Events & Community Fundraiser in Brentwood

SNAP is a multiple award winning local charity that has been supporting families who have a child aged 0 to 25 with any additional needs or disability for over 30 years. We are currently supporting over 5000 families in Essex, Thurrock and Southend and do so in a variety of ways, both in person at our specialist centre in Brentwood and remotely via telephone and email. At the heart of our work, we aim to help and empower the whole family, enabling them to meet the challenges they face. As a result, we have developed a variety of services in response to the needs of local families.

The Events Co-ordinator & Community Fundraiser role

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising, this role will be responsible for maximising income from SNAP events and community fundraising. You will be responsible for planning and delivering engaging fundraising events, providing an exceptional level of supporter care and developing local relationships.

SNAP Events

• Act as the main point of contact for a portfolio of events, both SNAP and third party.
• Lead the planning and delivery of each event, researching feasibility, sourcing venues, managing suppliers, and overseeing budgets to ensure cost-effectiveness and good ROI.
• Create, manage and monitor bookings, payments, and communications to event attendees.
• Manage and coordinate volunteer support as needed.
• Work with Head of Fundraising and Partnerships Manager to secure corporate sponsorship where necessary.
• Evaluate event success using data-driven insights to continuously improve.
• Lead and be the main point of contact for SNAP Events Committee, supporting committee members and bringing new ideas to enhance engagement, reach new audiences and generate income.
• Responsible for developing community giving, ensuring positive supporter experiences for all community initiatives.
• Manage local high street fundraising initiatives, local campaigns and BID initiatives, providing consistent visibility of SNAP.
• Recruit, manage and develop the fundraising and community volunteers, providing appropriate training, resources, and support.
• Lead the planning and delivery of community events, such as SNAP’s annual open day – Coffee, Cake and Catch-up and Christmas stalls.
• To support processing incoming money and prepare payment information, financial reports and updating donation tracking.
• To support administration of systems to track donations and commitments, ensuring people have been thanked, drafting/sending correspondence for the Management Team.
• To keep appropriate records of contact with supporters and families on SNAP’s database in line with GDPR regulations.

Other duties

• Identify and engage new leads through campaigns, networking and social media.
• Work with the Head of Fundraising to strategically cross-sell our offerings as one cohesive fundraising team – i.e. developing processes for community groups to take part in challenge events.
• Represent and promote SNAP at meetings, forums and events including selected networking (evenings and weekend events are expected).
• To attend training courses as required.
• Other administrative and general SNAP duties as required.
• Any other duties to support members of the SNAP team as requested by the Management Team.

Working for SNAP

When it comes to working for SNAP our external evaluation summed it up; “There is a strong sense of a close team with a shared set of values that they put into practise. They reported that they pride themselves on providing a high level of care that focuses on the parents/carers. Also, they are willing to go over and above because they have a passion to help families.”

SNAP is committed to the mental and physical wellbeing of our staff, and we have a level two Working Well Essex Accreditation. We value lifelong learning with opportunities to access training relevant to your role. All staff are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people in line with SNAP’s child protection and safeguarding adults’ policies and procedures. Appropriate safeguarding training will be completed every three years. All employees are subject to a successful DBS check.