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27 February 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
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ABOUT WFP
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WHY JOIN WFP?
WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
JOB TITLE: Single Giving Specialist
UNIT/DIVISION: Private Partnerships Division (PSP)
DUTY STATION: Remote
CONTRACT TYPE: Short-Term, Regular Consultant
DURATION: 11 months
LINE MANAGER/SUPERVISOR: Global Supporter Experience Lead
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The Private Partnerships Division (PSP) is responsible for mobilizing resources from the private sector. PSP has developed an ambitious five-year strategy, and our ambition is based on need. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Every day 5,600 WFP-chartered trucks are on the road; nearly 100 planes are in the air and 30 ships are at sea.
Work as hard as we might, through drought and floods, conflict and peace, disasters natural or man-made, the needs are immense and growing. 828 million people in the world do not have enough food to eat. To get to a world with Zero Hunger faster, WFP has significantly increased resources in recent years from donor governments. We are now investing in and growing private sector fundraising to reach more people.
WFP’s private sector strategy (2020 – 2025) proposes to dramatically increase income from individuals to help reach more people and get to Zero Hunger faster, using new digital engagement tools to reach audiences across the globe in a flexible and cost-effective way.
Traditional individual fundraising in our sector was primarily conducted through offline channels and implemented through national fundraising operations. The individual fundraising market now looks very different, with the vast majority of potential donors having a digital presence and comfort with transacting online. WFP has a unique opportunity to define its approach amid this digital change, and leapfrog peers through its creation of a digital-led fundraising strategy that engages people worldwide from one centralized team. Our digital focus elevates the importance of an agile approach to delivering opportunities to engage.
INDIVIDUAL FUNDRAISING
WFP has been the fastest growing global individual giving programme with an annual income from $3m in FY19 to $26.3m in FY22.
Our focus is a digital-first strategy, working through a centralized global team recruiting supporters primarily through digital channels and building an outstanding supporter experience through a multi-channel loyalty programme that delivers a best-in-class donor experience. The Programme now recruits donors in English, French, German, Spanish and Arabic, with language capabilities also including Korean, and it delivers the supporter experience through email, SMS, WhatsApp, outbound telephone and Facebook.
PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
As we continue scaling up in 2022, this role requires a thoughtful, resourceful, strategic, analytical and independent individual who will manage multi-lingual and multi-channel supporter communications activities to drive repeat giving from single givers, optimize second gift rate to 20% and bring in an annual income of $6.3 million from this segment of supporters.
You will have experience working within individual giving and collaborating with colleagues in Communications, Data intelligence hub, Marketing and Programmes. You will also have experience of working with teams to source compelling content, assets and stories that feed into fundraising products and propositions, experience in managing email marketing and multi-channel campaigns at an international level. The focus for this role in 2023 will be to drive repeat giving, optimize second gift rate through multi-channel and multi-lingual supporter communications with continuous improvement and innovation.
ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic planning, delivery and optimisation of annual calendar of supporter development & retention activities for Single Supporters (multi-channel & multi-lingual)
o Annual strategic planning and forecasting of email marketing, outbound telemarketing, SMS/Whatsapp, Facebook activities for SV(standard value) single giving supporters in coordination with SX specialists, including cash appeals, SG to RG conversion campaigns and nurturing activities
o Manage data selections with the wider view of donor segmentation, donor universe, meta data and attribution model
Stewardship and engagement of existing supporters
o Build communications acknowledging supporters giving behavior
o Build communications reporting back to supporters about impact of their gifts with transparency and accountability
o Create an engagement plan to give supporters the opportunity to engage with WFP in other ways than financial support
Analyse performance through data insight and optimise programme
o Ensure activities are delivered on target and in a timely manner, executed to a high standard by setting clear deadlines, implementing quality assurance measures, monitoring progress and results
o Continually monitor and analyze the performance of each activity per channel by using SX tools against targets in a timely manner. Measure performance of activities targeting single givers including email appeals, outbound telemarketing, SMS/WA and Facebook paid ads; banked SG income, engagement (positive/negative reactions), RG conversion, 2nd gift rate, cancelations, open rate(email), click rate(email), unsubscribe rate (Email), contact rate(phone) and other relevant key metrics Optimize appeals based on results; data selections, briefs, copy, CTAs, landing pages with the learnings of delivered appeals, test results etc.
o Regularly present on performance to SX Lead, Head of IG and other senior management and propose/drive improvements
o Quarterly review and analysis of results against forecast and reforecasting
o If case of additional reporting needs, request changes and initiate additional analysis/reports through BIHub
Test and delivery of new approaches to improve performance of Single Giving Programme
• Planning and implementation of new personalized prompt on Godonate platform with support of Product Manager
• Test new approaches to increase value and improve loyalty: use of goal in appeals, showing impact, increase two-way communications etc.
• Make sure SX keeps learning from each email appeal (one test to be delivered for each appeal)
• Make sure learnings are captured, communicated with the wider team and reflected to next activities
Line Management of SX Intern
o Responsible for setting their annual deliverables
o Support them to adopt their key responsibilities and day to day optimization supporter experience programme
o Support them in their growth process (such as providing training/coaching opportunities, help them learn by practicing etc.)
o Provide a full emersion into PSP 20-25 strategy
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT
Leading the 5 pillars outlined above.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Education
▪ University degree in Business Management, International Development, International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Marketing, Communications or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
Work history
▪ 6 years of relevant work experience in fundraising at the international level
▪ Experience of managing donor communications, email marketing at the international level, delivering multi-channel supporter communications through digital channels that drive value & loyalty. WFP work experience is a plus
Technical skills
▪ Strategic thinking
▪ Proven ability to manage an email marketing programme
▪ Proven ability to manage multi-channel, multi-lingual campaigns
▪ Salesforce Marketing Cloud knowledge is a plus
▪ Understanding of donor segmentation
▪ Experience in budget planning
▪ Essential computer skills in Microsoft Office applications: proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
▪ Proven ability to conceptualize, plan, manage, develop and monitor processes
▪ Proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget
▪ Copywriting and proofreading skills in English is a plus
▪ Excellent understanding of global issues and an ability to translate an Organization’s mission
▪ Excellent communicator with ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across different cultures, disciplines, and time zones
▪ English language skills as well as the ability to summarize and make data accessible to various internal audiences and stakeholders
Soft skills
Other requirements
▪ Outstanding analytical, negotiation and advocacy skills
▪ Highly organized with exceptional planning and project management skills
▪ Ability to handle multiple tasks within deadlines and deliver on commitments
▪ Ability to take initiative to solve problems and seek solutions
▪ Work effectively in a multi-cultural environment and international organization
▪ Excellent communicator with ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across different disciplines and time zones
▪ People management skills
▪ Uses tact and courtesy to give and receive information with a variety of individuals (people oriented)
▪ Motivated team spirit and contributed to an inclusive and sound working environment (team player)
▪ Highly adaptable to change and comfortable dealing with ambiguity, stress and competing demands with grace and humor
▪ Ability/willingness to travel to/from WFP HQ, Rome, and other European locations, for meetings with agencies e.g. supporter care and occasional trips to Friends organizations, when needed
▪ Availability for ‘out of hours’ on-call work including at weekends in the case of a humanitarian or other emergency appeals
▪ Willingness to be adaptable and ‘roll your sleeves up’ to get the work done across a small team with big ambitions.
Language(s)
▪ Excellent command of spoken and written English
▪ Intermediate knowledge of another official UN language would be a plus (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish).
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruitment system. We do not accept CVs or spontaneous applications by email.
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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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