Gaming Partnerships Manager

Job Summary

Salary circa £42,000 per annum

It’s an exciting time for War Child. We are sector leading with our heritage, connections, and relationships in the world of music, gaming and events. Our friends are superbly connected and ready to use their networks to help us. With a talented, hard-working team, we deliver amazing, creative and innovative fundraising in spades that has a huge capacity to inspire people.

We are seeking a Gaming Partnerships Manager to join our team. This role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to create, activate & manage key gaming campaigns and partnerships, specifically managing one of our highest value partnerships: Jingle Jam. As an important member of War Child’s award-winning Gaming Partnerships team, you will have a direct impact on the lives of children who have been affected by conflict by raising funds and awareness within the video gaming industry.

Your Role

The Gaming Partnerships Manager will have a focus on growing income and delivering our gaming partnerships and activations, specifically manging one of our highest value partnerships: The Jingle Jam. You will also deliver sale events and activations, overseeing new business and working with the Gaming Partnerships Lead on growth opportunities within gaming that utilises War Child’s legacy within the videogame sector.

You will work closely with the Gaming Partnerships Lead to explore, assess and develop a pipeline of partnerships and activities to ensure that fundraising across the gaming team continues to grow. You will utilise your network within the gaming industry to deliver successful projects and will build on and maintain partnerships to increase income across War Child’s gaming portfolio.

Your key objective is to secure income to help War Child deliver quality programmes to an increased number of children in conflict zones, while ensuring the organisation has the flexible funding needed to maintain stability and growth. Being a fast-growing global industry, Gaming has become one of War Child’s most important target sectors for innovation and growth. Working closely with the Gaming Partnerships Lead, you will be uniquely placed to deliver a lasting impact on the War Child and the children we serve.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage War Child’s Jingle Jam activity including recruiting and stewarding creators that widen the Jingle Jam audience, planning an exciting and cause-led social media campaign, reporting and organising 2-3 tentpole events during the December core event.  Proactively build and maintain manage relationships with our existing gaming partners, including publishers, studios and creators, delivering exceptional stewardship, to maximise long-term impact and income growth, ensuring tailored cultivation and engagement plans are in place.
• Proactively build new & innovative relationships with developers, publishers, platforms and where relevant, creators.
• Write and create pitches, proposals, cultivation plans and deliver presentations to potential gaming partners
• Manage projects and events across the gaming portfolio, creating and managing partnerships, budgets, critical paths, and event delivery, leading internal teams to deliver the project ensuring responsibilities and deadlines are clear and stakeholders are kept informed.
• Hire and manage agencies or external vendors where suitable to delivery income generating activity.
• Responsibility for accurate and timely financial reporting of the activities and income streams that you will be responsible for.
• Support the Gaming Partnerships Lead to develop and manage a fundraising roadmap to deliver a vital income stream for War Child UK.
• Build strong relationships with other members of the Fundraising Departments and, more widely, across War Child.
• Manage and contribute to Fundraising project groups (set up to coordinate cross-team events and campaigns) by representing the Gaming team and ensuring partnership opportunities and income generation are maximised.
• Collaborate with a part time Gaming Assistant efficiently to ensure successful completion of projects
• Manage War Child’s Fanatical and Valve sales, developing cause-led themes, recruiting and stewarding publishers, negotiating with publishers, account managing Fanatical and Valve, and planning promotional campaigns.
• Work closely with our Digital and Communications Team across our campaigns and partnerships to deliver innovative audience engagement and income generating campaigns.
• Use all tools available to ensure compliance and our ethical fundraising policy are adhered to, this includes partnership agreements, due diligence processes, CRM database management as well as GDPR and fundraising regulations.
• Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant to War Child’s Safeguarding and PSEAH (Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment) Policies.

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post.

You Are

• In-depth knowledge of the games industry and its collaborative opportunities, especially where it intersects with streaming and charitable giving.
• Proven new business and account management skills that can use creativity to leverage contacts and experience to deliver income-generating activations
• Strong experience of managing campaigns, including critically evaluating activities to achieve strategic priorities and maximise their effectiveness, able to meticulously plan and maintain a pipeline and budget income as well as manage your workload to meet deadlines, manage priorities, update stakeholders and hit targets.
• A confident presenter with the ability to pitch War Child passionately, concisely and professionally to potential gaming partners across all levels of seniority
• Excellent relationship management skills, with the ability to take a personalised approach to business relationships at all levels with corporates, content creators, and partners.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of distilling complex information into compelling and understandable documents, as well as influencing and negotiating effectively.
• Experience in developing and delivering supporter journeys and cultivation plans to recruit and steward supporters.
• Creative and innovative problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to identify and develop new income-generating ideas using internal insights and external case studies and translate them into proposals that influence and inform stakeholders.
• Proven track record of working closely with colleagues to build and deliver effective promotional plans for all campaigns, targeting appropriate audiences for activation and achieving targets.
• Demonstrated success in achieving financial targets through account management and business development.
• Proficiency in maintaining accurate records using a Client Relationship Management system such as Salesforce.
• A team player and self-starter, capable of working with a high degree of autonomy.
• Attend events and occasional in-person meetings as required to support team collaboration and represent the organisation

