Gift Aid Manager

Closing Date: 15 February 2026

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a knowledgeable and collaborative individual with extensive Gift Aid experience to join us as our Gift Aid Manager, to lead a valuable income stream for Save the Children UK.

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 role

As Gift Aid Manager, you will oversee our end-to-end Donation Gift Aid programme, working closely with fundraising, data, finance and external partners. You'll need to be confident, hitting the ground running, building strong relationships quickly, and taking ownership of complex, cross-organisational processes.

We are looking for a true Gift Aid professional. This is not just a data or process management role: you will be the organisation's go-to authority on Gift Aid, providing expert advice and training, leading assurance activity, shaping strategy and building capability across teams.

This role sits at the heart of that income, ensuring we maximise every eligible pound while meeting the highest standards of compliance, assurance and supporter experience.

In this role, you will:

• Act as the internal expert and trusted adviser on Gift Aid for fundraising, data and finance teams

• Oversee the end-to-end Gift Aid programme, ensuring compliance, accuracy and an excellent supporter experience

• Develop and deliver a Gift Aid strategy to maximise income and identify new opportunities across fundraising

• Ensure full compliance with HMRC Gift Aid regulations, leading on regulatory change and liaising with HMRC

• Own organisational Gift Aid knowledge management, including documentation, guidance and training

• Lead Gift Aid assurance and audits, ensuring HMRC-audit readiness and issue resolution

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Extensive practical knowledge of HMRC Gift Aid regulations, with experience of Gift Aid management and/or auditing

• Experience working with Gift Aid data and supporter databases (Salesforce preferred), and managing end-to-end, data-driven processes

• Strong understanding of charity fundraising income streams and related regulations, including data protection

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and projects, delivering to deadlines

• Excellent communication skills, including experience explaining complex Gift Aid requirements and delivering training or guidance

• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

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.

• 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. You can read more about our benefits here.

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 15th February

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.