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Global Programs Events and Project Coordinator
Job Overall goal: Support the delivery of global events and the creation of a range of content, ensuring both align with the charity’s objectives, including activities designed for a global audience.
Job Location: Remote working, with the ability to attend on-site meetings in Milton Keynes (MK19) ideally once a month.
Hours: This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday) offered on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
Overview
The Maclellan Giving Together Foundation (MGTF) is a UK Christian charity connected to the longstanding international Maclellan Foundation, who describe their focus as: “establishing and strengthening the local church, promoting discipleship and leadership development, sparking community transformation, promoting the power of prayer, advocating for generosity, and increasing access to Scripture”. Based in the UK, MGTF rolls out key global initiatives that focus on equipping local Christian ministries and releasing local resources to foster sustainable Kingdom growth. These include Learning Communities, retreats, collaborative giving evenings and other resources.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone highly organised, eager to learn event production management, with a specialist interest in content creation for web, print, design, or moving image. They should be detail-oriented, quality-focused, and passionate about seeing the Kingdom flourish globally.
Job summary
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive individual to join our team. This role focuses on supporting the administration and delivery of events, ensuring smooth coordination, logistics, and a high-quality participant experience. It also includes stakeholder management, maintaining clear communication and strong relationships with attendees, partners, and internal teams. In addition, the role contributes to content development (both print and digital), and supports the contextualisation and translation of resources for global audiences.
Key Responsibilities:
Event Planning and Support
- Assist in the planning, coordination, and delivery of event logistics.
- Liaise with stakeholders, including vendors, venues, and service providers, to ensure high-quality event delivery.
- Manage delegate booking systems, taking ownership for providing prompt and professional support to attendees and stakeholders via phone, messaging and email, and delivering excellent delegate care throughout events.
- Maintain and regularly update registration systems and databases, ensuring high levels of accuracy and data integrity.
- Provide on-site event support, including set-up and liaising with AV and logistics teams to ensure smooth execution.
- Support campaign and project planning, including tracking content-related budgets for approval.
- Maintain and update event timelines and the global content calendar, ensuring progress is accurately reflected.
- Assist in the planning and delivery of special event elements (e.g. consultancy clinics).
- Monitor and track project costs, ensuring value for money.
- Process and input event-related receipts and expenses, supporting accurate and timely monthly accounting.
- Use initiative to flag any risks to project delivery, supporting timely resolution.
- Support wider projects across programmes and charity operations as required.
Communication & Content Delivery
- Assist in the creation of event materials, including digital resources, workbooks, email campaigns, websites, and related content.
- Provide administrative and practical support to event personnel in global locations as they deliver our programs.
- Assist in repurposing content into multiple formats to support wider reach and usability.
- Support the preparation and distribution of monthly comms emails.
- Assist with proofreading and formatting event content.
- Support the development and maintenance of an online training portal for specific programs.
- Follow established brand guidelines to maintain consistency in tone, messaging, and visual identity across all content.
Cultural Adaptation & Coordination
- Assist with the localisation of content to ensure materials are culturally appropriate, assisting communication with translators and stakeholders to help adapt resources for different cultural contexts.
Evaluation & Reporting
- Assist in tracking the performance of content and programs through data collection, feedback, and engagement analytics to support evaluation of effectiveness.
- Support the preparation of content and project reports, including metrics and evidence required for various audiences.
General & Organisational
- Actively contribute to team meetings, planning sessions, and creative brainstorming.
- Occasional evening and weekend work and travel may be required for event support.
- Any other duties as required.
Occupational Requirement
The candidate must have an active Christian faith. By virtue of the job’s involvement in faith-sensitive work under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010, the post-holder must be an active Christian with a genuine personal faith in Jesus, grounded in Scripture and reflected in their everyday life.
Experience (Essential):
- Have experience in a church/charity or professional environment.
- Strong understanding of and commitment to the Foundation’s mission, with an understanding of the Church scene.
- A genuine passion for advancing the gospel through the global Church, with a commitment to supporting both Christian givers and churches and charities.
- The ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
- High attention to detail and accurate.
- Highly administrative and customer service focused.
- Demonstrated creativity and the ability to translate ideas visually, demonstrated via portfolios, academic work, or volunteer projects.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, with strong interpersonal skills.
- Professional in appearance and a desire to constantly improve and grow.
- Willingness to be flexible in working hours with occasional travel and overnight stays.
Experience (Desirable but not required):
- Some experience supporting events.
- Administrative and customer service experience.
- Some experience producing content creation across print and digital formats.
- Additional language.
- Experience using design software e.g. Adobe and Canva.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience (Essential). We welcome applications from graduates who are eager to learn and develop in the role.
- Technical Skills: Familiarity with content creation software, CRM systems, and email marketing software (Desirable).
Benefits
- This is a full-time position (Monday-Friday)
- Start as soon as possible.
- This role is offered on a 12-month fixed-term contract, with the potential to become permanent subject to performance and business needs.
- Salary £27K-£30k depending on previous experience.
