Main Duties and Responsibilities

Events and Challenge Fundraising

• Plan, deliver, and evaluate the RDA UK’s calendar of events ensuring high-quality participant experience and strong income return.
• Develop and manage challenge events, including open challenges (e.g. skydives, treks, marathons) and bespoke challenges.
• Research, propose, and launch new event opportunities that reflect supporter interests and market trends.
• Manage budgets for all events, ensuring accurate forecasting and the required level of ROI.
• Work with Marketing & Communications colleagues to deliver compelling event campaigns that maximise participation and sponsorship.

Community Fundraising

• Build, support, and steward relationships with community groups, schools, faith groups, businesses, and clubs to grow grassroots fundraising.
• Deliver inspiring talks and presentations across the community to raise awareness and income.
• Provide excellent supporter care for all community fundraisers and volunteers, ensuring they feel valued and supported.
• Income Generation & Monitoring
• Ensure accurate and timely recording of financial and supporter information using RDA UK’s CRM
• Provide reports, updates, and insights for senior staff, colleagues, and Trustees as required.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Recruit volunteers, working alongside them and providing support,to ensure they feel valued and engaged.
• Collaborate with colleagues across RDA UK to maximise opportunities.

Other

• Ensure all events and activities comply with codes of fundraising practice, charity law and RDA UK policies and procedures, minimising risk and establishing Health and Safety controls.
• Deliver talks and presentations in the community and online to local organisations in order to increase awareness of and support for RDA UK activities
• To keep abreast of developments within the external fundraising environment
• To undertake such other duties as the line manager shall from time to time determine
• To be flexible in working from other locations in the UK as required for the effective delivery of the role
• To ensure due consideration is always given to our charitable aims and objectives and that this is demonstrated in all activities
• Ensure compliance with General Data Protection Regulations (2018) across all relationships including data collection
• Ability to travel and work evenings and weekends when required

Person Specification

Experience – Essential

• Proven track record of delivering inspiring fundraising events (in person and virtual) within a fixed expenditure budget to secure agreed income targets
• Proven track record of positive community engagement to secure in aid of fundraising
• Developing relationships with event participants and community supporters, successfully delivering creative stewardship and securing repeated support.
• Operational delivery, planning, budgeting and reporting.
• Knowledge of fundraising trends, techniques, and best practice in Community and Event fundraising and UK fundraising landscape.

Experience – Desirable

• Use of a donor database such as Salesforce/Beacon/Raisers edge.
• Knowledge, or experience, of the disability or voluntary sector especially membership bodies/federated charities
• Passionate about the positive community impact RDA makes

Skills required

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• Proactive, focussing on targets and results with an ambition to drive activity forward.
• Excellent organisation, prioritisation and time management skills.
• A flexible, creative and solutions-focused approach to problem-solving.
• Commitment to personal learning, development and improvement.

Please send applications to HR@rda.org.uk

Closing date: 19th February 2026