Executive Director, UK Impact

Save the Children UK is offering an exciting opportunity for a purpose-driven, collaborative, and influential leader with extensive strategic experience to join us as our Executive Director of UK Impact. In this role, you will lead our UK Impact group—comprising teams across the devolved nations, as well as the north and south of England—to ensure that families have the resources, services, and power they need to end child poverty.

This is a critical and growing area of our work, and we are committed to deepening our investment and expanding our impact across the UK. You will also oversee our Public Affairs, Campaigns and Organising, and Child & Youth Participation departments. Working collaboratively across Save the Children UK and with external partners to deliver lasting, systemic change for children and families.

This is a permanent hybrid role, based out of our London Farringdon office. The nature of this role is likely to require a presence in our offices or with partners 3 days a week.

As Executive Director of UK Impact, you will lead our ambitious strategy to end child poverty in the UK by working alongside families, communities, grassroots organisations, and national-level actors. You will ensure that Save the Children UK is a human-centric, impact-driven organisation where children and communities are empowered, and where the systems and structures needed to achieve lasting change are influenced and reshaped through collaborative, inclusive leadership.

To be successful, it is important that you have excellent strategic and systems thinking skills with a proven ability to adapt ways of working in a fast-changing context. Extensive experience creating lasting change for children in the UK across multiple sectors, including government, communities, and networks. Deep understanding of, and commitment to, sharing power, knowledge, and resources more equally with those who share our mission.

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work. This role is based in Farringdon, London, with a salary of £120k approximately. We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.