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Challenge Events Officer

Employer
RNIB
Location
London, WC1H 9NE
Salary
£32,085
Closing date
29 Oct 2019

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Challenge Events Officer, London (12-month fixed contract)

Location: London - Judd Street

Salary: £32,085 (includes £3,603 LWA) per annum,

Hours: 36 per week 

Contract type: 12 months fixed term contract

It's an exciting time to join the RNIB Challenge Events team, the programme has seen significant growth over the last 3 years, and we have ambitious plans to grow further. We are a friendly and ambitious team, who love challenge events and take great pride in delivering outstanding supporter care to our amazing fundraisers.

If you have a passion for challenge events, communication and data, then this is a brilliant opportunity to use your skills and enthusiasm to help RNIB create a world without barriers for people with sight loss.

This role will deliver a programme of challenge events to maximise fundraising income, supporter recruitment, and deliver outstanding supporter stewardship. Key priority projects will include Ride London, Great North Run and The Big Jump skydiving weekend, all of which have grown significantly over the last couple of years for RNIB.

The successful person will have experience of working in a challenge events fundraising team, delivery of creative marketing campaigns and effective stewardship journeys across multiple channels. You will be a highly organised individual with confident project management skills, and an ability to manage multiple projects.

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

How To Apply

Please click on the Apply button below for further information on the role and how to apply.

Application closing date: 29/10/2019

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

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