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Service Related Pension Scheme
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Salary: £34,847 + £4,000 London Weighting
Location: London
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that will close in 9 days at 23:59 BST.
The Vacancy
Are you an experienced event management profession with a passion for fundraising and community engagement?
Are you looking for an opportunity to deliver inspiring challenge and events that bring people together for a meaningful cause?
Do you have strong project management and team coordination skills, including the ability to use planning tools with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment?
We are actively recruiting for National Challenges & Events Coordinator to play a pivotal role in delivering our national fundraising events and challenge programme. Based from our Waterloo Office, London (with hybrid working) this role offers the opportunity to make a tangible difference while managing exciting challenges events.
About the role:
As National Challenges & Events Coordinator, you will play a key role in coordinating the development and delivery of agreed national events and challenges with the strategic objective of engaging the community on a grass-roots level through an array of fundraising activities.
Working closely with the Community Fundraising team and key stakeholders, you will develop and promote support of the events to maximise fundraising income, as well as project manage national fundraising initiatives.
About you:
You will be a creative events professional with strong networking skills and a commitment to IRW’s mission and values.
You will ideally have:
- Proven experience in Event Management
- Significant experience of fundraising through organising and delivering events and challenges
- Experience of the development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of plans and budgets
- Experience of delivering exceptional donor/customer care
- Experience of using a range of effective communication channels to promote fundraising activities
- Experience in negotiating and managing contracts with vendors and suppliers
- Experience of managing own workload effectively and planning and organising work to meet deadlines
- Experience of working effectively without close supervision dealing with problems as they arise
- A thorough understanding of the different types of fundraising Events and Challenges
- Good understanding of charity law, policy and regulatory environment within which charities operate
- Knowledge of the Fundraising Regulators code of practice
- Excellent event management skills – from conception, promotion to production and delivery
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce correspondence to a high standard
- Creative thinker
- Able to exercise diplomacy where required
- Excellent communication skills – written, oral and listening with the ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with a diverse range of individuals who may be supporters, participants, donors or volunteers
- Strong project management and team coordination skills, including the ability to use planning tools
- Strong networking skills
- Proven organisational skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent administration skills – able to keep thorough, accurate and up to date records
- Competent user of Raisers Edge or other relationship management database
- Understanding and experience of health and safety regulations and risk assessments in relation to organising events and challenges
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office software in particular, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
Other Essential requirements
- Based in the London office but willing to travel to attend fundraising events and challenges across the UK and abroad
- Current and full UK driving licence
- Able to work flexible hours (including unsocial hours and weekends)
For the full Job Description, please click on the Documents tab
Why Join Islamic Relief Worldwide
- Be part of an organisation with a clear humanitarian mission and strong values
- Use your professional skills to make a real, meaningful global impact
- Work with passionate teams in a supportive environment.
- Excellent company benefits
If you are talented, service-minded, resilient, highly motivated professional looking for a meaningful career, with a strong commitment to IRW’s mission and values of sincerity, excellence, compassion, social justice and custodianship, we would love to hear from you!
PLEASE NOTE: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Pre-employment Checks:
Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:
- screening clearance
- proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
- receipt of satisfactory references
Please note, for UK-based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
IRW is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom IRW engages. IRW expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. IRW also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer
The Company
Islamic Relief is a faith-inspired humanitarian aid and development agency working to save and transform the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people. We work in over 45 countries, assist people of all faiths and none according to need and do not discriminate in any way. Our proximity means we can often respond swiftly to emergencies and work in areas that other organisations cannot access.
We are the only UK-based Muslim faith-inspired charity to have been certified against the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), which is designed to ensure that charities best meet the needs of the communities they serve.
Islamic Relief is a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), we have Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, and we are a signatory to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
What We Offer
Islamic Relief Worldwide recognises our staff as our biggest asset, and so we offer a range of benefits designed to support their professional development, mental and physical health, and work/life balance.
For more information click here.
Personal learning and development opportunities
Annual leave and additional leave
Service related pension scheme
Maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and pay
Healthcare
cash plan
Employee assistance support
Occupational advanced sick pay
Mental Health First Aiders
Charity volunteering
Cycle to Work scheme
On-site car parking
Field
visits
Our Values
Sincerity
Excellence
Compassion
Social Justice
Custodianship
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