If you’re highly organised, a strong communicator, and excited by the chance to work with high-value supporters and funders, this is your opportunity to kick-start a career in fundraising that truly makes a difference. Join a creative, collaborative team at War Child and help drive impact for children living through conflict.

Job title: Philanthropy Assistant
Salary: circa £27,000 per annum
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Location: Our office is in London (NW1) with flexibility to work remotely

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 and innovative fundraising in spades that has a huge capacity to inspire people.

We’re looking for a Philanthropy Assistant to join our dynamic and high performing team. You will be directly supporting the philanthropy, trusts and institutional funding functions through excellent administration and organisation skills, 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.

The ideal candidate will be someone eager to learn about fundraising with a keen interest in growing their skills and experience and the enthusiasm to work with supporters to bring about positive change to children’s lives.

Below are some of the key experiences and competencies we’re looking for. However, if you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply—your unique skills, experiences, and perspective could be exactly what we need to help War Child reach and support more of the world’s most vulnerable children.

• Someone with a keen interest in relationship-based fundraising.

• Able to undertake detail-oriented administrative tasks efficiently and to a high-quality standard.

• Familiar with managing your workload to meet deadlines, manage priorities and hit targets.

• Able to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Able to design clear, engaging and professional presentations, proposals, reports ( preferably on Canva)

• Ability to undertake basic analysis of data for research and screening purposes.

• An interest in (or ideally some experience of) supporting public/private events from creation, through planning and to event delivery.

• A true team player, able to maintain effective and collaborative working partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Available to work outside of office hours from time to time (e.g. to attend fundraising events).

What we can offer you

At War Child, we genuinely value different ways of working. From day one, we’re open to discussing flexible options, including hybrid working, flexible hours and compressed hours. Our goal is to support our employees to do their best work while ensuring we continue to deliver for children affected by conflict. Some of our benefits include:

• Flexible working culture and flexible public holidays

• 28 days annual leave (pro-rata), plus bank holidays, which increases by one day per year on your work anniversary, up to a maximum of 33 days.

• Hybrid working – the blend of home and office is a decision each employee and their manager can make together.

• Pension - 5% employer contribution (increasing to 6% after one year’s service), with minimum employee contribution.

• Enhanced pay provision for maternity, partner/co-parent/paternity, shared parental and adoption leave.

• Discount on War Child merchandise

• Health and wellbeing - employees may take advantage of a healthcare cash plan, a GP 24/7 helpline, cancer cover, and a range of wellbeing initiatives and training. All employees have access to free, confidential one-to-one wellbeing consultations with trained counsellors.

How to apply

Please apply on our website: https://careers.warchild.org.uk/vacancy/philanthropy-assistant-590628.html

The closing date for application is Friday 18 July 2025.

On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their application as early as possible.

Join us and be part of a team dedicated to ensuring a safe future for every child affected by war.