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Events Officer

Job description

A great opportunity has arisen for an Events Officer in order to play an integral role in the development and implementation of events to generate income and awareness for the charity.
This will be a maternity cover for 4 months.
Please send your CV and Supporting Statement: how do you meet the criteria in person specification by Thursday 12th December at 9am to Dagmara.Depaula@harrishill.co.uk

Key Responsibilities will include:

To draft operational timelines and plans for delegated events
To contribute to the development marketing strategy and implement plans for specific events
To manage a program of marketing communications, writing and producing imaginative promotional materials to attract and recruit event participants.
To identify and research new promotional opportunities and maintain and develop existing relationships.
To ensure the Events pages and social media are regularly refreshed with attractive and engaging copy/images and that search engine optimisation is maintained.
To deliver participant management programmes to maximise participants
To organise small scale events. To include:
To organise small scale events



In order to apply you should have the following skills and experience:

Demonstrable experience of organising and promoting fundraising events.
Prior experience of using a database to manage participant data, with some understanding of using that data to generate reports (knowledge of Raisers Edge would be advantageous).
To have excellent verbal & written communication skills.
To have good interpersonal and presentation skills.
To be able to initiate and organise projects through to completion.
To be able to work on own initiative.
To have excellent time management skills, able to manage multiple projects.
To have an excellent phone manner.
To have knowledge of tax efficient giving.
To have marketing experience.
To have sound IT skills, with a good working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office packages