Raising funds is essential to ensuring that we can help keep Scotland’s children safe, well and loved with their families.

Children 1st is looking for a new Individual Giving and Supporter Experience Manager to take our donor recruitment and retention strategy to the next level.

This role holds a senior position within the Supporter Experience Team and is responsible for inspiring new donors to support Children 1st, establishing new relationships with individuals, managing the operational implementation of individual giving fundraising initiatives and leading our donor acquisition activity.

The Individual Giving and Supporter Experience Manager will play a key role in evolving our fundraising acquisition strategy and will play a crucial role in further developing our cross-directorate stewardship strategy.

We need someone who is focused, organised, creative and has a keen eye for detail, with a passion for delivering an amazing supporter experience.

If you have experience in fundraising, communications, or marketing we would love to hear from you.

This a permanent, full-time role of 35 hours per week. You will be remote based with travel to our spaces and bases as required.

At Children 1st our ambition is for every child in Scotland to be safe, loved and well with their family. As a charity we offer emotional, practical, and financial support to help families to put children first and campaign to uphold the rights of every child.

We support the whole family when they need it, for as long as they need it. We offer help to prevent families reaching crisis point, to keep children safe and to support children and families to recover from trauma and harm.

This important and exciting position plays a role in both the day to day running of the Edinburgh office and in cross organisational administration matters, assisting with the management of health and safety and working with service teams in all of Children 1st locations.

This role within the Corporate Services Team will involve:

• managing the efficient running of our current headquarters in Edinburgh as well as leading the administration support team to provide high quality administrative support across Children 1st.

• acting as the main point of contact in the administrative support team

• supporting teams across the country with property and facilities management of service bases

• working with internal teams and external contractors to ensure all legal and statutory requirements are met throughout the property portfolio.

• maintaining organisational and property files, registers and working collaboratively with all members of the Corporate Services Team to maintain high levels of confidentiality and data security

The post holder will be the key point of contact for organisational Health and Safety requirements, will manage the property database, and will maintain office supplies and records, in addition to overseeing contractors and reviewing corporate contracts.

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and proactive individual with project management experience to join us as our Public Attitudes Campaigns Manager where you will work with the Scotland team to deliver an exciting new funded project to understand public attitudes to child poverty in Scotland.

Please note:This is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract and the successful candidate will need to be based in Scotland.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In Scotland 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

This role is funded by The Robertson Trust to deliver an ambitious two year project to inspire and build support around policy solutions to meet Scotland's 2030 Child Poverty Targets. As Public Attitudes Campaigns Manager, you will lead on all aspects of the project:

• overseeing research into public attitudes and developing a narrative framework
• working with lived a lived experience panel an advisory board
• engaging an active network of champions to use the findings from this work
• actively engaging and training stakeholders in using the findings
• building relationships and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.

This is an exciting role that involves a variety of skills and the chance to have a real impact on children's lives.

In this role, you will:

• Oversee the commissioning of partners and working with them to deliver public attitudes research and developing and testing frames and narratives.
• Actively engage a network of champions from within the anti-poverty sector.
• Manage the project, which includes creating, delivering, driving and monitoring progress of the project plan and communicating progress to key stakeholder groups.
• Champion and manage stakeholder engagement and communication, including an Advisory Group
• Draft compelling and accessible reports and materials summarising key messages and findings
• Build and maintain knowledge on the political and policy landscape on child poverty in Scotland and public affairs developments and engagement opportunities to maximise the impact of this work.

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Understanding or experience of working on projects or campaigns to change public attitudes e.g. researching public attitudes, developing narratives etc.
• Experience of project management and working with multiple partners to deliver on complex projects with multiple stages and timelines.
• Significant experience of leading the development of strong stakeholder relations and delivering impactful engagement and influencing activities, ideally with experience of developing a community of practice.
• Demonstratable experience of building established networks and relationships with senior stakeholders in the anti-poverty movement (or demonstratable skills in relevant field) in Scotland. Knowledge of working with civil society to deliver change and ability to effectively manage and work within networks and coalitions.
• Experience of commissioning research/consultants to deliver public attitudes/policy research
• Excellent communication skills, and experience building rapport and communicating effectively with a wide range of people at all levels and situations (on the phone, face to face and in writing)
• Ability to deliver projects to high standards with minimum support and adapt easily to change.
• 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.