Challenge Events Fundraiser

3 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Helen & Douglas House Full time

Come join us at this exciting time and help us bring our new and ambitious fundraising aims to life, delivering first class fundraising events organisation and stewardship

Helen & Douglas House provides outstanding palliative care to children and their families throughout Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties. The Fundraising Team needs to raise around £4 million from the public every year to ensure that these vital services can continue. You can play a pivotal role in making this happen

About the Role:

This is an exciting and varied role, integral to the output of the whole Community, Events & Corporate Team. You will be responsible for managing our portfolio of challenge events, alongside the Community & Events Stewardship Manager, as well as supporting individuals with their own places in events or undertaking their own challenges. You will be responsible for the recruitment and stewardship of event participants, as well as the organisation of on the day support at events, working closely with our Marketing and Data colleagues. This role is crucial in enabling continued and sustainable growth in events fundraising at Helen & Douglas House.

About You:

The position requires someone with a positive attitude who is friendly and resilient. You will be proactive and able to balance a busy workload with conflicting priorities. You will also demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement and learning. Experience in a similar role is preferred, ideally within events or community fundraising or supporter care.

Essential skills for the role:

  • Events fundraising experience, ideally third party/mass participation or other relevant fundraising experience such as community fundraising or supporter care.
  • Ability to build and develop positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering exceptional supporter stewardship.
  • Ability to deliver presentations to supporters, and to draft written documents including supporter letters and emails, briefs, and reports.
  • Excellent ability to plan and manage a variety of projects to tight and conflicting deadlines.
  • Ability to work within a team and be comfortable using initiative and working independently.
  • Experience of using a CRM database.
  • Have a creative, resilient, ‘can-do’ attitude.
  • Excellent attention to detail with strong numeracy skills and IT skills including Microsoft Office.
  • Commitment to continuous improvement and learning.
  • Access to own transport.

We do extraordinary work here at Helen & Douglas House.  If you would love to be part of that and can share that passion with others, then we would love to hear from you.

This role is a hybrid full-time role with 2 day per week spent working in our office in Cowley, Oxford. Interviews will be held on Thursday 12 December 2024 at Helen & Douglas House.

Helen & Douglas House offer the following benefits:

- 27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, rising to 28 days after 3 years, and 29 days after 5 years of service.

- Flexible Annual Leave: buy or sell up to 5 days of Annual Leave per year.

- Life assurance x4 your annual salary.

- We are a direction agency for the NHS Pension Scheme.

- Group Personal Pension scheme with 7% employer contribution.

- Eye care voucher scheme.

- Cycle to work scheme.

- Octopus electric vehicle leasing scheme.

- Occupational sick pay and maternity pay.

- Enhanced maternity leave and shared paternity leave.

- A flexible working environment.

- Investment in your Continuous Professional Development.

- Employee Assistance Programme.

- Recommend a friend scheme.

- Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. We welcome applications from all areas of the community and run regular in-house EDI-focused events and workshops.

Please note that everyone working for Helen & Douglas House are required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Helen & Douglas House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer and value the benefits of a diverse workforce. We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community.



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