Challenge Event Co-ordinator

HARRIS HILL; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Hill is seeking a Challenge Event Coordinator to manage key events like the London and Berlin Marathons for a respected charity. This role involves coordinating fundraising efforts, providing event support, and collaborating across various teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in event management and fundraising, alongside exceptional organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in sporting or challenge event fundraising.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Able to engage sensitively with supporters.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support key sporting challenge events.
• Administer and monitor fundraising platforms.
• Provide on-the-day event support.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Fundraising platform familiarity

Tools

JustGiving

Enthuse

Job description

Harris Hill are delighted to be working with a wonderful charity to recruit for the Challenge Event Co-ordinator in order to help the charity meet its strategic plans and objectives.

As a Challenge Event Co-ordinator you will:

• Manage and support key sporting challenge events such as the London, Dublin, and Berlin Marathons
• Administer and monitor fundraising platforms including Let’s Do This, RealBuzz, Run For Charity, and Discover Adventure
• Provide on the day event support, including managing cheer points and assisting supporters and volunteers
• Collaborate with teams across PR, Marketing, Community Fundraising, and Research to deliver seamless event experiences
• Help grow a national network of Centres of Excellence through your fundraising efforts#
• Manage event consoles and platforms for all Challenge Events, ensuring participants are signed up and places confirmed within a timely manner.

To be successful, you must have experience:

• Experienced in sporting or challenge event fundraising, donor management and stewardship with excellent organisational and time management skills
• A proactive communicator, able to engage sensitively with supporters
• Familiar with fundraising platforms (JustGiving, Enthuse) and CRM/databases
• Positive, can do attitude and comfortable working under pressure to meet deadlines

Salary: circa £28,000 per annum

Contract type:Full-time, permanent

Location- Milton Keynes, hybrid working

Closing date: On rolling basis

Interview: TBC

Recruitment process: Cv and Supporting Statement to [e-mail]

If this sounds like you, then please do get in touch ASAP!

Unfortunately, due to resource capacity, we will only contact candidates that are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date please note your application has been unsuccessful.

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.