Events Fundraising Executive

St Barnabas Hospices; Worthing, Arundel; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme or NHS pension

Up to 35 days’ annual leave

On-site education support

Bupa access

Free parking

Corporate gym membership discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Death in Service

Job summary

Southern Hospice Group is seeking an enthusiastic Events Fundraising Executive to deliver a programme of Challenge events across Chestnut Tree House, St Barnabas House and Martlets Hospice. You will recruit and steward participants, leading a portfolio of third‑party events while growing participation and income.

Working with the fundraising team, you will expand the events programme and maximise fundraising potential, ensuring supporters enjoy an exceptional experience from registration to

Qualifications

• Experience in supporter stewardship and managing participants in mass participation events.
• Experience with third‑party challenge events and building relationships with participants.
• Ability to meet deadlines and KPIs, with strong organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver programme of Challenge events across three hospices to generate sustainable income.
• Recruit and steward participants across diverse fundraising events; lead third‑party challenge event portfolio.
• Grow participation and income from challenge events and ensure supporters have an excellent journey from registration to finish.
• Collaborate with the fundraising team to expand the events programme and maximise fundraising potential.
• Place supporter stewardship at the core of the role to inspire fundraising and memorable experiences.

Skills

Event fundraising

Donor relations

CRM database experience

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Tools

CRM database

Job description

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, organised and creative Events Fundraising Executive to deliver our programme ofChallenge eventsto generate sustainable income across our three hospices — Chestnut Tree House, St Barnabas House and Martlets Hospice.

You’ll be recruiting and stewarding participants across a diverse range of fundraising events, with lead responsibility for the charity’s third‑party challenge event portfolio.

You’ll play a key role in growing participation and income from challenge events, ensuring supporters enjoy an exceptional experience from registration through to completion. Working collaboratively within the fundraising team, you’ll identify opportunities to expand the charity’s challenge events programme and maximise its fundraising potential.

Supporter stewardship is central to this role. You’ll help every participant to have a memorable experience, to maximise their fundraising and feel inspired to take on their next challenge.

About you

You’ll bring a warm, supporter-focused approach, strong organisational skills and attention to detail. You’ll understand events fundraising, build relationships with participants and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines and KPIs.

Experience in supporter stewardship, managing participants in mass participation and third‑party challenge events, and using a CRM database would be an asset.

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK.We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree Houseis the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Bupa and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people‑centric organisation like ours.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate.Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

Some of our roles aresubject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it may be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.