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Senior Advisor - Social Tech

Employer
Comic Relief
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£43,000-£47,000pa
Closing date
10 Apr 2019

Job Details

Senior Advisor - Social Tech

Team: Impact and Investment

£43,000 - 47,000pa

Central London

The Senior Advisor – Social Tech will be the organisational lead for strategic partnerships and the portfolio of grants within the social tech approach. The post holder will promote Comic Relief as a leading social tech funder, and broker new social tech partnerships focused on realising the potential of technology to offer solutions to social challenges.

Key Accountabilities / Objectives

·         Champion Comic Relief as one of the leading social tech funding organisations in the UK and an emerging thought and practice leader globally.

·         Act as the highest point of elevation in the organisation for social tech expertise, leading this strategic approach to social change alongside Sport for Change and the four core thematic areas.

·         Personally manage strategic, high risk, value or complex relationships with social tech partners and provide strategic leadership to all UK and international social tech partnerships, ensuring that trust and shared accountability for learning and sustainability are the hallmarks of all partnerships.

·         Personally make and manage all social tech grants outside of any partner-funded programmes, ensuring consistently high quality and strategic grant making.

·         Work with the Commercial and Partnerships teams to actively develop and broker new tech focused relationships, advising on and developing potential funding and delivery models. Take personal responsibility for appointing any new tech funding partners and ensure they meet wider organisational objectives.

·         Support colleagues across the Impact & Investment department, and where necessary the rest of Comic Relief, to integrate our social tech partnerships into our wider portfolio, sharing learning and insight.

·         Deliberately and creatively find ways to support social tech outside of our traditional funding areas, including focused regional funding, supporting intermediaries, identifying higher risk opportunities, and learning by doing.

·         Work with Finance to proactively manage all social tech budgets, including partnership budgets.

·         Line manage and lead the Social Tech Partnerships Associate and provide strategic support and oversight on grant portfolios and funding partnerships under the Partnerships Associate’s remit.

·         Seek out and engage in opportunities to broaden and strengthen Comic Relief’s understanding of social tech, keeping up to date with sector developments, potential areas for investment, and possible new partnerships.

·         Represent Comic Relief’s social tech work externally, developing our profile at the forefront of social tech funding.

·         Personally build a network of stakeholders with whom to share Comic Relief’s learning and best practice, with the aim of growing and strengthening the social tech sector and increase the quantity of funding available.

·         Regular travel (including international) is required within this role.

Essential Education and Skills

·         Significant experience within the impact and investment arena, working closely with other tech-focused funder partners for social change.

·         A good understanding of developing, implementing and evaluating investment strategies.

 

Key Competencies

·         Effective relationship builder with high emotional intelligence and gravitas to nurture trust and respect in all relationships.

·         Analytical thinker with the ability to see the bigger picture and make appropriate and effective decisions.

·         Confident, creative communicator that understands and relishes cross-functional / collaborative working.

·         Strong planner with excellent flexibility and resilience to navigate the unexpected.

·         A fun, positive and engaged professional that demonstrates high proactivity.

To apply please visit our website via the link.

Role closes - 12:00pm, 10th Apr 2019 BST (Europe/London)

Interviews will be occurring w/c 22nd of April

Company

Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.

And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.

As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:

"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.

Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.

It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"

AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:

Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.

The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.

That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.

On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.

Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.

Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.

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