Events Manager

About Chance to Shine 

We are Chance to Shine: a children’s charity dedicated to harnessing the power of cricket to transform the life prospects of young people in the UK.

It is our mission that all young people have the opportunity to play, learn and develop through cricket. We want them to learn a love of the game and to find a sense of belonging through the sport, developing their wider wellbeing and life skills to help fulfil their potential.

Established in 2005, we have a long-term track record of delivery in state schools and under-served communities, bringing best-in-class cricket programmes to young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to play. All our programmes are completely free for everyone involved, from schools and community groups to young people and their families.

About the role

It is an exciting time to join Chance to Shine as we grow our scale and deepen our impact with the aim of reaching 1 million young people annually by 2028. Broadening our community of supporters and growing our income is vital to achieving this strategy and the role of Events Manager is critical to this growth.

This role would suit an energetic and ambitious events professional, who is able to bring a structured and collaborative approach to deliver a demanding programme of events to the highest standard. With the support and guidance of the Head of Fundraising, CEO, and Board of Trustees, this is an exciting opportunity to take on a career defining role in an exceptionally well regarded and well run charity.

Job Description

Purpose:

• Overall responsibility for the delivery of Chance to Shine’s events, ensuring each event is executed to the highest standard.
• To lead the planning, budgeting, sales and delivery of fundraising events at Chance to Shine ensuring each event maximises income and profit for the charity.
• To develop an events strategy to maximise income from fundraising challenge events.
• To build positive relationships with charity VIPs and ambassadors, ensuring they are fully briefed at each event.
• To manage the Events Officer.

Key Responsibilities

Event Management

• Project management of a full programme of events including cultivation dinners, annual awards receptions, and major fundraising events.
• Lead on selling Chance to Shine events to new and existing supporters, maximising income through ticket/table sales, auction and raffle income, and sponsorships.

Event Planning

• Lead on the concept and design of new fundraising events.
• To develop and regularly review an organisational events strategy focused on maximising income and return on investment for the charity.

·       To develop annual budgets, forecasts and plans for all event income to feed into the wider fundraising budget. 

·       To have specific responsibility for the events budget within Chance to Shine Enterprises (CTSE), the trading subsidiary. 

Relationship Management

• Broaden supporter networks and build a community of event supporters through networking, introductions, and working with the wider fundraising team to cross sell events and maximise income.
• Build relationships with existing and new event partners including; charity ambassadors and event hosts, venues, auctioneers, auction/raffle supporters, silent auction partners, and value-in-kind partners/sponsors. 
• To lead on supplier relationships.
• To work with and manage senior volunteers to develop, plan and deliver major fundraising events.

Beneficiary and challenge events

• To build relationships with high value event partners and supporters who are raising funds on behalf of Chance to Shine, providing support as needed.
• To provide guidance to the Events Officer to maximise income from challenge events and community/third-party events.
• To work with the Corporate Partnerships Manager to integrate fundraising challenge events into our corporate partnership offer.
• To develop and implement a strategy to grow income from challenge events.

Line Management

·       To line manage the Events Officer.  

Other

·       To engage Trustees, SMT and colleagues to support partnership opportunities where appropriate.

·       To maintain up to date Raisers Edge records relating to event attendees and partners.

·       To represent the charity at external events as appropriate.

·       To assist with other fundraising tasks as required. 

·       To lead on the contracts process for event partnerships, liaising with the Director of Finance & Resources and external legal support as required.

·       To ensure fundraising events are delivered in a safe and professional manner including responsibility for risk assessments relating to fundraising activity and events.

·       To ensure all areas of events fundraising comply with sector and charity regulations and best practice

Key relationships

The job holder will liaise with: 

·       Chief Executive and the CTS Senior Management Team

·       Fundraising team 

·       Impact & Evaluation, Operations, Communications & Digital, and Finance & Resource teams

·       Supporters, prospective supporters, ambassadors and suppliers

·       Chance to Shine Enterprises Board

·       Trustees and Development Board members

·       Event volunteers

Person Specification

Essential experiences and competencies:

·       Educated to a degree level or equivalent

·       Minimum five years’ experience in an events or fundraising team

·       Experience of developing and managing budgets

·       Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including strong inter-personal skills

·       Line Management experience

·       A demonstrable passion and connection to  the mission of Chance to Shine

Essential traits and drivers:

·       Initiative to build, plan and deliver targets with a strong motivation to succeed.

·       Professional, flexible and comfortable dealing with stakeholders at all levels.

·       Enthusiastic and tenacious.

·       Effective influencing and negotiation skills.

·       Good team player.

·       Strong attention to detail.

·       Able to cope under pressure and work to tight deadlines. 

·       Able to work extended hours to support events as required (TOIL will be available)

·       Able and willing to travel throughout the UK

Desirable experiences and competencies:

• Experience of Adobe InDesign (desirable)
• Experience of CRM / Fundraising database (desirable)