（公開日：2025.03.13）【人材募集】パートナーリレーションズ部 部長 / Fundraising Director
The following is in English after the Japanese text.
子どもの権利の実現を目指す国際NGO セーブ・ザ・チルドレンでは、国内外で子どもたちの課題解決のための事業を行っています。これらの事業が迅速、かつ計画的に実施されるための資金調達を取りまとめ、活動を応援してくださる支援者とのコミュニケーションを担う部門である、パートナーリレーションズ部 部長を募集します。個人ファンドレイジング、法人連携、支援者サービスの3 チームから構成されるパートナーリレーションズ部(約20人)を統括し、マルチセクターの連携による社会課題の解決と子どもの権利実現にリーダーシップを発揮してくださる方からの応募をお待ちしています。
今回募集する人材についての詳細（所属：パートナーリレーションズ部）
■雇用形態： 契約職員
■契約期間： 勤務開始日より1年間。当初3ヶ月試用期間。原則契約更新。
■勤務開始日：2026年2月頃（応相談）
■所属部署： パートナーリレーションズ部
■勤務地： 東京事務所（週3日以内の在宅勤務制度あり）
■勤務時間：週5日 9:30-18:00（休憩1時間、フレックスタイム勤務制度あり）
■待遇： 当団体規定による（社会保険完備、通勤費全額支給、賞与有り、昇給制度有り、退職手当制度あり
■募集人数：1名
■業務内容:
1.セーブ・ザ・チルドレンの事業活動を支えるパートナーリレーションズ部の戦略策定、実施及び評価
・セーブ・ザ・チルドレン・ジャパン中期戦略と連動した資金（寄付金）調達戦略を 含めた部レベルの戦略策定・実施・評価
・各チームの施策間の調和・相互補完を担保し、チーム間の連携強化、各チーム施 策の進捗管理の統括
・組織内他部門（事業、広報、管理等）との連携・調整
・部門戦略に基づく行動計画の実施のための各種ステークホルダーとの連携・調整
・企業・外部団体などとの戦略的なパートナーシップ構築及び強化
・部レベルの予算策定・管理
・海外のセーブ・ザ・チルドレンのネットワークとの連携・調整
2．パートナーリレーションズ部の運営管理
・部内の人員配置（人員計画）および各チームにおける能力開発・育成管理・ピープ ル・マネージメント（メンタリングとモチベーション・アップ等）・勤務評価等 の支援
・部内全体のチーム・ビルディング、各チーム運営の支援
・業務の効率化の推進
・部内全体のリスク管理
・子どものセーフガーディングなどセーブ・ザ・チルドレンのポリシーの実施
3.部門長会の一員として、組織運営、組織戦略・年次計画の策定・実施への貢献、理事会対応
4.事務局長の指示によるその他の業務
【必要とする資格、経験と知識】
1.企業、NGO、国際機関等で15年以上の職務経験があること。うち5年は、戦略策定・実施、予算策定・管理、育成を含む人員管理、チームマネジメントなど管理職としての経験があること。
2.ファンドレイジング・法人営業・マーケティングのいずれか、もしくは複数の経験があること。
3.高いコミュニケーション能力、調整能力、交渉力を有すること。
4.達意の文章を作成する能力（和文・英文）、論理的思考力があること。
5.PC スキル（MS Office 等）があること。
【望ましい資質】
1.セーブ・ザ・チルドレンの基本理念に賛同でき、マルチセクターの連携による社会課題の解決と子どもの権利実現に強い関心とコミットメントがあること。
2.チームやネットワークの中で円滑な人間関係を築くことができ、他者の意見を尊重しながら、自らの立場を主張できる高い対人コミュニケーション能力があること。
3. 部の運営のために必要な多様な業務をこなせる実務能力、協調性、忍耐力を有し、常に建設的・前向きに仕事に取り組めること。
4.戦略立案にあたっては、広く経済状況、市場動向、各種潮流に関する情報を収集・分析し、エビデンスに基づき設計できること。
5.部員の能力を最大限に発揮させ、目標達成に向けてエンパワーしながら、チーム一丸となって前に進める推進力があること。
【応募方法】
メールの件名に「パートナーリレーションズ部 部長職応募」と明記の上、履歴書(和文・写真貼付必須)、職務経歴書(和文・英文)、志望動機(和文・英文 A4サイズ1枚)、語学証明書の写しをjapan.recruit@savethechildren.org まで電子メールにてご送付ください。書類選考後、面接日などの詳細連絡をいたします。（採用が決まり次第、応募を締め切らせていただきます。）
＊応募書類不返却（責任廃棄）
【子どもにとって安心・安全な組織・事業づくりへの取り組み】
セーブ・ザ・チルドレンは、子どもにとって安心・安全な組織・事業づくりを目指し、国際的な規範を定めて、子どものセーフガーディングを推進しています。
当会に採用が決定した際には、業務開始前に、「子どものセーフガーディングのための行動規範」についてご説明させていただきますので、遵守することを定めた誓約書に署名のうえ、ご提出いただきます。
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Fundraising Director
The deadline for applications is Monday 1st September 2025, 4:00 pm JST
The deadline for applications is Monday 1st September 2025, 4:00 pm JST
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Location type: Hybrid, in office two days per week
Working hours: 9:30 - 18:00, 5 days a week (1 hour break, flexitime system available)
Reporting to: CEO
Manages: 3 direct reports; leading a team of approx. 20 staff
Contract type: Contract period – one year. Initial 3-month trial period. Renewals of contract in principle.
