The Not Forgotten

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Location: Victoria, London SW1

The Not Forgotten (TNF) enriches the lives of injured service personnel. We provide entertainment and recreational activities for a broad demographic of wounded, injured and sick serving personnel and veterans from the Tri-Service and Merchant Navy community.

With emphasis on engagement through a personal approach, and with the beneficiary firmly at the heart of everything we do, TNF are looking for an individual event delivery expert, people-centric communicator, exceptional team player and used to managing the end-to-end delivery of events and activities. You will also be adept at integrating supporters and stakeholders to deliver high quality events within budget.

Benefits for a Delivery Project Manager (Events) choosing to work with TNF include :

• Full time competitive annual salary.
• Contracted to work 35 hours per week Monday to Friday, possible infrequent evening or weekend work required to meet the needs of the charity.
• Pension (after probation).
• Generous annual leave allowance.
• Flexible working with the expectation to attend routine business rhythm in London office in person.
• Sickness allowance (after probation).

In return for this we are looking for someone who has :

• Team working across the charity and ability to work independently and plan own workload and get going with projects on your own.
• Excellent IT and IM skills, with sound data analysis and visualisation skills including ability to convey complex and multi-source data to different stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinker and excellent data literacy (and attention to detail), combined with the ability to present insights in accessible and relevant ways.
• An understanding of the charity sector.
• Robust, confident ‘can do’ attitude that thrives on challenges and calm under pressure.

Key responsibilities:

• Working to the Head of Events (and Head of Fundraising) to enable the delivery of events, including in person.
• Informing performance reporting through analysing and interpreting data (qualitative and quantitative), to measure the impact the delivery on beneficiaries and utilise information to effectively report to a variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including persuasion, diplomacy, networking, and ability to represent the charity effectively as well as negotiate with various stakeholders.
• Develop clear event tasks and delivery timescales, and ensure that there is progress against these, escalating issues where necessary.
• Develop an effective working relationship with Heads of Delivery and Fundraising to support them to meet delivery, reporting and budgeting deadlines and build a strong and collaborative network.
• Manage own workloads and collaborate with colleagues on shared tasks and projects, to ensure milestones and targets are met.
• Represent the TNF at a variety of events, including Royal and prestige events.

To hold a full UK driving Licence and have access to a road worthy vehicle and business insurance.

TNF are committed to ensuring the wellbeing and safety of all our beneficiaries, this includes developing, implementing, and maintaining effective recruitment policies and procedures to promote the safeguarding of these beneficiaries. Before commencing employment, the Head of Business Operations & Finance undertakes pre-employment checks on all applicants who have been offered a role with the Charity. These checks include an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which will be renewed every 3 years, the right to live and work in the UK, as well as two satisfactory references.

All staff will be required to complete training on Safeguarding Adults within their first week of employment.

Applications will close at 6pm on 29 March 2024

Shortlisting will take place w/c 1 April 2024 with interviews anticipated on 09/10 April 2024.

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, TNF welcomes applicants who are veterans and/or reservists.