National Challenge Events Manager in London - St John Ambulance

National Challenge Events Manager
Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century? As one of the countrys best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as everyday health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young peoples lives.
We are looking for a National Challenge Events Manager to develop and manage our Challenge Events programme including the London Marathon and Great North Run. You will play a key role in delivering growth across our challenge events activity as part of our fundraising strategy enhancing supporter journeys and delivering an exceptional experience to drive greater supporter return.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid, flexible working, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first/mental aid first aider courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, life assurance, flu jab, eye care, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days.
About You:
Youll have experience of leading charity fundraising challenge events including significantly growing income on existing events and setting up new challenge events across multiple channels. With your experience of using fundraising databases such as D365 youll also be able use data insight to drive decision making.
About The Role
You will
Manage the St John Ambulance Challenge Events programme, including flagship third party events like the London Marathon, ensuring that all campaigns and events are delivered on time and to budget.
Develop an annual plan of activity to maintain and improve the current programme and to increase the challenge events portfolio with the key driver being to increase income across challenge events.
Ensure our website and 3rd party websites are kept up to date with all challenge events opportunities and ensure that we have a strong focus on donor experience and journey.
Lead the implementation of supporter journeys (online and offline) for challenge events participants putting the supporter at the heart of everything we do.
Please see the job description for more detail
About Us:
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,900 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response and Night Time Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).
Find out more about us atwww.sja.org.uk
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St John Ambulance is committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive; we have several networks including the Armed Forces Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Womens groups..We do nottolerate any form ofdiscriminationandengendera sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship.We believe passionately in equity, diversity and inclusion.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note: St John does not accept random CVs out of the blue and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

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