Telemarketing Manager

SAVE THE CHILDREN; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international charity in London is seeking a Telemarketing Manager on a 6-month fixed-term contract. In this role, you will manage telemarketing campaigns, work with various teams, and ensure compliance while providing strategic guidance to maximize fundraising. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in telemarketing and stakeholder management, as well as a commitment to the charity's mission.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Sense of purpose

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience managing end-to-end high-performing telemarketing campaigns.
• Knowledge of charity marketing compliance and telemarketing landscape.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders to deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute telemarketing campaigns to attract and retain supporters.
• Manage telemarketing agencies and ensure campaigns meet KPIs.
• Build relationships with agencies and provide strategic insights.

Skills

Campaign management

Stakeholder management

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Job description

Fixed Term Contract – 6 months

Closing Date: 9 December 2025

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Are you ready to make a difference? Are you passionate about driving positive change and impacting lives? Join us as our Telemarketing Manager (6-month fixed-term contract) to drive successful telemarketing programmes, plan and execute campaigns to attract, upgrade, retain, and win back supporters.

For this role you'll be required to work from our Farringdon, London office one day per week. Some weeks this may be slightly more, others slightly less.

About us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About you

As our Telemarketing Manager, you will set the standard for brilliant, effective fundraising putting our supporters at the heart of everything we do. Working with the Senior Manager and Direct Engagement team you will take the lead, bringing both fundraising and operational expertise to deliver strong data‑driven campaigns, ensuring its success day to day.

In this role, you will:

• Working in partnership with multiple teams to drive the success of our telemarketing programmes, through comprehensive planning and execution to attract, upgrade, retain, and win back supporters.
• Manage telemarketing agencies and collaborate with internal teams to ensure campaigns are meeting and exceeding KPIs and targets through effective agency management.
• Lead the implementation of compliance and safeguarding programmes, maintaining the highest standards.
• Build strong relationships with agencies through direct engagement and site visits, ensuring transparency and excellence.
• Utilise data‑driven insights to adapt campaign delivery and drive continuous improvement, ensuring supporter insight and data analysis play a pivotal role in decisions.
• Provide expertise and knowledge to support and up‑skill the wider marketing teams on telemarketing management & best practice to deliver exceptional results.
• Play an integral role in the ongoing relationship building with telemarketing agencies.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Experience managing end‑to‑end high‑performing telemarketing campaigns and teams.
• In‑depth knowledge of charity marketing compliance, up to date telemarketing landscape and agency models.
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders to deliver results.
• Expertise in the management of external telemarketing agencies in partnership with designing and delivering exceptional training.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills, being target driven and results focussed.
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills, being able to support and lead a team.
• Ability to work independently, adapt to change, and drive results.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.
• Willingness to carry out duties outside office hours in case of emergency appeals.

What we offer you:

• A diverse, unique role where no two days are the same, with huge capacity to build and acquire new personal and professional skills and create your own scope to make change within one of the world's leading international charities.
• Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
• To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
• You can find our employment offer here.

Ways of Working

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK.However, for this role, you will be required to work from our Farringdon Office‑London 1 day a week, some weeks this might be slightly more, some weeks could be slightly less. Please note that travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. The role requires you to regularly visit teams throughout the UK, costs of which will be covered by SCUK.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Flexible Working

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person – we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences – of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability – help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.