Events Fundraiser

Do you have excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills? Do you enjoy interacting with supporters and building lasting relationships?

Based in Surrey, the Orpheus Centre is an independent specialist college and charity that focuses on developing independence skills through performing and visual arts and makes dramatic improvements to young disabled adults’ lives. We are currently looking for a driven and pro-active Events Fundraiser to develop, coordinate and deliver the charity’sfundraising events and orchestrate experiences from initial concept to postevent analysis. This includes pre-event planning and development, concept development and proposal.

Working closely with the Head of Capital Appeal and Senior Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager, you will design and deliver events which steward and develop key contacts as part of our Capital Appeal.

The role holder will have strong administration skills, attention todetail and work as part of a team. Youwill be self-motivated and able to work with little supervision, managing awide range of tasks.

35 hours per week / 52 weeks per year

Excellent benefits include (butnot limited to) 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, enhanced pension contributions, Employment Assistant Program (EAP) paid days off for dependants,bereavement leave, death in service, free staff lunches and training and development opportunities.

Essential qualifications, knowledge and experience:

• 5 GCSEs(Grade C or above) or equivalent including Maths and English OR demonstrable literacy and numeracy
• Willing to undertake training as required and identified in supervision/appraisals
• At least2yrs experience of fundraising, marketing or events in a paid or voluntary capacity
• Has workedas part of a team
• Has setand worked to budgets, targets and plans
• Practical experience of planning and managing events
• Experience coordinating projects and people
• Knowledge of different methods of fundraising
• Awareness of how to motivate and support volunteers and supporters
• Basic awareness of PR and social media
• Good communication and presentation skills
• High levels of accuracy in written materials and data entry
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to work on own initiative under pressure& without direct supervision
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
• Able tobuild and maintain good working relationships with people
• Able to prioritise, plan and organise own workload including demonstrable experience of managing a diverse workload and working to strict deadlines under pressure
• Numerate
• Good ITskills including Microsoft office, email and data recording
• Able and willing to work unsocial hours
• Carowner/driver (full, clean UK driving licence)
• Able towork some evening and weekends.

Orpheusis a charity that delivers high quality services for young disabled adults. Wehave jobs for support workers, teachers, administrators and many more. Wetrain, nurture and support our staff and offer a welcoming and friendly working environment. If you share our passion for changing the lives of disabled people, then we would love to hear from you.

Orpheus is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all service users. Aspart of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, online searches will form part of this process. We are committed to the promotion of equal opportunities.

This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
1974. It is therefore subject to an Enhanceddisclosure through the Disclosure Barring Service.

In order to be considered you must be eligible to work inthe UK.

For a full job description and person specification, please see below:

The Orpheus Centre is proud to be a disability confident employer.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensureno-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. If a disabled person is selected for a position, reasonable adjustments will be made to the workplace,including premises and equipment, work duties and practices or policies, as appropriate. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the roleas set out in the role profile and person specification will be considered for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are:

• Challenging attitudes towards disability
• Increasing understanding of disability
• Removing barriers to disabled peopleand those with long-term health conditions
• Ensuring that disabled people havethe opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspiration

At least 2yrs experience of fundraising, marketing or events in a paid or voluntary capacity;
Has set and worked to budgets, targets and plans;
Practical experience of planning and managing events