The Opportunity
Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the Global Digital Trends and Insights Manager in London, UK or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office Worldwide.
Role Purpose:
Save the Children is in the middle of its ambitious strategic plan that looks to significantly increase our digital engagement with new and existing supporters to achieve our programmatic and advocacy goals.
Both raising funds and engaging with our supporters through campaigning in digital channels are key to delivering to the strategy.
Therefore, it is a priority for National Save the Children Member Organizations (internally called “Members”) to increase this expertise in the international team to support the growth in this channel.
This role sits within the Global Communications Unit, under the Global Digital Engagement Team, a virtual team, which provides strategic support and specialist technical guidance to our 27+ Members, most of them in Asia, Oceania, Europe and the Americas. This team also focuses on reaching out to new audiences and engaging with them in non-member markets with a special focus on a list of key markets, and our global Save the Children International digital channels.
This is a new role at our global centre, Save the Children International, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape and grow how we ustilse digital insights across social listening, search listening, SEM and SEO, to help us scale up our digital campaigns, content and experience in order to attract, inspire and engage a higher volume of supporters, who are critical to achieve our ambitions for children.
We are looking for someone who has their finger of the pulse of what’s happening in the digital sphere, can manage and acquire the most effective tools to help us monitor online conversations, support key stakeholders in making strategic, informed and insight based decisions and can play a lead role in key projects such as audience insights and new markets testing. A pro-active attitude and ability to work in a fast paced environment is essential.
There is a need across our movement to monitor online conversations and key words related to priority operational issues, specific humanitarian crises, and security or reputational incidents. We would like to improve and develop similar approaches across the movement to collect digital insights to improve our impact using social listening, search listening, SEO and content marketing insights.
In coordination with the Communications and Engagement team, Fundraising Hub, Global Campaigns, and other SCI departments, the post is responsible for leading on,
- Coordinate and maintain the collective use of the shared insights and listening tools, across the Save the Children movement. Support members in building confidence to use insights tools, providing a community and space for skill-sharing and best practice
- Working with key stakeholders to identify opportunities for insight report/dashboard production, ensuring insights will be utilized to inform strategy and content planning
- Promoting the benefits and possibilities of insights tools and reports to key stakeholders
- Producing insightful reports that are used for campaign and strategy development across the movement
- Use insights data on a regular basis to inform digital team and NMM project content marketing planning to generate quality content that engages audience and provides them with valuable information
- Managing existing and acquiring new insights tools that will further our global trends and insight strategy
- Managing of contracts and supplier relationships for all trends and insights tools
- Working closely integrated with the Global brands team and Audience segmentation project lead to provide insights for defined audiences
- Leading on external current affairs and trends, ensuring Save the Children is ready to react in both trending and emergency situations
- Working closely with global digital partners such as META and TikTok to capture campaign and audience insights
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder may be expected to work outside the normal job description and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Demonstrable high level knowledge and at two years of experience working within a marketing, communications or digital department focused on engaging audiences to take action.
- Fluent in English, additional language skills would be an asset
- Capacity to build and maintain excellent relations and to work effectively in a multicultural and multi-ethnic environment respecting diversity
- Experience in management/use of trends and insights tools (e.g. Meltwater, Google Trends, , content marketing, Search listening or social listening tools)
Desirable
- Experience in the profit or non-profit sector (ideally both at client and agency side).
- Experience working internationally in a support role to a diverse range of markets
- Senior experience developing successful communications strategies
- Experience optimizing content and messaging for external audiences
- Experience implementing a known insights tool analysing the data provided by this tool.
- Proven project management skills delivering complex projects on time and on budget with a strong knowledge of all the financial aspects of digital fundraising/marketing including analysis of costs/income, ROI, conversion and donor/client retention data and all other relevant KPIs.
- Strong personal, organisational and self-management skills; with an ability to lead and work in teams and motivate others
- A self-starter using initiative to see opportunities to achieve objectives in this role
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
- Strong IT skills particularly in Microsoft products
- Ability to articulate the work of Save the Children with passion
- A willingness to travel to support members directly or to relevant events as required.
We can offer circa £45,000 per annum (If based in UK) with an option of flexible working hours. If the role is based outside of the UK, National T&C (including pay) will apply.
This role can be based in London or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office location on approval, provided the successful candidate has proof of eligibility to work from the preferred location.
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The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your salary expectations. A full copy of the role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.