Charity of the Year Assistant - BBC - London

We are looking for an Assistant to join the BBC Children in Need (CiN), team to provide strong support to the Charity of the Year and the Schools partnership team. This is a seven month contract role based in London.

BBC Children in Need is the BBC’s UK Charity and supports projects working with disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. Our vision is that every child in the UK has a safe, happy and secure childhood and the chance to reach their potential.

Last year the Charity received over 3,400 applications for funding and awarded between 1,400 grants in the region of £51.4 million.

Role Responsibility
As the Assistant, you will play an important supportive role within the partnership team, ensuring efficiency and helping to maximise income and awareness on a specific BBC CiN partnership with a large financial organisation

You will support with research, copywriting, presentations and also project manage fundraising activities and events. Liaising and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to help drive engagement, you will be responsible for managing the fundraising hotline and email to ensure we provide proactive support and advice to fundraisers.

In addition to supporting individuals across the business, you will track spending against budgets, deliver against income targets and provide ad hoc support as required within the wider BBC Children in Need partnership team.

The Ideal Candidate
To be successful in this role, you will have experience/understanding of mutually beneficial corporate partnerships within the charitable and fundraising sectors.

Possessing good experience of administrative office-based work, you’ll have experience of prioritising a busy and diverse workload and of effectively communicating with a wide range of people.

In addition, you will need some experience of working in a team to organise events and demonstrate an ability to work on multi stakeholder programmes to drive revenue and engagement.

When applying for this role, please ensure you clearly outline your relevant experience of:

• working within the charitable, fundraising and/or children and young people sectors. This should include paid or unpaid experience.
  


• Please indicate your level of experience of working in an office based team support role.
  

Package Description
Grade 3

Seven month contract

About the Company
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