Sporting Events Fundraising Officer Jobs in Bolton, Greater Manchester
The Christie Charity is a vibrant, fast moving, energetic organisation with a passionate team and a fantastic reputation.
Everything we do is geared to supporting the renowned Christie hospital to ensure cancer patients receive the highest level of treatment and care and have access to world leading research and technology ensuring they have the best possible experience and outcomes. We provide funding over and above what the NHS is able to provide.
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to be an essential part of our mass participant events team. This team is responsible for managing a Christie presence and participants at events including the Manchester to Blackpool bike ride and the Manchester Marathon. It regularly raises over £1.7m and has ambitions to reach £2m. Ideally, we require someone with an energetic personality, a positive outlook and a mature approach to managing staff.
The Charity team is responsible for raising millions of pounds each year to ensure Christie patients receive gold standard care and treatment. This includes everything from access to world first clinical trials and receiving radiotherapy in state-of-the-art treatment centres to young adults being cared for in a bespoke age-appropriate centre and being able to offer patients anxiety reducing complementary therapy, or even creative sessions in our art room.
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We are looking for a proactive, confident and dynamic individual to help us tell our story and get our voice heard. You will join our small creative and supportive team within an empowering, values-led organisation that is person-centred and ambitious to empower disabled people.
This is a new role, and is crucial to the development of the charity over the next three years. You will grow our brand, tell our story, and help develop relationships with partners, funders and the disability community.
We are looking for someone who has a natural flair for and an interest in communications, to develop and implement our aspirational plans, in particular through social media and the development of our website. We are looking for a dynamic content creator who can work independently, take initiative and proactively get our messages across to a wide audience across our various platforms.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Community Inclusion Lead will have responsibility to develop and deliver the strategic direction of both the Community Inclusion and Education departments at Sale Sharks Foundation. This will include developing project/programs around disability and social inclusion, health and wellbeing and managing the Foundations Education department which focus’ on alternative provision and our Hitz program for 16–19-year-olds.
The role will have a focus on developing a range of provision across both Community Inclusion and Education. Priorities for this role will include securing funding, developing key internal and external relationships with partners, managing a diverse team of staff and monitoring and reporting on project/delivery impact. You will also be a key part of the Senior Leadership Team at Sale Sharks Foundation, reporting directly to the CEO and working with the rest of the SLT team to set the strategic direction of the department and wider foundation.
This is an exciting time for an experienced sport/community manager to join the Foundation and help us achieve our strategic direction goals across the community inclusion space.
Development
- Design, develop and lead on the development of new programmes and initiatives linked to Community Inclusion and Education.
- Work with department managers to ensure health and safety and programme procedures are in place across all Sale Sharks Foundation activities.
- Be one of the key points of contact and work closely with the Foundation’s funding consultant in identifying and writing bid applications.
- Oversee the planning and delivery of all Community Inclusion and Education programmes, ensuring staffing and resources are effectively managed.
- Working closely with the Safeguarding lead, to support the wider department with any safeguarding concerns, make sure to follow Sale Sharks Foundation protocols.
- Undertake any other duties as required by the CEO.
Monitoring & Evaluation
- Keep clear, accurate records and data collection linked to all grants and commercial funding streams.
- Responsible for tracking and delivering against agreed KPI’s associated with grant funding.
- Design, deliver and ensure monitoring and evaluative feedback systems are in place for all programmes.
- Produce reports, analyse and present findings to grant and funding partners.
- Ensure that quality assurance of Sale Sharks Foundation Community Inclusion and Education activities, working with colleagues to ensure all materials are relevant and up to date.
- Support the creation of media information and case studies/good news stories to measure the impact of events and activities for the Foundation and relevant partners.
It is expected that the role may include working some evenings and weekends including match days. This will always be agreed in advance with time off in lieu offered.
This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect the range of duties the post-holder will perform.
It is key to this role that candidates:
- Always demonstrate the Sale Sharks Foundation values.
- Promote Sale Sharks Foundation’s brand and ethos in a professional and positive manner.
- Be committed to applying and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion as Sale Sharks Foundation and comply with all Charity policies and procedures.
- Act in line with the Foundations code of conduct always showing professionalism in all environments we work across.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential:
- A degree in a relatable subject area.
- An experience, understanding and a passion for improving opportunities for underrepresented groups or individuals in our communities.
- Proven success at building effective working relationships with a range of internal & external stakeholders.
- Experience of producing monitoring and evaluation reports
- Track record of developing and managing projects and working with others to achieve successful outcomes.
- Experience and a strong understanding of reviewing and mitigating risk.
- Evidence of the ability to develop and manage project budgets.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and work well under pressure.
- Previous experience of leading and motivating others to a common purpose.
- Previous line management responsibility.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Understanding of data protection and GDPR principals
- High attention to detail including good use of grammar and spelling.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft 365 packages
Desirable:
- Understanding of the rugby landscape
- Experience in the charitable sector
- Experience of working with underserved communities within the north west.
- Previous experience of securing funding from trusts, grants or similar bodies
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Ambitious and driven with a willingness to learn.
- A passion for the community and making a difference.
- A friendly, positive ‘can do’ attitude.
- A commitment to the aims, vision, and values of Sale Sharks Foundation
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Good analytical skills, problem solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent communication and the ability to motivate and sell ideas to others.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to assess priorities and work to strict deadlines.
- Ability to inspire and articulate the full breadth of impact the work of the Foundation has.
- Willingness to work flexible hours.
- Full driver’s license and use of a vehicle.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.