Job Description
Harris Hill are delighted to be working with a fantastic charity to recruit for the Events Manager to cover busy period of 12 months.
As the Events Manager, you'll be at the heart of delivering diverse, exciting, and high-impact events aimed at raising vital funds to support the charity work. From skydives challenges to gala dinners and football events, you’ll be responsible for designing, delivering, and monitoring an innovative events programme to meet income and engagement targets.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design, implement, and evaluate fundraising events, ensuring they achieve their financial and engagement goals.
* Build lasting relationships with supporters, creating a positive donor journey and ensuring excellent stewardship throughout.
* Work alongside the Charity Team, Communications, Finance, and HR departments, as well as volunteers and to ensure seamless event delivery.
* Secure event sponsorships from corporates and partners, ensuring event success through strategic partnerships.
* Develop and implement safety measures for events, ensuring compliance with all health and safety legislation.
* Recruit, train, and deploy volunteers to support event execution, ensuring they have the tools they need to succeed.
* Work with the Communications team to produce content for social and traditional media to maximise event exposure.
About You:
* Experience: You’ll have a proven background in event management, ideally within the charity sector. Experience in fundraising, managing event budgets, securing sponsorships, and working with volunteers is essential.
* Skills: Excellent organisational skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels. A strong understanding of health and safety, fundraising legislation, and donor stewardship is vital.
Salary: starting salary is £37,338 - £42k
Contract type: Full-time, 12 months FTC
Location- Brighton
Closing date: On rolling basis
Interview: ASAP
Recruitment process: Cv and Supporting Statement to
If this sounds like you, then please do get in touch ASAP!
Unfortunately, due to resource capacity, we will only contact candidates that are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date please note your application has been unsuccessful.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.