Event Fundraiser

Amnesty International UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Annual leave: 27 days (29 after five)

Job summary

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) invites applications for an Events Fundraiser within the Community & Events Fundraising Team. You will manage relationships with fundraisers who aim to raise hundreds or thousands of pounds, providing support, guidance, and motivation to drive critical human rights campaigns.

The role involves coordinating flagship events such as the London Marathon, negotiating, budgeting, and marketing across multiple projects, with a 2-day-per-week office presence.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporter fundraising
• Ability to manage multiple projects and strict attention to detail
• Collaborative and inclusive team player
• Experience with Sponsored Events Programmes or similar fundraising campaigns

Responsibilities

• Own and grow the key challenge event portfolio (e.g., London Marathon, Oysho Royal Parks Half Marathon)
• Build and maintain relationships with fundraisers raising hundreds or thousands of pounds
• Provide quality advice, support and motivation to fundraisers to maximise results
• Negotiate, plan, budget and market activities across multiple events

Skills

Fundraising

Event coordination

Budgeting

Negotiation

Project management

Marketing

Job description

Contract Details

Permanent

Salary

£48,559 (Includes London Weighting)

Weekly Hours

35 with flexibility options

Location

1 Easton St, London WC1X 0DW (Hybrid)

Application Deadline

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Interview Date

19 October 2026

Job Summary

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our new Events Fundraiser.

About the role

The Community & Events Fundraising Team help us achieve our goal of raising significant funds for our human rights work. The Events Fundraiser is accountable for our key challenge event portfolio including flagship events such as the London Marathon and the Oysho Royal Parks Half Marathon. The role involves developing and maintaining relationships with fundraisers who have each committed to raising hundreds or thousands of pounds and in return expect full support and quality advice to inspire and support them in their fundraising. The role also supports multiple other events and would include a variety of skills including negotiating, writing, project management, budgeting, marketing etc.

This role typically needs to spend 2 days per week in the office to fulfil the responsibilities of the role. More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

• You're skilled in customer and fundraising support and enjoy working at speed.
• You can easily pivot between multiple projects and your attention to detail can be relied upon.
• You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture and can easily integrate yourself into a new post and team.
• You also have a good knowledge of Supporter Fundraising and experience of Sponsored Events Programmes.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.

We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.

We are a disability confident organisation.