Accepting Applications Until
19 September 2025
Job Description
This role will support the Senior Events and Operations Manager and Senior Events Executive to deliver and help shape an ambitious new fundraising and stewardship event strategy, designed to engage current and inspire new high value supporters to support our mission.
Description
Events Executive (6 month contract September 2025 – March 2026)
Your New Role: Events Executive, Global’s Make Some Noise
This is a rare opportunity for someone looking to develop their events experience and skills, whilst gaining insight into working for a charity, by supporting on a range of brand new exciting fundraising events hosted by Global’s Make Some Noise during a busy period in the charity’s diary.
It is a hugely exciting time to join, as events are set to play an instrumental role in helping the charity develop a new dynamic portfolio to engage new high value supporters. This role will be pivotal in helping us deliver these events and help the charity meet its ambitious fundraising targets.
Key Responsibilities
Event Management and Supporter Stewardship (40%)
- To support the Senior Events Manager in ensuring that every event plan is delivered to the highest level
- Provide support on guest management, ensuring a smooth process for guests during the lead up to and on the day of the event.
- Support with stewardship communications to help build strong relationships with event committee members, major donors, guests and key stakeholders
- Produce event materials and presentations to help secure sponsorship, gifts in kind and prizes to help ensure the events success
- Help liaise with the Marketing and Design team to create event materials required for the event e.g. donation forms, invitations.
Fundraising Auction/Prizes (30%)
- Collaborate with the Senior Events Executive on the Prize procurement strategy to ensure there are prizes for all fundraising events taking place and asks are managed carefully and aligned.
- Manage the auction fulfilment process for the assigned event you are working on, ensuring all auction winners are thanked post event and that lots are fulfilled in a timely manner.
- Support prize procurement across the team as required.
Event Adminstration and Processes (30%)
- To support the Senior Events Manager with financial management of the assigned event, supporting on areas such as donation fulfilment and ticket/table invoicing as required.
- To maintain good practice in the use of database system ensuring that information is recorded accurately to allow for excellent supporter care, stewardship and accurate analysis of event performance.
- To help monitor event kit list and ensure events have the equipment needed.
- To undertake any other tasks reasonably required.
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: Every day is an opportunity to get creative, working with multiple teams within Make Some Noise, from across Global and our Growth Advisory Board to bring fundraising events to life including our annual gala ‘Global’s Make Some Noise Night’and Spring Reception
- Own It: Take charge of exciting projects from guest list management to prize outreach, and see them right through to completion
- Keep it Simple: Help the events function run smoothly during busy times, keeping on top of the detail and streamlining processes
- Better Together: You’ll have the opportunity to develop a variety of new business, fundraising and event management skills through building amazing relationships within the team and across Global
What Success Looks Like
In the first few months, you’ll have...
- Worked closely with the Senior Events Manager to understand the events calendar and new strategy
- Assisted with planning of a range of fundraising events, including experience working on our annual gala taking place in November 2025 aiming to raise £1million+
- Understood event project plans and key processes including guest management, finance processes and managing the events inbox
- Built internal relationships with some of the charity’s most valuable stakeholders in Global, and charity supporters
- Designed brilliant assets for our events from engaging invitations to donation cards
- Supported the team in the lead up to our annual Make Some Noise appeal in October
What You’ll Need
The ideal candidate will have a passion for events, be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:
- Background: Previous experience in a charity or events agency environment. An understanding of working within a charity’s Special Events Team is an advantage.
- Relationships: You’ll be an excellent communicator with the ability to build rapport, engage supporters and secure support from external stakeholders.
- Resilience: You’ll be a self-starter with great energy and stamina, and the ability to bounce back from setbacks with positivity and determination.
- Event Management: You’ll have a good understanding of event management processes and excellent attention to detail
- Fundraising proven success supporting on a range of fundraising mechanics used at events. Experience working with the EMMA Auction platform will be helpful.
- Finance: Proven experience of managing finance processes and invoices with suppliers and supporters
- Planning: You’ll be highly organised, with demonstrable experience of working under pressure, often to tight deadlines.
- Creativity: You’ll be a creative, innovative thinker with eye on trends to help identify incredible auction prizes, invitations and future event ideas
- Proactivity: A proactive thinker, always looking to spot improvements and opportunities, and using your initiative to spot issues before they occur.
- Team player: Seeing a project right through to the end – working out of hours when necessary and to support our events. We’re looking for a supportive, enthusiastic and proactive team member with the drive and determination to help out and get things done and who is always looking to spot opportunities.
- Coaching and Development: Nurturing talent by empowering and guiding individuals to unlock their potential
- Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team
