Enterprise and Innovative Finance Associate

Full time (flexible working options available)

Hybrid - Farringdon, London/Home-based

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Closing Date: 18 May 2025

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.

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 18th 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.