Harris Hill are delighted to be working with a wonderful charity to recruit for a Senior Sports and Community Manager to cover maternity leave for 12 months.

In this role, you’ll lead a high performing team and oversee the delivery of a multi million pound portfolio of mass participation events and community fundraising activity. You’ll drive strategy, grow income, nurture supporter relationships, and help develop a sector leading supporter experience.

As Senior Sports and Community Manager you will:

• Lead the delivery and development of the Sports and Community fundraising strategy

• Oversee a diverse portfolio of events and initiatives, maximising ROI and supporter engagement

• Manage high-value supporter relationships and maintain excellent stewardship

• Use audience insights to inform and evolve campaigns

• Ensure high quality collaboration across internal teams to enhance supporter journeys

• Monitor performance, report on KPIs, and identify areas for improvement

• Use Salesforce to track, analyse and improve fundraising operations

• Manage and support two direct reports and oversee the wider fundraising team

• Oversee income targets of £5m+

To be successful, you must be a confident relationship builder and strategic thinker, and have:

• Proven experience managing fundraising teams

• Strong track record of meeting or exceeding income targets

• Experience delivering large scale sports or mass participation events

• Budget management skills, including multi million pound accounts

• Excellent project and stakeholder management skills

Salary: £43,000- £48,000

Location:  London, hybrid working , 3 days in the office

Contract: 12 months FTC

Closing date: on rolling basis  

Interview: TBC

Recruitment process: CV and supporting statement to dagmara.depaula@harrishill.co.uk

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

Unfortunately, due to resource capacity, we will only contact candidates that are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date please note your application has been unsuccessful.

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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.