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Farringdon, London/Home-based
Save the Children UK is looking for an experienced Face to Face Acquisition Manager to join our Direct Engagement team on a fixed-term contract until the end of March 2027 with intention to renew.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop one of our most important fundraising channels, driving sustainable income growth and inspiring long-term support for our work.
Working closely with agency partners and colleagues across Public Impact, you'll combine strategic oversight with operational leadership to drive performance, champion best practice in compliance and safeguarding, and deliver exceptional supporter experiences. Through innovation, insight and collaboration, you'll help grow a programme that enables lasting change for children in the UK and around 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 Team
The purpose of the Public Impact Group is to build an active community of people in the UK who give money, time and take action to enable lasting change for children. We are building a distinctive modern cause that galvanizes the public to act with us.
As Direct Engagement we set the standard for brilliant, effective fundraising. We're passionate about the power of Face-to-Face (F2F) fundraising. Not only does it help secure vital, long-term funds for our life-saving work, but it also serves as a constant and effective way to positively engage the public with our cause.
Working with colleagues across Public Impact, we aim to sustainably increase the quality and value of our F2F programme by continually testing, learning and innovating.
About the role
As the Face-to-Face Acquisition Manager, you will manage Save the Children UK's F2F fundraising programme, supporting our agency partners to achieve outstanding results. Working with the Head of Direct Engagement and accountable for the day-to-day task management of two executives you will build strong relationships and drive ambitious results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment bringing both fundraising and operational expertise to the role.
You will provide a positive and safe working environment for the fundraisers that represent us, ensuring agreed standards and behaviours are met and that agencies are inspired to work on behalf Save the Children UK.
You will have a genuine passion for F2F fundraising and the drive and determination to make a difference to the sector as a part of the wider global F2F team.
In this role, you will:
- Drive the success of the face-to-face agency programmes, ensuring channels are performing against agreed KPIs and target.
- Manage a team to deliver results.
- Manage the relationship with agencies, and third-party suppliers to deliver fundraising Programmes to budget.
- Accountability for the best practice face-to-face compliance and safeguarding programme conducting personal site visits and mystery shops, ensuring excellent standards & transparency across all channels.
- Drive the development and delivery of creative, engaging fundraising materials across channels, optimising delivery and maximise performance and motivation.
- Adapt campaign delivery, analysing operational and fundraising effectiveness through a data-led test and learn approach.
- Adhere to Institute of Fundraising's Code of Practice and relevant laws and keep up-to-date with developments within the sector and share learnings.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to strengthen operational systems and mechanisms to support individual fundraising.
About you
To be successful, you will bring:
- Experience of managing the delivery of end-to-end face-to-face fundraising activity or campaigns and teams.
- An in-depth understanding of the F2F landscape and different agency models.
- Experience of designing and delivering exceptional training to drive engagement.
- Knowledge and experience of the compliance environment for charity marketing and fundraising
- Experience of managing budgets.
- Ability to analyse, interpret & explain results with a focus and drive on results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Adaptability and a ‘can do' approach.
- Strong time and project management skills.
- Innovative, able to adapt to changing situations and able to apply technical and professional
- Target driven and results focused.
- A team player. Someone who is willing and able to deliver beyond their personal brief.
- Able to prioritise work for self and others, focussing on the outputs which have highest impact,
- High attention to detail and an ability to use own initiative to solve problems.
What we offer you
We promote flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, and wellbeing both at work and beyond, and offer a wide range of benefits designed to reward your hard work and inspire you to help improve the lives of children every day.
Some of the benefits you can expect include:
- Generous Annual Leave – Starting at 27 days per year (pro rata for part-time employees) increasing with service up to 32 days, plus public holidays and our annual 'Save the Children Day'.
- Family Leave – Up to 39 weeks of maternity/adoption pay (including up to 21 weeks full pay) and paternity/adoption leave of 10 weeks full pay (plus statutory entitlement).
- Special Leave – Up to 10 days paid leave per year (pro rata) for urgent or exceptional personal circumstances, without using annual leave.
- Volunteer Leave – Up to 3 days paid leave per year to support volunteering and give back.
- Pension & Life Assurance – Helping you plan for the future with up to 7% employer pension contributions.
- Employee Discounts – Access thousands of deals across groceries, retail, tech, travel, fitness, and more.
- Health & Wellbeing Support – Including access to a 24/7 Virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling, eye care support, and seasonal flu vaccinations.
