Event Fundraiser

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our new Events Fundraiser.

About the role

The Community & Events Fundraising Team help us achieve our goal of raising significant funds for our human rights work. The Events Fundraiser is accountable for our key challenge event portfolio including flagship events such as the London Marathon and the Oysho Royal Parks Half Marathon. The role involves developing and maintaining relationships with fundraisers who have each committed to raising hundreds or thousands of pounds and in return expect full support and quality advice to inspire and support them in their fundraising. The role also supports multiple other events and would include a variety of skills including negotiating, writing, project management, budgeting, marketing etc.

This role typically needs to spend 2 days per week in the office to fulfil the responsibilities of the role. More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

• You're skilled in customer and fundraising support and enjoy working at speed.
• You can easily pivot between multiple projects and your attention to detail can be relied upon.
• You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture and can easily integrate yourself into a new post and team.
• You also have a good knowledge of Supporter Fundraising and experience of Sponsored Events Programmes.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.

Apply for this role

This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).

We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.

To reduce bias in our shortlisting process, AIUK operates an anonymised application process. If for any reason you prefer to apply in a different format, or require adjustments in the process, please get in touch. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send interview questions in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.

Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.