Events Executive (Maternity Cover)

London, Victoria

£34,500 pro rata

Contract (9-12 months)

Hybrid working - minimum of two days in the office

Want to grow your event fundraising experience and make a difference to others? In this role you will be managing a series of events, both established with a core audience and new events under a similar theme.

You'll have the opportunity to flex your marketing skills to ensure the events hit their recruitment goals and develop relationships with all the supporters to reach income targets on top of ensuring the logistics of the events are running smoothly.

Essentials:

* Event experience as part of a fundraising team.

* Excellent written and oral communication skills.

* Interpersonal skills and the ability to interact and work effectively with all elements of the Charity and supporters.

* A self-starter, proactive, with drive and commitment.

* Strong organisational, project management and planning skills

* Computer literate, comfortable with MS Office tools.

* Excellent administrative skills.

Key Responsibilities:

* Achieve the financial targets set, manage both the income and expenditure budgets for your projects to maximise the net income.

* Oversee fundraisers/supporters' experiences from initial interest through to post-event; ensuring consistent, high-level support throughout all phases, with a specific focus on increasing average gifts and improving retention.

* Nurture and build relationships with suppliers, participants, sponsors, volunteers, internal stakeholders, and other industry contacts, to craft and implement creative and logistical aspects of all relevant events.

* Manage the project plan for all relevant events, including contract negotiations, recruitment, sponsorship, supporter journeys, volunteer recruitment, transportation, equipment, and multichannel marketing campaigns.

* Maintain up to date knowledge of best practice with relation to event marketing, supporter care and fundraising.

* Proactively identify and solve operational challenges.

* Comply with legal, insurance, health, and safety regulations, at all times.

* Troubleshoot and handle any issues that arise during the event cycle, knowing when to escalate an issue.

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Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role