Senior Fundraising Executive - Challenge Events

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is seeking an experienced Senior Executive to lead a portfolio of third-party events and partnerships. You will drive recruitment across mass participation events, optimise supporter journeys, and deliver impactful stewardship to grow net income.

A key focus is managing high-value partnerships and contributing to team campaigns. The role reports to the Senior Fundraising Manager (Challenge Events) and involves collaborating with one other senior

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead on planning and delivery of third-party events and partnerships.
• Lead on the Challenge Events Team's marketing campaigns.
• Support recruitment targets and monitor performance against budget and targets.
• Deliver stewardship to increase income and improve average gifts and conversion-to-gift.
• Attend Challenge Events and other events to ensure the best on-the-day experience; report to Senior Fundraising Manager; collaborate with team.

Skills

Fundraising events

Event marketing

Supporter journeys

Relationship management

Partnerships development

Job description

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

• 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., 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.

• 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.:an>
• Excellent relationship management skills, adept at pitching, securing and delivering high value event 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.

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.