Senior Global Fundraising Manager
Contract: 12 Month Fixed-term contract, Maternity Cover, (Part-time or full-time, 4-5 days a week)
Location: This role may be based in one of our WaterAid member offices, London, United Kingdom, Stockholm, Sweden, Canada, New York, United States, Melbourne, or New Delhi, India, subject to right to work eligibility in the respective countries.
The role offers flexible location options. Candidates must align with UK working hours, as the hiring manager is based in the UK, while also maintaining flexibility to accommodate global time zones.
*Each WaterAid office has its own local hybrid working requirements:
Salary and Benefits: Salaries and benefits will vary by country, depending on the successful candidate's location and experience. See further details below:
* UK: GBP £61,645 per annum with excellent benefits*
* Other locations: Competitive salary packages with excellent benefits, in line with local market rates and dependent on experience
*We offer competitive, market-aligned starting salaries. While most roles are offered at the advertised starting salary, we may adjust this in exceptional cases depending on a candidate’s experience, skills, and potential.
Change starts with water. Change starts with you.
Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that – for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.
About WaterAid
We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.
About the team
The Senior Global Fundraising Manager will report to the Global Lead for Communications and Fundraising (Executive Director), currently based in WaterAid UK. They will be an integral member of the Global Communications and Fundraising Executive, made up of senior colleagues from across the WaterAid federation.
The WaterAid Federation consists of the International Secretariat, 7 members - Canada, USA, UK, Sweden, India, Japan and Australia, 3 Regional hubs and 22 country programme offices.
About the role
This role will play a strategic part in driving income growth across the WaterAid federation by proactively collaborating and learning, and seeking opportunities to strengthen our collective action, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. Critically they will play a lead role in developing a long-term global income plan, ensuring that we make the best collective decisions for organisational growth and impact, and ensuring that risk is managed globally. The role holder will work closely with the Executive Director who is the Global Lead for Communications and Fundraising, in overseeing and driving action through the Global Communications and Fundraising Executive (GCFE) made up of communications and fundraising leaders across the federation; and leading key initiatives identified by this group.
In this role, you will;
* Lead the process for the development of a long-term global income generation plan/strategy which maps WaterAid’s growth trajectory, income stream balance, and required enablers and dependencies.
* Takes a lead role in global fundraising projects which address the enablers and dependencies identified in the plan for multiple markets. This could include identifying new approaches such as emergency fundraising; addressing processes and ways of working holding us back; driving efficiencies through centralised procurement.
* Lead on quarterly global performance monitoring and trend analysis – ensuring and supporting all members to provide a qualitative and quantitative overview which enables us to identify trends, opportunities and threats and act upon them. Reporting key findings to WaterAid International where required
* Monitor risk across the income portfolio and support senior fundraisers in managing and mitigating risk identified.
* Identify and coordinate/lead global income generation activities which require central management – including project management of key programmes of work.
* Ensure global engagement in key initiatives is relevant and easy, with low resource impact, for smaller members and Country Programmes (CPs).
* Support the Global Lead for Communications and Fundraising with initiatives which drive global alignment, transparency and effectiveness.
Requirements
To be successful, you’ll need:
* Demonstrable experience in working on global initiatives with globally dispersed teams
* Excellent collaboration and negotiation skills with the ability to drive integration and alignment.
* Proven ability to work effectively with stakeholders from across a range of cultures, locations and backgrounds
* Experience of developing complex plans and strategies - monitoring and reporting against them
* Strong knowledge of fundraising practices and experience delivering fundraising campaigns (restricted or unrestricted income generation)
* Ability to analyse fundraising data and create narrative and actions from that to shape continuous improvement
Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:
* Knowledge of all fundraising streams – public fundraising, philanthropy and trusts, corporate and institutional
* Knowledge of different fundraising markets.
* Ability to flex working hours to ease time zone challenges
View the full job description here
Closing date: Applications close 12 PM UK time on Monday, 20th April 2026. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 27th April.
*Shortlisting and interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the role may close earlier if a suitable candidate is found. We therefore encourage you to apply at an early stage.
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