Senior Challenge Events Fundraising Lead

Great Ormond Street Hospital; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave (plus bank hols)

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and wellbeing schemes

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital seeks a Senior Fundraising Executive for Challenge Events to lead a portfolio of third-party events and partnerships. You will drive acquisition activity, support the team’s growth, and ensure a best-in-class supporter experience across thousands of participants.

The role reports into the Senior Fundraising Manager, collaborates with a small team within the Mass Participation group, and contributes to delivering around £6 million income per year.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a fundraising event environment.
• Experience marketing events and collaborating with digital marketing teams to recruit mass participation supporters.
• Experience delivering best-in-class supporter journeys.
• Event delivery experience.
• Excellent relationship management skills, adept at pitching, securing and delivering high value event partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the planning and delivery of high value and/or complex third-party challenge events, maintaining excellent relationships to retain top-tier partnerships and deliver growth in net income.
• Lead on the delivery of the Challenge Events Team’s key marketing campaigns throughout the year.
• Support team members to meet their recruitment targets, regularly evaluating performance against budget and targets, and planning activity in line with wider charity marketing activity.
• Use your skills to deliver excellent stewardship across your events, to increase income by improving average gifts and conversion-to-gift.
• To attend Challenge Events, and other events across the team and charity where necessary, to support giving #TeamGOSH the best on the day experience.

Skills

Fundraising events

Event marketing

Donor journeys

Relationship management

Partnership development

Job description

Great Ormond Street Hospital seeks a Senior Fundraising Executive for Challenge Events to lead a portfolio of third-party events and partnerships. You will drive acquisition activity, support the team’s growth, and ensure a best-in-class supporter experience across thousands of participants.

The role reports into the Senior Fundraising Manager, collaborates with a small team within the Mass Participation group, and contributes to delivering around £6 million income per year.