Audio-visual Fundraising Manager

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual with a proven track-record of successfully delivering programme of direct response TV and online video advertising activities to join us as our Audio-visual Fundraising Manager (TV & Digital Video)/Fundraising Manger (DRTV & Online Video)

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 Audio-Visual Fundraising Manager (TV & Digital Video), you will deliver effective acquisition campaigns across bought marketing channels, to build consideration, prompt action and drive income through the acquisition of regular giving donors. You will also role will help to deliver donor fundraising targets by leading acquisition activity on TV and digital video channels, informed through data, insights, and continued testing.

In this role, you will:

• Help to deliver new donor fundraising targets by leading direct response TV and digital video acquisition activity, informed through data, insights and continued testing.
• Engage, motivate and lead external agency partners to deliver on agreed KPI's – including volume, income & quality of new donors.
• Work in partnership with the Loyalty team to insure a great donor experience and strong 1st year retention.

• Work as part of a team to attract, engage and prompt potential supporters to take a financial action– using insight and data to understand our audience's needs and motivations to build long term relationships
• Manage content plans and develop marketing assets that inspire engagement and action. Deliver inspiring, audience focused creative, working with agencies as required.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• A creative flair, an understanding of the drivers of response in fundraising video advertising, along with a rigorous approach to testing and analysis.

• Experience in managing and delivering marketing campaigns across direct response TV or other digital video channels
• Project management experience with a proven ability to plan and manage activity that delivers complex projects on time and to budget
• Experience of effectively managing external partners to drive performance and continual improvement

• Proven experience in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with a non-profit or commercial background
  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.
• You can find is our employment offer here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

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:

We are a Remote First organisation– This means that the majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. For this role, the successful candidate will be required to work from our Farringdon Office one day a week.

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/

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
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

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