Community and Events Fundraising Officer

4 weeks ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom Versus Arthritis Full time

**Location (UK)**:Office Hybrid***:

- **London / Chesterfield
**Hours**: Full-time, 35 hours per week
**Salary**: £32,500 per annum (London), £28,000 per annum (rest of UK) - _Pending pay review_

**Benefits**: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
**Travel**: Some travel to the London office and to events, which will include some evening and weekend work (time off in lieu will be given)
**Closing date**: 23:59, Wednesday 3 May 2023

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process Versus Arthritis will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.

**Summary**

Come join our passionate, fun, ambitious and supporter-focused Mass Fundraising and Engagement team at Versus Arthritis. We are a highly experienced team and we are looking for a new Community and Events Fundraising Officer working alongside a fellow Officer and our Community and Events Fundraising Assistant.

Join us and work on our expanding virtual events programme which includes our highly successful Facebook knitting challenge, our third-party events such as London Marathon and Great North Run, and our community fundraising programme including our branches and supporter groups.

We are particularly proud of our flexible working arrangements and our friendly passionate team that is bursting with ambition and love for our supporters.

**About the role**

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of planning and delivering community and/or events fundraising products to give a good return on investment. You’ll be skilled at building excellent relationships with a range of supporters, deploying a number of different communications techniques to inspire engagement. You’ll be output-focused and ambitious, keen to grow the income and team, always learning and looking for new ways to do things.

You’ll be responsible for a portfolio of events/community products and the income, expenditure and engagement targets associated with them. You’ll deliver inspiring supporter journeys and on the day logistics to ensure supporters meet their fundraising goals. You’ll work with supporters and suppliers to develop meaningful relationships.

You’ll work with the team to identify new opportunities for growth and together we will build a strategy that strives every day to help more and more people affected by arthritis. Together we will develop breakthrough treatments, campaign relentlessly and won’t stop until no-one has to tolerate living with the pain, fatigue and isolation of arthritis.

**Key requirements**
- A proactive and engaging individual with a passion for realising supporters’ ambitions to fundraise.
- Excellent project management skills, proven experience of end-to-end project management of income generating products from budget setting to marketing to delivery.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across a range of channels.
- Output and numbers driven with experience of delivering against targets.

*_As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability._

**Application deadline and shortlisting**
- **We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales.**_

**Interviews**

Interviews expected on Thursday 11 May 2023 on Microsoft Teams.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £28,000.00-£32,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Wellness programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Chesterfield, S41 7TD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chesterfield, S41 7TD


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