Candidate level: Director
Background
Save the Children Japan (StCJ), an international NGO supporting children in Japan and around the world, works to make children’s rights to survival, development, protection, and participation a reality worldwide. Save the Children was established in the UK in 1919 and is currently at work in approximately 120 countries. The UN and the governments of many countries have a high regard for Save the Children as a pioneer of children’s rights, and we have achieved breakthroughs in the way the world treats children.
Save the Children Japan was established in 1986. We are active in international programs in fields such as health and nutrition and education. When conflicts or natural disasters occur, we provide emergency and humanitarian responses. In Japan, we have actively addressed issues of child poverty and child abuse and have also conducted various programs in response to large-scale disasters. Through these programs, we work to make children’s rights a reality.
Purpose of role
Save the Children Japan launched a new midterm strategy for 2025-27 to grow the base of national supporters and to maximise net income across individual giving, legacy, major donor, and corporate partnership fundraising to achieve greater impact for children in Japan and around the world. A Fundraising Director is required to develop, launch, and manage a sustainable fundraising growth strategy and program in Japan. They will provide strong and visionary leadership in the expansion and implementation of Save the Children Japan’s Fundraising Strategy and Plan and take an active role as part of the global Save the Children (StC) movement, including working with the Global Fundraising Support Team.
This role oversees the Partner Relations Department, which consists of three teams: Individual Fundraising, Corporate Partnerships, and Supporter Services. In this role, the Fundraising Director will lead on the further development of a multi-channel integrated approach to individual fundraising, focusing on growth in regular giving, major donors, and legacies, with the support of the existing individual fundraising and supporter service teams. They will also lead the Corporate Partnerships team to further develop growth strategies in this area. The Director will empower, inspire, and guide a strongly committed team throughout this key stage of the development of the fundraising operations.
This is a role for someone with strong individual giving and corporate fundraising experience, a motivated self-starter, with the required skills to oversee optimisation and growth in key areas and piloting of new initiatives.
Primary responsibilities
The job holder will have the following key responsibilities:
Strategic planning
•Develop a fundraising strategy to significantly increase income across a range of fundraising streams, including raising income from supporters in Japan through regular individual giving, legacy, high value gifts, and via corporate partnerships in line with the international fundraising strategy.
•Produce annual and long-term income and expenditure budgets and monitor KPI’s and results against them, advising management of any significant deviations and proposing any changes needed to plan and budgets required, in response to deviations and risks.
•Provide regular reporting on the progress of the fundraising plan and budget.
•Identify and develop opportunities to increase income and optimise cost efficiency on an ongoing basis.
•Strengthen cooperation between teams.
Management
•Lead, inspire, and develop the fundraising team to drive growth, including conducting regular supervision sessions and appraisals and identifying development opportunities.
•Responsible for training and coaching the team.
•Contribute to the strategic and operational direction of Save the Children Japan.
•Develop and manage relationships and contracts with external suppliers.
Fundraising program delivery
•Ensure excellent systems are in place to manage donor relations, including integration with supporter services, financial processing, financial reporting, and a marketing database.
•Optimise, test, and develop supporter journeys and fundraising products to ensure supporter retention and development to deepen loyalty and increase income from supporters.
