Events Fundraiser

Do you have excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal
skills? Do you enjoy interacting with supporters and building lasting
relationships?  

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Based in
Surrey, the Orpheus Centre is an independent specialist college and charity
that focuses on developing independence skills through performing and visual
arts and makes dramatic improvements to young disabled adults' lives.  We are currently looking for a driven and pro-active Events Fundraiser to develop, coordinate and deliver the charity's
fundraising events and orchestrate experiences from initial concept to post
event analysis. This includes pre-event planning and development, concept
development and proposal.

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Working closely with the Head of Capital
Appeal and Senior Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager, you will design and
deliver events which steward and develop key contacts as part of our Capital
Appeal.

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The role holder will have strong administration skills, attention to
detail and work as part of a team.  You
will be self-motivated and able to work with little supervision, managing a
wide range of tasks.

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​35 hours per week / 52 weeks per year

Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 per
annum (dependent on experience)

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Excellent benefits include (but
not limited to) 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, enhanced pension
contributions, Employment Assistant Program (EAP) paid days off for dependants,
bereavement leave, death in service, free staff lunches and training and
development opportunities.

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Essential
qualifications, knowledge and experience:

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• 5 GCSEs
  (Grade C or above) or equivalent including Maths and English OR demonstrable
  literacy and numeracy
• Willing to
  undertake training as required and identified in supervision/appraisals
• At least
  2yrs experience of fundraising, marketing or events in a paid or voluntary
  capacity
• Has worked
  as part of a team
• Has set
  and worked to budgets, targets and plans
• Practical
  experience of planning and managing events
• Experience
  coordinating projects and people
• Knowledge
  of different methods of fundraising
• Awareness
  of how to motivate and support volunteers and supporters
• Basic
  awareness of PR and social media
• Good
  communication and presentation skills
• High
  levels of accuracy in written materials and data entry
• Excellent
  organisational skills with ability to work on own initiative under pressure
  & without direct supervision
• Excellent
  interpersonal and networking skills
• Able to
  build and maintain good working relationships with people
• Able to
  prioritise, plan and organise own workload including demonstrable experience of
  managing a diverse workload and working to strict deadlines under pressure
• Numerate
• Good IT
  skills including Microsoft office, email and data recording
• Able and
  willing to work unsocial hours
• Car
  owner/driver (full, clean UK driving licence)
• Able to
  work some evening and weekends.

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Orpheus
is a charity that delivers high quality services for young disabled adults. We
have jobs for support workers, teachers, administrators and many more. We
train, nurture and support our staff and offer a welcoming and friendly working
environment. If you share our passion for changing the lives of disabled
people, then we would love to hear from you.

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Orpheus is
committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all service users. As
part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in
Education 2024, online searches will form part of this process. We are
committed to the promotion of equal opportunities.

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This post is classed as having a high degree of contact
with vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
1974. It is therefore subject to an Enhanced
disclosure through the Disclosure Barring Service.

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In order to be considered you must be eligible to work in
the UK.

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For a full job description and person specification, please see below:

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Events Fundraiser - May ​

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The Orpheus Centre is proud to be a disability confident employer.

We have made a positive commitment
to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the
recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure
no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. If a disabled person is
selected for a position, reasonable adjustments will be made to the workplace,
including premises and equipment, work duties and practices or policies, as
appropriate. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role
as set out in the role profile and person specification will be considered for
interview.

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As a Disability Confident Employer, we are:

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• Challenging attitudes towards
  disability
• Increasing understanding of
  disability
• Removing barriers to disabled people
  and those with long-term health conditions
• Ensuring that disabled people have
  the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspiration