Please note this is a hybrid role based on the successful candidate working at least two days a week in our London office. Remote contracts would not be considered for this role.]

Purpose of Job 

The Project Manager will join the Public Activation and Individual Giving team at an exciting time, as we look to increase the number of fundraising campaigns, we deliver each year.  Working alongside the Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the overarching planning, management, and coordination of integrated fundraising campaigns.   

The successful candidate will work with cross-disciplinary teams and be instrumental in implementing successful planning processes and project governance, whilst ensuring detailed reporting is developed and embedded into all fundraising activity. 

 Interviews are expected to take place on the w/c 13/11/2023

Key Responsibilities: 

• Work with stakeholders across the charity, project managing and taking on management responsibility for a portfolio of fundraising campaigns (managing multiple projects at a time). 

• Manage fundraising campaigns across the full project lifecycle, including project briefing, scoping, set-up, governance, planning, task management, budgeting, communication, coordination, tracking and reporting. 

• Work with colleagues from the initial point of fundraising campaign strategy development, through to delivery, working across a range of areas including but not limited to content production, technology, and data. 

• Develop and embed activity tracking plans and documentation for stakeholders, enabling the efficient management and integration of all fundraising activity. 

• Work with teams to ensure dependencies and risk are actively managed, acting as an arbiter and supporting the resolution of issues. Identify and manage dependencies and risk of varying complexity across the full programme taking corrective action or highlighting issues for escalation as required. 

• Use tracking, budgeting, and reporting tools alongside excellent communication (including briefings/huddles) to ensure that the progress of all fundraising campaign activity is communicated to the relevant stakeholders. 

• Work with key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure consistency and alignment during the execution of fundraising campaigns. 

• Represent project management best practice and identify and facilitate learning opportunities that create and champion efficient and smart ways of working. 

• Deliver ad-hoc projects as required as part of the delivery of fundraising activity. 

Person Specification Essential Criteria: 

• Deep understanding of project management methodologies and experience of working. with different approaches to project management. 

• Experience of monitoring and evaluation of programme performance, including objective setting, developing toolkits, reporting and driving the learning process with stakeholders to achieve ongoing effectiveness. 

• Good understanding of project budget development and analysis. 

• Ability to understand risks, issues and dependencies of a programme and synthesise this information to provide accurate and timely advice to drive decision making. 

• Effective relationship builder with strong stakeholder management and excellent communication skills, and the ability to adapt to different styles and ways of working. 

Desirable Criteria 

• Experience managing fundraising campaigns and activity. 

• Experience with digital content activity. 

• Accredited Project Management qualification 

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why work at Comic Relief

There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London,. There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work.

Disability Confident employer

 As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV and application questions.

We ask that candidates that wish to be considered for this scheme email j.scott@comicrelief.com to discuss further. Please do not email CV's/cover letters