The External Engagement Coordinator ensures War Child is strategically present, well‑prepared, and effective across a wide range of external engagements, including events, partnerships, panels, meetings, and speaking opportunities. Combining strong coordination and logistical skills with a strategic, forward‑looking mindset, the role supports which opportunities to pursue and ensures War Child shows up with clarity, purpose, and impact. Proactive and creative in approach, the role brings together people, planning, content, policy, and follow‑up so that every engagement is well‑executed and generates learning.
Sitting within the War Child Alliance External Engagement Pillar, the role plays a central part in positioning the organisation as a credible partner and a leader in scalable, evidence‑based interventions for children affected by conflict. It coordinates end‑to‑end engagement with key audiences—including governments, donors, foundations, corporates, multilaterals, and global influencers—maximising the value of War Child’s external presence, strengthening relationships, enhancing visibility, and supporting the scaling of solutions that deliver lasting impact for children.
Sitting within the War Child Alliance External Engagement Pillar, the role plays a central part in positioning the organisation as a credible partner and a leader in scalable, evidence‑based interventions for children affected by conflict. It coordinates end‑to‑end engagement with key audiences—including governments, donors, foundations, corporates, multilaterals, and global influencers—maximising the value of War Child’s external presence, strengthening relationships, enhancing visibility, and supporting the scaling of solutions that deliver lasting impact for children.
What you will do:
- Create targeted campaigns for institutions, philanthropists, foundations and corporates and produce high-quality narratives, presentations, pitches, and brand assets.
- Monitoring and Evaluating impact of strategies.
- Lead logistics and content coordination for War Child’s presence at a range of events including Davos, UNGA and other global events in collaboration with IMT, Advocacy, Communications and Institutional Fundraising, and others as required.
- Lead on and coordinate development of presentations, speaking points, briefing packs and executive materials.
- With support from the wider Communications Team create compelling content for events that highlight War Child as a global leader in children’s mental health, education and protection.
- With support of the wider External Engagement Department, develop targeted thought leadership and engagement initiatives that highlight War Child’s expertise and approaches.
- Support senior leadership and Institutional Funding teams with donor-ready materials and value propositions.
- Support the War Child Alliance Foundation Engagement Department on shared assets, collaborate on team projects.
ROLE-SPECIFIC OR CONTEXT RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide Marketing and Communications support to the Advocacy and Institutional Fundraising Team to raise the profile of War Child's value proposition to key stakeholders and markets.
- Coordinate War Childs presence at global events including UNGA, DAVOS, including coordinating and producing relevant marketing material, attending events as needed.
- The role contributes to War Child Alliance’s external positioning and engagement, ensuring the organisation is strategically present, well-prepared, and impactful across events, partnerships, and stakeholder interactions. It influences organisational reputation, visibility, and partnership development, supporting fundraising and the scaling of evidence-based solutions for children affected by conflict. The impact is global and cross-functional, delivered through coordination of external engagement activities.
- Work is delivered with a degree of autonomy within defined strategies and frameworks, in close collaboration with and under the direction of key multidisciplinary teams, notably Advocacy, Communications and Institutional Fundraising, and other colleagues and Fundraising Members as required.
- The role communicates with a wide range of stakeholders including internal teams (Communications, Advocacy, Institutional Fundraising), senior leadership and by supporting teams to engage with external audiences and stakeholders. Communication focuses on developing and delivering high-quality narratives, presentations, and engagement materials, and supporting senior-level interactions. It requires the ability to influence internally, coordinate messaging, and engage effectively across diverse and international contexts.
- The role applies creativity and judgement to event planning and external engagement communications plans that effectively position War Child externally. It involves using market insight, programme evidence, and partner-led approaches to shape messaging and engagement. The role contributes to improving external engagement approaches and thought leadership, ensuring activities are purposeful, effective, and continuously learned from.
- The role requires experience in communications, and stakeholder engagement, along with strong skills in logistics, content development, and project management. It requires understanding of donor ecosystems, evidence-based programming, and partnership approaches, with the ability to translate complex information into compelling narratives. Experience in the humanitarian, development, or social impact sector is desirable.
- The role operates in a context where errors may impact organisational reputation, quality of external engagement, and effectiveness of stakeholder interactions. It involves supporting high-profile events and senior-level engagement, where quality, accuracy, and coordination are critical. Risks are primarily reputational, related to the delivery and positioning of external engagement activities.