We are seeking an outstanding Senior Events Executive to join our dynamic Income Generation team at Hospice UK
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Salary: £36,199 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full time, 35 hour working week.
Location: London, Kings Cross / Hybrid. Our Hybrid Working Arrangement gives you more choice about how, when and where you work best. Contractually based at our offices in London, we “Work Smarter to Live Better”. This means a mixture of working from the office or remotely in a way that balances the needs of Hospice UK, your team and yourself.
Benefits include: Up to 7% pension contribution, membership to the Simplyhealth cash plan and access to an employee assistance programme, life assurance, generous annual leave entitlement starting with 25 days holiday in your first year increasing with length of service to 30 days and wellbeing programmes.
Closing date for applications: Noon on Monday 23 May 2022.
Interview date: Tuesday 31 May 2022
Job information
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The role
If you are looking to broaden your skillset and deepen your experience of events fundraising in a more senior role, this could be for you. We want you to take responsibility for the development of our challenge events programme, exploring and maximising opportunities to raise funds for Hospice UK and awareness of our vital work.
You will be responsible for managing a broad range of running and challenge events including TCS London Marathon, London Landmarks Half Marathon, Great North Run. The role will take general responsibility for developing plans and budgets, marketing the events, taking a lead on logistics, providing excellent supporter care and ensuring events hit or exceed income targets within agreed expenditure.
You will have direct experience of managing multiple charity events successfully and to budget. Be able to provide high standards of supporter care and have excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. You will be comfortable multi-tasking and prioritising your varied workload and have experience of working with a database. You will be able to quickly form great relationships with internal and external partners, and act as a representative for Hospice UK.
The Events and Supporter Engagement team forms part of the wider Income Generation Department and works closely within and across the department. We are a supportive and collaborative team, with many years of fundraising experience between us. Hospice UK offers a vibrant and rewarding work environment within the Income Generation department. With a great team culture of sharing, learning, social activities, and regular meet-ups. We support each other and we celebrate our successes! We pride ourselves on providing excellent career development opportunities for fundraisers, including internal and external training opportunities.
About Hospice UK
Hospice UK is the national charity for hospice and end of life care. We work to ensure everyone affected by death, dying and bereavement gets the care and support they need, when they need it. Each year our hospice members collectively support 225,000 adults and children with a terminal or life-shortening condition, and provide 72,000 families and carers with bereavement support.
How to apply
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If you would like to apply for this role, please send the following documents to recruitment@hospiceuk.org by noon on Monday 23 May 2022
Your CV. Please remove your name, address and contact details from your CV.
A completed supporting statement form - outlining how you meet the person specification criteria and providing examples from your experience and skills. No more than 2 pages please!
Please make sure you provide your contact details in your email. We’ll contact you to let you know whether we would like to meet you, and interviews will be held on Tuesday 31 May 2022
Additional notes:
To be considered for this role you must have the right to live and work in the UK for your application to be progressed.
Your CV and covering letter / supporting statement will be carefully assessed on a points scoring basis, therefore please make sure we can see how your experience and skills match the job requirements. Removing your name, address, contact details and other potentially identifying personal information helps us to reduce the risk of unconscious bias during recruitment.
