Community Engagement Coordinator

Job summary

Full time positions available across 3 locations: Birmingham New Street Donor Centre, Reading Donor Centre & Twickenham Donor Centre. Its best if you live within about 15 miles of where the events happen, since things can move quickly and you might need to travel at short notice (well always give you a heads-up though).

Please specify your location on application

This role is critical to our future success in collecting Plasma & Blood donations. Through your efforts, you will be supporting the delivery of important Community Engagement activity for NHS Blood and Transplant that will save and improve peoples lives.

The position involves proactively approaching new businesses in line with strategic objectives, building and managing relationships with third sector and corporate partners to maximize benefits for NHSBT. Accurate maintenance of the Relationship Management database is essential, along with promoting Organ Donation and other forms of donation where appropriate.

You will also be using your organisational skills to coordinate and deliver events with the support of our talented events team.

Your weekly schedule in this varied hybrid role will be a mixture of NHSBT centre base working, and delivering field-based activities within the local community.

If you like engaging with people from the community, love to take the lead and want to play a part in helping to

Main duties of the job

In this role you will support the plan for new recruits, raise awareness and educate about Plasma. Your responsibilities will include:

• Organising and undertaking new acquisition and awareness activity, such as events in the community, on-session engagement with donors at the Plasma DC and exploring all relevant business development opportunities.
• Approaching new businesses as agreed with their line manager / within the strategic plan to meet organisational objectives.
• Developing key relationships with key third sector and corporate organisations within the region.
• Managing relationships so that they provide maximum benefit to NHSBT.
• Maintaining the Relationship Management database in a timely and accurate manner.
• Promoting organ donation and other forms of donation where appropriate.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.