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Harris Hill are delighted to be partnering with Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis (APF), the UK’s leading patient charity for people affected by pulmonary fibrosis, to recruit a Senior Education and Events Officer.
Salary: £31,000 - £34,500
Location: Hybrid role, with attendance at the charity’s Peterborough office for team meetings, collaboration and other key activities, typically on a quarterly basis, alongside travel to meetings, events and partner sites as required.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced events and education professional to coordinate and deliver APF’s education and events programme for people affected by pulmonary fibrosis, healthcare professionals and wider stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and deliver patient education sessions across online, in-person and hybrid formats.
- Support the development and delivery of APF’s annual education plan and calendar.
- Work with clinicians, speakers, colleagues and people with lived experience to develop relevant and accessible sessions.
- Host and facilitate education sessions, ensuring a welcoming and positive attendee experience.
- Manage registration processes and attendee communications before, during and after events.
- Maintain accurate attendee, speaker and stakeholder records and ensure effective database and follow-up processes.
- Develop joined-up user journeys so attendees can access APF’s wider support, information, newsletters, fundraising and campaigns.
- Coordinate and deliver APF events, including webinars, conferences, symposia and stakeholder meetings.
- Manage event logistics, including venues, platforms, suppliers, speakers, accessibility and materials.
- Lead coordination of APF’s attendance at external conferences, including BTS, ERS and other relevant sector events.
- Build strong relationships with clinicians, speakers, partners, suppliers and conference organisers.
- Work closely with Communications, Services, Fundraising, Policy and Data colleagues to maximise the reach and impact of education and events.
- Support healthcare professional education activity alongside the HCP Manager and clinical colleagues.
- Track attendance, engagement and feedback, using insight to evaluate and improve future activity.
- Ensure event and education materials are accurate, accessible, up to date and appropriate for different audiences..
We are looking for:
- Experience managing event registration, attendee communications or participant journeys.
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, speakers or contributors.
- Experience using databases, CRM systems, booking platforms or similar tools.
- Strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence working across teams and with external stakeholders.
- Confidence hosting or facilitating sessions both online and in person.
- Experience using data, feedback and insight to evaluate and improve activity.
- The ability to write clear attendee communications, briefings and follow-up materials.
- A proactive, practical approach with the ability to solve problems and keep activity moving.
- Good digital skills and confidence using event platforms and databases.
- A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, including improving access for under-served and digitally excluded audiences.
Experience within a health, charity, membership, education or patient-support setting would be desirable, as would experience working with clinicians or supporting external conferences, policy events or funded activity.
If you are an organised, collaborative events professional looking for a role with genuine purpose and impact, we would love to hear from you.
For more information, please submit your CV.
Please note, CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis, and only successful applicants will be contacted with more information.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
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💚 About Movement
Movement builds the campaign infrastructure behind some of the most effective progressive organisations in Europe. Our platform powers CRM, communications, and campaigning for trade unions, NGOs, charities, and political parties. The Labour Party used Movement to win the 2024 General Election. The NEU, UNISON and Greenpeace use it every day to organise, mobilise, and win.
🎯 The role
Our clients split into two worlds. Trade unions run ballots, organise workplaces, and mobilise reps. NGOs and political parties run campaigns, fundraise, and fight elections. Each world deserves a dedicated lead who knows it inside out.
You'll be that lead for NGOs and political parties, working alongside our Head of Campaign Success for Trade Unions. You'll take on our priority NGO and political party accounts.
The shape of the role will shift as the segment grows. Our trade union book is deep. Our NGO book has flagship names but fewer of them, so at the start you'll spend a lot of time helping us win new NGO and political party clients. Sales for this segment is founder-led, and you'll be the founder's right hand: running demos, working events, building relationships across the sector, and onboarding what we win together. As the book fills out, the role tilts towards account management and campaign success. You'll be growing your own future job.
This is a hands-on role. You'll set up accounts from scratch, work out how a client's structure maps onto the platform, and troubleshoot technical issues as readily as you'll run a demo or a renewal conversation. You'll also take your turn on the support rota alongside other campaign success team members.
You'll manage one direct report. Their role covers our client community, training, webinars, case studies, frontline support, and some of our smaller NGO accounts.
