Music Executive At War Child UK

The Music Executive is at the heart of the Music team. We create powerful experiences that bring people together to inspire and entertain. This role works with our music industry specialists to develop and deliver new activity across our portfolio of sector-leading live events, campaigns and activations supported by the UK music industry. It is a great opportunity to gain experience of delivering projects and further your passion for the music industry, alongside contributing to other strategic projects within the Fundraising Engagement team. We are looking for someone who loves music and wants to help us build the heritage of music at War Child while delivering outstanding experiences for our new and existing supporters.

Your Role

Working in the heart of the Music team, this role enables the team to develop new music events and campaigns to add to our existing portfolio of powerful experiences that inspire and entertain. The Music Executive will also support the team to ensure the successful delivery of projects and campaigns across our live music, War Child Records and partnerships to meet the income targets of the team. Using their knowledge and expertise, they work across the wider fundraising department and other teams to create opportunities for War Child to benefit from our incredible relationships with the music industry.

Your Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the Head of Music in developing, evaluating and implementing new activity to expand our portfolio of activity, helping War Child to reach new audiences and hit fundraising targets.
• Responsible for identifying new partners and devising creative fundraising concepts in the music space with the team to meet objectives.
• Takes the lead on researching, testing and developing new initiatives and feed into annual planning and new product development.
• Create and produce assets to support product development in line with War Child’s Brand Guidelines and Communication Policy.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with key stakeholders in the music industry to gain their insight into new ideas and negotiate their support of our initiatives.
• Proactively identify opportunities to grow your own network and connections.
• Build and maintain trusting, open and effective relationships with internal staff to create and deliver collaborative projects and events.
• Act as a champion for our music heritage within the organisation and assist other teams in securing support from artists and other music industry partners.
• Provide support to the team and the wider department in the delivery of our annual plan. The focus of this role will not be event delivery and project management but, on a case-by-case basis and at different stages of a project, this will be required.
• Provide support across core functionality of the music team such as Salesforce management, financial processing, data processing and social media.

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post.

You Are

• Experienced in working within the music industry in a label, management, live music or similar role and a passion for music.
• Experienced in working as part of a team to deliver music campaigns with the ability to work calmly under pressure in a fast-paced event environment and manage multiple tasks.
• Experienced in researching and supporting new project development in the music space, including creating assessment documents, building timelines and evaluating potential impact.
• Creative and entrepreneurial with the confidence to put forward new ideas and approach potential new partners.
• Able to work effectively and appropriately with high profile supporters.
• Able to manage the expectations of stakeholders internally and externally whilst building and maintaining long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships.
• Knowledgeable of trends in the music and events industry with the willingness to stay up to date on the latest developments that could create opportunities for War Child.
• Always demonstrating a passion for music, proactively meeting contacts and willing to attend events in the evenings and weekends.