Challenge Events Officer - Temporary Cover

Leukaemia UK – Our Charity  

We are a ‘small but mighty’ charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Over the next 10 years we want to help save and improve the lives of more people with leukaemia through funding life-changing research and campaigning for change.

Despite progress in recent decades, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 16 minutes and survival rates are among some of the worst of any cancer.  And the physical and psychological impact can be lifelong. 

Our current strategy outlines our plan to increase our investment into ground-breaking world class research and policy development focused on improving access to kinder, more effective diagnosis, treatment and care for leukaemia and other blood cancers. To do this, we are embarking on a period of significant growth, investing strategically to grow our income, profile, influence, and engagement and impact.

As we begin the fourth year of this ambitious 5-year strategy, we are seeking a passionate and pro-active Challenge Events Fundraising Officer to join us on a temporary basis to support us through a very busy and exciting period where many of our challenge events are taking place.

Team

We are a close-knit team, who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and putting those affected by the disease at the heart of everything we do.  We are all focused on “keeping it real” with pragmatic, practical solutions, as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia and other blood cancers.

From us you can expect fun and creativity, as well as great challenge and support. We may not be about the corporate life here, but we are all about delivering exceptional expertise and making a real change to people’s lives.

Leukaemia UK and You 

We are looking for an outgoing and enthusiastic Challenge Events fundraiser to join our team on a temporary basis to help promote and oversee our portfolio of Challenge Events. You will carry out essential stewardship for our Challenge Event fundraisers, ensuring they have a positive experience of Leukaemia UK, and are encouraged and motivated to raise as much money as possible to support our vital work.

You will take genuine pleasure and interest in getting to know our fundraisers and their reasons for supporting Leukaemia UK. You will be a supporter-focussed, pro-active, personable individual who works quickly and diligently in a fast-paced environment, always with an eye to improving systems and ways of working.

You will be an adaptable and flexible member of the Fundraising team, contributing to a culture of co-operation, flexibility and adaptability.

Experience

• Stewarding supporters within the charity sector
• Working with social media and PR professionals to promote fundraising products
• In depth understanding of supporter motivations and expectations

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent working knowledge of customer/supporter databases (great if you have Salesforce experience).
• Good working knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook.
• Professional, confident and friendly telephone manner to work with a wide range of people and suppliers.
• Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent written English including spelling and grammar.
• Ability to pick up new processes and tasks quickly and work independently.
• Ability to manage a varied workload. 

Job specifics              

• Hours: Full time hours are 37.5 Monday to Friday
• Location: We are very flexible! Our hybrid working policy is a minimum of two days per month in our London Office office. Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to travel to events and meet supporters that will involve some weekend work.
• Annual Salary range £30,000 - £35,000 (FTE)

Application Process

• Due to the urgency we will shortlist CVs on a first come first serve basis and keep the application window open until 9am on Tuesday 22nd April. 
• First interviews will be held via Teams over the next 2 weeks 
• We hope to appoint by week ending Friday 25th April 2025.

If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of skills, energy, and flair to embrace this broad and challenging role and enable our strategy to fly, then we would love you to apply. Please also see the full job description attached to the advert.  

Application instructions: To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter.

Closing Date: 9am Tuesday 22nd April 2025 

We look forward to hearing from you! 

Russell Benson- Community & Challenge Events Manager 

Sarah Weber - Head of Public Fundraising