Events and Community Officer

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Mental Health Foundation Full time

**Company Description**:
**Since 1949, the Mental Health Foundation has been the UK’s leading charity for everyone’s mental health.**

Our vision is for a world with good mental health for all. With prevention at the heart of what we do, we aim to find and address the sources of mental health problems so that people and communities can thrive.

We will drive change towards a mentally healthy society for all, and support communities, families and individuals to live mentally healthier lives, with a particular focus on those at greatest risk.

The Foundation is the home of **Mental Health Awareness Week**.

Our approach is:

- ** Tell the world**:

- We publish studies and reports on what protects mental health and the causes of poor mental health and how to tackle them.
- ** Find solutions**:

- We test and evaluate the best approaches to improving mental health in communities and then roll them out as widely as possible.
- ** Inform and empower**:

- We give advice to millions of people on mental health. We are most well-known for running Mental Health Awareness Week across the UK each year. We enable mentally healthier lives through public information and engagement.
- ** Change policy and practice**:

- We propose solutions and campaign for change to address the underlying cause of poor mental health.
- ** Build a strong foundation**:

- We aim to become an exemplar employer and aim to continue to build an organisation that is financially sustainable and thriving.

We have pioneered change for over 70 years and we are not afraid to challenge the status quo. **_Come join us_**

**Position**:
The Mental Health Foundation is recruiting for an Events and Community Officer (maternity cover) to support our Public Fundraising team.

**Deadline: 15 September**

**Location: London**

**Salary: Starting salary £31,350, plus £3,285 London Weighting.**

**Hours: Full time (35 hours)**

**Contract type: This is a fixed term role for 12 months**

This exciting Events and Community Officer role will help support a busy events team deliver a diverse portfolio of events, and play a key role in bringing in income for the charity by providing support to our fundraisers, and ensuring they have a positive experience raising money for the Mental Health Foundation, you will work across a range of key sporting and community events.

***

What does the role involve?
- Support the Events and Community Manager in building relationships with events and community participants; ensuring all supporters are well stewarded to encourage donor retention and repeat support.
- Take full responsibility for all aspects of the Foundation’s involvement in at least one fundraising event each year e.g. Mental Health Awareness Week Skydives.
- Contribute to business, marketing and communications plans to support existing and instigate new cost-effective events and community fundraising initiatives.

**Requirements**:
**_What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- **
- Demonstrable understanding of using online platforms for fundraising and/or marketing
- Demonstrable excellent communication skills both written and verbal (face-to-face, incoming and outgoing, phone calls, basic copy for on
- and offline activities)
- Demonstrable experience in building successful relationships internally and externally

Please note that for safeguarding purposes, all our roles require a DBS/PVG check. Also, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

**Other information**:
**_How to apply_**

We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. Diversity and inclusion is a strategic priority for us as an employer and mental health charity, and we are proud to be signatories of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and the Disability Confident Committed Scheme. Applications from under-represented sections of the community are actively encouraged.

We are currently operating mostly digital recruitment (including interviews via video conferencing). We have moved to a hybrid working model of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office and the rest working from home.

We look forward to hearing from you


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