Fundraising and Events Officer - Emsworth, United Kingdom - PLANETS Cancer Charity

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Job Title:
Fundraising and Events Officer


Hours:
Minimum 22.5 up to 37.5 hours per week - full time or part time would be considered.


Job status:
Permanent after 6 months' probationary period.


Salary £26,000 - £28,000 dependent on experience (based on full time hours).


Location:

Dorset /Hampshire based with hybrid of flexible home/office working. Minimum 1 day in the Southampton office or Dorset meeting space, per week.


Closing Date:27th Jan 2023**Interviews are anticipated to be the week commencing 6th February 2023.


Do you want to make a difference to people living with cancer and know that every day you are making a difference to your community? Are you an innovative, organised, focused and ambitious fundraiser or event planner? If so, we would love to hear from you

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Fundraising and Events Officer to join our small, dynamic cancer charity team based on the central south coast.

This is a new role within our 4-person team as we grow our charity.

As a key member of the PLANETS team, this new role will take an active lead in challenges, events and corporate fundraising.

Reporting to the CEO, the post holder will proactively engage with PLANETS supporters, ensuring communications are delivered in a timely, appropriate manner to engage existing and recruit new supporters.

The post holder will also play a key role in working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, helping to deliver supporter and fundraising events.

• You will provide support and encouragement to all individuals, groups and organisations raising money for PLANETS through challenges and events.
• Working with the team to plan, promote, coordinate, and deliver all PLANETS events, including the annual ball, oneoff initiatives, projectfocused or specific appeal driven events.
• Research and project manage new events; oversee all event and challenge income and expenditure projects that you lead on; liaise with the CEO to ensure this is accurately recorded for accounting purposes.

The post holder will need to have charity fundraising /event management experience, be IT competent and be a motivated and confident communicator.

Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and good ability to build rapport with supporters and colleagues alike will be necessary.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of our small, but dynamic and fun team in an expanding charity.

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Benefits:

• Fair and equal pay
• 25 days Annual Leave (based on full time hours) excluding public holidays
• Friendly supportive team
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working arrangements/ good work life balance
• Investment in your ongoing personal development and training

Interested?

About PLANETS Cancer Charity - Registered Charity No

PLANETS was set up in 2011 by Consultant Surgeon Neil Pearce, Interventional Radiologist Brian Stedman, and Neuroendocrine cancer patients Layla Stephen (CEO) and Jo Green (Operations Director).

Layla and Jo currently run the charity with a board of Trustees Including Neil Pearce (Chairman) and Brian Stedman, which provides direction for the organisation.

PLANETS helps patients with pancreatic, liver, colorectal, abdominal, and neuroendocrine cancer by funding patient support groups, innovative treatments, and research. Since 2011 we have raised over £1,900,000

Our Key Achievements have been:

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Establishing a network of patient support groups across the Wessex region.
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Funding the introduction of intra operative radiotherapy (IORT) with the UK's first mobile electron beam radiotherapy machine, able to deliver radiotherapy to advanced cancers during surgery.
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Funding full-time pancreatic and neuroendocrine tumour researchers to work with the clinician scientists in Southampton's world leading cancer immunology research department.

PLANETS Cancer Charity is dedicated to serving the needs of our regional population which extends from Lyme Regis to Bognor Regis and provides specialist cancer services to the 4 million people who live across Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and West Sussex.

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent


Salary:
Up to £14.35 per hour


Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free or subsidised travel
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Emsworth