Challenges Lead, hireful

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Salary: £34,847 (+ £4,000 London weighting if applicable) per annum.

Location: UK – London (Whitechapel/Waterloo), Leicester, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, Glasgow.

Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full Time.

To coordinate the development and delivery of fundraising challenges events, both nationally and internationally, to engage the community on a grassroots level in line with the fundraising strategy.

• To coordinate the development and delivery of Fundraising Challenges Events, nationally and internationally, with the objective of engaging the community on a grassroots level in line with the fundraising strategy.
• To work closely with the Community Fundraising team to promote the mass participation of events that will lead to participation and fundraising.
• To deliver stewardship journeys for participants and supporters.
• To successfully project manage multiple national fundraising initiatives.

• Proven experience in challenges coordination and/or management
• Significant experience of fundraising through organising and delivering challenges, and/or mass participation activities
• Experience of the development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of plans and budgets
• Experience of delivering exceptional donor/customer care
• Experience in supporter stewardship
• Experience of using a range of effective communication channels to promote fundraising activities
• Experience in negotiating and managing contracts with vendors and suppliers
• Experience of managing own workload effectively, planning and organising work to meet deadlines
• Experience of working effectively without close supervision dealing with problems as they arise
• Experience and comfortability of working within a fast-paced environment
• Experience working with and supervising volunteers
• A thorough understanding of the different types of fundraising challenges
• Good understanding of charity law, policy and regulatory environment within the charity sector
• Knowledge of the Fundraising Regulators code of practice
• Able to work flexible hours (including unsociable hours and weekends)
• Proficient use of Asana, Trello or other project management tools
• Excellent event/challenge management skills – from conception, promotion to production and delivery
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce correspondence to a high standard
• Creative thinking skills
• Able to exercise diplomacy where required
• Excellent communication skills – written, oral and listening with the ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with a diverse range of individuals who may be supporters, participants, donors or volunteers
• Strong project management and team coordination skills, including the ability to use planning tools
• Strong networking skills
• Proven organisational skills with the ability to work on multiple activities at one time
• Excellent administration skills – able to keep thorough, accurate and up to date records
• Competent user of Raisers Edge, Microsoft D365 or other relationship management databases
• Understanding and experience of health and safety regulations and risk assessments in relation to organising events and challenges
• Educated to ‘A’ level or equivalent
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software in particular, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook

For more information, please view the full Job Description in the Documents tab.

Interviews are expected on an ongoing basis until a suitable appointment is made. The advert may close earlier.

• Screening clearance
• Proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
• Receipt of satisfactory references

They are an equal opportunities employer.