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.
Closing Date: 10 September 2026
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
We believe in a world where every child survives, learns, and is protected from harm.
Thank you!
Location: London, with a minimum of two days per week in the Haig House hub, Borough High Street
Salary: £53,381-£58,818 per annum (inclusive of London Supplement)
Contract: Permanent, full-time, 35 hours per week
The Royal British Legion is looking for an experienced and analytical Senior Acquisition Manager to lead its mass fundraising acquisition activity and drive sustainable growth across multiple channels.
This is a senior role at the heart of RBL’s acquisition strategy, responsible for bringing new supporters into the organisation and creating the foundations for long-term engagement and income. You will lead acquisition across digital, TV, face-to-face and wider campaign activity, ensuring channels work together to deliver a consistent supporter experience. Crucially, you will ensure acquisition is designed as the first stage of an ongoing supporter journey, with clear connections into Welcome, Retention and Growth and a shared focus on building lasting relationships with supporters.
Reporting to the Head of Acquisition and Development, you will define acquisition plans, set priorities and make informed decisions about investment, performance and future growth. Working closely with colleagues across Planning, Product, Digital, Brand and Fundraising, you will use data, insight and audience understanding to identify opportunities, optimise activity and continually improve performance. You will also work closely with colleagues across the wider supporter journey to ensure acquisition activity is coordinated with what follows, creating a cohesive experience from a supporter’s first interaction with RBL onwards.
You will also lead and develop a team of Acquisition Managers and Officers, creating clarity, supporting high performance and embedding new ways of working across the team. Strong stakeholder management will be essential, as you build effective relationships across RBL and with external agencies, while constructively challenging activity to ensure it delivers against wider fundraising objectives.
The ideal candidate will bring significant experience of developing mass fundraising or marketing strategies at scale, strong analytical and commercial skills, and a proven track record of managing teams in complex organisations. You will be confident working with substantial budgets, using data to inform decisions and translating organisational strategy into clear plans and objectives for your team.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of RBL’s mass fundraising, helping to attract and engage more supporters and generate the sustainable income needed to support the Armed Forces community.
Please download the candidate pack [PDF] for full details and how to apply.
Closing Date: Monday, 14th September
Registered Charity
More than 1000
We provide lifelong support to serving and ex-serving personnel and their families. Our support starts after one day of service and continues through
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Job Title: Talent Acquisition Manager
Reporting to: Head of People and Culture
Salary Range: £40,000 - £45,000
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid
Hours/Days per week: 35 hours, Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
We are Felix
We bring people together to rescue, repurpose, and share surplus food that would otherwise go to waste, turning an environmental problem into a social opportunity.
Together with 16 other independent charities, 18,000 volunteers, and thousands of partners, we are the UK’s food rescue network, supporting 1.5 million people across the country.
We‘re about fuller plates, fuller communities, and fuller lives.
Purpose of the Job
To lead and deliver Felix’s direct recruitment strategy, attracting, sourcing and securing exceptional talent across the organisation. The role will reduce reliance on agency recruitment, enhance cost-effectiveness, and build hiring capability by partnering with and developing Hiring Managers to make confident, inclusive and effective recruitment decisions.
Duties and Responsibilities
Your normal duties and responsibilities will be set out in your job description. However, the charity may require you to perform other duties from time to time.
- ·Responsible for the recruitment of all roles across the charity in all functions, leading recruitment briefing sessions with Hiring managers and HR Business Partners.
- Upskilling hiring managers to confidently lead recruitment activities, including interviewing techniques and policy compliance
- Creating and posting innovative Job Adverts
- Increasing the use of our social media channels
- Assisting with interview, assessment and offer administration.
- Managing recruitment agencies as required.
- Support the Sr OD Manager with succession planning.
Essential Criteria
- Previous Recruitment and People Management experience in an in-house role with expertise in influencing at senior level
- Excellent working knowledge of social media as a platform to drive recruitment activity
- Have an excellent working knowledge of LinkedIn, Job boards and Application Tracking Systems
- Good level of computer skills
- A Love for Data and using the data to influence your immediate Manager and other senior stakeholders.
- A creative approach and ability to work with local authorities and community groups to add value and build our reputation
- Ability to work in a fast paced, target driven environment
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Confident face to face and telephone manner
Registered Charity
21 - 50
We deliver this surplus food to charities and schools so they can provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.
