Special Events Assistant

Employment type: Full time

Salary: From £26000 per annum

Job Description

Blood Cancer UK, the UK’s leading blood cancer charity, is looking for a talented, motivated and enthusiastic Special Events Assistant to join the team. Our special events programme is key to supporting our ability to raise the funds and awareness to help us achieve our mission of beating blood cancer within a generation. The successful candidate will work on the charity’s most high-profile events, including our annual David Jones Golf Day, Carols by Candlelight and the Alternative Hair Show. This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive, creative and resourceful individual to gain on the job experience in high value events and join the fight against blood cancer. We welcome applicants on a job share basis, please specify in your cover letter if you would like your application to be considered on this basis. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

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Company benefits

Open to part-time employees

Open to job sharing

Open to compressed hours

Sabbaticals

Enhanced maternity leave – Our maternity/shared parental/adoption offer is 12 weeks at full pay, 12 weeks at half pay, followed by 15 weeks at the statutory rate.

Enhanced paternity leave – Our paternity leave offer is 6 weeks at full pay.

Adoption leave

Shared parental leave

Work from anywhere scheme – For the vast majority of our roles, there is no requirement to work from one of our offices. We meet up as an organisation at 2-4 in-person events each year, such as all-staff away days.

30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Enhanced sick pay – Our enhanced sick pay offer is: Up to two years’ service: 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay After two years’ service: 12 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay

Pregnancy loss leave

Fertility treatment leave

Teambuilding days

FlexScore®

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Blood Cancer UK provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Blood Cancer UK is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Blood Cancer UK

Company employees

100

Office locations

London and Edinburgh

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

What employees are saying

"There has been a significant shift in our ways of working over the last few years. It feels as though it has become the norm to work as flexibly as you feel comfortable with. There are periods in the year where it gets extremely busy, but the skills we're developing in house are focused on time management and prioritisation to support all staff to feel confident to challenge or offer alternative solutions if capacity is stretched."

Anonymous Blood Cancer UK Employee

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Awards & Achievements

Most flexible Charity & Tech For Good companies – 1st

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