Senior Fundraising Executive - Challenge Events

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

Senior Fundraising Executive - Challenge Events

Application Deadline: 23 November 2026

Department: Fundraising

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Reporting To: Rebecca Stannard

Compensation: £38,017 / year

Description

Are you an experienced events fundraiser looking for an exciting opportunity to lead on a portfolio of third-party events and partnerships?

We are currently hiring a Senior Executive to manage some of GOSH Charity’s biggest event partnerships, lead the team’s acquisition activity and play a pivotal role in driving growth within third-party challenge events.

You will use your keen marketing and stewardship skills to support the recruitment of thousands of event participants and deliver a sector-leading supporter experience.

Salary The salary for this position is £38,017 per annum 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.

Please refer to the full job description below for more information.

About The team

This role reports to the Senior Fundraising Manager (Challenge Events), and you will work alongside one other senior executive, and three executives.

The Challenge Events Team also sits within the wider Mass Participation Team, comprising of third-party challenge events, owned and virtual events and is responsible for generating around £6 million income per year.

DBS - note a basic DBS check is required for this role.

Closing Date: 23rd November 2026

Key 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, Knowledge and Expertise

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

Benefits

• 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.

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