Job Description

At Barnardo's, we change childhoods and change lives. We help make sure children in the UK are safer, healthier, happier, and more hopeful. We're looking for an ambitious, creative and collaborative strategic leader to shape and drive our brand, creative, and integrated marketing efforts as our interim

Head of Brand and Marketing (15 month fixed term contract).

In this pivotal role, you'll lead a multi-disciplinary team of brand, marketing, integration and creative specialists to grow public awareness, understanding and consideration so that we inspire more people to join - donate, shop, volunteer, advocate and foster. Reporting to the Director of Fundraising and Marketing, you'll be supporting your function to work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver brand-aligned, insight-led campaigns that inspire action and deepen engagement across diverse audiences.



You'll bring a strong blend of strategic vision, practical marketing and creative expertise, team leadership, and cross-organisational collaboration--ensuring Barnardo's remains trusted, is relevant and better understood, and we grow support across all our communities.

What you'll do:

Lead integrated campaign planning and coordination for brand and fundraising to build awareness, shift perceptions, and grow support. Embed our brand across all channels and touchpoints--internally and externally. Oversee paid media planning, creative development, and collaboration on integrated campaigns across all channels (Owned, Earned, Shared, Paid). Drive audience insight and segmentation, using data to inform and improve campaign effectiveness. Support Children's Services marketing, particularly fostering and adoption campaigns. Manage a high-performing team of senior managers, designers, marketers and creatives. Oversee a c2M budget, ensuring strategic investment and ROI. Play a key leadership role within the Fundraising and Marketing Leadership Team (FMLT), contributing to the charity's long-term strategy.

What you'll bring:

Proven experience leading creative, brand, integration and marketing teams in large, complex organisations. Strong track record in delivering integrated, multi-channel marketing strategies that drive measurable results. Experience managing budgets, agencies and senior stakeholder relationships. Expertise in audience insight, campaign planning, and performance evaluation. Excellent leadership, interpersonal and influencing skills--with the ability to drive collaboration across teams. Deep understanding of compliance, data protection and marketing best practices. Passion for our mission and a commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all aspects of your work.

Why join us?

This is your chance to lead transformational work in a purpose-led charity with a long-standing reputation for making a difference to the lives of children, young people and families. You'll help shape how the UK sees Barnardo's--and inspore more people to support us. We offer flexible working, a supportive leadership culture, and the chance to drive meaningful, lasting change for children and young people.



Pay & Reward FrameworkWe know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.


For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.


Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.



Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.


Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options Service related sick pay from day 1 Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension Cycle2work scheme Interest free season ticket loans Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal 20% discount at Barnardo's stores Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's


We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values

Reference number: 21306
Location: Workplace offer: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address
Contract type: Fixed term
End date: 15 months
Hours: 36.25
Salary: 54,686-70,311 plus 312 (Annual) Office at home allowance
Closing Date: 14 July 2025
Interview Date: 15th & 16th July

Benefits

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Discounts at 100's of retailers
Employee suggestion scheme
Company pension
Employee Assistance Programme