Community and Challenge Events Fundraising Officer

Leukaemia UK Our Charity

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

We are a small but mighty charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Over the next 10 years we want to help save and improve the lives of more people with leukaemia through finding and funding life-changing research.

Despite progress in recent decades, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 16 minutes and survival rates are among some of the worst of any cancer. And the physical and psychological impact can be lifelong.

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.

Team

We are a close-knit team, who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and putting those affected by the disease at the heart of everything we do. We are all focused on keeping it real with pragmatic, practical solutions, as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia and other blood cancers.

From us you can expect all the laughter you can handle, as well as great challenge and support. We may not be about the corporate life here, but we are all about the delivering exceptional expertise and making a real change to people s lives.

Leukaemia UK and You

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:

• Ideally 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

Job specifics

• Hours: Full time hours are 37.5 Monday to Friday
• Location: We are very flexible! Our hybrid working policy is a minimum of two days per month in our London Office office. Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to travel to events and meet supporters that will involve some evening and weekend work.
• Salary range £28,000 - £36,000 (FTE) dependant on experience
• First interviews will be held via Teams on Tuesday 4th March 2025
• Second interviews will be face to face in our London Offices at 26 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5BL on Tues 11 March 2025.
• We are proud of our benefits see a summary on our website Work with us - Leukaemia UK

If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of skills, energy, and flair to embrace this broad and challenging role and enable our strategy to fly, then we would love you to apply. Please also see the full job description attached to the advert.

Application instructions: To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter. Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 23rd February 2025

We look forward to hearing from you!

Russell Benson- Community & Challenge Events Manager

Sarah Weber - Head of Public Fundraising