Fundraising Director
Fundraising Director
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Fundraising Director
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
Annual salary: JPY
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 childrens rights to survivaldevelopment protection and participation a reality worldwide. Save the Children (StC) was established in theUK in 1919 and is currently at work in approximately 120 countries. The UN and thegovernments of many countries have a high regard for Save the Children as a pioneer ofchildrens 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 programsin fields such as health and nutrition and education. When conflicts or natural disastersoccur we provide emergency and humanitarian Japan we have activelyaddressed issues of child poverty and child abuse and have also conducted variousprograms in response to large-scale disasters. Through these programs we work to make childrensrights a reality.
Purpose of role
Save the Children Japan launched a new midterm strategy for 2025 - 2027 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 Japans Fundraising Strategy and Plan and take an active role as part of the global Save the Children 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 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
Experience
Please contact Shoshana at for any queries you may have.
The deadline for applications is Monday 1st September 2025 4:00 pm JST
Stay updated on the latest jobs by subscribing to our Global Charity Jobs weekly bulletin and if youre looking for a rewarding career in the non-profit sector register in our database.
Daryl Upsall International actively promotes equality diversity and recruiting candidates we seek candidates with the proven skills required; irrespective of race gender religion or belief age disability or sexual orientation.
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
Annual salary: JPY
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 childrens rights to survivaldevelopment protection and participation a reality worldwide. Save the Children (StC) was established in theUK in 1919 and is currently at work in approximately 120 countries. The UN and thegovernments of many countries have a high regard for Save the Children as a pioneer ofchildrens 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 programsin fields such as health and nutrition and education. When conflicts or natural disastersoccur we provide emergency and humanitarian Japan we have activelyaddressed issues of child poverty and child abuse and have also conducted variousprograms in response to large-scale disasters. Through these programs we work to make childrensrights a reality.
Purpose of role
Save the Children Japan launched a new midterm strategy for 2025 - 2027 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 Japans Fundraising Strategy and Plan and take an active role as part of the global Save the Children 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 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 KPIs 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.
- Lead inspire and developthe 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.
- 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 StCs global fundraising resources to enable StCJs 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.
- Establish and maintain excellent relations with key donors.
- Make presentations to select gatherings (potential major donors) and develop relations on a sustained basis.
- Work with the Communications Team to develop a feedback strategy to engage all donors such as reports newsletters and the website.
- Press relations work with the Communications Team to raise StCs profile in local media in order to support fundraising actions.
Experience
- Commitment to Save the Childrens mission vision and values as well as experience in relief and development.
- 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 leading managing and motivating a collaborative team
- Native to proficient written and spoken Japanese and fluent English.
- Experience 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.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to sell ideas and negotiate.
- Relationship building and networking skills.
- Experience managing external agencies such as marketing agencies.
- Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise workloads.
- Experience/knowledge of fundraising in the civil society/International NGO environment would be an advantage.
- Experience working in Japan.
Please contact Shoshana at for any queries you may have.
The deadline for applications is Monday 1st September 2025 4:00 pm JST
Stay updated on the latest jobs by subscribing to our Global Charity Jobs weekly bulletin and if youre looking for a rewarding career in the non-profit sector register in our database.
Daryl Upsall International actively promotes equality diversity and recruiting candidates we seek candidates with the proven skills required; irrespective of race gender religion or belief age disability or sexual orientation.
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Director
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