Campaign Events Officer

Closed: 25 June 2019
Admin Fundraising Events

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  • Salary £27,025 - £29,515 per year
  • Location B15, Birmingham (On-site)
  • Job Type Contract, Full-time
  • Sectors Education
  • Job Reference : 80717

Do you have outstanding events skills and are ready to be part of a high performing team? Do you want to be part of the largest fundraising and volunteering campaign ever undertaken in the Midlands?  We are now in the planning stages of our next campaign.  Inspired by our founder, Joseph Chamberlain, it will change lives locally and globally.  It will be unique and ambitious and will place Birmingham as one of the leading fundraising and volunteering universities in the world. 

We are looking to recruit a Campaign Events Officer to be part of our outstanding Engagement Team. The Campaign Events Officer will work with the events team to deliver the overall Development and Alumni Relations (DARO) events programme to alumni and friends of the University. The post holder will have a specific Campaign remit, and will work closely with the Events Partner and Head of Alumni Engagement to deliver a wide range of creative and innovative Campaign related events and activities. An ambitious calendar of global events are planned to launch the campaign and this role will be a key element in achieving a dynamic and high profile launch.

Our University has a proud history of philanthropy stretching back to its foundation in 1900.  With a clear vision to change the lives of the people of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain raised the funds required to build the University from citizens and corporations based locally and around the globe. Since then philanthropy has continued to play an important role in shaping the University. There have been a number of fundraising campaigns, including a £1m urgent capital appeal after the Second World War and a £1.4m campaign to fund the Vale ‘student village’ in the 1960s.  In 2015 we closed the Circles of Influence Campaign, raising £193 million, making it the largest HE fundraising campaign outside Oxbridge and London.

The University has global reach, including several partnerships with other leading universities around the world, and is grounded in its local community, having opened the first fully comprehensive University secondary school in the country in 2015.  We are an ambitious and successful researchintensive University (one of the top 100 research-led universities globally) and have produced 11 Nobel Prize winners, including three who received their awards in 2016.  Academics here are exploring the impact of climate change, helping to prevent global health epidemics, and changing our understanding of Shakespeare.  Our students come from nearly 150 countries and our flagship outreach programmes mean that almost 25% of our student population come from disadvantaged backgrounds, one of the highest proportions in the UK. 

DARO exists to support this academic and student community by engaging, inspiring, and celebrating alumni, individuals, and charitable funders who give their money, time, and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities.  The Office, which is comprised of 60 staff across five teams, is focused on fundraising and volunteering from alumni and individuals who are passionate about changing lives, through funding various research trials, supporting student bursaries, mentoring students, and providing internships.

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