Careers
Careers with Children's Health Foundation
Check out the latest vacancies in Children’s Health Foundation and find out more about how you could join our fundraising family.
About Us
The creation of Children’s Health Foundation in 2019 brought together the existing Temple Street Foundation and The Children’s Medical and Research Foundation Crumlin to continue to support Ireland’s sickest children in their treatment journey today, tomorrow and into the future.
Children’s Health Foundation raises funds to support the delivery of services for children’s and adolescent health needs in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) the new paediatric healthcare system in Ireland, including research and innovation, patient and parent support, infrastructure and equipment and any other health services associated with CHI.
Our purpose as a leading charity is to give every sick child In Ireland the very best chance and we are looking for bold and ambitious professionals to join our incredible team to deliver on an ambitious growth strategy.
This is an incredible opportunity to be part of the team who raise vital, life-saving funds and support some 300,000 children and their families who attend CHI each year in need of world-class paediatric care; ensuring that patients have access to the very highest standards of care, world-class facilities and the most up-to-date research that will change young lives for the better.
Children’s Health Foundation offers a hybrid flexible work environment.
Current Vacancies
Corporate Manager
Responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver on the strategy for corporate partners, charity of the year fundraising and corporate campaigns
- Lead a team to deliver on annual income targets within budget, and meeting all KPI’s to ensure the long-term growth of the corporate income stream
- Develop case for support, product propositions and a moves management programme with clearly defined strategies to ensure supporter acquisition, growth, retention, value and duration and overall lifetime value and return on investment
- Use research and data-led insights to inform a strategic approach to all prospect strategies
- Develop unrestricted funding
- Foster a culture that is supporter focused, results driven and encourages growth and innovation
- Ensure excellent relationship management and stewardship of corporates in a professional and appropriate manner
- Develop agreements and MOUs with key partners, including sponsor agreements
- Management of area costs and expenditure budgets on an on-going basis ensuring all activity is implemented within budget and within defined cost ratios
- Development of annual budget for the area
- Team management including team reviews, appraisals, objective setting and supervision that develops and retains a dedicated, efficient and effective team
Full job description – Corporate Manager
Applying Please send your CV and cover letter outlining relevant experience to jobs@childrenshealth.ie by 5pm on Friday, 21st February 2025.
Grants and Impact Executive
Responsibilities:
Grant Management & Impact Reporting
- Support the collation, review, and timely processing of grant applications, ensuring adherence to deadlines and quality standards.
- Assist in providing updated Grant information to the Finance Team ensuring all applications, and approvals are accurately recorded.
- Support the preparation of impact reports to showcase the effectiveness of funded programs.
- Support in collating, analysing, and presenting key impact metrics to track funding effectiveness.
- Assist in preparing impact reports, case studies, and content for key publications
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of impact reporting processes, ensuring they align with CHF’s mission and donor expectations Funding Calls & Fund Drawdowns
- Assist in the coordination of funding calls, including application collation, tracking, and responding to applicant queries.
- Process grants drawdowns, ensuring invoices are reviewed, matched to the correct grant reference codes, and coded accurately with fund references.
- Follow up with CHI’s Finance Department to resolve outstanding queries related to payments.
- Maintain clear documentation of payment schedules, invoices, and reporting for both restricted and unrestricted funds.
Funding Calls & Fund Drawdowns
- Assist in the coordination of funding calls, including application collation, tracking, and responding to applicant queries.
- Process grants drawdowns, ensuring invoices are reviewed, matched to the correct grant reference codes, and coded accurately with fund references.
- Follow up with CHI’s Finance Department to resolve outstanding queries related to payments.
- Maintain clear documentation of payment schedules, invoices, and reporting for both restricted and unrestricted funds.
Salesforce Administration & Process Migration
- Support the migration of the Grants Tracker and processes into Salesforce
- Use Salesforce to track and update grant applications, fund allocations, and impact reporting.
- Amendments may be made to the job description from time to time to meet changing business needs.
- Ensure all grant-related data is accurately recorded and generate reports to support decision-making and donor communications. Stakeholder & Relationship Management
- Support the coordination of engagement opportunities and stakeholder interactions in collaboration with the Head of Impact.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with CHI and key stakeholders to support smooth grant processes.
- Monitor the Grants email account, ensuring all inquiries are addressed in a timely and efficient manner. Other Responsibilities
- Representing CHF in a professional and competent manner both internally and externally.
- Attending & contributing to various stakeholder meetings.
- Undertaking other duties as might be reasonably assigned from time to time in consultation with the Sr Grants Manager and Head of Impact.
Full job description – Grants Impact Executive
Applying Please send your CV and cover letter outlining relevant experience to jobs@childrenshealth.ie by 5pm on Friday, 21st February 2025
Individual Giving Executive
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Work as part of the Individual Giving team, including (but not limited to):
- Leading efficient delivery of the Tax Effective Giving Campaign to achieve key targets within time and budget requirements, including end-to-end management of a multichannel campaign, data processing and preparation of tax claims for submission to Revenue
- Leading efficient delivery of the Face-to-Face monthly supporter acquisition campaign including liaison with supplier, provision of materials, data processing and management and reporting, within time and budget requirements
- Managing retention, rescue and development activities and campaigns to deliver the critical goals of reducing attrition and increasing the volume of supporters to maximise income opportunities from individual supporters
- Reporting on performance of activities and campaigns and adopting a data-led approach to improving key performance indicators
- Following best practice in developing and overseeing workflows, on CRM and other platforms, for key business processes (for example thanking, rejection and cancellations processes) to achieve efficiencies and drive retention
- Managing IG activities in response to Data Protection requests
- Contributing to other IG appeals, campaigns and activities, including but not limited to data management/review, stakeholder liaison and copywriting where required
- Supporting the IG team to meet overall annual income targets within budget.
Full Job Description – Individual Giving Executive
Applying
Please send your CV and cover letter outlining relevant experience to jobs@childrenshealth.ie by 5pm on Friday, 28th February 2025.
Executive Assistant
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Managing the CEO’s diary and works across both our offices in Crumlin and Temple Street.
- Lead on planning and organising meetings and events with stakeholders, partner’s, donors and volunteers.
- Arranging detailed travel plans, itineraries and meeting agendas.
- Supporting on creating board packs to a high standard.
- Research and preparing relevant material such as report writing, presentations and provide administrative support to the Chief Executive as required.
- Responsible the efficient delivery of service to all visitors, donors, employees and Board Members who come to the office.
- Arrange logistics for both internally and externally meetings on behalf of the Chef Executive and Directors.
- Coordinate meetings and strategic activities with the Management team as required.
- Prepare and issue meeting minutes to staff as required and follows up on assigned action items.
- Maintain accurate and up to date records on existing internal database and ensure compliance with data protection and privacy policies.
Full Job Description – Executive Assistant
Applying
Please send your CV and cover letter outlining relevant experience to jobs@childrenshealth.ie by 5pm Friday, 7th March 2025.