- Holiday entitlement is 20 days pro rata, per annum (plus bank and statutory holidays and 3 days Christmas closing).
- Pension contributions via auto-enrolment to NEST.
- Faith-based culture: Supportive Christian workplace with prayer, devotions, and spiritual development.
If you’re interested in applying, please include your CV and two references, one of which must be a current or previous employer. In addition, please provide a cover letter (no more than 1 page) detailing what interests you about the role and your suitability, along with a separate statement of faith (no more than 1 page
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: The role is national, managing teams in Northern Ireland, Wales and across England. You will need to be able to work at one of our BookTrust offices in London, Leeds, Belfast or Cardiff for an average of 8 days per month whilst some of these collaboration days may be worked in partner locations, at events or stakeholder meetings in any part of the country. The position will require regular travel to BookTrust office bases and to visit and engage as needed.
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We know that children who read are happier, healthier, more empathetic, and more creative. They also do better at school.
Working with every local authority and across every region in the country, and supported by Arts Council funding, we reach over 3 million families a year via partners in schools, children’s centres, health visitors and libraries. This incredible network helps us to get children reading across the country.
This is a new role within the organisation and the new role holder will have a chance to shape and build the role over time. You will be a strong leader with great people skills -experience of working with and leading teams working in geographically dispersed locations is advantageous.
You will have a clear experience the public sector landscape with a track record of relationships building, and an understanding of the local government policy landscape. With a collaborative approach to working across interconnecting complex work areas, you will be comfortable working within a matrix style of management for your won direct reports and those of other teams.
You may have charity or statutory setting experience, and will have the ability to set out a strategic direction for partnerships team members as well as being hands on in developing new relationships to support our work as well as being able to produce high quality written materials, analyse complex data and respond dynamically to a changing external landscape.
You will be an excellent communicator who manages up effectively and who is comfortable working across a matrixed managed team. You will have the ability to work closely with the Director of Partnerships in building relationships, and developing and delivering on strategies that support impact in our early years programmes by guiding the work of our partnerships team. You will be working closely with key role holders such as but not confined to the Head of Partnerships Delivery, and Head of Programme for Vulnerable Children.
The Head of Partnerships Development will ensure increasingly effective pathways to families by setting out ways of working that ensure delivery teams can access these routes, influence decision makers and develop and build the right relationships for greatest impact. Along with the Director of partnerships the role holder will aim to both influence and respond to central, local and regional policy initiatives in the sector to support BookTrust’s mission to get all children reading, especially those from low income and vulnerable family backgrounds.
The role holder will ensure internal stakeholders are briefed on the local government landscape and that risks and opportunities are clearly articulated.
This work spans the organisation – from within our partnerships team to our research and impact, communications and external affairs, design and innovation, growth planning, communications, profile-raising and income generation – and requires strong collaborative working to draw on skills and capacity in all these areas.
The role will work internally and externally to ensure the right inputs to ensure success for our scaled programmes, supporting everything from design to upskilling our team and relationship building across the local government and regional and country landscape.
To apply, please complete the application along with a copy of your CV.
Want to join us? To find out more about who we are please go to our website.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and communities,
Please note that this advert may close early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity
We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: minority ethnic candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team (contact details are available on our website).
BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.
Location: The role is national, managing teams in Northern Ireland, Wales and across England. You will need to be able to work at one of our BookTrust offices in London, Leeds, Belfast or Cardiff for an average of 8 days per month whilst some of these collaboration days may be worked in partner locations, at events or stakeholder meetings in any part of the country. The position will require regular travel to BookTrust office bases and to visit and engage as needed.
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We know that children who read are happier, healthier, more empathetic, and more creative. They also do better at school.
Working with every local authority and across every region in the country, and supported by Arts Council funding, we reach over 3 million families a year via partners in schools, children’s centres, health visitors and libraries. This incredible network helps us to get children reading across the country.
This is a new role within the organisation and the postholder will be responsible for defining aspects of the role, building relationships and processes that will enhance our ways of working as part of wider organisational processes.
You will be an excellent communicator who manages up effectively and who is comfortable working across a matrixed managed team. You will work closely with the Director of Partnerships in building relationships, systems and processes that support our delivery across regions and countries as well as working closely with key role holders such as but not confined to the Head of Partnerships Development, and Head of Programme for Vulnerable Children.
The Head of Partnerships Delivery will lead and coordinate our early years scaled programme delivery as well as ensuring activities to support delivery and development of our vulnerable children’s work are catered or within team processes and relationship building with strategic and local stakeholders.
This work spans the organisation – and will have a close working relationships with key stakeholders in operations on aspects of the work as well as to research and impact, design and innovation, growth planning, communications, profile-raising and income generation – and requires strong collaborative working to draw on skills and capacity in all these areas.
To apply, please complete the application along with a copy of your CV.
Want to join us? To find out more about who we are please go to our website.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and communities.
Please note that this advert may close early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity
We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: minority ethnic candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from underrepresented communities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team (contact details can be found on our website).
BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding therefore, the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, and pre-employment checks.