Special Events Assistant
Special Events Assistant
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Job Description
Are you a motivated person looking for a dynamic role supporting special events for a leading charity
We are excited to be recruiting for a new Special Events Assistant to join the Special Events and Celebrity Engagement team who sit within the St Mungos Philanthropy Team. We organise events and manage celebrity relationships with the aim of spreading awareness and supporting our mission to rebuild lives and end rough sleeping.
The new role of Special Events Assistant will give you the opportunity to support the team in planning and delivering engaging events that highlight our clients stories and the impact of our work inspiring audiences to start or continue their support. Your role will include assisting with the planning and delivery of events maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders managing event communications and collateral processing data accurately and securely. This role offers a chance to learn grow and make a meaningful impact. Other key responsibilities include:
- Assist with the planning and delivery of special events working closely with the Special Events and Celebrity Engagement Manager.
- Work with teams across St Mungos including our Philanthropy and Partnerships teams to help create and deliver engaging events for donors and partners that contribute to achieving wider team objectives.
- Provide excellent supporter care and customer service responding to event enquiries and coordinating event communications.
- Provide admin support to the Special Events function ensuring the database (Raisers Edge NXT) is accurately maintained and up to date for events and youll assist with reporting and gathering insights postevent.
- Follow fundraising best practices adhere to St Mungos policies and contribute to a supportive team culture.
About you
We are looking for someone with a proactive approach to learning and a passion for making a difference. You might already be in a similar role have some previous experience in organising events or may be looking to bring transferable skills and a willingness to learn to the role. Either way if you want to get stuck into a new challenge we encourage you to apply if you can demonstrate the following:
- Good organisation and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage your own timein a busy team environment.
- The ability to provide excellent customer service and build effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Some previous experience assisting with the planning organising and delivery of inperson and virtual events.
- Good admin skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office IT software and database systems.
- Experience in using CRM databases (e.g. Raisers Edge) digital communication and collaboration tools is beneficial for this role.
In this role you will be required to work flexibly for at least 2 days per week from our Central Office in Tower Hill London. This allows for training in person collaboration team building line management and other relationship building opportunities. We support a flexible approach to work with opportunities for agile working for the rest of your week; from home or other St Mungos London or regional locations.
How to apply
To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form please click on the document tab on the advert page on our website.
When youre ready to apply click the Apply Now Button to start your online application form.
Closing Date: 10.00 am on 28 April 2025
Interview and assessment date: 12 and 14 May 2025
St Mungos are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all underrepresented groups.
About Us
Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years we have been on the ground every day and every night supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28000 people each year and our work means that more than 2700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.
What We Offer
We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued and we welcome applications from all underrepresented groups. We believe that equity diversity and inclusion improves the health wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity inclusion and wellbeing are prioritisedwe are happier healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.
Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:
- A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ Womens Action Lived Experience and AntiRacist networks.
- Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
- A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
- Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff unconscious bias training for managers and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
- In recognition of the importance of transparency we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.
Want to find out more Click here to visit ourEquality Diversity & Inclusion page.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky but with family friendly policies flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them.
These include:
- Agile working model for suitable roles.
- Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
- 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years service.
- Family friendly leave policies including maternity adoption and parental leave. Carers leave and fertility treatment leave.
- Financial wellbeing platform offering loans advances and saving options.
- Autoenrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6.
- Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app 24/7 GP appointments health checks and nutrition advice.
- Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
- Discount vouchers including gym retail food & drink travel electricals and more.
Want to find out more Want to find out moreClick here to visit our Work For Us page.
At St Mungos we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. Thats why we have a robust induction training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungos.
These include:
- Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
- Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
- Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.
Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungos current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.
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