Direct Marketing Manager

SALARY: £31,504 – 33,727pa
LOCATION: Central London
CONTRACT: Permanent
CLOSING DATE: August 16th

Are you passionate about making a real difference? Then help shape ActionAid's future as Direct Marketing Manager.

As part of the global ActionAid family, we work with local people in 43 countries to fight poverty and injustice and to build a fair and just world where everyone can claim their human rights.

We want you to plan and deliver high budget marketing campaigns across a wide range of direct marketing channels tomeet our supporter acquisition targets. Based on your analysis of past campaigns, you’ll develop direct marketing programmes that grow our supporter base and increase our income.

You’ll be adept at managing suppliers so that they produce the best work for us. This will involve working closely with colleagues in other areas of our organisation to ensure we have consistently high quality, integrated campaigns that support our position and branding.

We expect you to have an impressive record of managing direct marketing campaigns, including cash and regular giving programmes.

You must be skilled at managing agencies, printers and mailing houses. You also need to be used to commissioning and managing market research projects and interpreting and applying their findings.

A classic direct marketer, you’ll be used to optimising campaigns and monitoring, reporting and forecasting against plans and budgets.

This is an exciting time to join ActionAid. Bring us all this and you can look forward to all the opportunities our innovations and increased investment in our people will generate.

Applications close August 16th 2012. Interviews will take place between August 20th and 22nd 2012

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To apply

Please email your CV, covering letter and equal opportunities monitoring form to jobs@actionaid.org

About your application:

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we will not be able to respond personally to applicants who are not short-listed. If you have not heard from us within two weeks from the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ActionAid is an equal opportunities employer. We warmly welcome applications from all sections of the community and aim to promote diversity.

Recruitment consultancies / agencies should not approach ActionAid with regards to open vacancies. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.

All interested applicants must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK.