Job summary
- Main area
- Fundraising
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 361-6929793
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/02/2025
Employer heading
Events Coordinator - Fundraising
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for an Events Coordinator - Fundraising who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will deliver and manage our portfolio of events including mass participation, challenges, NHS Trust and community partnership events, to support Lister Hospital, Hertford County Hospital, New QEII and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre . You will deliver, grow and establish an annual events plan to securing income which enables the Charity to provide projects and equipment which are above and beyond the remit of the NHS and enhance patient experience.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
Meet or exceed a personal annual fundraising target for our events & be a proactive & positive member of the wider team in order that the Charity reaches or exceeds its annual income target
Manage the income & expenditure budget for all of our events and strive to achieve our charity benchmark of 1:4 (cost:income) return on investment ratio
Lead & manage the charity’s portfolio of ‘owned’ events which include the Lister Abseil challenge, Rainbow Run, Moor Park 10k and Firewalk
Recruit supporters for our challenge events which include a skydive, wingwalk, royal parks half marathon, virtual London marathon & provide excellent donor care & stewardship to maximise funds raised. To create a new challenge events calendar to increase our offering to supporters
Provide stewardship & fundraising support to large scale events organised by donors in the community
Be the charity representative & lead for any events organised in partnership with the NHS Trust this includes staff thank you events & the NHS Anniversary events.
Provide excellent cultivation & stewardship to all event participants, implementing sound supporter retention and development plans to increase affinity & maximise engagement, with the aim of increased supporter lifetime value.
Oversee all tasks within the event set up process which includes writing event plans, site/venue management, creating routes, stakeholder management, writing risk assessments, health & safety plans, ordering equipment, booking suppliers
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant proven experience leading on and managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Significant proven experience of setting up and delivering mass participation events
- Significant proven experience of managing challenge events
- Demonstratable experience writing event health and safety plans and risk assessments
- Proven track record of delivering strong supporter journeys resulting in repeat giving and increased lifetime value
- Experience in recruiting and managing volunteers
- Experience of delivering fundraising activities with a calculated and strong ROI
- Experience of generating compelling cases for support
- Experience of meeting fundraising targets
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience managing an event income and expenditure budget
- Experience of working with internal and external suppliers and stakeholders
- Experience of managing website and social media content
- Experience of working across teams to maximise donor engagement
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Using databases/CRM Systems
- Event planning/coordination
- Writing timelines and event plans
- Stakeholder management
- Writing risk assessments
Desirable criteria
- Writing event sponsorship packages
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Beth Mcneil
- Job title
- Head of Public Fundraising
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438285182
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