Main area: Fundraising
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 30 hours per week (Evenings and weekends required)
Job ref: 361-6929793
Site: Lister Hospital
Town: Stevenage
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 25/02/2025
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for an Events Coordinator - Fundraising who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will deliver and manage our portfolio of events including mass participation, challenges, NHS Trust and community partnership events, to support Lister Hospital, Hertford County Hospital, New QEII and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. You will deliver, grow and establish an annual events plan to secure income which enables the Charity to provide projects and equipment which are above and beyond the remit of the NHS and enhance patient experience.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
1. Meet or exceed a personal annual fundraising target for our events & be a proactive & positive member of the wider team in order that the Charity reaches or exceeds its annual income target.
2. Manage the income & expenditure budget for all of our events and strive to achieve our charity benchmark of 1:4 (cost:income) return on investment ratio.
3. Lead & manage the charity’s portfolio of ‘owned’ events which include the Lister Abseil challenge, Rainbow Run, Moor Park 10k and Firewalk.
4. Recruit supporters for our challenge events which include a skydive, wingwalk, royal parks half marathon, virtual London marathon & provide excellent donor care & stewardship to maximise funds raised. To create a new challenge events calendar to increase our offering to supporters.
5. Provide stewardship & fundraising support to large scale events organised by donors in the community.
6. Be the charity representative & lead for any events organised in partnership with the NHS Trust including staff thank you events & the NHS Anniversary events.
7. Provide excellent cultivation & stewardship to all event participants, implementing sound supporter retention and development plans to increase affinity & maximise engagement, with the aim of increased supporter lifetime value.
8. Oversee all tasks within the event set up process which includes writing event plans, site/venue management, creating routes, stakeholder management, writing risk assessments, health & safety plans, ordering equipment, booking suppliers.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* Degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Significant proven experience leading on and managing multiple projects simultaneously
* Significant proven experience of setting up and delivering mass participation events
* Significant proven experience of managing challenge events
* Demonstrable experience writing event health and safety plans and risk assessments
* Proven track record of delivering strong supporter journeys resulting in repeat giving and increased lifetime value
* Experience of delivering fundraising activities with a calculated and strong ROI
* Experience of generating compelling cases for support
* Experience of meeting fundraising targets
* Demonstrable experience managing an event income and expenditure budget
* Experience of working with internal and external suppliers and stakeholders
* Experience of managing website and social media content
* Experience of working across teams to maximise donor engagement
Knowledge
* Writing timelines and event plans
* Writing event sponsorship packages
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
When you apply...
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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