Challenge and Community Fundraising Manager

We are a multi-award winning, creative and innovative organisation, with high ambition to make our mark in the mass marketing arena. We re looking for an experienced fundraiser who is ambitious, proactive and passionate about fundraising and who believes in creating a personal and rewarding experience for the UK public to make a difference to the lives of the world s most vulnerable children.

The Challenge & Community Fundraising Manager will be responsible for managing our challenge events and community fundraising portfolio to acquire new C&C supporters and steward our pool of loyal fundraisers, with the aim of increasing our unrestricted income. You will be responsible for the event and campaign management of our national challenge events and community campaigns. You will improve KPIs, maximise net income and be reactive to opportunities to ensure the programme achieves its full potential. You will oversee fundraiser journeys for onboarding, active and lapsed C&C audience segments, updating and creating useful and inspiring fundraising resources and building strong relationships with our fundraisers.

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.

• An experienced fundraiser with demonstrable knowledge of Challenge Event and Community Fundraising, with excellent campaign management skills.
• Someone with a proven track record of successful fundraising results, delivering against income targets to budget and on schedule.
• Able to assess and optimise campaign performance by analysing data patterns and trends, and use a range of KPIs to monitor and predict performance.
• A natural relationship builder with strong people skills, able to engage, motivate, and support fundraisers from all walks of life.
• Able to demonstrate your experience in developing and implementing successful acquisition campaigns and supporter journeys.
• A relationship manager with strong networking skills at senior levels internally and externally.
• Highly self-organised, process driven, proactive, creative and have an excellent eye for detail.
• Able to attend Challenge & Community Events etc, and come into the office to support the Challenge and Community Assistant to send and organise fundraising materials a minimum of one day a week

At War Child recognise the considerable benefits that flexible working can bring and are happy to discuss any possible flexible working options with our employees from hiring. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, hybrid working and compressed hours.

Join us and be part of a team dedicated to ensuring a safe future for every child affected by war.