All candidates for roles based in London are required to have the right to work in the UK

About Us

Our Values

• Bold: We use our passion and creativity to deliver high quality evidence-based work designed to maximise our beneficial impact for children in conflict.
• Accountable to children: Children can rely on us to respond to their voices and to treat them with respect and dignity.
• Anti-racism: Anti-racism is not merely a belief. It includes actions that we mainstream throughout our work to change and challenge policies and behaviours that perpetuate racism.
• Transparent: We expect to be held to account by our supporters and participants and we respond with openness and honesty.
• Supportive of each other: We support each other to achieve ambitious goals and be the best we can be. We are honest and open, sharing our successes & confronting our challenges.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working - we recognise the considerable benefits that flexible working can bring and are happy to discuss any possible flexible working options with our employees from hiring. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, occasional working from home and compressed hours.
• Annual leave – 28 days per year (full-time) rising to 33 days with service, plus bank holidays
• Pension - all eligible employees automatically enrolled into a Group Personal Pension Plan with a 5% employer contribution, with minimum employee contribution on a salary sacrifice basis. This increases to 6% after one year's service. 
• Family leave – we offer enhanced Maternity, Partner/Co-Parent/Paternity Leave, Adoption & Shared Parental Leave
• Health & wellbeing - employees may take advantage of a healthcare cash plan and a range of wellbeing initiatives and training. In addition, all employees have access to free, confidential one-to-one wellbeing consultations with trained counsellors.
• Learning & development - dedicated to the investment in learning and continuing professional development for all our employees
• Workplace Nursery Benefit – employees make tax and NI savings on nursery costs for children up to the age of 5
• Flexible public holidays - up to two standard UK public holidays can be exchanged for those that have cultural or religious significance. 
  
• Cancer Cover: Voluntary contributions can be made through payroll allowing employees to claim back on a range of cancer treatments.
• GP 24/7 Helpline: A GP helpline is be available to all UK employees providing access to a qualified GP, 24/7 via a telephone or webcam consultation, and offers diagnosis, advice and reassurance on a range of medical matters, as well as authorisation of private electronic prescriptions.
• Welcome Bag for new starters: A War Child Tote bag, War Child T-shirt and some other practical things to welcome new colleagues to War Child.
• Discounts on War Child Merchandise: 25% discount on full price War Child merchandise, available to all employees, sold through Shop for Good. 
• Range of flexible benefits such a Cycle to Work scheme and season ticket loans.

Flexible Working

We positively support flexible working arrangements. These currently include: office working, homeworking, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexi-time, flexi-place (hybrid working) and job shares. We would be happy to discuss individual flexible working requests during the interview process.

How to Apply

• To apply, simply submit an application through our Current Vacancies page and attach a copy of your CV.
• On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their application as early as possible.
• If you have any questions about reasonable adjustments before or during your application, we welcome the opportunity to talk about what we can do to fairly adapt our process for you. Please share what you’re comfortable with to help us put the right support in place, by emailing careers@warchild.org.uk. Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential by our HR team.
• We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the country where this role is based.

Safeguarding

Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. All candidates selected for interview will be asked relevant child safeguarding question(s) during the selection interview. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant with and sign up to our Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEAH (Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment). You can find these policies: https://www.warchild.org.uk/our-work/policies-and-reports/safeguarding

Diversity and Inclusion

We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring that all our people and job applicants are treated fairly, irrespective of where, what or whom they were born, or of other characteristics. We want to offer a safe and inclusive workplace where all our people, especially those who are currently marginalised or underrepresented, can be themselves at work. You can read our Diversity and Inclusion policy on our website, and if you have any questions about our commitment to diversity and inclusion do get in touch: https://www.warchild.org.uk/our-work/policies-and-reports/diversity-and-inclusion

Pre-employment Checks

Employment with War Child will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International/National Criminal Record Check
• a clear vetting and Due Diligence check
• receipt of two professional satisfactory references