Events Manager required for leading Surrey Charity
£40,000 salary
Client Details
The Events Manager will be responsible for leading the events programme - developing, promoting, and delivering a range of events that maximise income, drives supporter engagement and raises our profile. You will work closely with the organisations senior stakeholders and the fundraising teams to develop a strategy for special events that drives major funder engagement, cultivates opportunities, and maximises income. You will manage event committees, nurture relationships with key individuals and positively influence their engagement with and contributions to the Charity special events programme. The Events Manager will oversee the delivery of the sports & challenges programme, ensuring its development, promotion and delivering first class supporter care. The Events Manager will live the Charity values and will effectively communicate with committees and other supporters to ensure the best possible outcome at all events.
Description
Lead and manage the annual programme of special events including flagship dinners/auctions to deliver outstanding events and build long-term highly engaged relationships with donors.
- Manage and nurture key relationships with special event committee chairs and special event committee members, ensuring the right level of the Charity direction and support.
- Run and direct regular committee meetings and briefings, ensuring the committee work to agreed Memorandums of Understanding.
- Work collaboratively with other managers to align activities with our wider fundraising goals and design and deliver events appropriate to their target audiences and supporters.
- Oversee delivery of the annual programme of sports and challenges fundraising events, ensuring first class supporter care maximises engagement and fundraising.
- Lead on exploring new opportunities to grow and refresh the special events and sports programme and prepare investment cases.
- Develop plans to promote and market the sports events programme to deliver the events to a new and wider audience.
- Take overall responsibility for the special and sports budget lines, delivering on income targets. * Work with a range of suppliers, agencies, third party event organisers and venues.
- Prepare budgets and advise managers on feasibility of events; ROI, marketing opportunities and explore feasibility / new growth areas.
- Stay well informed of and responsive to the challenges and opportunities presented by the external environment.
- Manage, develop, and motivate direct reports to deliver against plans and to target.
Profile
Managing a range of successful events
- Demonstrable experience of delivering events that generate income
- Managing suppliers and event venues
- Working collaboratively with colleagues and teams, including Senior Leadership Teams and external committees, to deliver events to reach shared goals
- Developing events as relationship building/ stewardship tool
- Experience of managing staff and/or volunteers
- Experience of setting and managing budgets
Building and maintaining relationships
- Understanding of Special Events Committees and networks
- Confident oral communicator; face to face and over the telephone
- Knowledge of principles that underpin good customer care
- Clear and creative written communicator
- Strong MS Office knowledge and CRM database skills
Extremely socially focused with great attentiveness to others and an emphasis on cultivating personal relationships
- Outgoing, warm and friendly and able to meet and connect with new and different people daily
- Ability to work at a faster than average pace, on several tasks at once
- Strong sense of urgency, shifting between a variety of tasks quickly with lively enthusiasm
- Very persuasive "selling" communication style providing information in an informal manner
Job Offer
- Flexible working hours to balance home and working life
- Access to the Blue Light Discount Card Scheme, and other rewards and discounts
- Time off in lieu
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays - rising to 26 days after 1 year, 27 days after 5 years and 30 days after 11 years, with an additional 5 years to use in your 10th or 20th year of service (pro rata for part time)
- Bike to work, season ticket loan and payroll giving schemes
- Family friendly policies, focused on employee wellbeing, and an active cross-organisational wellbeing group running a number of initiatives throughout the year
- Pension scheme (we will contribute 5% of your salary and you will contribute at least 3%)
- The option to buy/sell annual leave, as well as additional leave for your birthday, wedding/civil ceremony and half day Christmas shopping
- A recommend a friend recruitment referral bonus