Job Title:  

National Events Officer 

Department:

Shared Services

Reports to: 

Fundraising Team Lead

Hours:  

Full-Time

Location:

Training Centre, Model Farm Road, Cork

Contact Type:

Permanent – 6-month probation  

Purpose of Role

Working closely with the Fundraising Team Lead to initiate, plan, design, execute events on a national and regional level, ensuring income targets are met.

To be successful in this role, you must be self-motivated, organised, structured, and have good people management and customer service skills. You will be required to travel and work outside of normal working hours when attending events, Branch meetings, and other relevant meetings. 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, control and feedback for events both nationally and regionally ensuring income targets are met.
• Full profit and loss ownership and accountability for events managed. 
• Maintain and grow national and regional events – driving year on year engagement and profitability.
• Creation of new events on regional and national scale. 
• Research and development to enable IGDB’s participation or charity partner status in existing third-party events.
• Maintain and build relationships with Regional Development Officers, Fundraising Branches and volunteers to support growth and ensure rota management.
• Oversee and support volunteers at events as key point of contact. 
• Ensure permits, permissions, insurance and legislation are in place for all events. 
• Provide training, information, and support for all volunteers attending events. 
• Work with the Communications team to deliver publicity for and coverage of events.
• Responsible for the correct implementation of IGDB’s codes of conduct, policy, and health and safety rules.  
• Implement an effective reporting system to track activity and outputs (using in-house CRM system and business intelligence tools). 

In addition to these key accountabilities, you may also have ownership for one or more key processes which will be communicated to you via your manager and/or the Performance Management framework.

Values and Behaviours 

IGDB places great emphasis on how people get the job done. For example, we need people who are passionate about enabling persons who are vision impaired and families of children with autism to lead better lives and become more mobile and independent. Employees are expected to achieve these standards to fully meet the expectations of their role.

Person Specification

Experience, Education and Skills

• Proven experience in a comparable project management/events/fundraising role.  
• Experience of organising and running events on a large scale and working with multiple stakeholders. 
• Strong evidence of continuous professional development and qualification relevant to the role is desirable.
• Ability to deliver targets and goals with a flair for business development and the ability to develop and achieve results.
• Must have the ability to operate independently with innovative spirit and to forge strong, lasting relationships with key stakeholders. 
• Comfortable in a cold-calling environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills - able to express ideas and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Be open-minded with the ability to recognise good ideas.
• Excellent time management and experience multi-tasking across concurrent projects.
• Excellent verbal, written presentation/IT skills and communication skills.
• Talented communicator who can inspire the support and commitment from a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrate understanding of people management, motivations and working styles and requirements.
• Experience and contacts within the corporate community.

Special Conditions

• Full clean driving licence and a willingness to travel to various regional locations essential. 
• Must be eligible to work in Ireland. 
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends and bank holidays as required on an ad hoc basis and acceptance of the need to travel nationwide to meet with key fundraisers and other key stakeholders as part of the role, also on an ad hoc basis.