About Us

It’s an exciting time for War Child. War Child 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 are now ready to take our fundraising to the next stage – reaching more people than before and building a sustainable income base. We have developed a new fundraising strategy with a big ambition and we’re looking for talented fundraisers to join us. 

The Role

We’re looking for a new business specialist, to join our highly successful Philanthropy & Partnerships team, to secure sponsorship for our legendary entertainment events as well as building income generating partnerships across the entertainment industry and beyond. In doing so you’ll enable War Child to support more of the world’s most vulnerable children.

Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. 

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

Our benefits

• Flexible working - we recognise the considerable benefits that flexible working can bring and are happy to discuss any possible flexible working options with our employees from hiring. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, occasional working from home and compressed hours. 
• Annual leave – 28 days per year (full-time) rising to 33 days with service, plus bank holidays 
• Pension - all eligible employees automatically enrolled into a Group Personal Pension Plan with a 5% employer contribution, with minimum employee contribution on a salary sacrifice basis
• Family leave – we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave 
• Health & wellbeing - employees may take advantage of a healthcare cash plan and a range of wellbeing initiatives and training. In addition, all employees have access to free, confidential one-to-one wellbeing consultations with trained counsellors.
• Learning & development - dedicated to the investment in learning and continuing professional development for all our employees
• Range of flexible benefits such a Cycle to Work scheme and season ticket loans