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Senior Events Executive

Job description

Harris Hill are delighted to be working with a national charity to recruit for a Senior Events Executive in order to project manage, deliver, and coordinate all aspects of the charity flagship event, as well as all affiliated events.

 

 

As a Senior Events Executive you:

  • Will work with the Committee and the Co-Chairman to deliver agreed net income, participation and profile-raising targets.
  • Will deliver key supporting and stewardship events; including the launch and thank you party, the commemorative garden launch and committee events.
  • Will develop and deliver, creative and effective marketing plans for the event,
  • Will support the wider events programme as appropriate.

 

In order to be successful, you must have experienced:

  • Excellent administrative abilities and experience of managing competing priorities.
  • Event experience as part of a fundraising team.
  • Setting income targets and meeting or exceeding them from events.
  • Working with a committee or group of supporters to inspire them towards a shared goal.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Recruiting and managing volunteers.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact and work effectively with all elements of the Charity and supporters.
  • A self-starter, proactive, collegiate, with drive and commitment.
  • Highly computer literate and a competent user of charity fundraising databases; able to generate reports for analysis (Microsoft office, Raisers Edge, Monday.com).
  • Strong empathy with the cause of the Charity and its beneficiaries.
  • Whilst London based, this appointment involves travel around the UK, and occasionally overseas.

 

Salary: £34,500 per annum

Contract type: 2 year FTC

Location: London, hybrid working, 2 days a week in the office

Deadline: Tuesday 4th June at 8am

Interview: Wednesday 11th June

Recruitment process: Cv and Supporting Statement to Dagamara.depaula@harrishill.co.uk

 

If this sounds like you, then please do get in touch ASAP!

 

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.