- Reports to: Director of Fundraising & Partnerships
- Hours: Full time with flexible hours. Core hours are 10am to 4pm.
- Contract length: 13 months, starting in mid-July 2026.
- Location: Hybrid. London (Embankment) two days per week and remote working.
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave, UK bank holidays and one volunteering day a year, one day for moving home
- A highly competitive pension (up to 11% employer contribution for 5% employee contribution)
- Private health insurance, eye tests and medical checks
- Flexible working: core hours from 10am to 4pm with a minimum of two days spent in the office in London each week (Wednesdays and Thursdays)
- 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Programme
- Income protection insurance and life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and gym membership loan
- Free access to The Economist content, including an online subscription, our range of apps, podcasts and more
ABOUT US
The Economist Educational Foundation is a fast-growing charity on a mission to ensure that every child is empowered to think critically and communicate effectively about the world’s most complex current issues.
Last year, 10,800 teachers downloaded Topical Talk lessons, reaching 532,000 children in over 86 countries. We are on track to double this number, reaching over 1 million school children by the end of this academic year.
Topical Talk helps children join inspiring discussions about the news by providing:
- Topical Talk Headlines – award-winning teaching resources for classroom discussions about global news stories
- Topical Talk Festival – the world’s biggest news festival for young people
- Leadership for Change Prize – child-led solutions to complex global issues
- Community partnerships – support and training for teachers via partnerships with Multi-Academy Trusts in the UK and School Districts in America
Our programme has received international recognition, including from HundrED as one of the top 100 education initiatives, from UNESCO as a winner of the Global Media and Information Literacy Awards 2022 and from the Money And Inclusion Awards (MAIA) for best content in 2025.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Senior Fundraising Officer to join our team on a fixed-term contract.
Working closely with the Director of Fundraising and the Senior Fundraising Lead, you will ensure our high-value corporate partnerships run smoothly, our high-net-worth events are a success and our external pitches are sharp and well-researched.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your hands-on experience across corporate, trusts and foundations and individual giving within a fast-growing charity backed by a globally recognised brand.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Research and opportunity generation
- Support the team by researching and keeping abreast of new funding opportunities across trusts, foundations, and corporate prospects.
- Compile background research to help the team evaluate and pursue new business leads.
Funding applications and pitch support
- Assist the Senior Fundraising Lead and Director of Fundraising with writing funding applications.
- Help structure and draft compelling pitch documents to support the team’s new business goals.
- Design and adapt templates for various fundraising documents and pitches.
Partnership coordination
- Take ownership of the day-to-day coordination of our corporate and institutional partnerships, ensuring exceptional donor care and seamless communication with external stakeholders (e.g., tracking partnership metrics, coordinating meetings, monthly data reporting and managing external communications).
- Deliver external logistics, such as school visits and workshops for corporate partners.
- Draft and prepare comprehensive reports for funders, while managing and responding to all ad hoc requests efficiently.
Fundraising operations support
- Be a key, dependable member of the team, supporting various fundraising work streams to ensure targets are met and team effectiveness is maximised.
- Draft supporter newsletters for our donor communications.
- Coordinate in-person and online events (e.g., roundtables, fireside talks).
REQUIRED SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES AND EXPERIENCE
Skills and attributes
- Organised: You can manage multiple tasks and deadlines across different projects and teams.
- Compelling communicator: You can write with clarity and warmth, tailoring your tone to engage corporate partners and institutional funders.
- Team player: You are a positive, helpful presence who is motivated by helping others succeed and willing to lend a hand whenever the team needs you.
- Reliable: You are disciplined with deadlines and act as a dependable anchor for the team, managing requests with consistency.
Experience
You must have:
- Fundraising experience: Experience working and/or volunteering in a fundraising capacity.
- Pitch and proposal support: Proven ability to write funding applications, grants, or persuasive pitch documents.
- Task management: Experience managing multiple tasks or priorities effectively, whether in a work, volunteer, or educational setting.
- Professional communication: Experience communicating clearly and professionally in person, via email and phone.
- General IT proficiency: Experience using standard office software (such as Microsoft Office and Google Workspace) and a readiness to learn new digital tools.
You might have:
- Research skills: An ability to conduct thorough background research to identify new potential funding opportunities.
- Events and logistics: Experience helping to coordinate events (virtual or in-person), including handling bookings and catering.
- Coordination experience: Experience in a support, coordination, or customer-facing role within a charity, sales, or account management environment.
We’re particularly keen for you to apply if you are from a community under-represented in the charity sector or have lived experience of facing extra barriers because of your background.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
We enable disadvantaged children to build essential critical-thinking and communication skills through inspiring discussions about the news.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Managing Director of Education and Wellbeing
Contract – Permanent
Hours - 35 hours per week
Salary – Circa £75,000 per annum
Location - Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, with occasional UK travel and hybrid working as agreed
Coram is the first and longest continuing children’s charity, originally The Foundling Hospital, helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, a dynamic group of organisations, Coram now helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year through direct services, curriculum tools, and digital advice.
Coram is the largest charity provider of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education from infancy to independence. Supported by a distributed network of delivery partners across the country, Coram SCARF curriculum supports teachers across 2800 schools. Coram Beanstalk is the original volunteer reading help charity supporting children to become fluent readers with face-to-face volunteer support in primary schools. Coram Kidscape provides targeted support to schools, parents and children who are experiencing bullying whilst Coram Leap Confronting Conflict provides place based approaches to building the resilience of young people in navigating conflict. Together with Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, providing the largest youth drama festival, they work to realise our strategic goal to enable children to develop the skills they need for life no matter where they live.
About the role
Working directly with the Chief Executive as a member of the Senior Management Team of Coram, the Managing Director of Education and Wellbeing provides direct and matrix management and leadership across these different streams of our work with schools and teachers.
In this role you will drive partnership, business development and income to extend the reach, relevance and results for children. You will work to build and diversify subscription, direct purchase, international, statutory and commercial income streams integrating the offers and driving synergies between the programmes in the Centre. Included in this is the development of the voice of children in relevant areas of policy, particularly seeking to build social relational and critical thinking skills.
You will seek to represent Coram to advance public understanding and the development of policy and practice as it affects children and young people. You will grow Coram’s share of voice in the education arena, ensuring that policy positions, consultation responses and public communications remain consistent.
This senior role is an important opportunity for a for an established charity education leader with an entrepreneurial approach and programmatic leadership skills including income generation, built on extensive policy and systems knowledge, to impact through existing and new programmes to change the prospects of the next generation.
The successful candidate will have a strong business focus, with senior experience of identifying, responding to and delivering new business opportunities, product development / sales and fundraising. This, together with, experience of managing multiple and distributed teams whilst maintaining both quality assurance of programmes and building engagement.
You will be able to work individually, in a team and across the organisation. Strong ability to lead and motivate others, partnership building skills and knowledge, experience and commitment to improving lives of children are essential.
Please note: This is a full-time role, office based in central London; hybrid working is supported but this post is not offered for job share or for majority home working. It requires the ability to travel in the UK on business occasionally and for flexibility in attending occasional breakfast or evening events
To apply for this role, please visit the Coram website to complete an application. Please note CV’S alone will not be accepted.
Closing date: 29th June 2026 at 9am
Interview date (at Coram Campus, Bloomsbury): Thursday 2nd July 2026
Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Registered Charity No. 312278.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.