Community Engagement Coordinator

This is a brand-new role which is critical to our future success in collecting Plasma donations. Through your efforts, you will be supporting the delivery of important Community Engagement activity for NHS Blood and Transplant that will save and improve peoples lives. As a Community Engagement Coordinator - Plasma, you will be working to help build our donor base of Plasma donors for one of our fantastic Plasma Donor Centres. As a great communicator you will help to educate people about the need for Plasma, its vital uses and how easy it is to donate. You will be working in the community in a range of locations from businesses to universities, liaising with prospective donors to inspire them to become donors. You will be required to create valuable relationships at pace, both internally and externally to ensure we secure an ongoing plan of activity within this critical pillar of work. You will also be using your organisational skills to coordinate and deliver events with the support of our talented events team. Your weekly schedule in this varied hybrid role will be a mixture of home working, NHSBT centre base working, and delivering field based activities within the local community. If you like engaging with people from the community, love to take the lead and want to play a part in helping to save lives, this role is for you!Main duties of the job In this role you will support the plan for new recruits, raise awareness and educate about Plasma. Your responsibilities will include:

• Organising and undertaking new acquisition and awareness activity, such as events in the community, on-session engagement with donors at the Plasma DC and exploring all relevant business development opportunities.
• Approaching new businesses as agreed with their line manager / within the strategic plan to meet organisational objectives.
• Developing key relationships with key third sector and corporate organisations within the region.
• Managing relationships so that they provide maximum benefit to NHSBT.
• Maintaining the Relationship Management database in a timely and accurate manner.
• Promoting organ donation and other forms of donation where appropriate.
  
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the