Bespoke Events Fundraising Officer

Do you have experience of using your organisational and project management skills to successfully organise and deliver events? Would you like to maximise the fundraising opportunities for the Alzheimer’s Society by project managing a portfolio of Bespoke fundraising events?

We are recruiting for an Events Fundraising Officer within the Bespoke Events team. This is a full-time role, working 35 hours per week on a fixed-term contract until September 2026.

As Bespoke Events Fundraising Officer, you will lead and project manage a portfolio of Bespoke fundraising events, including strategically planning, growing, developing and maximising the events, including driving recruitment and fundraising for the Society.

You will be responsible for delivering a great event experience for all supporters at events, including managing volunteers - ensuring their safety, training, experience and enjoyment at the event. To achieve this, you will build relationships with internal and external key stakeholders and suppliers and monitor performance to ensure that contracts or agreements are in place, agreed and adhered to.

A significant aspect of this role is devising, developing and implementing income and expenditure budgets for events and reforecast in line with the Society’s timetable. You will continually monitor income and expenditure variance and identify new opportunities to develop the programme of events and grow income. You will also contribute to the Events Teams’ wider goals and strategy.

Interviews for this role have been provisionally scheduled to take place on Tuesday 23^rd and Wednesday 24^th September.

About you

Joining us, you’ll have experience of organising and delivering events, including experience of supervising and motivating staff or volunteers within an events environment. You’ll be able to delegate tasks effectively whilst also possessing the initiative to react and provide solutions to problems as they occur. You’ll be a good communicator with the ability to build relationships and work with internal and external supporters and suppliers at all levels.

You will have excellent organisational and project management skills with the ability to prioritise effectively. Crucially for this role, you will have experience of budgeting and financial management and a proven track record of exceeding targets.

What you’ll focus on:

• Contributing to the overarching strategy of the events portfolio, by planning and implementing events as agreed with the Bespoke Events Fundraising Manager and Senior Bespoke Fundraising Events Manager.
• Delivering a great event experience for all supporters at events, including managing volunteers - ensuring their safety, training, experience and enjoyment at the event.
• Planning and managing events, including working closely with third party suppliers and where required site planning, traffic management, route planning, crowd control, emergency procedures and incident management.
• Devising, developing and implementing income and expenditure budgets for events and reforecast in line with the Society’s timetable.
•  Implementing and managing an inspiring programme of support communications, including pre and post event, to provide information, advice and support to all events participants
• Acting as an expert resource on events fundraising for Alzheimer’s Society staff and supporters.

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.

At Alzheimer’s Society, we’re the UK’s leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.

Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.  

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society. 

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people. 

Our hiring process

During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and can be at your best. We are working hard to ensure our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible, so please do inform us of your experience and anything you think we could do better by completing our candidate survey when you apply.  Please also contact Alzheimer’s Society Talent Acquisition Team via [email protected] for application support or any adjustments you might need.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. We recognise the benefits of AI, but if you're considering using it to submit your application, we encourage you to reflect on the value it truly adds. AI tools often lack the personal touch and authenticity that set candidates apart. We want to hear your unique perspective, experiences, and skills, so we encourage you to showcase them in your own voice.

We try to avoid closing roles early where possible, however if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close earlier than the advertised closing date. Should this occur, we will aim to provide you with at least 48 hours' notice.

We are committed to safer recruitment and ensuring the welfare of those we work with, due to the nature of some of our roles, we might need to carry out a DBS check at the relevant level.

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Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society. 

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.