Special Events Manager

About The Role

Do you have experience in delivering exceptional events? Do you have a flare for building relationships across an organisation and managing multiple projects? Would you like to contribute to the UK’s leading dementia charity by leading a diverse portfolio of events that inspire and engage?

We are recruiting for a Special Events Manager to join us on a fixed 12 month contract. This is a home-based role, though you will need to travel for events as required and be willing to travel to our flagship London office.

As the Special Events Manager you will lead the end-to-end delivery of a diverse portfolio of high value engagement and income-generating events – from intimate cultivation experiences to larger stewardship events. You will take ownership of all aspects of event logistics, ensuring exceptional attention to detail. Working closely with high value fundraisers across Corporate Partnerships, Philanthropy and Legacies, you will design events that inspire, engage and deepen long term relationships with major donors, corporate partners and representatives from trusts and foundations.

• Demonstrable experience of delivering events that aim to engage a target audience and meet objectives
• Strong relationship builder with experience of managing multiple complex projects at once
• Be a creative thinker who can think beyond existing parameters and processes to find new ways to engage our audience and amplify our events.
• Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively and remain solution focussed throughout your areas of work.
• Be motivated by delivering truly transformational positive impacts for those affected by dementia, and you will learn how to weave this pivotal impact into every piece of work.

• Planning and delivering engaging events that connect with our high value audiences and meet agreed objectives, using insight and creativity to maximise impact.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal colleagues, partners, and stakeholders while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Developing creative and innovative approaches to audience engagement, using fresh ideas to increase participation and reach.
• Leading and supporting others by sharing knowledge, expertise, and best practice through strong internal networks.
• Embedding meaningful impact for people affected by dementia into every piece of work, ensuring activities are purpose-led and outcomes-focused.

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.

At Alzheimer’s Society, we’re the UK’s leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.

Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer’s Society.

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society.

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Our hiring process

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