Senior Manager - Marketing & Communications (Maternity Leave Contract)

Join us in our mission to power the potential of young people

Global Fund for Children (GFC) works to build a world where all children and youth are safe, strong, and valued. We partner with innovative, locally led organisations, helping them deepen their impact and build their capacity for social change. By pairing flexible funding with targeted capacity development support, we help our partners grow stronger and more responsive to challenges on the ground.

Since 1997, we have invested more than $44 million in over 700 organisations. Our work advances the rights of children and youth across four focus areas: education, gender equity, youth empowerment, and freedom from violence and exploitation.

You will join a multinational team of caring and committed individuals who believe in investing in bold ideas to help grassroots organisations deepen their impact and advocate for children’s rights. We value courage, excellence, learning, partnership, and inclusion, as well as kindness and passion. Our partners’ visions for change inspire all we do. Feedback and learning inspire us to do better, and we strive to be youth centered.

The Role

Global Fund for Children is looking for a Senior Manager to join our global Marketing and Communications Team on a short-term contract, covering the maternity leave of the current post holder.

The contract period is 24^th February – 11^th July 2025 (20 weeks).

Are you a marketing communications professional passionate about the potential of children and young people?

Your main responsibility is to help us collectively deliver inspiring, impactful engagement that builds our brand relevance with our target audiences.

This role will work to develop integrated and cross-discipline marketing and communications plans that promote our work and reputation. You will collaborate with senior leadership and engage with key stakeholders, colleagues and partners around the world. You’ll create and implement strategies that elevate our profile, grow our key audiences and ensure our messaging resonates across all platforms.

You will be the strategic lead on our digital channels and are joining at a key moment of opportunity – in 2024 we launched a new website, a new database, a new email system and overhauled our look and feel as part of our 30th-anniversary activities. You will continue work on developing our brand narrative, tone of voice and our key messages.

You will be obsessed with the quality and performance of all our outputs and have a track record of analysing data and results, making adjustments or complete pivots to ensure we achieve our ambitious goals and objectives.

You will co-lead our work with high-profile influencers and celebrities as we continue to build our new global programme. You will have the unique opportunity to work as part of the Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC) at a time of international expansion and growing profile, as their Marketing and Communications Lead.

This role will directly line-manage one of our team based in Spain and work closely with the rest of the Marcomms team in Kenya, the UK and in the US. You will be part of an extremely ambitious and successful Development, Marketing and Communications (DMC) team based in the UK and US. You will have regular joint projects and campaigns with our Development colleagues to deliver strategic funder communications goals that ensure we grow income and influence to continue to support hundreds of community-based organisations around the world annually.

What will you be doing?

1. Provide overall strategic leadership across all our digital channels – website, email and social media to achieve engagement and growth goals across key audiences in line with our values and GFC’s safeguarding and safer communications policies.
2. Work collaboratively with your direct report to roll out digital plans to deliver our agreed strategy.
3. Lead the team on data, insight, and analysis of content across all channels to inform spending, resource and to deliver against objectives.
4. Working across the team, lead on editorial content decisions, engaging with key stakeholders, to deliver on strategic goals and KPIs.
5. Lead the development of insights and understanding of our key target audiences – donors, partners (community-based organisations who we fund and partner with), and the sector/our peers.
6. Line manage the Communications Officer (based in Spain) and provide leadership to a hybrid team across multiple time zones including:
   1. Providing coaching and regular feedback to direct report/s with a focus on goal setting and personal development.
   2. Contributing to the development of a strong values-based team culture across different countries, areas and streams of work.
   3. Creating and/or facilitating space for regular training, learning, team building and development opportunities for team members
7. Work with the Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC) Director and team as the lead on FSC marketing and communications.
8. Work proactively with your Senior Manager colleague based in the US daily to ensure smooth and successful ‘business as usual’ for the team globally.
9. Work proactively and collaboratively with the Senior Manager in the US to prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the team, Senior Leadership and Board as required by the Senior Director of Marcomms or Vice President of Strategic Partnerships (DMC).
10. With colleagues in the Development team, work collaboratively and proactively to deliver contractual and opportunistic goals that add value and impact to our partnerships.
11. With colleagues in the Development team, and where it is appropriate, collaborate on pitches, proposals, deliverables, and reports to support income goals.

