Senior Marketing Officer
Looking to take your fundraising and marketing career to another level and use your skills where they really matter?
We have an exciting opportunity for an exceptional direct marketing professional to join the Supporter Engagement team within the Fundraising group.
Position: Senior Marketing Officer
Location: Milton Keynes/Hybrid (2 days per week)
Hours: Full time, 36.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Circa £36,576.00 per annum plus good range of benefits
Closing Date: April 2, 2025
Interviews: W/C 7th April 2025
About the Role
Fundraising and Marketing Directorate: As part of the newly formed Integrated Fundraising and Marketing department you will use your skills and knowledge to lead a sub team and deliver effective fundraising campaigns that inspire and engage amazing supporters. The goal as a directorate is to support impacting 5.5 million lives and raising £100m in sustainable income by 2029.
By coordinating with various income-generating strategies, the department aims to enhance the impact of the charity’s work, bringing hope and sustainable change to vulnerable communities worldwide.
Working across a range of campaigns, each day in this role will be different – from developing testing strategies based on insight and analysis, to input on creative development, agency management, mapping supporter journeys, through to coaching team members in fundraising fundamentals.
In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including, Pension, generous holiday entitlement, Length of Service Awards and free parking (MK only).
As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.
About You
As a senior member of the team, you'll be a strategic thinker who can shape and execute fundraising strategies and line manage marketing team members. You’ll see the bigger picture but have an eye for detail and fantastic relationship-building skills. You'll be confident working with data and carrying out rigorous testing and detailed data analysis to understand campaign results. And you’ll understand digital and multi-channel marketing to maximise fundraising income.
To perform well in this role, you’ll need:
• Experience gained in a fundraising, direct marketing, or digital marketing role
• Strong project management skills in order to deliver end-to-end marketing campaigns
• A track record in analysing direct marketing results and using insight to drive innovation and improve campaign performance
• Experience of delivering integrated marketing campaigns across a range of channels including direct mail, online, email, and social media
• The ability to work independently to drive innovation, creativity and results
• Experience of line-management, supervision or coaching of staff.
This is your chance to be a part of something big. You will be working closely with teams across the organisation that directly impact the lives of some of the world's most vulnerable children. If you are excited about using your customer service experience to create real change, then we want to hear from you!
About the Organisation
Join an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries. Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy, the team have helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. As a Christian organisation, everything is motivated by faith as it strives to reflect God’s unconditional love.
In addition to the salary offered, the charity offer the following:
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays, rising with length of service to 30 days
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Pension - 7% employer contribution
• Eyecare test reimbursement
• Life Assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Wellbeing Support – Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme
As a child-focused organisation committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.
The charity is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and will check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct and will be requesting you to complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see: The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Please note we can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture, and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.
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PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