•Optimise, test, and develop a variety of existing and new channels through which StCJ can acquire new supporters.
•Ensure that fundraising activities consistently reflect the value of StC and comply with relevant legal regulations.
•Further develop the high value program (major donors), legacy, and corporate fundraising areas to further diversify and increase income.
•Oversee larger grants, where relevant
•Maximise the use of StC’s global fundraising resources to enable StCJ’s fundraising program to be developed as cost effectively as possible.
•Share skills and develop relationships with the International Fundraising Team and fundraising people across the StC global movement.
Communications
•Establish and maintain excellent relations with key donors.
•Make presentations to select gatherings (potential major donors) and develop relations on a sustained basis.
•Work together with the Communications Team to develop a feedback strategy to engage all donors, such as reports, newsletters, and the website.
•Press Relations: work with Communications to raise StC’s profile in local media in order to support fundraising actions.
Profile
Experience
•Commitment to Save the Children’s mission, vision, and values, as well as relief and development work.
•10+ years' experience in mass marketing, or individual fundraising, and a proven track record in delivering revenue growth, ideally with experience in raising corporate and high value funds or experience in business-to-business partnerships/management of key accounts.
•Minimum five years’ experience in leading, managing, and motivating a collaborative team
•Native to proficient written and spoken Japanese and fluent English.
•Experience in working with customer or supporter/donor databases and ability to demonstrate understanding of customer service and loyalty to enable the development of a sustainable income base for the organisation.
•Proven financial management and analytical skills, including experience in planning and managing budgets.
Skills
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to sell ideas and negotiate.
•Relationship building and networking skills.
•Experience in managing external agencies, such as marketing agencies.
•Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise workloads.
Qualifications desired
•Experience/knowledge of fundraising in the civil society/International NGO environment would be an advantage.
•Experience of working in Japan.
To apply for the post
To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV/resume in both English and Japanese and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and how you fulfil the requirements set out in the job announcement.
Management
•Lead, inspire, and develop the fundraising team to drive growth, including conducting regular supervision sessions and appraisals and identifying development opportunities.
•Responsible for training and coaching the team.
•Contribute to the strategic and operational direction of Save the Children Japan.
•Develop and manage relationships and contracts with external suppliers.
Fundraising program delivery
•Ensure excellent systems are in place to manage donor relations, including integration with supporter services, financial processing, financial reporting, and a marketing database.
•Optimise, test, and develop supporter journeys and fundraising products to ensure supporter retention and development to deepen loyalty and increase income from supporters.
•Optimise, test, and develop a variety of existing and new channels through which StCJ can acquire new supporters.
•Ensure that fundraising activities consistently reflect the value of StC and comply with relevant legal regulations.
•Further develop the high value program (major donors), legacy, and corporate fundraising areas to further diversify and increase income.
•Oversee larger grants, where relevant
•Maximise the use of StC’s global fundraising resources to enable StCJ’s fundraising program to be developed as cost effectively as possible.
•Share skills and develop relationships with the International Fundraising Team and fundraising people across the StC global movement.
Communications
•Establish and maintain excellent relations with key donors.
•Make presentations to select gatherings (potential major donors) and develop relations on a sustained basis.
•Work together with the Communications Team to develop a feedback strategy to engage all donors, such as reports, newsletters, and the website.
•Press Relations: work with Communications to raise StC’s profile in local media in order to support fundraising actions.
Profile
Experience
•Commitment to Save the Children’s mission, vision, and values, as well as relief and development work.
•10+ years' experience in mass marketing, or individual fundraising, and a proven track record in delivering revenue growth, ideally with experience in raising corporate and high value funds or experience in business-to-business partnerships/management of key accounts.
•Minimum five years’ experience in leading, managing, and motivating a collaborative team
•Native to proficient written and spoken Japanese and fluent English.
•Experience in working with customer or supporter/donor databases and ability to demonstrate understanding of customer service and loyalty to enable the development of a sustainable income base for the organisation.
•Proven financial management and analytical skills, including experience in planning and managing budgets.
Skills
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to sell ideas and negotiate.
•Relationship building and networking skills.
•Experience in managing external agencies, such as marketing agencies.
•Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise workloads.
Qualifications desired
•Experience/knowledge of fundraising in the civil society/International NGO environment would be an advantage.
•Experience of working in Japan.
To apply for the post
To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV/resume in both English and Japanese and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and how you fulfil the requirements set out in the job announcement.
