Fundraising Events Manager

Fundraising Events Manager, As Fundraising Events Manager, you will develop and deliver a series of cultivation and stewardship events that attract, engage and retain high value supporters across all of our museums. You will be working collaboratively with the Head of Supporter Engagement to ensure the planning and delivery of all events is seamless and supports the goals of the Fundraising and Partnerships team. Whilst also building good working practices with external suppliers and contractors local to each site to ensure value for money and high standards. From bespoke tours and exclusive lectures to networking receptions and launch events, you will create a world-class supporter experience that inspires individuals, companies, and trusts to engage with and financially support the museums.

Do you have experience of planning and delivering large scale events in a venue? Do you want the opportunity to develop and deliver a series of fundraising and stewardship events that inspire people to engage and support our museums?, Joining us, you will have proven experience of planning and delivering large scale events in a venue, ideally in a high value fundraising context or hospitality, corporate and other industries. You will possess advanced organisational, time management and project management skills alongside experience of managing budgets and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously. Crucially, you will be an effective communicator with the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. You will have the ability to embrace imaginative and innovative solutions in addition to the creativity required to plan and deliver engaging events.

The Fundraising and Partnerships Team are aiming to achieve an income target of £11.3 million by devising and delivering events that give our prospective and current donors an outstanding experience of the Science Museum Group. We are now recruiting for a Fundraising Events Manager on a permanent, full-time contract working 35 hours per week.

Don't feel you meet all of the criteria? At SMG, we are committed to building a workforce that is open for all, and welcome you to apply, even if your experience doesn't fit perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have. What we offer Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.

• Support with personal and professional development
• 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced contributory pension
• Unmind App and other wellbeing support
• Interest-free loans
• Days Out discounts
• Health & Dental Insurance
Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures. Museum Website: https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=aHJzZXJ2aWNlLjI2Nzc2LjExMTkzQHNjaWVuY2VtdXNldW0uYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t