Challenge Events Manager
- Employer
- CHM
- Location
- Home-based (some travel across UK when necessary, including the Leicester office)
- Salary
- £37,945.00 per annum
- Closing date
- 22 Nov 2024
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- Job Function
- Fundraising, Marketing, Campaigning, Business Development & Commercial, PR & Communications, Digital
- Cause Area
- Children & Youth, Community, Social Care & Welfare
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Job Level
- Management
Join this federated charity during this exciting time of implementing their ambitious five-year strategy. As a valued member of their dynamic, award-winning fundraising team, you'll play a vital role in their success. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Partnerships, you will be responsible for driving the growth and diversification of the challenge event programme and managing a small portfolio of partners.
Challenge Events Manager
Reporting To: Head of Corporate Partnerships
Manages: N/a
Location: Home-based (some travel across UK when necessary, including the Leicester office)
Contract: Fixed Term contract until March 2026
Salary: £37,945.00
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week). Flexible working offered.
About the Employer
Our client is a federated charity consisting of a central national office in Leicester, and 178 geographically dispersed local organisations, all working together under the same identity.
This charity recognises that being a parent has never been easy. Every one of their volunteers is trained to work alongside parents to overcome the challenges they are facing. They work with parents to build on their strengths and give them the support that they tell this charity that they need. They offer no judgement – just compassionate, confidential help and expert support. This peer-to-peer support is key to the difference this charity makes and often their volunteers have lived experience of the challenges their families are facing themselves.
About The Role
Your role as Challenge Events Manager will involve development of event strategies, management of various challenge events and maximizing opportunities and income. You will be creative, innovative with a appetite to grow income. You will have the opportunity to develop and implement a charity network wide challenge event portfolio in virtual, third-party and in person events.
You will have the opportunity to develop opportunities in the sporting sector to maximise growth and impact, alongside potentially managing a small portfolio of corporate partners.
Your exceptional communication and liaison skills will be invaluable as you collaborate with colleagues across the charity, your suppliers and your portfolio of partners, developing compelling propositions that showcase the voices and stories of the families supported by the charity. Your strategic acumen will shine as you cultivate robust engagement and support from across the charity and their network, playing a key role in delivering a successful challenge event programme. You will contribute to the development of high-quality materials that will be used across the fundraising directorate to maximise reach, income growth and impact. You will also have the opportunity to lead strategic projects from idea creation to delivery throughout the charity collaborating with different teams.
To excel in this role, you should possess outstanding planning, negotiation, and communication skills, combined with a deep understanding of the fundraising sector and its’ trends. Effective project planning, prioritisation, and time management will enable you to deliver on key performance indicators in collaboration with stakeholders. Building and managing senior relationships with corporate partners and internal stakeholders will be integral to your success. They provide an incredibly supportive working environment that embraces remote working, flexible hours, and individually tailored schedules. This empowers you to plan your work life according to your personal preferences and commitments, ensuring a fulfilling and balanced professional experience.
Closing date for applications: Friday 22nd November 2024, 5pm.
First interviews will take place virtually on the 2nd & 3rd December 2024.
Successful candidates will then be invited to a second interview, date to be confirmed.
Interested?
Please click 'Apply' and follow the job board process. You will receive an email from CHM Recruit containing further information on how to apply for the role.
Please note that although you may be asked by the job board to upload a CV, you are not applying at this stage.
This employer is committed to Equality of Opportunity and Diversity. They wish to encourage applications from all parts of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, age, sexual orientation or disability. Appointments will be based on merit, following an open and clear selection process.
No agencies please.
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