Community and Challenge Events Fundraising Officer

Leukaemia UK is growing! We are expanding our team to achieve a step-change in income, profile and impact in 2025 and beyond.

Our current strategy outlines our plan to increase our investment into ground-breaking world class research and policy development focused on improving access to kinder, more effective diagnosis, treatment and care for leukaemia and other blood cancers. To do this, we are embarking on a period of significant growth, investing strategically to grow our income, profile, influence, and engagement and impact.

As we begin the fourth year of this ambitious 5-year strategy, we are seeking a passionate and pro-active Community and Challenge Events Fundraising Officer. This role is key to our Public Fundraising Team, co-ordinating Leukaemia UK’s community fundraising portfolio to drive participation and income.  This role aligns to our wider strategic aim to generate the maximum amount of income for blood cancer research.

As Community and Challenge Events Fundraising Officer, you will be an outgoing and enthusiastic member of the Public Fundraising Team engaging with supporters and stewarding them through their fundraising.

We can talk all day long about our expectations, and what we want from a generic shopping list of candidate qualities, but what we really want is someone who:

• Has an AMAZING sense of team spirit
• Works hard, is highly motivated, proactive, team-orientated, a big picture thinker and outcomes obsessed
• Has a willingness to support complex, high value, multi stakeholder projects independently from start to finish
• Wants to live and breathe the success of the team and the organization
• Can support our team by making continuous improvements to our systems, processes and templates

You will be an adaptable and flexible member of the Fundraising team, contributing to a culture of co-operation, flexibility and adaptability.

You will form strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring Challenge Events and Community Fundraising is professionally represented and gets the buy-in and commitment needed to deliver its objectives.

Skills:

• Excellent people skills, with the ability to tailor your approach according to the audience. Always ensuring the supporter feels valued and enjoys the experience of fundraising for Leukaemia UK
• Comfortable researching, identifying and pitching new fundraising ideas/products to manager.
• Experience using a CRM database (desirable Salesforce) Excellent level of competence on MS Office programmes: Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent project management skills with ability to set priorities, manage budgets, meet objectives and work to tight deadlines.
• A passion and motivation for leukaemia research
• Ensure Community Fundraising activities are in compliance with key legal and statutory requirements including GDPR, Gift Aid and charity regulatory bodies.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies where appropriate.

Experience:

• At least two years proven experience of delivering income growth in an event or community fundraising setting (preferably both)
• Experience in stewarding fundraisers from initial enquiry through to post-event
• Experience of developing and successfully launching new community and/or events products
• Proven knowledge of online fundraising tools and digital marketing

To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications.

Please apply via the CharityJob website here with your CV and covering letter.

The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday 23^rd February 2025.

First interviews will be held via Teams on Tuesday 4^th March 2025. Second interviews will be face to face in our London Offices (26 Great Queen St, London, WC2B 5BL) on Tuesday 11 March 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!