Job Number: 2672
Job Title: Events and Community Fundraiser
Charity: Wheelpower
Salary Range: £32,000 – £35,000 d.o.e
Type: Full time
Location: Hybrid/ 2 days a week from Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Aylesbury
Deadline for applications: 9th September
About us
We’re WheelPower, the national charity for wheelchair sport and we are passionate about helping disabled people lead active lives. We do this by organising sports sessions and providing advice to recently paralysed hospital patients, organising a variety of events and programmes at Stoke Mandeville Stadium and throughout the country, organising online fitness classes and producing resources which enable disabled people to stay active in their homes and working with partners to improve their delivery models.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Fundraising team at WheelPower, a friendly, close knit supportive team.
This is a varied role and the successful applicant will organise a range of events, source runners and participants for a range of third-party events including the Great North Run and help them reach their fundraising targets, identify and develop opportunities for community groups and local companies to support the charity and lead and manage our schools fundraising programme.
Reporting to the Head of Fundraising, Data & Communications, you’ll be an integral member of our fundraising team who are committed to providing an excellent supporter and donor experience.
You will be part of the wider WheelPower staff team aiming to provide disabled people with the opportunity to transform their lives through movement, activity and sport.
About you
We are looking for a friendly and organised individual with a proven track record of meeting or exceeding targets from sponsorship-based events or community fundraising along with experience of preparing activities to recruit, engage, inspire and retain supporters.
You’ll be confident at building relationships with volunteers and supporters with a keen interest in supporter care. You’ll be an engaging communicator, have excellent multi-tasking skills and attention to detail, be happy working within a team as well as on your own and have a flexible and collaborative approach to your work.
WheelPower is seeking a proven successful events and community fundraiser so that we can get more disabled people active. This is a fantastic time to join us in pursuit of our vision to transform lives through sport.
Job purpose
To lead and grow WheelPower’s events and community fundraising programme, generating sustainable income and inspiring supporters to help transform the lives of disabled people.
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