Senior Advisor, Philanthropy Communications; P4

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world's hardest-to-reach places - over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you're creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

As the Senior Advisor, Philanthropy Communications, you'll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will lead all philanthropy communications related to our US Programs, developing high-quality content that effectively positions Save the Children with high value donors across individual, corporate, and foundation donor. This content will span multiple channels, ranging from donor proposals and reports to fact sheets and emergency briefs to polished microsites and visually compelling storytelling.

Our US Programs are an essential part of Save the Children's impact and strategic focus over the coming years, and the successful candidate will play a central role in helping us to grow and diversify the resources we generate for this work by engaging, expanding and mobilizing key philanthropic audiences to support our domestic work.

Hybrid - Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

Develop Compelling Fundraising Content for US programs (60%)

• Lead the end-to-end creation and editing of content sourced from US national, state, and technical staff to create final donor-facing products including but not limited to reports, proposals, concept notes and fact sheets.
• Develop excellent communications materials, with an emphasis on identifying, testing and incorporating best practices for leveraging digital capabilities, videos, interactive graphs, as well as a mix of short and long content pieces.
• Liaise with the Marketing & Growth Operations Strategy team and US Programs Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Research and Learning team to incorporate the latest and most compelling impact data and evidence-based insights into donor communications.
• Ensure that these products: are grammatically correct; flow logically and present information clearly and concisely; are suited to donors' level of technical program knowledge; and are properly branded.

Curate Overarching Narrative for US Program Philanthropy (20%)

• Collaborate cross-functionally with multiple teams (Marketing & Growth Operations Strategy team, US Programs, Campaign, Marketing, Communications) to ensure that all US philanthropic communications reflect the latest thought leadership, ambition and evidence needed to differentiate Save the Children.
• Develop subject matter expertise on our US programs, work, partners and impact. Maintain a detailed understanding of what our peers are doing and how Save the Children can differentiate ourselves in the current donor market.
• Develop, approve and continuously oversee the refinement of and updates to donor messaging related to our US program priorities, ensuring that fundraisers have necessary information and documents to successfully execute our fundraising campaigns and external engagement efforts.
• Interact regularly with fundraisers and program staff to understand projects and donor needs, proactively requesting additional information and clarification as needed to complete projects successfully.
• Lead knowledge management for US programs philanthropic communications. In coordination with the US Programs Advisor, regularly update functional knowledge sharing mechanisms, including internal writing tracker and Save Net pages.

Support other Impact Communications and Operations Team work as required (20%)

• Surge as needed on US-program related communications for public donors
• Support other Impact Communications work for international programs, policy and advocacy
• Collaborate closely with the Advisor, US Program Private Partnerships to form a two-person team that connects US Program staff, fundraisers and donor audiences with joined-up donor strategy…