Philanthropy and Partner Engagement Assistant - London, United Kingdom - War Child UK

War Child UK

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

It's an exciting time for War Child. We are sector leading with our heritage, connections, and relationships in the world of music, gaming and events. Our friends are superbly connected and ready to use their networks to help us.

With a talented, hard-working team, we deliver amazing, creative fundraising in spades that has a huge capacity to inspire people.

We're looking for a Philanthropy and Partner Engagement Assistant to join our dynamic and high performing Team.

You will be directly supporting the philanthropy, foundations and gaming functions through excellent admin and organisation skills and attention to detail, verbal and written communications and be part of the team thinking creatively to achieve our strategy goals.

In doing so you'll enable War Child to support more of the world's most vulnerable children.

If you share our values and believe that children's lives should not be torn apart by war, we want to hear from you.

Your responsibilities

To play a key role in supporting the team to maximise income for War Child
To support Managers to be able to nurture relationships within their portfolio (high value, major donors, gaming partners, trusts and foundations)
Lead on the research and screening of new prospects in line with War Child's robust screening policies
Support the team to implement strong stewardship, cultivation and solicitation plans to generate significant income from the portfolio, including identifying lapsed donors and devising strategies for reengagement
Support the team to ensure communications with donors/partners are stored accurately on War Child's database, Salesforce and use Dot Digital/Salesforce to send automated comms
Ensure that all of team's documents, reports and event documents are correctly filed on the War Child internal system for easy reference for the Fundraising Team
Take minutes in key meetings
Represent War Child with commitment and enthusiasm to build new relationships and contacts for War Child, supporting colleagues to ensure that new prospects are followed up and their interest capitalised on
Develop strong relationships and maintain excellent communication channels with other teams and departments across War Child