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Check out the latest vacancies in Children’s Health Foundation and find out more about how you could join our fundraising family.
The creation of Children’s Health Foundation in 2019 brought together the existing Temple Street Foundation and The Children’s Medical and Research Foundation Crumlin to continue to support Ireland’s sickest children in their treatment journey today, tomorrow and into the future.
Children’s Health Foundation raises funds to support the delivery of services for children’s and adolescent health needs in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) the new paediatric healthcare system in Ireland, including research and innovation, patient and parent support, infrastructure and equipment and any other health services associated with CHI.
Our purpose as a leading charity is to give every sick child In Ireland the very best chance and we are looking for bold and ambitious professionals to join our incredible team to deliver on an ambitious growth strategy.
This is an incredible opportunity to be part of the team who raise vital, life-saving funds and support some 300,000 children and their families who attend CHI each year in need of world-class paediatric care; ensuring that patients have access to the very highest standards of care, world-class facilities and the most up-to-date research that will change young lives for the better. Children’s Health Foundation offers a hybrid flexible work environment.
Community & Campaigns Manager
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Campaign Planning and Delivery
- Support the day-to-day planning, delivery, and evaluation of CHF’s community fundraising and campaigns, including key moments in the fundraising calendar.
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of assigned campaigns and community initiatives,
- ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed targets.
- Translate strategic objectives set by the CCE Lead into clear operational plans and timelines.
- Ensure effective coordination of activities across the community and campaigns calendar to maximise impact and efficiency, working closely with Brand, Marketing, and Communications team.
Campaign Performance and Optimisation
- Monitor and analyse campaign performance, using data and insight to optimise activity during and after delivery.
- Produce regular campaign performance reports, highlighting results, learnings, and recommendations.
- Test and learn across messaging, channels, and creative approaches to improve
- campaign effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to grow income, improve ROI, and enhance supporter
- engagement through campaigns.
- Team Management and Leadership
- Support CCE Lead with providing day-to-day support to CCE Team.
- Help allocate workload, set clear priorities, and ensure high standards of campaign
- delivery.
- Foster a collaborative, results-driven, and creative campaign culture within the
- team.
Community Engagement and Campaign Development
- Support the development and delivery of grassroots fundraising and community engagement initiatives.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with community fundraisers, volunteers, and supporters.
- Contribute ideas and insight to the development of engaging fundraising campaigns and activations.
- Ensure community and campaign activity reflects CHF’s values, brand, and supporter promise.
- Financial and Operational Management
- Support the management of campaign income and expenditure budgets.
- Ensure effective use of resources, suppliers, and agencies to deliver campaigns.
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and partners as required for campaign delivery.
- Collaboration, Compliance and Continuous Improvement
- Work collaboratively across Fundraising, Brand and Communications to deliver integrated campaigns.
- Ensure all campaign activity complies with fundraising regulations, data protection, and CHF policies.
- Stay informed of trends and best practice in fundraising campaigns and apply learning to CHF activity.
- Support the CCE Lead with campaign planning, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications and Experience
- 2 years’ experience in a similar role
- Proven ability to build donor pipeline
- Understanding of donor procurement and management processes
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to achieve results in
- collaboration with partners from a range of backgrounds
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise workload
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as take responsibility for own tasks and work on
- own initiative.
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Applying Deadline for applications is 16th of January 2026
CV and Cover Letter should be emailed to jobs@childrenshealth.ie
Background and Context
Children’s Health Foundation (CHF) is focused on raising funds to fulfil our mission of providing world class medical facilities, research and compassionate loving care for every sick child in Ireland cared for in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals and urgent care centres.
The Foundation supports Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s Hospitals, National Children’s Hospital Tallaght and Connolly Urgent Care Centre.
The creation of Children’s Health Foundation in 2019 brought together the existing Temple Street Foundation and The Children’s Medical and Research Foundation Crumlin to continue to support Ireland’s sickest children in their treatment journey today, tomorrow and into the future.
Role Purpose
The Head of Impact is a senior, strategic role within the Children’s Health Foundation, responsible for understanding, shaping, and advancing the Foundation’s funding priorities to maximise impact for beneficiaries.
This maternity cover role will lead on strengthening the Foundation’s impact framework, ensuring that unmet needs in children’s health are identified, prioritised, and effectively addressed through funding, partnerships, and research.
Key Responsibilities
Oversight of all funding programmes and special initiatives, leading the grants and impact team to maintain a consistent, efficient and effective approach across all programmes
Ensure excellent governance and maximum impact for our supporters and our Foundation
Managing and providing leadership to the grants and impact team in their administration and delivery of the Foundation’s grant funding
Support CRM system integration to increased efficiencies and process around grant application and delivery
Maximise, measure and report on the impact of funding from CHF through the implementation of an impact framework, measured against key strategic objectives within our strategy
Overseeing and ensuring effective relationship management between CHF and CHI, funding partners and other key stakeholders across all funding programmes
Act as a representative for the organisation across funding potential such as research opportunities and strategic partnership potentials
Coordinate engagement opportunities and stakeholder interaction schedules across all key funding partnerships
Provide accurate and engaging communication on outcomes and impact for use in fundraising, supporter communications and key corporate publications such as the annual report
Work with the senior grants manager to ensure effective use and monitoring of charitable funds through excellent grant management
Develop a campaign of awareness around CHF for CHI staff across the sites to increase engagement
Support Management of Restricted Funds and develop relevant process maps
Qualifications and Experience
2–3 Years Experience in impact, monitoring or evaluation with experience in the charity or health sector
Knowledge and practical experience in managing large expenditure budgets
Understanding of excellent governance practices for a charity
Stakeholder management expertise, ability to negotiate and influence
Ability to review and assess large amounts of information at pace
Detailed orientated
Superb communication skills, both communicating within the organisation and externally and excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey the Foundation’s mission, impact, and needs
Team management experience
Ability to work with and through others
Experience in leading and managing teams, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
Ability to engage and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including donors, partners, and CHI members
Knowledge and experience in overseeing an entire grant lifecycle, from application to reporting
Impact Measurement and Evaluation skills
Ability to design and implement impact assessment frameworks to measure the effectiveness of programs and initiatives
Project Management: Strong project management skills to oversee multiple projects, ensuring deadlines are met and projects completed within budget
Strong functional competency across the Microsoft suite, particularly Excel
Experience using CRMs e.g. Salesforce platform
Relevant industry qualification, desirable
Functional Competencies
Understand CHF’s external environment, at home and abroad.
Ethics Management – including the application of financial controls to avoid fraud.
Understands and promotes CHF’s Organizational Values, History and Culture.
Accountability – Evaluation of planned spend to ensure value for money.
Terms and Benefits
Flexible hybrid work policy
Cycle to Work Scheme
PRSA: up to 6% contributory subject to eligibility criteria
TaxSaver Commuter Ticket Scheme available
Employee Assistance Programme
Training and Education allowance
Paid Sick leave – subject to eligibility criteria
21 days annual leave and five privilege days per annum
CV and Cover Letter should be emailed to jobs@childrenshealth.ie