About you

Essential experience and skills
Our ideal Senior Manager in Marketing and Communications will:

1. Have significant proven experience working in a high-functioning, target-driven Marketing and Communications team, where you have a track record of success in meeting targets and objectives.
2. Have significant relevant experience in leading multiple functions within a marketing and communications setting, this can be in any setting but must include leadership of Digital as part of your experience. Could also include Brand Narrative and Copy, website management, digital content creation, email marketing and other disciplines relevant to the role.
3. Have significant, proven experience in setting up, leading, and executing digital strategies to achieve ambitious targets across multiple channels
4. Be an experienced, value-led people manager, with a passion for supporting and developing people to achieve their potential.
5. Be creative, strategic and curious in order to lead and deliver our ambitious plans in service of our partners and our mission.
6. Be bold, resilient and fail fast as we challenge the status quo and continue pioneering new ways of philanthropy.
7. Be confident, and proactive and be able to work with minimal supervision in a busy team.

Desirable experience and skills

• Experience working and leading in a hybrid setting across a variety of time zones.
• Experience working in a departmental leadership team.
• Experience working with a development/fundraising team to deliver financial goals or partnership deliverables.
• An understanding of the funder system in the UK, US, and/or globally.
• Working with community-based organisations for a shared goal.

What we offer you

We work together to build a world where all children and youth are safe, strong and valued.

GFC fosters a caring work environment that promotes collaboration, respect, and professional development. We set standards of excellence and quality in our work, firmly believing that children and youth deserve the best we can offer.

We believe that every person has equal rights, and we affirm the diversity that enriches our globalized world. In line with these core values, it is our policy to actively seek diverse candidates from a variety of backgrounds who are committed to Global Fund for Children’s mission.

Our values shape our vision, guide our daily decision making, and signal to the world what to expect when you encounter Global Fund for Children. We hold ourselves to these values to best serve our local partners and the children and youth they support. We attract talented people from all over the world because we believe deeply in living our values

Salary – UK-based salary is £50,000 pro rata

Weekly hours – 35 hours per week.

Holidays – 30 days annual leave and 8 public holidays pro rata.

Flexible Working Location – This is a hybrid position that is based in the UK. GFC is open to applications to those who will regularly visit our London office.

Learning – GFC encourages professional development as a part of our culture and values. GFC provides regular opportunities for training, collaboration, and mentorship. Employees may access professional development funds to support continued learning.

Benefits – We strive to build a culture that embraces care and wellbeing. Our global employee benefits include:

• Private healthcare insurance plan with comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off (annual leave, enhanced sickness leave, wellbeing days, sabbatical leave, family friendly leave)
• Flexible work arrangements – remote/hybrid/compressed work schedules
• Pension plan contributions – employees are auto-enrolled on the GFC workplace pension scheme. 8% employer contributions with 4% employee contributions
• Employee Assistance Services
• Team Building and Social Committees

*Other benefits may apply, depending on the location of the employee

How do I apply?

In line with our values of courage, passion and inclusion, to apply for this role, please share your thoughts, in the method of your choosing, on what excites you most about this opportunity and how it is directly linked to your skills and experience.
Please also supply your CV through the following link:

Due to the nature of the role, and the need for a speedy recruitment process, we will look at applications on a rolling basis until the post is filled.

We are looking for the successful candidate to start w/c 24^th February 2025. The contract runs through to 11^th July 2025 to enable a robust onboarding at the start, and thoughtful handover at the end of the contract.

We are excited to hear from you if you have any questions about the role, please get in touch on careers(at)globalfundforchildren.org

GFC is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. We particularly encourage applicants from communities that have historically been excluded from philanthropy and from under-represented groups including candidates who are LGBTQ+, from Black, African, and Afro-descendant or indigenous communities, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

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