Events Coordinator - Fundraising

Job summary

We are recruiting for an Events Coordinator - Fundraising who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will deliver and manage our portfolio of events including mass participation, challenges, NHS Trust and community partnership events, to support Lister Hospital, Hertford County Hospital, New QEII and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre . You will deliver, grow and establish an annual events plan to securing income which enables the Charity to provide projects and equipment which are above and beyond the remit of the NHS and enhance patient experience.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Meet or exceed a personal annual fundraising target for our events & be a proactive & positive member of the wider team in order that the Charity reaches or exceeds its annual income target

Manage the income & expenditure budget for all of our events and strive to achieve our charity benchmark of 1:4 (cost:income) return on investment ratio

Lead & manage the charity's portfolio of 'owned' events which include the Lister Abseil challenge, Rainbow Run, Moor Park 10k and Firewalk

Recruit supporters for our challenge events which include a skydive, wingwalk, royal parks half marathon, virtual London marathon & provide excellent donor care & stewardship to maximise funds raised. To create a new challenge events calendar to increase our offering to supporters

Provide stewardship & fundraising support to large scale events organised by donors in the community

Be the charity representative & lead for any events organised in partnership with the NHS Trust this includes staff thank you events & the NHS Anniversary events.

Provide excellent cultivation & stewardship to all event participants, implementing sound supporter retention and development plans to increase affinity & maximise engagement, with the aim of increased supporter lifetime value.

Oversee all tasks within the event set up process which includes writing event plans, site/venue management, creating routes, stakeholder management, writing risk assessments, health & safety plans, ordering equipment, booking suppliers

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Corys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Corys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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