Senior Manager - Transformational Philanthropy

Full time (flexible working options available)

Closing Date: 5 April 2024

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a driven individual to join us as our Senior Manager -Transformational Philanthropy. This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to make a lasting impact by managing high-value philanthropic partnerships aimed at transforming the lives of children, families, and communities worldwide.

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 Senior Manager, Transformational Philanthropy, you will report directly into our Transformational Philanthropy Lead, and take charge of some of our highest-value philanthropic partnerships: multimillion commitments from philanthropic partners, aimed at delivering impact for children, families, and communities.

You will be responsible for nurturing these relationships, managing projects, and liaising with external stakeholders to ensure alignment with our strategic priorities.

 In this role, day -to- day, you will:

• Lead 3-4 transformational philanthropic partnerships with meticulous account management, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders for seamless execution.

• Deliver exceptional engagement and stewardship opportunities for our partners, including helping to shape and design new strategic programmes, reporting back to stakeholders on their impact, and maintaining excellent relationships with philanthropic partners.

• Secure and uphold multi-year commitments from philanthropists and foundations, driving impact aligned with our organisational goals.

• Act as a representative of Save the Children, advocating for our mission while addressing the needs of our partners internally.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to advance our transformational giving strategy and support initiatives like Shifting the Power & localisation.

• Represent Save the Children in various forums to foster global collaboration and maximise the impact of our partnerships.

• Foster a positive team culture within the Philanthropy & Partnerships team, promoting inclusivity, professionalism, and accountability.

• Serve as an external face for Save the Children, engaging with stakeholders both within and outside the organisation.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Extensive experience in customer-facing or account management roles, ideally within philanthropy, corporate partnerships, or the private sector.

• Strategic mindset with a focus on building sustainable, high-impact relationships.

• Proven track record of securing grants or contracts and managing partnerships through their lifecycle.

• Strong communication skills to engage and inspire stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to thrive in complex organisational environments with competing priorities.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills for influencing senior donors and stakeholders.

• Proficiency in prioritising and managing complex opportunities aligned with organisational objectives.

• Demonstrated project management abilities, including reporting, budgeting, and meeting deadlines across multiple teams.

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, and 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: April 5, 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.