Assistant Fundraising & Events Manager

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity is seeking an Assistant Fundraising & Events Manager to cover north Essex and east Suffolk. The role focuses on supporting fundraising and events, inspiring communities, volunteers and hospital staff to engage with the charity and raise funds for local appeals and campaigns.

You will work across the Charity team, bringing energy, creativity and strong organisational skills to deliver successful activities and events for patients, carers and staff within

Qualifications

• Knowledge of fundraising
• Experience supporting fundraising and events teams
• Flexible, creative and highly organised
• Outgoing personality with ability to motivate

Responsibilities

• Provide vital link between the Charity and local community, volunteers, supporters, fundraisers and hospital staff.
• Support the fundraising and events team in delivering charity-led activities.
• Assist Fundraising Managers or Events Manager with events for local people, businesses, staff and volunteers.
• Work closely with groups and individuals to raise funds for appeals and campaigns.

Skills

Fundraising knowledge

Event coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Motivational skills

Organisational skills

Community outreach

Job description

The charity is one of more than 240 NHS Charities in the UK, which exist to enhance and support patient care and provide grants for projects that are over and above those served through government funding.

The Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity supports hospitals and healthcare facilities for patients across the East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) areas. It is the registered NHS charity which raises, manages and distributes funds on behalf of East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The Trustees are the Board of the NHS Foundation Trust who are responsible for the charity under a corporate trusteeship model, with a Charitable Funds Committee (CFC) appointed to oversee strategic and operational matters.

We are looking for a driven Assistant Fundraising & Events Manager to cover north Essex and east Suffolk, who is passionate about health charities and the role the charity plays in supporting the needs of local patients. As a key member of the Charity Team, the Assistant Fundraising & Events Manager must have the creativity, skill and knowledge to deliver the best charity administrative support, supporter stewardship and support to the relationship fundraising, events and corporate team. The post-holder will sit within the Charity team and provides an important link between the Charity and the local community, volunteers, supporters, fundraisers and hospital staff.

The purpose of this role is to provide a support to the fundraising and events team. The post holder will require good knowledge of fundraising and considerable energy and enthusiasm that will inspire the patients, visitors and local community to choose the ESNEFT Charity as their preferred charity.

You must be flexible, creative and highly organised, to contribute to the wider team fundraising activities and events. There may be times when this role, will support the Fundraising Managers or the Events Manager, with delivering charity led activities and events appropriate for local people, community, businesses, staff and volunteers to participate in, to raise funds for specific appeals, campaigns, wards, departments and general purposes. Working closely with groups and individuals, the ideal candidate will have an outgoing personality, will be keen for direct contact with people, good at motivating and be self-confident.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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