This is a great opportunity to use your fundraising, communications, marketing or digital skills and expertise for a small, unique, and effective international development charity – without the commitment of a full Trustee role.
Women and Children First is a charity based in London, with a mission to empower local communities to act on the global health challenges facing women, children, and young people. This is done through the set-up of community groups, bringing people together to identify critical problems and develop lifesaving, life-changing solutions. The groups can halve maternal mortality, saving over 6,500 lives to date.
Our governance structure includes a sub-board committee called the Fundraising and Communications Advisory Group (FCAG). It includes both trustees and members who are not trustees. Its role is to help guide our fundraising and communications strategy, critically review our activities and share expertise.
We are recruiting for additional members, to fill existing skills gaps and to support succession-planning.
We are particularly looking for individuals with experience in one of: PR and Communications; Digital and Social Media Strategy and Implementation; Corporate Fundraising; Supporter Acquisition.
Candidates do not need to have charity sector experience: we would welcome individuals with any relevant expertise.
Members will be welcome or may choose to apply for a Trustee position as and when they become available.
We are particularly interested in members with experience in the following areas:
Communications expertise – providing appropriate support, guidance, mentoring for PR, marketing, and advertising, that can help raise awareness of the organisation, attracting attention and driving interest in who we are and what we do. This could include digital and social media strategy and implementation expertise.
Corporate fundraising expertise – this is a key part of our fundraising strategy, so would be grateful for members with experience in winning pitches and managing partnerships.
Supporter Donor acquisition – we are looking for support and guidance to grow our database of supporters.
Women and Children First recognises diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles, and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity.
We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in the charity sector, and those who have links and heritage to the countries we have projects and partnerships in. Non graduates are encouraged to apply.
If you’d like to put your skills to great use, helping women and children worldwide, we’d love to hear from you.
You can contact Mark Mina, our Head of Fundraising and Communications, for an informal discussion about the roles – email info@womenandchildrenfirst.org.uk.
If you wish to apply to join our group, please send your CV and a cover letter, explaining what you can offer, via email to info@womenandchildrenfirst.org.uk.
We will then be in touch to arrange a conversation with you. We plan to reach out to candidates as and when they apply. We anticipate closing to new candidates on Friday 29 September 2023.