Fundraising Coordinator (Campaigns, Events and Individual Giving)

Salary: £28,331 per annum (plus London weighting of £2,339 per annum, totalling £30,670, if applicable).

Location: This role is can be remote. The candidate can be based anywhere in England. Our London office address is: x+why, 8-10, Fivefields, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH

Deadline: Sunday, 2nd November 2025

Interviews: Week commencing Monday, 10th November 2025

Start date: Ideally ASAP, or Monday 8th December 2025

Contract and hours: Permanent. Full time. We offer flexible hours with 9.30-4 as core hours. A full working week is 37.5 hours.

About the opportunity

Working closely with the Fundraising Manager and Head of Philanthropy you will support a range of fundraising activities, most predominantly through organising and coordinating fundraising events, such as half-marathons; lead annual fundraising campaigns; in addition to increasing individual giving to the charity through awareness raising and stewardship of regular and one-off donors. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in a range of fundraising activities, working with a passionate, committed and driven team.

Duties and responsibilities

Oversee the coordination and administration of annual sponsored fundraising events Action Tutoring engages with, such as the Hackney Half marathon and London 10K, including the promotion of events, onboarding of runners, campaign page creation, encouraging participants to raise funds, organising materials to be sent to runners (e.g. t-shirts) and tracking of fundraising targets.
Increase our participation in sponsored fundraising events, in London and our regional hubs.
Ensure that relevant marketing materials (such as pictures and participants consent to share) are gathered and used to promote events. On occasion be open to travelling to specific events.
Work with the Fundraising Manager and Marcomms team to ensure that we have strong and appropriate marketing content to support fundraising activity, for example developing supporter communications, evolving our guide to fundraising, maintaining accurate fundraising and donate pages on the website and contributing to the development of our annual impact report.
Support the organisation and coordination of fundraising and key profile raising events, such as evening events, Action Tutoring anniversary celebrations or funder breakfasts, through sourcing suitable venues and overseeing logistics.
Support with other key profile raising events, for example, oversee annual fundraising campaigns, such as the Big Give Christmas Challenge, source new campaign opportunities for Action Tutoring to engage and carry out initial enquiries to determine suitability to apply/engage with.

A full list of duties and responsibilities can be found in the job description attached to the BreatheHR advert.

Person specification, qualification criteria:

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in fundraising.
Right to work in the UK.

We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:

Outstanding communicator; strong written and verbal communication skills; able to make an exciting and compelling case for support.
Creative and ambitious.
Proactive and tenacious personality; willing to seek out and pursue opportunities.
Highly organised; able to prioritise, multi-task and manage work to deadlines.
High computer literacy.
Adaptable and open to learning and feedback.
Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children.

You will be likely be more successful in this role if you have:

Some prior experience of fundraising work. This could be in a paid role, or on a voluntary basis or as part of work experience.
Experience of building relationships with stakeholders or event coordination.

Benefits

Hybrid working – We offer a flexible combination of office and home based working.
Holiday – 25 days holiday a year (plus UK public holidays), increasing by a day for each complete year of service (up to five extra days). 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year.
Flexitime and TOIL – We have a flexible policy for working hours, and offer TOIL where staff have to work particularly early in the day or late in the evening, so that they can reclaim those hours at another time.
Team away days – The whole team across the UK gets together three times a year.
Pensions – We have a workplace pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution.
Sabbatical leave – We offer paid and unpaid sabbatical leaves to our long standing colleagues.
Culture of celebrating – Regular thanks and praise and monthly recognition of ’heroes’ to celebrate employees going above and beyond.
Knowledge-sharing – Lots of opportunities to learn from others in the organisation, including policy briefings, shadowing colleagues and peer-to-peer development.
Socials – Team socials around team days, regular bring-and-share team lunches and other activities.
Proofreading Team – As well as checking the accuracy of all content Action Tutoring shares with external audiences, our proofreading team supports individuals who would value an extra pair of eyes on their writing.
Ad hoc projects – Interested in other exciting topics relevant to our charity? Then join one of our working groups (including policy, diversity and inclusion, curriculum and training, socials, data and insights) and support with ongoing projects.