Head of Northern Ireland
Employer: Mary's Meals
Location: Remote working from anywhere in Northern Ireland
Salary: Not listed
Closing date: Tuesday, 24 March 2026
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We are delighted to be recruiting for Head of Northern Ireland to be the senior ambassador and strategic leader for Mary’s Meals across Northern Ireland.
While playing a key role within the wider Development Directorate, you will guide how Mary’s Meals is seen, understood, and felt in Northern Ireland – shaping our public profile, driving sustained income growth, and building the partnerships and grassroots energy needed to grow our movement.
Key responsibilities include:
Working cross-directorate to create and deliver a fundraising growth strategy for Northern Ireland, rooted in regional insight, cultural understanding, and community needs, and aligned with the global and national strategy.
Working with the Communications team, shape a clear and compelling narrative, respecting the nation’s strong identity.
Identify emerging opportunities across Northern Ireland, including diocesan networks, local relationships, and regional giving patterns, adjusting plans quickly to drive maximum impact.
Serve as the senior MMUK representative in Northern Ireland, ensuring activity aligns with the national organisational strategy.
Act as the leading spokesperson for Mary’s Meals in Northern Ireland, representing the charity to churches, schools, local authorities, individuals, universities, and community or business networks.
Spend focused time externally; networking, nurturing partnerships and driving growth through representing the charity at events, meetings, faith gatherings, conferences, and civic forums.
Proactively cultivate, pursue, and develop fundraising opportunities via networking and outreach with the aim of securing support for our school feeding programme.
Develop and maintain a robust national growth pipeline, ensuring proactive identification, cultivation, conversion, and stewardship of opportunities.
Significant focus on the growth and development of new Volunteer Fundraising Groups in counties across Northern Ireland.
Line manage and coach a Regional Development Officer, enabling them to become a confident, high‑performing fundraiser.
Serve as a trusted media spokesperson for press, broadcast, and faith media when required.
Work closely with the Communications team to provide compelling local supporter stories, impactful moments, and local activity to showcase.
Shape national to local messaging so that campaigns resonate with audiences across Northern Ireland.
About you:
Based in Northern Ireland. Willing and able to be visible across the nation, with regular travel and some evening or weekend work.
Strategic planner who can translate vision into a focused regional plan for your team.
Experience in Volunteer mobilisation, including recruiting and directing volunteers to extend reach.
Proven record of leading external-facing growth or fundraising in a region or nation, with clear income or partnership results.
Experienced in creating, developing and deepening relationships with individuals and organisations.
Experience of developing first-class supporter journeys, products and propositions.
Knowledge of the faith landscape and confidence in engaging faith leaders.
Sound knowledge of legislation, regulations and financial issues related to fundraising.
Ability to establish, develop and nurture collaborative relationships at all levels.
Proven experience acting as a visible and credible spokesperson and can confidently represent Mary’s Meals across all media channels, and in person.
Confident making values-led asks and stewarding high-value relationships, with strong public speaking and media comfort.
Strong people leader and coach, able to build a confident asking culture and raise performance across a small team.
Confident in engaging with a wide range of people and organisations, including faith groups, schools, community groups, businesses and more.
Deep alignment with Mary’s Meals’ values and relationship-led approach.
Driven fundraiser, capable of cultivating, identifying and developing opportunities from nothing, working proactively with an entrepreneurial approach to network building and engagement of new supporters.
Comfortable networking, acting as Mary’s Meals spokesperson.
Experience cultivating opportunities into active supporters.
Motivated to deliver the growth needed to enable us to reach more children, while working collaboratively and in keeping with values.
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