Events Officer

Job summary

MFT Charity is excited to grow our team as we deliver transformational fundraising campaigns in support of our much-loved Manchester hospital charities, including Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, MRI and Wythenshawe Hospital. Now in year two of an eight-year growth strategy, we are looking for talented, passionate people who share our values.

This is a brilliant opportunity to make a real impact on our team as we continue to evolve our robust fundraising strategy.

We are committed to supporting our team in personal development. With a trust-based approach, we will readily consider flexible working patterns. With core hours of 10am - 4pm, most of our team choose to work on a hybrid home/office basis (with a bright, modern office at our Oxford Road site just south of Manchester City Centre). While we expect most people in the office at least two days per week, we welcome a conversation with you as we seek to recruit the best candidates.

Excellent benefits include:

• NHS pension scheme
• 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years and 33 days after 10
• Access to Carer's leave
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Onsite nursery
• Eligibility for salary-sacrifice fleet car and cycle to work schemes
• Eligibility to purchase a Blue Light card and for many NHS discount schemes
• Initiatives by the MFT's dedicated staff Health and Wellbeing team

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will deliver a series of fundraising events capable of achieving an ambitious annual fundraising target for MFT Charity. You will take responsibility for the innovation, logistics, planning and analysis of specified events, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard. You will equip the wider charity team with tools for event recruitment and support with providing excellent supporter care.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.