Innovation Manager

Plan International UK; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global children's charity is seeking an experienced Innovation Manager to enhance their fundraising efforts. In this role, you will identify growth opportunities, drive efficiency through digital tools, and ensure that insights guide organizational strategies. This is an exciting opportunity to build a culture of innovation within the team and impact children's futures positively.

Responsibilities

• Identify growth opportunities and leverage trends to diversify fundraising.
• Maximise impact and drive efficiency using digital and data tools.
• Ensure insights and data are central to organizational strategy.
• Build a culture of innovation empowering staff to experiment confidently.

Job description

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Plan International UK is a global children's charity striving for an equal world. One where every child can reach their full potential and every girl can choose her own future.

We bring people together to protect children's rights and keep girls safe, in school and in control of their bodies - even when disaster strikes. And we won't stop until we are all equal.

We are looking for an experienced Innovation Manager to join our Transformation and Innovation Unit. The Transformation and Innovation Unit is a small but critical function that sits in the Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Directorate. The post-holder with work the Head of Transformation and Innovation on four focus areas:

• Income diversification: identifying growth opportunities and leveraging trends to develop new products and campaigns that will diversify Plan UK's fundraising portfolio
• Optimisation and process improvement: finding ways to maximise impact and drive efficiency in the way we do things, making the best use of digital and data tools to improve our processes and deliver a great supporter experience
• Insights and supporter-centricity: leading the charge to becoming a truly supporter centric organisation, ensuring audience insight and data is at the heart of everything we do
• Culture of innovation: Building and nurturing a spirit of innovation and insight-led experimentation, empowering everyone at Plan UK to innovate with confidence

This is an exciting new role in the team that will support the development of Plan International UK's fundraising portfolio, using audience insights to innovate and develop new sustainable fundraising streams that grow our income and deliver best-in-class supporter experiences.

For further detail of this role, please see the job profile.

Please note, this role is not eligible for sponsorship and therefore we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 on Thursday 28 August 2025

First interviews will take place on Friday 5 September 2025

Final interviews will take place on Thursday 11 September 2025

We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults in our work. We, therefore, apply rigorous recruitment and selection processes to ensure that only those who are suitable are recruited to work for us. Accordingly, appointment to all our roles is subject to a range of vetting checks and for this role this will include a Basic Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working for us; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences.

Plan International UK is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.