Events Fundraising Assistant

Are you passionate about making a difference? Do you love managing events and projects? Are you ready to make an impact? If so, this role might be the perfect one for you as you join us as an Events Fundraising Assistant to support the recruitment of participants and the delivery of exceptional supporter experiences that raise income and awareness for Samaritans from a programme of third party events and challenges.

• £23,000 - £26,000 per annum
• Fixed term contract until June 2026.
• Full-time role - 35 hours per week with flexible working.
• We are flexible on work pattern (what days and hours per week the role is carried out).
• Hybrid working: Linked to our Ewell (Surrey) office with home working and the option to work from our London office in EC3R.
• In-person working: Meeting in person and working collaboratively are things we value. From Jan 2025, staff are expected to work in person around 2 days per month.
• We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences.

Key Responsibilities

As an Events Fundraising Assistant, you ll be a key member of our team:

• You will deliver planned activity for event participants recruitment, care, and communications.
• You ll deliver event participant stewardship plans, with engaging content and communications that support participants to maximise fundraising and build a lasting relationship with Samaritans.
• You ll track and respond to event participant enquiries, maintaining team inboxes, and any other communications channels used for events.
• You ll attend fundraising events off site on occasions when required.

Full job description is here

About You

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to provide high quality work, with attention to detail
• Able to effectively manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Demonstrable organisational skills
• Experience of in-person or virtual charity events
• Experience of working with volunteers
• Experience of working with a fundraising database
• Comfortable in a social and networking environment
• Great at relationship building

Our Benefits

So you want to work for us? Good choice. We like it here too. We offer competitive salaries, flexible and hybrid working to suit your needs, family-friendly policies, 28 days annual leave inclusive of wellbeing days and a matched pension contribution up to 5%. You ll have a structured induction and ongoing projects, secondments & learning opportunities. We also have colleague-led affinity groups made up of people with shared identities.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority. We have a staff community of Mental Health First Aiders, a Health Cash Plan and an Employee Assistance Programme. You ll have free subscriptions to Headspace (your personal guide to mindfulness, sleep, focus, movement, and more) & Perkbox (an employee benefits platform with online exercise classes). That s not all. We listen to your ideas and have staff forum and social committee networks.

Being Inclusive

We recognise the enormous benefits and the social justice imperatives of ensuring diversity at every level of our organisation. Samaritans is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are. To ensure Samaritans is representative of those we support and who support us, we particularly welcome applications from Disabled, BAME and LGBTQ+ candidates, as these people are under-represented at Samaritans.

Application

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please upload your CV and cover letter for your application. Applications close at 9 am on 28 November, with video interviews in the week of 02 December

Whilst we appreciate that the use of generative AI functions like ChatGPT is quickly becoming part of working life for many people, through our recruitment process we want to see your own unique ideas and writing skills. We want your application to stand out from the rest and showcase your own strengths. Therefore, we kindly ask that you don t rely on AI tools for your application answers, cover letter or to generate interview answers.