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Challenge Events Engagement Coordinator

Employer
RNIB
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£24,603 (including London Weighting Allowance)
Closing date
1 Sep 2019

Job Details

It’s an exciting time to join the RNIB challenge events team, as we’ve grown significantly over the last 3 years and have ambitious plans to continue to grow. We are a small, friendly and ambitious team, with a genuine passion for delivering amazing challenge events and smashing the barriers faced by people with sight loss.

If you are a people person with a passion for fundraising, excellent communication and organisational skills, and a love of data, this is a brilliant opportunity to join our team and support the growth of our challenge events fundraising programme.

This role will support the delivery of our challenge events, with project management responsibilities across our general running and open challenge programmes, leading a strategy to grow these areas and maximise supporter engagement and fundraising.

The role will be a key point of contact across all our events, leading on the delivery of the stewardship and engagement strategy for our bespoke trekking series, as well as supporting stewardship for both our new bespoke event RNIB Double Dash and London Marathon.

The role will ensure supporter engagement and fundraising levels are maximised, outstanding levels of supporter care are delivered, and long-term relationships are cultivated. Critical to the success of this will be managing supporter data and insight to ensure we understand our supporters and know the best way to engage them.

The role will also engage key internal stakeholders to support the success and growth of challenge events at RNIB, sharing the stories and successes of challenge events across the organisation, and ensuring staff and volunteers across RNIB are highly engaged with our challenge events fundraising programme.

In exchange we offer a competitive salary, a stimulating and supportive working environment and a benefits package including:

  • 26 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), which increase with service
  • Excellent pension schemes

If you would like to apply for this great job opportunity please click the apply button.

Closing date for applications: 1st September 2019.

Interview date: TBC.

We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss. Working for us means working for one of the UK’s biggest charities, supporting almost two million people living with sight loss in the UK.

RNIB is committed to being led by our customers (blind and partially sighted people), and one of the ways we do this is through active involvement and engagement in many of our work activities, including the recruitment of new members of staff.

Please be aware that blind and partially sighted volunteers may be involved in the recruitment and selection process for this vacancy; including reviewing job applications and CV’s, shortlisting and interviews and selection tests.

RNIB is committed to being an Equal Opportunities organisation and we welcome applications from people with sight loss.

Company

RNIB (the Royal National Institute of Blind People) is a large, national charity offering information, support and advice to two million blind and partially sighted people throughout the UK. Founded in 1868, RNIB has an annual income of more than £114m, over 1,700 employees and 4,800 volunteers. It is headquartered in London.

RNIB’s vision is of a world where people who are blind and partially sighted enjoy the same rights, responsibilities, opportunities and quality of life as people who are fully sighted.

RNIB began life as in 1868 as the British and Foreign Blind Association for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind. It was founded by a partially sighted doctor, Thomas Rhodes Armitage. In 1949 the charity received a Royal Charter and, in 1953, changed its name to the Royal National Institute for the Blind. In 2002, RNIB became a membership organisation and changed its name again - to the Royal National Institute of Blind People, rather than for Blind People. Under RNIB’s Royal Charter and Bye-laws, the majority of its trustees must be blind or partially sighted.

One of the charity’s flagship services, Talking Books, began in 1935 and is still very popular. It gives access to 23,000 fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children. Subscribers can receive the books on a CD, USB stick, an app or mp3 format. They can also use RNIB’s digital download service or borrow from 22,000 braille books and 5,000 giant print books.

The charity runs an online shop and has four resource centres which sell accessible products. Products include talking clocks and watches, large button telephones, cookery aids and tactile toys and games.

RNIB’s Helpline has been running since 1997. Callers through the Helpline can reach the charity’s advice and counselling teams. The Advice Service is able to give advice to blind and partially sighted people, carers, friends, relatives and organisations helping people with sight loss. Common issues include eye conditions, registering sight loss, employment, education and benefits.

RNIB’s Counselling Team is a small group of telephone and online counsellors who give people struggling with the onset of sight loss the opportunity to talk about their feelings and gain support. Calls or sessions are not charged.

RNIB has recently decided to amalgamate its 24,000 membership in a new community called RNIB Connect. Membership is free and includes the charity’s 8,000 strong campaigning network and the charity Action for Blind People’s Action Connect online community (Action for Blind People became an associate charity of RNIB in 2009).

RNIB is also an active campaigning charity. It has 8,000 campaign supporters and campaign staff stationed across the UK. Recent campaigns have concerned the new Personal Independence Payments and changes to Attendance Allowance. The charity also undertakes permanent campaigning on transport and retail accessibility and pavement obstructions.

Company info
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Telephone
0303 123 9999
Location
105 Judd Street,
London
London
WC1H 9NE
GB

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