the Role 

As Campaign Manager (UK Child Poverty), you will lead Save the Children UK's campaign strategy on one of our priority areas, working closely with mission colleagues, supporters, and partner organisations.  

You will manage a senior campaigner and provide task management for two other colleagues, ensuring delivery of impactful, community-driven campaigns. 

In this role, you will: 

• Lead the development and implementation of campaigns to achieve our strategic objectives on UK child poverty. 

• Support the growth and mobilisation of networks involving children, young people, and families with lived experience of poverty. 

• Build strong relationships with key campaigning partners and coalitions. 

• Collaborate with teams across the organisation to ensure campaign best practices and innovation. 

• Represent Save the Children UK in external forums as a passionate advocate for children and families. 

• Monitor and evaluate campaign activity, using insights to shape and improve strategies. 

About You 

To be successful, it is important that you have: 

• Experience leading the development and delivery of impactful campaigns, with a track record of success. 

• Strong understanding of campaigning and organising tactics, and experience mobilising public audiences for policy change. 

• Demonstrated experience working with partners, coalitions, or civil society actors to deliver change. 

• Proven project management skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality work under pressure. 

• A passion for politics, changemaking, and the ability to travel within the UK (including overnight stays) are also essential. 

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

• Knowledge of child poverty, children's rights, or related fields in the UK context (desirable). 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire diverse stakeholders. 

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 improve the lives of children every day. 

To apply, please click the apply button to visit our website (please note there is a mandatory application question: How would you influence this government to scrap the two child benefit cap? What would an impactful campaign look like? (up to 500 words).

Closing date: 1st December 2024 

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.