Special Projects Manager

At War Child UK we react to ever changing environments, unique opportunities and exciting projects with one clear mission, to support children in conflict around the globe. Whilst your remit is wide, as Special Projects Manager, your role is all about being ‘the glue’ connecting all the strands together to deliver successful campaigns, bringing together experts and optimising opportunities with transformative potential for War Child UK.  

We are a multi-award winning, creative and innovative organisation and the Creative Industries team is as the heart of the fundraising we do. Working on critical cross-department projects, campaigns and initiatives, you will help to drive strategic planning and delivery across War Child’s highly ambitious and successful fundraising operations by being highly effective and managing end-to-end projects to achieve their desired results. You will maximise our ability to raise money by overseeing and implementing professional project delivery across the organisation, supporting colleagues to deliver activations and achieve results.

If you share our values and believe that children’s lives should not be torn apart by war, we want to hear from you. Below are some of the experiences and qualities we’re looking for. 

·        Someone who can bring experience and best practice from a dynamic range of projects or campaigns to date.

·        Someone with strong inter-personal skills and able to confidently build relationships across different stakeholders, departments and teams.

·        Able to model excellent end to end project management and provide methodical ways of working that should maximise opportunities and efficiencies.

·        Driven by compelling storytelling and working in a creative environment.

·        Highly resilient, with the ability to bring clarity when working in ambiguous circumstances, managing multiple workflows at any one time.

• Able to effectively delegate across teams to meet deadlines, manage priorities and hit ambitious targets.

·        Familiar with a range of project management methodologies and tools.

·        An excellent communicator and confident providing regular updates and recommendations.

·        Highly organised and able to create high quality project documentation across timelines, budgets and presentations.

·        Well versed in trends in the fundraising industry with the willingness to stay up to date on the latest developments that could create opportunities for War Child.

What we can offer you

At War Child, we genuinely value different ways of working. From day one, we’re open to discussing flexible options, including hybrid working, flexible hours and compressed hours. Our goal is to support our employees to do their best work while ensuring we continue to deliver for children affected by conflict. Some of our benefits include:

·        Flexible working culture and flexible public holidays

·        28 days annual leave (pro-rata), plus bank holidays, which increases by one day per year on your work anniversary, up to a maximum of 33 days.

·        Pension - 5% employer contribution (increasing to 6% after one year’s service), with minimum employee contribution.

·        Health and wellbeing - employees may take advantage of a healthcare cash plan, a GP 24/7 helpline, cancer cover, and a range of wellbeing initiatives and training. All employees have access to free, confidential one-to-one wellbeing consultations with trained counsellors.

This role offers an incredible opportunity to make a tangible difference at a time of unprecedented need. Join us in standing up for children affected by war and help create a future where no child’s life is torn apart by conflict.