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Fundraising Digital Assistant, CiN
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: A
CONTRACT TYPE: Attachment / Fixed Term Contract, Full-time - September to 31 December 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need
LOCATION: MediaCityUK, Salford - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £26,100 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Children in Need believes that every child should have the chance to thrive and be the best they can be.
This role will sit at the heart of our Fundraising Team, supporting our Regular Giving, Mass Participation and Schools Fundraising campaigns, and delivering our charity wide Newsletter, to raise vital income for the charity and fund our life-changing work. The Digital Assistant will play a key role in delivering our email programme, engaging our supporters, communicating our impact and creating a seamless, memorable experience for our audiences.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a busy fundraising team during the most exciting time in Children in Need’s calendar. Your work will have wide reach and huge impact – driving awareness of fundraising at Children in Need and raising income for the charity. You will have exposure to three areas of fundraising, and the opportunity to flex your creativity to shape and influence our email content. You'll work within a friendly and supportive team, and will have the unique opportunity to experience fundraising for an appeal with a large broadcast presence.
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Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Build clear, impactful email campaigns in Dot Digital
- Build and deliver email sequences to support Regular Giving, Mass Participation and Schools Fundraising campaigns
- Own track and manage the progress of email development, liaising with Fundraising and Marketing teams when needed
- Report on a range of email metrics to relevant teams
- Own and manage a busy email calendar, ensuring the correct content is delivered to the correct audience on time
- Make clear, considered decisions on appropriate content to include in our charity Newsletter
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Experience using an email creation system (such as Dot Digital) or website content management system (such as Wordpress)
- Experience working to tight deadlines, adapting to new priorities and managing time independently
- Experience managing multiple deadlines, a large number of projects and several stakeholders simultaneously
- Some experience copywriting to specific tone of voice or brand guidelines
- Thorough attention to detail and experience of checking content for errors
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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