Fundraising Events Coordinator

As the Fundraising Events Coordinator you'll be part of the team delivering the Schools Triathlons. You'll work with a wide range of stakeholders including our Schools Triathlon Committee, event venues and local schools, participants, volunteers and our events delivery partner. You will be leading two of the Schools Triathlons at Bryanston School and Bradfield School and will be responsible for delivering school assemblies to encourage pupils to participate in the event and fundraise for Restless Development. Our Event Volunteers are key to the delivery of the Schools Triathlons so this role will be crucial in helping us to recruit sufficient volunteers for each event. You'll use various recruitment methods to generate registrations and be able to use emails and phone to implement the stewardship journey. Alongside this we run a Duke of Edinburgh volunteer program which you will need to develop and lead on with selected Host Schools. You'll also be joining us at an exciting time as we launch a brand new portfolio of challenge events. With the support of the Senior Fundraising Manager, you'll be managing the project plan including the marketing and stewardship so that we ensure participants reach their fundraising target and receive a first-class event experience with us. The role will be a varied workload so you'll have plenty of opportunities to gain skills in different areas. You'll need to be able to hit the ground running, be calm under pressure and manage your time effectively with great interpersonal skills too. If you are passionate about events and understand the importance of event volunteers then we would love to hear from you., Reports to - Senior Fundraising Manager Expected travel- Travel to London for staff meetings and other areas in the UK. Evening and weekend work for which time off in lieu will be given. Expenses for travel and work outside working hours will be given according to our policy. Other Requirements - Must have a full drivers licence and access to reliable and roadworthy vehicle. Will be expected to complete a DBS check. Key Priorities Schools Triathlon Events

• Support in the event management of Schools Triathlon events
• Work with the wider Schools Triathlon team to ensure smooth logistics and communications in the lead up to events and on the day.
• Attend meetings with third party suppliers and schools when necessary to organise the event logistics.
• Develop strong professional relationships with various important stakeholders
• Deliver school assemblies and fundraising workshops when required.
Volunteer Management
• Assist in recruiting volunteers for the Schools Triathlon events.
• Build positive relationships with volunteers by helping to deliver a first-class stewardship journey.
• Work with the Senior Fundraising Manager to support the Schools Triathlon Host Schools to recruit student volunteers.
• Lead and develop the Duke of Edinburgh volunteer programme working with selected host schools.
• Identify new ways for us to recruit and build our volunteer network.
• Manage the Volunteer email inbox, ensuring all enquiries are answered
Challenge Events
• Lead on the project plan for our challenge events portfolio with support from the Senior Fundraising Manager.
• Set, monitor and report on the progress of event KPI's and track fundraising for each event.
• Work with the wider team to plan and deliver marketing to ensure participants are being recruited.
• Plan and deliver an excellent stewardship journey for participants enabling them to reach their fundraising targets.
• Manage the relationship with our Challenge event partners including Run for Charity and Charity Challenge.
• Identify participant trends, improvement opportunities and help to ensure these events suit our audience and needs.
Systems, Processes & Communications
• Support the wider team with event comms responding in a timely and professional manner.
• Use DotDigtial to communicate to volunteers and event participants
• Competent use of Excel to process data and regularly update internal and external databases.
• Accurate and timely logging of information into Restless Development's registration system Eventrac and CRM, Salesforce - executing mass imports, new individual records, and regularly cleaning data.
• Understand and manage fundraising using the digital fundraising platform, JustGiving, ensure all pages set up are logged on our CRM.
Other
• Must attend the Schools Triathlons as needed across April, May and June and other occasional evening and weekend work, for which time off in lieu will be given.
• Support on wider charity initiatives as and when needed
• Many of the schools we have relationships with are not accessible by public transport, so it is vital you have access to a reliable roadworthy vehicle. All travel will be reimbursed in accordance with Restless Development's travel policy.
• Undertake any other duties as requested by the Senior Fundraising Manager., Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognises potential and invests in the development of its staff. We are committed to the professional development of our staff through:
• Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff - allowing them to develop on-the-job.
• Regular performance management.
• Training and development opportunities, including supporting our staff to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.
• Quarterly Staff Workshops for all staff to give and receive agency updates, receive training, and socialise.
Travel and Medical Insurance When travelling abroad with work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development's travel and medical insurance.

Essential
• Experience of planning and delivering events ideally within the charity sector but this is not essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to adapt style to suit different audiences.
• Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders and building positive working relationships.
• Strong organisational skills with an ability to manage your own time and a varied workload so that deadlines are met.
• Enthusiastic and personable to engage and motivate others.
• Creative and innovative and can take ideas from concept through to completion.
• Excellent IT skills - particularly Excel
• Strong numeracy skills and ability to process financial data
• Full drivers licence and access to a vehicle
Desirable
• Understanding of volunteering and methods of volunteer recruitment.
• Fundraising experience
• Experience of using CRM databases, Just Giving and DotDigital
• Ability to confidently lead volunteer workshops with young people.
• Belief in the values of Restless Development and ability to uphold them personally
  
  Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most - We also run the Youth Collective - a growing network of over 4000 local youth civil society groups and organisations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally., The Schools Triathlon is a mass-participation sporting event for young people aged 7-13. Its aim is to encourage more young people into sport whilst also teaching them the importance of fundraising. In 2024, over 10,000 young people took part across ten different events and raised over £1.2 million for Restless Development., Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.
  
  We are proud to commit to a transparent global salary scale, ensuring a fair and comparable system of pay across all global locations. In addition to salary, we offer pension contributions and other benefits in accordance with the local Hub.
Values and Culture At Restless Development, we're proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognised by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day. Work-life Balance It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development. We also recognise the importance of helping staff to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering:
• 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).
• Birthday Leave
• Access to flexible working.
• Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.
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