Job Description

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and entrepreneurial individual with extensive commercial finance experience to join us as our

Enterprise and Innovative Finance Associate

where you will work within our Innovation Hive and with partners.

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 the role

As Enterprise and Innovative Finance Associate, you will play a key role in designing and delivering pioneering innovation projects across:

Innovative finance

(e.g., impact investment, access to finance, disaster risk financing)

Enterprise development

Commercial models

Impact measurement and management (IMM) integration

Advocacy to grow the Child-Lens Investment market

You'll collaborate with global teams, internal stakeholders, and cross-sector partners to push boundaries, identify market opportunities, and pilot scalable solutions. Your work will contribute to embedding a culture of innovation and partnership across Save the Children UK.

In this role, you will:

Lead the design and delivery of high-impact innovation projects aligned with Save the Children Uk's mission



Conduct market research and identify opportunities in emerging sectors and geographies



Integrate data-driven impact frameworks into all initiatives



Champion and advocate for the Child-Lens Investment market



Support knowledge management and tool development for scalable innovation delivery



Uphold and promote safeguarding standards in all areas of your work.

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

Proven experience delivering projects in enterprise development and/or innovative finance (e.g., social impact investing, access to finance, disaster risk financing venture collaborations)



Strong understanding of IMM frameworks and their application in mission-driven projects



Excellent market analysis, data interpretation, and strategic communication skills



Ability to work across geographies, teams, and sectors with a collaborative mindset



Entrepreneurial thinking and the ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams



Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you:

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.


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 read more about our benefits here.




To learn more about the position, please review the in the attached Documents.

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 18

th

May

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.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.

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.



To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: Save the Children | Careers

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK 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 Criminal Record Check (If applicable) receipt of satisfactory references proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an

FAQ section.

For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk

Division: Chief Executive's Office
Location (Role): Farringdon, London/Home-based
Contract Type: Permanent Contract
Full / Part Time: Full time (flexible working options available)
Closing Date: 18 May 2025
Salary Range : 46,000-55,000
Hours Per Week: 35