3 Senior event manager jobs in Westminster, Greater London

Annual leave: 33 days (plus eight bank holidays)

Benefits:

• enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental pay
• family-friendly policies
• 8% employer pension contribution (Aviva)
• life assurance cover at 3 x annual salary
• health cashback plan (Medicash): employee cover plus up to four dependent children
• 24/7 virtual GP access (UK registered), plus access to Best Doctors
• confidential employee assistance programme (Medicash)
• access to a wellbeing app
• flexible working options including hybrid working, flexible working patterns such as part-time, compressed hours, and more*
• learning and development opportunities including bespoke training and access to LinkedIn Learning)
• commitment to employee health and wellbeing. We have a Menopause Friendly accreditation and are a Disability Confident employer

Our Mass Participation team is growing! Join us as our new Senior Challenge Events Manager to provide strategic leadership to a successful and growing challenge events programme, helping drive ambitious income growth and shape the future of fundraising at Dementia UK.

In this exciting leadership role, you will lead a team of ten through two Challenge Events Managers, focusing on long-term strategy, innovation and sustainable growth. You'll build on the success of our established third-party events portfolio, while identifying opportunities to expand our DIY challenge events offering. With ambitious plans to grow income from £4 million to £6 million over five years, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering our fundraising strategy.

You will strengthen supporter engagement and develop a high-performing fundraising program. You'll oversee budgets, use data and insight to inform decisions, and lead digital marketing approaches that drive participant numbers and income. You'll also provide strategic direction and support to your managers, ensuring the team continues to deliver excellent results.

You are an experienced challenge events fundraising leader with a proven track record of growing income and managing high-performing teams, ideally including experience of managing managers. You'll bring strong strategic, commercial and analytical skills, alongside experience developing and delivering digital marketing campaigns, particularly through platforms such as Meta. As a confident and collaborative leader, you'll be comfortable using evidence and insight to identify opportunities, drive innovation and deliver ambitious growth.

Join Dementia UK at an exciting stage of growth and play a leading role in shaping the future of our challenge events programme, developing innovative fundraising opportunities and inspiring more supporters to make a difference for families affected by dementia.

This role is subject to a Basic DBS check.

Our culture

In addition to offering a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, we truly value our people. It’s important for us to create a workplace culture that looks after our people to support them in achieving their full potential. You will become part of a diverse and dedicated team who are supported to use and develop their skills. We recognise and value the key role you will play in delivering our strategic plans for the benefit of those living with dementia. 

Our staff have a voice. Representatives from different roles and levels across the organisation lead and positively contribute to our working groups around health and wellbeing, menopause, and equity, diversity and inclusion. 

Our supportive and nurturing workplace culture has recently earnt us recognition as the Sunday Times Best Place to Work in the non-profit and charities sector 2025 (big organisation).  

Dementia UK is proud to welcome everyone. We aim for a truly inclusive culture with talented, diverse teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We celebrate differences and individuality and encourage everyone to feel comfortable being themselves at work.

Dementia UK is a Disability Confident employer. If you would like support to make an application, contact us.

By applying to join Dementia UK, you acknowledge that in the event you are successful for the role, any offer and your ongoing employment will be conditional on you having or obtaining the right to work in the UK. 

*Please note that any decision on flexible working is based on business needs 

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