Community & Events Officer

Location : South West London, with a high level of flexibility to work regularly from home.

(Central Office is based in Mortlake – 12 mins from Clapham Junction and 23 mins from Waterloo)

Contract : Permanent

Job Type : Full time, 35 hours per week

Salary : £27,000 per annum

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave per annum / pro rata plus statutory holidays on appointment. Additional annual leave days awarded on length of service
• Company pension contribution
• Life insurance (3 x salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including 24 / 7 support helpline
• Interest-free Season Ticket Loans
• Additional maternity pay and leave
• Additional paternity pay
• Additional sick pay
• available after probation period passed

About the role

Missing People offers an inspiring programme of events and challenges throughout the year to engage our community and supporters to raise vital funds for our important work. In this exciting role you will be responsible for organising activities that significantly grow the numbers of people getting involved in events and fundraising activities in line with plans. You will be the point of contact and provide excellent stewardship to those brilliant supporters. This will include working sensitively with people with experience of the cause, often to do something positive ‘in hope’ of a missing loved one, and actively inspiring more of them to do so. You will deliver events and community fundraising activity, contributing to budgeting and reporting, organising marketing and promotion activity to meet supporter recruitment targets, delivering supporter journeys to meet fundraising targets, and ensuring that our supporters have the best possible experience, and feel valued and know the next great way to support them

Key Accountabilities :

About you :

If you have the right to work in the UK and want to use your customer service experience and enthusiasm to inspire individuals and groups to support the charity, you will need to have :

Experience of :

Abilities, Skills and Knowledge

About Missing People

Somebody goes missing in the UK every 90 seconds. Missing People exists to ease the heartache experienced by those missing someone, and to help people who are away from home find their way back to safety. Our vision is for every missing child, adult and family left behind to find help, hope and a safe way to reconnect. We are a non-judgemental, highly skilled team of staff and volunteers working for everyone who needs us. We provide free, confidential support, help and advice by phone, email, text and live chat. We coordinate a UK-wide network of people, businesses and media to join the search for the estimated 170,000 people who go missing each year. Missing People aims to put people with lived experience at the heart of our work, amplifying their voices to achieve change.

Working for Missing People means living our values. It’s a place where people are encouraged to ‘let fly’ so you can ‘make things happen’. We know you’re more than just a job title, and ‘be human’ is an important value here. Missing People is an independent charity that relies on donations.

For further details, please see attached job description / person specification. letter to applicant and 24 / 25 Impact Report.

How to Apply

Please include your CV and a Supporting Statement that demonstrates how you are a good fit for this role.

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we have sufficient interest.

Closing date : 23 : 59 on 1 February 2026

You may also have experience in the following : Community & Events Officer, Community Fundraising Officer, Events Fundraising Officer, Community Engagement Officer, Fundraising & Events Officer, Supporter Engagement Officer, Community Fundraiser, Events & Community Fundraiser, Charity Events Officer, Fundraising Officer (Community & Events), Supporter Development Officer, Participation & Events Officer, Community Partnerships Officer, Individual Giving & Events Officer, Fundraising Executive (Community & Events)

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