Philanthropy Manager

UK (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester) - Hybrid or Remote

Closing Date: 15 July 2024

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and driven individual with impressive relationship building skills and a proven record of working in a fundraising/corporate environment to join us as our Philanthropy Manager.

In this role you will work with partners and prospects to steward and grow our existing Philanthropy pipeline, and help us build strong relationships to secure income, and achieve positive change for children and families.  

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

As our Philanthropy Manager you will be responsible for cultivating, and stewarding relationships with our current and prospective philanthropists. Your focus will be on securing substantial gifts ranging from £50,000 to £250,000 annually, ensuring their contributions create a meaningful impact.

Leveraging your proven track record in building and securing high-value relationships, you will adeptly align donors' passions with our goals, fostering partnerships that advance our cause. Your ability to problem-solve and progress relationships will be crucial in sustaining and enhancing our philanthropic efforts, that create lasting impact for children.

This role will involve working collaboratively across Save the Children teams to develop compelling proposals, secure support, and create sustainable partnerships.

In this role, you will:

• Independently manage a portfolio of existing and new donors through a variety of personalised and creative approaches ensuring excellent stewardship and translating into increased income for Save the Children. 
• Actively drive new business, working closely with key members of Save the Children's programming teams, and Philanthropy colleagues to identify the most appropriate and impactful proposition to secure partnerships that create impact for children. 
• Work with other colleagues to identify and assess new prospects and to identify the most appropriate and impactful proposition to secure partnerships that create impact for children. 
• Develop networks amongst donors and prospects to promote Save the Children's work and grow opportunities for philanthropic gifts. 
• Work cross-departmentally to produce high quality written proposals, bids, concept notes and applications to donors.  
• Work in collaboration with other colleagues to identify, design and execute new engagement events, opportunities, and products for potential and existing donors.  

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Experience of working in a fundraising environment or similar experience where comparable skills can be used to work with potential high-level funders and supporters.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to build relationships with, engage and influence a wide range of donors, and stakeholders (internal and external).
• Independent worker with the ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied workload to meet deadlines, and pro-actively identify and pursue new opportunities.
• Project or partnership management skills including reporting, budgeting, meeting deadlines and working across multiple teams. 
• Problem solving skills and a flexible, creative and positive approach.
• Strong communication skills – both written and oral – with the ability to develop and deliver compelling propositions and stewardship communications. 
• 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.

Closing Date: 15th July 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.