Fundraising Manager: Events (Maternity cover)

It's an exciting time to join Mind's Community, Events, Products Team as our Events Fundraising Manager (maternity cover). Our purpose is to engage, grow and inspire a community of passionate fundraisers to power the fight for mental health. Together with our supporters, we change lives., As Events Fundraising Manager (maternity cover), you'll be an experienced leader, managing the Events team of nine fundraisers. You'll be a strategic thinker, working on long-term growth strategies and ensuring delivery of in-year budgets.

You'll be highly organised in leading a team to manage a portfolio of inspiring campaigns - driving the programme forwards, continuously improving ways of working and innovating in response to need. Basing your decisions on insight, you'll engage a diverse range of audiences and connect them to opportunities to support Mind's work. You'll deliver excellent supporter experiences - inspiring participants to maximise the value of their gift, engage with other fundraising products and continue to support Mind's work.

You'll be an important member of the Community, Events, Products leadership team, working closely together to align programmes, identify opportunities to improve ways of working, and fostering a motivated and high-performing team culture. You'll be joining a team of friendly and passionate fundraisers, and you'll be supported to develop your skills and personal development plans in a wellbeing focused environment., We are committed to ensuring all our employees are treated fairly and equitably at work and promoting equity in physical and mental health for all., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.

You are an experienced leader, confident in motivating and developing your team to achieve their objectives.

-You are a strategic thinker, able to write long-term strategies and budgets to achieve income growth.

-You are a strong communicator, able to convey your vision, goals, ideas and issues to team members and senior stakeholders

-You form strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, and lead on cross-organisational projects.

-You have strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise projects and large programmes of work.

-You are comfortable creating project timelines and holding others to account in meeting deadlines

-You are adaptable, flexible, and open to doing things differently

Mind is open to experience outside of the charity sector, transferable skills and learning in post, and we will welcome applications from candidates who may not meet the criteria exactly.