Senior Marketing Officer

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Senior Marketing Officer, Sponsorship Experience

Salary: pound;30,763 per annum, depending on experience + good range of benefits

Contract: Permanent, 36.5 hours per week

Based: Milton Keynes and remote working

World Vision is 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 we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.
Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Job Purpose

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 Sponsorship Experience team within our Fundraising Group.

Child sponsorship is the team’s core product, and in this role, you’ll take an active lead in delivering a high value sponsorship experience through multi-channel marketing campaigns. These will drive supporter loyalty and satisfaction, helping bring to life the change supporters are making in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.

In the team we love that each day is different - from creating concepts, briefing, copywriting, and design, through to project and agency management, data selection, analysis and insight.

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 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 have an understanding of 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 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, video, email, online and social media
The ability to work independently to drive innovation, creativity and results
Experience of line-management, supervision or coaching of staff.

Our Christian identity underpins everything we do, so a s 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.

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.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

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Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and r easons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.

Closing Date for applications: 23 August 2021
Interview Dates: TBA

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family. As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is 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.

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No agencies please.