Events Executive - Virtual

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity; London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is seeking an Events Executive to join their virtual events team on a 9-month fixed-term contract. You will support virtual fundraising events, ensuring an exceptional experience for participants while engaging with supporter communities online. This role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working policy.

Benefits

30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in digital campaigns or events required.
• Confident in using data to enhance supporter experience.
• Highly organized with experience in building email journeys.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of virtual fundraising events.
• Manage and moderate Facebook groups to engage supporters.
• Deliver exceptional experiences for virtual event participants.

Skills

Digital campaigns

Data analysis

Social media

Email marketing

Organizational skills

Job description

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Do you have experience working on digital campaigns or events? Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity are hiring for an Events Executive to join our virtual events team. This is a 9-month fixed term contract, and you’ll support the delivery of our portfolio of virtual fundraising events.

The salary for this position is £31,251 pro rata and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

At GOSH Charity you can make a difference in the lives of seriously ill children. As an Events Executive in the virtual team you’ll:

• Support the delivery of our portfolio of virtual fundraising events including our series of Facebook Challenges and The Great Family Walk.
• Build and optimise email journeys that nurture, motivate and retain event participants.
• Deliver exceptional supporter experience for all virtual events participants.
• Deliver insight led stewardship and support journeys across our virtual events.
• Managing and moderating Facebook groups, helping to grow and engage supporter communities.

Whilst this role focuses on virtual events, there may be occasions where you’ll need to attend in person events.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Some previous experience working on digital campaigns or events.
• Confident using data and insight to inform decisions and improve supporter experience.
• Experience using digital platforms, especially social media. Any experience using online fundraising tools is beneficial.
• Experience building email journeys.
• Highly organised

How to apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing Date: 2nd July 2025
Interview: approx first week of July

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact [emailprotected]

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.