A great opportunity has arisen for a Senior New Products and Events Officer for an animal related charity in order to lead on the effective delivery of the fundraising product and event function at the charity; responsible for managing, developing and delivering an exciting portfolio of existing and brand new fundraising products and events, evaluating and refining events, and maximising the income raised from special, running and challenge, overseas rides and mass participations events. This will be a 5 months FTC.

If you feel that you have the above required experience, please respond with your updated CV immediately. Once we have reviewed all applications, we will contact you with further details if you are short-listed.
Please note that due to a high number of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted further.

Key Responsibilities will include:

You will have responsibility for the day-to-day product and events fundraising function to meet income targets and reduce cost to income ratios, regularly reporting to the Corporate and Community Fundraising manager. You will work to develop key internal and external relationships, event sponsors and third party supporters and organisations working across the charity s products and events. You will also line manage the Corporate & Events Officer who is responsible for serval events and work closely with Supporter Care Team to model excellent engagement and fundraising principles and ensure that these are delivered across the organisation and that the charity continues to deliver an exceptional and remarkable supporter experience.


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

Demonstrable experience successfully developing fundraising products or managing events
Proven project management experience and the ability to adapt to challenges/ changes whilst meeting income and activity targets
Excellent communications skills (written and oral), able to adapt communication sstyle to recognise the need of the audience
Evidence of an ability work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment while managing a wide range of internal stakeholders, external relationships, activities and volunteers at one time.
A self-starter with strong team- working and organisational skills and the ability to remain focused within a dynamic environment.
A strong understanding of and experience of marketing events or products via all digital channels in order to recruit participants and raise funds.
Experience managing a budget
Experience creating and reporting on annual operational plans