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Are you an innovator, passionate about engaging people in new ways to create new income streams? Join us and be a part of an ambitious, empowered and stimulating team at Save the Children. We are looking for an Innovation Development Manager to play a vital role in transforming relationships with supporters of the future, solving some of our thorniest challenges in new ways and ultimately helping children get the future they deserve.
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 Innovation Development Manager, you will be at the forefront of driving a groundbreaking fundraising innovation pipeline. Working in agile, multi-disciplinary teams, you will contribute to the research, ideation, testing and marketing of compelling ideas aimed at generating new income for Save the Children.
You will leverage human-cantered approaches, digital strategies, and new technologies to bring about significant improvements in our fundraising and marketing results. This would require a combination of creativity, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of both nonprofit operations and trends supporter engagement.
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate with Fundraising Innovation Leads to develop and deliver a pipeline of fundraising innovation focused on audience engagement and income generation.
- Plan and execute multi-channel marketing campaigns for new ideas, including email, display, paid social, and direct mail.
- Support in testing ideas through marketing and in-person/remote prototyping.
- Project management of multiple portfolio projects, ensuring deadlines, budgets, and timelines are met.
- Engage with data and technical advances internally and externally to drive progress and momentum in new audience innovation.
- Use insight and performance data to understand audience needs and motivations, shaping fundraising development.
To be successful, it is important that you have:
- Significant experience in testing digital products, digital marketing, tracking and analytics, and prototyping.
- Expertise in conducting or partnering with agencies/internal staff for audience research interviews, workshops, ideation sessions, and sprint delivery.
- Knowledge and evidence of leading and partnering on key parts of innovation cycles, including research, ideation, prototyping, and testing.
- Keen interest in new technical innovations, demonstrable experience of data-led decision-making, and adaptable thinking.
- Proven ability to deliver operational plans on time and within budget.
- Understanding of fundraising marketing delivery and practices (desirable, not essential).
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.
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.
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For the full job description and person specification please download the additional details.
Your experience
- worked in a previous marketing role, within the education or youth sector or equivalent B2B market
- designed and delivered integrated outreach campaigns for customer acquisition.
- used data to drive decisions, including understanding of audience behaviour.
- team management, including direct reports with the ability to develop and support your staff.
- ability to spot opportunities for collaboration across the team and with our partners.
- great self-starter who can independently oversee projects from start to finish.
- bring advanced digital literacy and proficiency in digital tools for marketing and communications (eg email platforms, CMS, social media, AI and MS software).
This is a hybrid role. You will be working from home and join Team Together Days in a co-working space in London 2-3 individual days each month. These days are considered commuting days. You do not need to live in London to apply for this role, but you will need to consider a reasonable commuting distance for the team days in London.
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