Music Executive

Job Summary

The salary for this full time permanent role is circa £32,000 per annum 

It’s an exciting time to join War Child. We are sector-leading in our heritage, connections and relationships across music, gaming and events, with an incredible network of supporters ready to champion our work. Backed by a talented and ambitious team, we deliver bold, creative fundraising that inspires people to take action for children affected by conflict and helps ensure they can access protection, education and specialist support. 

The Music Executive plays a central role within the Music team, supporting partnerships, campaigns and projects across our music portfolio.. We create powerful experiences that bring people together to inspire and entertain. This role supports activity across the War Child Records catalogue and future releases, as well as our festival partnerships and wider music industry collaborations. It is a great opportunity to gain experience of working across a diverse portfolio of projects and further your passion for the music industry, alongside contributing to other strategic projects within the Fundraising Engagement team. The role offers the opportunity to build relationships across the music industry and work alongside artists, managers, labels, promoters and other partners who support War Child's mission. We are looking for someone who loves music and wants to help us build the heritage of music at War Child while delivering outstanding experiences for our new and existing supporters.

The team regularly comes together in our London office for collaboration, relationship-building and key meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to attend these in person and support occasional events in London and elsewhere when required.

If you share our values and believe that children’s lives should not be torn apart by war, we want to hear from you.

Your Role

With a strong understanding of and experience within the music industry, you will work with the Music team to ensure the successful delivery of projects and campaigns across War Child Records activity and our Music Partnership activations to meet the income targets of the team. Using your knowledge and expertise, you will work with the Music team, wider Fundraising Engagement team and teams across the organisation to help develop and create new opportunities for War Child to benefit from our relationship with the music industry.

Your Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of our opportunities and partnerships pipeline including identifying, researching and qualifying potential new partners and opportunities
• Support the team to devise creative music industry collaborations and events that bring the charity’s mission to life
• Track and report on partner engagement activities, measuring impact and identifying opportunities for growth
• Support the team to build the pipeline for War Child Records projects and releases
• Responsible for admin support across War Child Records activity, cataloguing assets, processing royalties, logging income on Salesforce, creating mailers, creating assets and managing social media communities
• Create and produce assets such as pitch decks, one pagers, impact reports and social media assets to support Music activity in line with War Child’s Brand Guidelines and Communication Policy
• Represent War Child at industry events and meetings to build relationships, identify new fundraising opportunities and ensure effective follow-up to realise opportunities is in place
• Support the stewardship of existing music industry partners, ensuring excellent relationship management and identifying opportunities to deepen engagement.
• Develop strong relationships and maintain excellent communication channels with other teams and departments
• Actively participate in regular department and team meetings, contributing to strategy discussion and decisions that will be beneficial to the development of fundraising activities
• Support the team to prepare for large scale music events such as Brits Week and other events, and to support at such events when applicable, this may include working occasional evenings and weekends.
• Act as a champion for our music heritage within the organisation and assist other teams in securing support from artists and other music industry partners
• Provide support to the team and the wider department in the delivery of our annual plan. The focus of this role will not be event delivery and project management but, on a case-by-case basis and at different stages of a project, this may be required  
• Use all tools available to ensure compliance with our ethical fundraising policy and relevant regulations. This includes taking responsibility for following partnership agreements and vetting procedures, undertaking due diligence processes, maintaining accurate CRM database records, and adhering to 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
• We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace. All staff are expected to actively contribute to this by embedding principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into their day-to-day work, decision-making, and interactions with colleagues, partners, and supporters
  
  

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 role.

You Are

• Experienced in working within the music industry in a label, management, live music or similar role, with a strong passion for music.
• Experienced in working as part of a team to deliver music campaigns with the ability to work calmly under pressure in a fast-paced event environment and manage multiple tasks
• Experienced in researching and supporting new partners or project development in the music space, including creating assessment documents, building timelines and evaluating potential impact
• Experienced in preparing pitch decks, proposals and creative assets to secure new business
• Creative and entrepreneurial with the confidence to put forward new ideas and approach potential new partners
• Experienced in maintaining accurate CRM records and using databases to support relationship management, reporting and income tracking.
• Strong numerical skills and attention to detail, with experience managing financial or income-related administration.
• Able to perform in a target led environment and deliver against financial targets
• Able to workeffectively and appropriately with high profile supporters
• Able to manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders internally and externally whilst building and maintaining long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships
• Strong organisational and project management skills with excellent attention to detail
• Knowledgeable of trends in the music and events industry with the willingness to stay up to date on the latest developments that could create opportunities for War Child
• Knowledgeable in music release cycles, music marketing and production processes
• Able to attend the London office for meetings and events, and to support occasional fundraising events, including some outside normal working hours
• Always demonstrating a passion for music, proactively meeting contacts and willing to attend events in the evenings and weekends
• Understanding of fundraising, sponsorship, partnerships or commercial relationship management would be advantageous.

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 Everpress. 
• 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 ensure their safety is our top priority. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in all aspects of our work. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy for any behavior or practices that put children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse or harm.

Successful applicants will be required to comply with and sign our Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct, and PSEAH Policy. You can find the Safeguarding and Integrity policies here:
https://warchild.sharepoint.com/sites/Integrity

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