PURPOSE OF JOB:
As Senior Fundraising Campaigns Project Manager you will take a key role in the planning and delivery of Comic Relief’s fundraising campaigns, developing project management best practices, managing project managers, and ensure the overarching planning, management and coordination of projects. The majority of projects will be related to fundraising activity but on occasion could also include other projects for our funding team, partnerships team and production team. The role will work with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure planning processes, project governance and reporting is developed and embedded into all fundraising activity, primarily as it relates to Comic Relief’s fundraising campaigns.
Key responsibilities:
Work with the Head of Campaign Strategy and Planning to track a portfolio of projects, taking on the project management responsibility for select projects, primarily Comic Relief’s fundraising campaigns (managing multiple projects at a time)
Develop project management best practice, evolving methods as needs arise. Ensure practices are followed across the project management team
Manage projects across a full project lifecycle, including project briefing, scoping, set up, governance, planning, task management, communication, coordination and tracking and reporting
Lead key strategic projects, including for large fundraising campaigns
Work with fundraising strategists to brief delivery team members and manage the delivery of fundraising activity that is executed by delivery team members spanning fundraising, PR, content production, finance, technology and data
Develop and embed activity tracking plans and documentation for stakeholders to enable you to efficiently manage and integrate their activity into wider programme, keeping senior stakeholders informed and engaged
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 and reporting tools and briefings/huddles that ensure that the progress of all project activity is communicated, changing the nature of these as projects develop
To work with key stakeholders across the organisation, particularly in the Project Management Office, to ensure consistency and alignment during the execution of the organisation’s projects
Represent project management best practice and identify and facilitate learning opportunities that create efficient and smart ways of working
Provide line management of a Fundraising Campaigns Project Manager, providing support, development and challenge, and ensuring cross-project learnings are shared and implemented effectively
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Significant project management experience, and the ability to manage a range of diverse projects for different parts of the organisation
A 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
A sound 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 communication skills, and the ability to adapt to different styles and ways of working
Effective communicator, with the ability to efficiently distil information, adapting it for different audiences as required
Desirable Criteria
A sound knowledge of fundraising activities
Experience with digital content activity
Accredited Project Management qualification preferrable but not essential
Deadline: Aug. 5, 2025
