Mary’s Meals International is looking for an Audience Manager - Church Mobilisation to strengthen our global connection with Churches and help grow our worldwide movement. This new, pivotal role reports to our Audience Growth Lead and involves leading the development of a bold strategy to raise awareness, build trust, and inspire support across diverse faith-based communities.
What You'll Do
- Shape and lead our global Church Mobilisation Strategy, ensuring it reflects our values and resonates across diverse cultural and faith-based contexts.
- Build strong partnerships with National Affiliates, supporting them to deliver impactful Church engagement programmes within their local communities.
- Strengthen our visibility within Church networks by coordinating Mary’s Meals’ presence at key faith-based events and identifying new opportunities for meaningful participation.
- Create inspiring resources and materials that equip parishes, schools and Church organisations to connect with and champion our mission.
- Collaborate with colleagues across Marketing, Communications and Product teams to ensure Church audiences remain central to campaigns, messaging and product development.
- Oversee Mary’s Meals’ presence at major international faith events.
- Cultivate new relationships with religious orders, Church movements, higher education institutions and influential faith-based networks.
- Gather insights and monitor emerging trends, using data and feedback to continually refine and improve our approach.
What We're Looking For
- Experience of working with faith-based or community groups, with a passion for engaging communities in meaningful mission driven work.
- Proven experience of developing strategies, building partnerships and delivering programmes, ideally within fundraising, community engagement or organisations working closely with the Church or faith-based communities.
- Strong collaboration skills with experience working across cultures and contexts, able to inspire and influence diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills with a creative approach to developing compelling resources, messaging and experiences and you will be energised by opportunities to design, build and deliver new initiatives.
- Experience of delivering engaging presentations to diverse audiences, with comfort in acting as an ambassador for Mary’s Meals at events.
- A strong solutions focus, self-motivation and drive to deliver results.
- A passion for our work with a strong commitment to Mary’s Meals values, mission and vision.
Team & Environment
Reporting to the Audience Growth Lead and collaborating widely across our Growth team and National Affiliate network.
Benefits & Compensation
- 34 days annual leave (pro-rated for part time working patterns) including bank holidays, increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year, to a maximum of 39 days (+ option to buy another week).
- Flexible working.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Life assurance.
- Pension.
- Compensation (UK): £36,674 plus benefits. Our pay philosophy ensures consistency across locations and salaries. The starting salary for this opportunity plus benefits depends on location of the candidate.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates based in the UK, Malawi, Zambia, Liberia, Kenya, Spain, Italy, Canada, or Ireland.
We are a values driven organisation, we believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding and is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work. We expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve.
