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Work Remotely as a Digital Content Creator at Global Fund for Children

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Closing Date: 27 May 2025

Work Remotely as a Digital Content Creator at Global Fund for Children

Overview

Global Fund for Children (GFC) works to build a world where all children and youth are safe, strong, and valued. Since 1994, GFC have supported more than 1,000 local partners to reach more than 11 million children, and is working with new organizations all the time. With unique missions and culturally relevant approaches, GFC partners fiercely pursue its shared vision: securing a safe, vibrant, and equitable future for all children and young people.

The Digital Content Creator will join a multinational team of caring and committed individuals who believe in investing in bold ideas to help its local partners deepen their impact and advocate for children’s rights. GFC value courage, excellence, learning, partnership, and inclusion, as well as kindness and passion. GFC partners’ visions for change inspire all it does. Feedback and learning inspire GFC to constantly improve and strives to be youth centered.

Role Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that values creativity and impact and where your work directly contributes to powering the potential of children and young people.

The Digital Content Creator role contributes to the delivery of the key objectives of the Marketing and Communications team:

To increase awareness of Global Fund for Children’s work
To increase the number of opted-in email subscribers.
To convert supporters from people who ‘do’ to people who ‘care’ (fundraise, donate, take an action, share and create user-generated content).

The Digital Content Creator will be responsible for creating high quality, engaging and original content for various channels, including reels, carousels and posts for Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. You will be keen to develop and establish new communities on other channels as the social media landscape changes. Translating the work of its grassroots partners and GFC staff into powerful social media narratives, you will produce content that is aligned with GFC mission and ensure that GFC is maximising the potential of its digital channels to grow GFC supporter base and build a growing global movement.

You will collaborate with graphic designers, videographers, various digital agencies and colleagues around the world on a daily basis in undertaking your role coordinating campaigns and its daily social media schedule.

You should have a passion for staying up to date with industry trends and innovations, a track record of creating content aligned with cultural moments and a knowledge of how popular culture can drive social change. You will be skilled in producing viral content and driving actions and donations through social media.

To that end, you will also play a role in building relationships with its growing network of Global Ambassadors who use their networks and influence to raise the profile of our work and inspire their communities to take action. You will also provide support in managing relationships with GFC Global Ambassadors and other key influencers to maximise content opportunities and community building.

You will be focused on results and data. You will understand our key audiences and community building objectives and play a key role in growing the brand and profile of GFC and GFC leaders. You will be focused on analysing the performance and results of your work in order to inform future priorities. You will work with the team to generate and report back against our monthly KPIs. If you are bursting with new ideas, care about supporting grassroots partners all over the world to power the potential of children and young people and have a passion for using popular culture and trends to drive social changes, GFC would love to hear from you!

You don’t need to have experience working in social media in the charity sector, but you do need to have demonstrable skills in creating engaging content, growing followers, working collaboratively and converting engagement to donations and actions.

Position Responsibilities:

Social Media Management and Digital Content Creation

Support the execution of an integrated strategy for GFC social media channels including leading on content planning and creation, posting and analysis.
Staying on top of trends and learning from analytics to create compelling and engaging content that meets agreed KPIs.
Develop and produce high-quality multimedia content for various platforms, including social media, websites and email campaigns.
Edit raw footage into finished videos using industry-standard software, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines.
Support on digital ads delivery.
Support in managing relationships with digital agencies.
Support other teams across GFC to use social media as a method to engage and communicate with key audiences and stakeholders.
Work with colleagues on managing third party specialists (freelancer or agency) to maximise GFC website maintenance and development, digital projects, paid advertising to ensure good return on investment and that objectives are met on time and on budget.

Email Marketing

Act as social media content lead for major campaigns and fundraising activities
Recommend and execute social media strategies to achieve fundraising and campaign objectives and KPIs.
Support the delivery of the Marketing and Communications team email marketing programme to meet agreed open and click-through rate KPIs.
Support the team to build, design and send acquisition and retention emails using the email distribution system (Pardot).
Support the review and analysis of email marketing results, report and evaluate overall and specific campaign success.

Global Ambassador and Influencer outreach and support

Lead on delivering the Global Ambassador engagement strategy and influencer engagement activities.
Support the cultivation of existing and new influencers and Global Ambassadors. Work across teams to coordinate asks/outreach and ensure relationship managers are briefed and supported to deliver cultivation plans.
Work with colleagues across the organisation to identify new potential celebrity supporters and influencers, develop one-pagers and coordinate sign-off process and develop recruitment plans to bring them on board.

Project management

Lead and co-lead specific digital campaigns and projects throughout the year.
Manage and catalogue digital assets (photos, case studies and videos) and upload them to digital asset management system.
Along with your colleagues, make sure that ‘Safer Communication’ and safeguarding are at the heart of all our asset collection and creation. Undertake your work in line with the safeguarding policy and best practice for marketing and communications work.
Undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as required by your line manager.

About You

Essential experience and skills

A strong knowledge of social media trends and passion for creating engaging content.
Significant proven experience of managing social media channels to achieve goals and objectives.
Strong understanding of storytelling, pacing, and visual aesthetics.
Passion for digital communications and social media platforms, up to date on the newest trends and excited about finding new creative ways of communicating.
Proficiency in video editing software such as Adobe, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro.
Proficiency with graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Proficiency in using Canva
Using an email marketing system (GFC currently uses Pardot)
Working with a website content management system (creating webpages)
Experience of using analytics insights (social media or Google Analytics for the website) to create reports. An ability to use these reports to make informed decisions when planning content based on what has performed well in the past.
Working on multiple projects and juggling deadlines effectively.
Calm under pressure.
Creative and entrepreneurial, identifies and maximises opportunities
Excellent communicator, written and oral
Accountable team player, who can work across a multi-disciplinary team
Analytical mind, constantly seeking to improve results and achieve goals
Flexible and willing to learn
Motivated to build and nurture positive professional relationships

Desirable experience and skills

Knowledge of SEO best practices and how they apply to video content.
Understanding of social media algorithms and best practices for content distribution.
Experience of project management
Some knowledge of/experience of setting up digital ads
Experience of working in a hybrid setting across a variety of time-zones
Working with a development/fundraising team to deliver financial goals or partnership deliverables
A passion for the work of Global Fund for Children and the power and potential of children and young people.

Terms and Conditions

Flexible Working Location: This position is open to candidates from any location, but you must be able to collaborate easily, on a daily basis, with key colleagues (currently UK, Spain, Kenya) in the Marketing and Communications team.
Terms: Full-time contract, work remotely with attendance from time to time at the UK office in central London when necessary or requested to deliver work plans.
Learning: GFC encourages professional development as a part of our culture and values. GFC provides regular opportunities for training, collaboration, and mentorship. Employees may access professional development funds to support continued learning.

GFC global employee beneﬁts include:

Private healthcare insurance plan with comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
Generous paid time oﬀ (annual leave, enhanced sickness leave, wellbeing days, sabbatical leave, family friendly leave)
Flexible work arrangements – remote/hybrid/compressed work schedules
Pension plan contributions – employees are auto-enrolled on the GFC workplace pension scheme.
8% employer contributions with 4% employee contributions
Employee Assistance Services
Team Building and Social Committees