Fundraising Events and Challenges Lead - London, United Kingdom - Comic Relief

Comic Relief

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Comic Relief:

Employment Type Full time
Location Hybrid
London, City of, UK 2 days a week in our London Office
Salary £44,342 £47,888 (GBP)
Team Fundraising
Seniority Senior
Closing: 11:59pm, 30th May 2024 BST

Perks and benefits:

Flexible working hours
Work from home option
Life Insurance
Wellness programs
Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Paid emergency leave
Sabbatical Opportunities
Professional development
Mentoring/coaching
Paid volunteer days
Payroll giving
Salary sacrifice
Team social events
Extracurricular clubs
Cycle to work scheme
Free fruit

Job Description:

This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week._

Purpose of job:

The Fundraising Event and Challenges Lead is responsible for overseeing the fundraising events portfolio, developing and driving the strategy, and leading the delivery of a wide-ranging events and challenges portfolio to deliver ambitious organisational objectives and fundraising growth targets.

This includes high-profile celebrity sporting and non-sporting challenge events alongside special events and mass-engagement events.

Key responsibilities:

Leads the strategy setting and annual planning and budget setting for Comic Relief's events, including building financial models, developing business cases and strategic plans.
Lead the operational planning and implementation of fundraising events from ideation, through development and delivery, ensuring an agile approach to changing circumstances and to manage risk and maximise income opportunities.
Manage and coach the events coordinator to support and deliver operational and fundraising activity across the portfolio to deliver against agreed plans and objectives.
As appropriate, lead or work as part of crossorganisational matrix project teams to deliver all event fundraising elements including developing coherent narrative, fundraising marketing activity, supporter journeys and income/performance tracking and management.
Lead and manage project teams of internal and external stakeholders and suppliers to ensure all aspects of fundraising events are delivered effectively and successfully to deliver income targets.
Procure and manage the daytoday relationship with external delivery partners to ensure safe and successful development and delivery of events; this could include events logistic delivery partners, integration of external media broadcast outlets or television production companies.
Working with the FR Events coordinator, supporting all operational elements of events including event plans, logistics, risk assessments, live content requirements, content delivery, health & safety, risk management and crisis management plans.
Actively manage the fundraising event budgets, ensuring spend is monitored, reported, and reforecast, with cost saving opportunities leveraged to maximise net income.
Operate as a champion of fundraising events within the wider organisation proactively identifying, sourcing and helping to embed new ways of working, tools and approaches that drive and optimise income from fundraising events across an array of target audiences.
Foster a culture of high performance and build organisational event fundraising expertise. Work across the organisation to ensure each challenge/event is audience focused and all opportunities to maximise income are explored through a test, learn and iterate approach where data, learning and insight is used to make informed decisions and actioned swiftly. Ensure knowledge is systematised and shared across the organisation for maximum impact.
Working as a lead within the Fundraising Directorate, work with colleagues to ensure all activity is appropriately integrated within the wider fundraising plans and portfolio, targeted to agreed audiences appropriately and designed and delivered in a way that maximises engagement and lifetime value.

People Management:

Provide balanced, constructive feedback, undertake effective performance management to embed accountability and proactively support the professional development and growth of staff.
Proactively undertake business planning, prioritise activities and set clear and realistic objectives for the team and individuals based on capacity, expertise, and aspirations.
Maintain regular twoway communication and dialogue with staff, ensuring information is cascaded and escalated as needed.

Person specification:

_Essential criteria _

Experience in developing strategies, plans and managing and delivering events with a focus of income generation.
Experience of delivering high profile events with multiple external partners
Demonstratable experience of complex project and stakeholder management in high impact and proven ability to deliver on time and on budget.
Evidence of working in highpressure, highrisk environments with h