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Join Save the Children UK as a Senior Events Manager and make a difference in the lives of children globally during an exciting growth phase.
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Salary £45100 - £50100
Location London, UK - Remote
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Expires Expires at anytime
Save the Children UK is dedicated to improving the lives of children across the globe by ensuring their health, education, and protection. As a key player in crisis response, the organization impacts millions of children, especially the hard-to-reach. Joining their Special Events Team offers a fulfilling opportunity to support their mission during a significant period of growth.
- Lead the execution of high-profile fundraising events.
- Manage relationships and liaise with volunteers, celebrities, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Develop innovative event concepts to support income growth.
- Maintain event budgets, manage databases, and source prizes.
- Execute project management duties and handle complex, competing priorities.
- Proven experience in project management and event delivery.
- Ability to work with diverse workloads and multiple deadlines.
- Creativity and initiative in developing new ideas.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Experience with high-net-worth individuals or celebrities is advantageous.
To apply, submit your application before the closing date of June 30, 2024. Early submissions are encouraged due to the high volume of applications expected. Flexible working options are available and will be discussed during the interview process.
Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our Special Events Team, that sits within the Partnerships and Philanthropy directorate, as a Senior Events Manager. This is a very varied role and you will be involved in project and relationship management, maintaining budgets, volunteer recruitment, celebrity liaison, database management, sourcing prizes and event marketing as well as joining our team to help drive forwards our Special Events programme, during an exciting period of growth.
About Us Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About you As our Senior Events Manager, you will support a range of high value, high profile fundraising events and high-value stewardship and cultivation across Partnerships and Philanthropy. You enjoy combining creativity and innovation with more practical responsibilities such as logistics and operations when delivering events. You're highly organised and able to work across a range of priorities and projects. You ideally will already have some fundraising events experience, although not essential. You have strong communication skills enabling you to adapt your style according to your audience; experience of working with high-net-worth individuals or celebrities would be an advantage.
In this role you will expertly deliver critical elements of large-scale and high-profile events including event concept execution, content design, production, guests and committee management. We will also count on you to identify engagement and stewardship opportunities for key high-profile relationships and develop new event concepts that support income growth.
To be successful, it is important that you have/are: Experience in project management and delivery, Experience in working with completing priorities, Income target driven with demonstrable experience of maximising opportunities, Experience in managing a diverse workload with multiple deadlines, deliverables and stakeholders, Exceptional organisational and project management skills, Ability to use creativity and initiative to develop and implement breakthrough ideas and innovations.
What we offer you: Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance. To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work. We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
Closing Date: 30th June 2024
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working: The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
