Senior Events Officer

Senior Events Officer.

Salary: c. £37,500 per annum, including Inner London Allowance.

Location: Holborn, London.

Contract: Permanent.

Benefits: 29 days annual leave pro rata PLUS bank holidays, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands.

Closing Date: Monday 29th January 2024.

Interviews are scheduled for week commencing 5th February 2024.

Due to volume of anticipated applications, we can close the advert at any point, so please do get your application in as soon as possible.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children’s lives.

A bit about the role

Reporting to the Events Manager you will both lead and support the delivery of high value fundraising and stewardship events within the team portfolio and provide exemplary day to day support to some of Action for Children’s closest and most important supporters. It is an exciting time to join the team, as they continue to expand the high value events portfolio, including the introduction of a new fundraising Gala event taking place later this year to help drive income growth.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures

• Manage and deliver events within the team portfolio, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard, to budget and leading to successful outcomes being achieved.
• Build and manage day to day relationships with high value volunteer board and committee members.
• Take responsibility for accurate financial management of events, reporting and contingency planning.
• Prepare reports and evaluations, sharing recommendations and providing regular progress updates against objectives.
• Use creative, and engaging methods of written and verbal communications to successfully negotiate to achieve positive outcomes, ensuring clear fundraising messaging and alignment with brand and campaign messaging.
• Manage relationships with external suppliers and agencies to develop relationships, negotiate costs and contracts to support a strong ROI on events.
• Monitor external environment, keeping up to date with sector trends and competitor activity and incorporating industry best practice into event plans.
• Maintain electronic donor records in compliance with data protection legislation.

Let’s talk about you

• Essential experience of working on a range of successful fundraising, engagement and stewardship events.
• Experience of developing positive working relationships with staff, supporters, donors, and volunteers.
• Experience of managing relationships and stewardship with high value fundraising committees or boards.
• Experience of developing compelling fundraising and/or engagement materials.
• Willingness to work flexible and unsocial hours including evenings/weekends as and when required.
• Be able to travel throughout the UK.
• Hold a valid driving license or be open to using suitable methods of transport to enable the duties of the role to be conducted.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace by actively encouraging applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic candidates and people with disabilities, as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and meaningful action to ensure fair opportunity to all groups in our communities and for AFC.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we’d love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.