Events Fundraiser

Job Description

Job Title: Events Fundraiser

Directorate: Engagement & Fundraising

Team/Department (if specific): Supporter Management Team/ Philanthropy & Partnerships

Date Written/ Amended: Feb 2026

Context and Background

The NSPCC's mission is to end cruelty to children. Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. We share it. It drives our Engagement and Fundraising team to get out there and bring in the funds we need to protect children and prevent abuse.

Within the Engagement and Fundraising Directorate, our aim is to maximise resources for the NSPCC's mission by raising funds, providing the best possible supporter experience, and building long-term relationships between donors and our cause. To continue to deliver our mission we rely on the fundraising support of people across the UK for 90% of our annual income.

In a challenging fundraising environment, the need to keep children safe from abuse and neglect remains urgent. The Supporter Management team sits within the Philanthropy & Partnerships Department, established to steward and grow the NSPCC's 'High Value' audience. This function delivers the research, propositions, communications and events that enable fundraisers to build rewarding, long-term relationships with our biggest supporters.

In this role, you will work with colleagues to identify which events will most attract and motivate high value supporters. You will then design and deliver these, working with external stakeholders where appropriate. Through your work, you will be giving donors the opportunity to understand our work and the difference their support makes. And by doing that, you'll help to keep hundreds of thousands of children safe.

Job purpose

• To maximise income and support from high value prospects and donors through the delivery and promotion of innovative and high-quality engagement and stewardship events

Key relationships - Internal

• Reports to the Engagement & Stewardship Manager

• Works closely with the Supporter Management team, Philanthropy & Partnerships colleagues

• Collaborates with colleagues across Strategy & Knowledge, Services, Communications and the CEO's office

Key relationships - External

• Works with a range of colleagues from other charities and fundraising organisations to ensure our events remain competitive.

• External suppliers

• Key volunteers and NSPCC representatives, and their staff

Main duties and responsibilities

• To manage and deliver a portfolio of engagement and stewardship events, coordinating all event logistics.

• To work closely with the Engagement and Stewardship Manager and the Stewardship Executive to ensure events are integrated with and complement the overall stewardship plan for supporters.

• To manage events budgets, ensuring adherence to financial constraints.

• To ensure that stewardship events are fit-for-purpose through regular evaluation and monitoring of delivery against objectives.

• To collaborate and support departments and teams using engagement events and stewardship in their fundraising by sharing best practice, audience insight, knowledge and contacts.

• To manage relationships with senior volunteers and key supporters in relation to engagement and stewardship events.

• To use creativity to develop a file of the interesting and engaging elements that constitute a successful event (e.g. interesting venues, excellent caterers, etc.).

Responsibilities for all Staff within the Engagement & Fundraising directorate

• To update databases and supporter information systems on a regular basis in line with Data Protection legislation and NSPCC policy and procedures.

• To actively participate in regular department and team meetings, contributing to strategy, discussions and decisions which will be beneficial to the Directorate and wider NSPCC activities.

• To adhere to all the NSPCC's service standards, policies and procedures.

• To evidence an understanding of and commitment to the demonstration of the NSPCC's values.

• To maintain an awareness of and comply with NSPPC data protection regulations.

• To be responsible for personal learning and development, to support the learning and development of others and the whole organisation.

• To work in a manner that supports equality, diversity and inclusion

• To be pro-active in identifying ways to improve personal and team performance

• To maintain an awareness of own and others' Health and Safety and comply with the NSPCC's Health and Safety policy and procedures.

• To maintain awareness of NSPCCs safeguarding duties and comply with Safeguarding Code of Conduct.

• To take personal responsibility for keeping up to date with NSPCC work to end cruelty to children, including securing updates on project and service developments and general NSPCC news.

• A commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.

Person specification

1. Experience of success in delivering results through managing engagement and stewardship events.

2. Well-developed ability to build, manage and develop relationships with individuals and teams, both internally and externally and to negotiate and achieve objectives through these relationships.

3. Ability to collect data from various sources, analyse findings, identify opportunities, evaluate their viability and present findings clearly in a way that meets desired outcomes.

4. The ability to plan, monitor and implement projects/ events/ initiatives to agreed deadlines, often with conflicting priorities and demands.

5. Proven ability to demonstrate initiative and creativity to achieve desired outcomes.

6. Ability to pay close attention to detail whilst not losing sight of overall objectives. Willingness to work flexibly in approach to work and/ or work time requirements

7. Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage projects, organise and plan own work and the work of others and establish clear priorities in order to meet agreed objectives and deadlines.

8. Proficiency in using Raisers Edge or a comparable CRM package and Windows based software packages including word processing, spreadsheets, electronic mail and the internet.

9. Ideally, experience of working with high value fundraising.

10. Experience of managing budgets, adhering to financial constraints, monitoring and forecasting income and expenditure, identifying possible shortfalls or overspends and taking timely and appropriate mitigating action.

Safer Recruitment

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

The recruitment and selection of our people will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.

Our principles:

• Always seek to recruit the best candidate for the role based on merit including their skills, experience, motivation and competencies. Our robust recruitment and selection process should ensure the identification of the person best suited to the role and the organisation.

• Committed to diversity and equality of opportunity and will interview all applicants (internal and external) who self-declare at application as having a disability and who meet the minimum requirements in the person specification of the vacancy they are applying for.

• We will make reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process in order to enable successful candidates who declare disabilities to start working or volunteering their time with us.

• Any current member of staff or volunteer who wishes to apply for vacancies and is suitably qualified will be considered and addressed fairly and objectively based on their merit.

• As an organisation committed to safeguarding, we will ensure all under 18's joining the organisation will have ongoing risk assessments to ensure their role and activities are safe and appropriate.

• All documentation relating to candidates will be treated confidentially in accordance with the GDPR legislation.