🛠️ What you'll do
🚀 Help grow the NGO and political party segment (the biggest part at first)
- Work alongside the founder leading sales for this segment as their right hand on every deal
- Run product demos, solo or as part of a founder-led pitch
- Represent Movement at sector events, conferences, and meet-ups. Build the network that brings deals in
- Follow up inbound leads and keep longer conversations warm
- Help build proposals and contribute to RFP responses
🤝 Own our priority NGO and political party accounts (growing as we win)
- Build strong relationships with campaigners, digital leads, and data teams at our NGO and party clients
- Run onboarding for the accounts we land: kick-off, training, launch planning, and the first 90 days
- Drive adoption of the features that move the needle for each client, from branded RCS to share testing to organiser dashboards
- Lead renewal conversations. Spot churn risk early and act on it
- Find expansion opportunities and turn them into proposals
- Run quarterly reviews that clients actually find useful
🔧 Be the technical lead for your accounts
- Set up new accounts: provisioning, custom fields, tags, segments, and templates
- Configure integrations, single sign-on, and sender domains
- Triage and resolve technical issues for your accounts, escalating to engineering when needed
- Take your share of support days on the rota, covering the inbox for the whole client base alongside the rest of the team
- Translate between campaigners and engineers. You'll be fluent in both languages
🌱 Manage and develop your direct report
- Set priorities for our client community, training, webinar, and case study work
- Oversee our smaller NGO & WhatsApp only account book, which your report manages day to day
- Support their development as their role grows
- Build support workflows that scale as the client base does
🔍 Who we're looking for
You've probably done one of these:
- Worked in sales, account management, or implementation at a campaigning platform or similar such as Action Network, Engaging Networks, or NationBuilder, and know how NGOs buy
- Run digital, data, or a CRM at an NGO, charity, or political party, and been the person who actually built the segments and fixed the emails
- Led campaigns with serious digital infrastructure behind them and managed the platform relationship from the client side
Experience inside the NGO, charity, or party world counts for a lot here, especially alongside commercial experience. We're not ruling out people from outside the sector.
✅ You'll need
- Confidence running demos and holding your own in commercial conversations, plus a genuine appetite for events and networking
- Real experience with campaigning or CRM platforms as a power user or administrator
- The technical depth to build an organisation from scratch. Give you a client's structure, branches, regions, teams, campaigns, and you can work out how it maps onto fields, tags, lists, audiences, and permissions
- The ability to read HTML or SQL and follow a technical conversation. You don't need to be an engineer, but you can't be scared of the tools
- Strong relationship skills. Clients should feel you're on their team
- A track record on retention. Renewals landed, churn spotted early, accounts kept and grown
- Experience managing someone, and the appetite to develop a report whose role is growing
- Willingness to take your share of support days. Everyone here covers the inbox, us included
- Genuine commitment to progressive causes. Our clients will feel if you don't mean it
✨ It would help if you have
- Knowledge of email deliverability, GDPR in a campaigning context, or the European progressive tech landscape
- A second European language
🎉 Why this role
- You'll own the priority accounts in a whole segment, and work shoulder to shoulder with a founder to grow it
- You'll see the whole company, not one corner of it
- A four day week as standard, remote-first with a London office when you want it
- Your clients will be organisations fighting for things that matter, and your work will directly affect whether they win
- Movement is profitable and growing, and this role grows with the segment you build
On a mission to empower progressive organisations with innovative digital tools to mobilise supporters and drive meaningful social change
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About Us
Young Life International is a fast-growing Christian charitable organisation. Our aim is to share the message of Jesus with young people all over the UK. We do this through building relationships with them and earning the right to be heard.
Our Operations team strives to help our staff and volunteers to thrive by anticipating, developing and delivering excellent operational services and our Finance team focuses specifically on providing excellent financial services in a Christ-centred way.
About the Role
As the Finance Co-ordinator you will build good relationships with the wider staff team and be a friendly and knowledgeable source of advice for all queries relating to finance. As a key member of the team, you will be the primary user of many existing processes, and will be the key person in implementing new systems we are planning to enable us to be more efficient. You thrive on knowing you are using both your numerical and organisational skills and your relational skills to support others.
More Details and How to Apply
Download the Application Pack for the following information:
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Welcome from the Operations Director
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How this role fits into the wider YLI and Operations Team
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Full Job Description and Person Specification
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Details of how to apply online (application form)
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Deadline and interview dates
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YLI Faith and Conduct Policies - check we're in alignment with one another's beliefs
Accessibility & Support
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Introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.