Sightsavers UK general template
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,526 to £32,384 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 December 2025 |
| Location: | RH16 3XE |
| Company: | Sightsavers |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 2025-1576_1764951359 |
Summary
Overview
Sightsavers is looking for an experienced Projects and Events professional to support an exciting and high-profile event taking place in Q2 2026.
Salary: £27,526 - £32,384 pro rata
Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath and London
Contract: Fixed Term Contract finishing June 2026
Hours: Part Time (14 hours+, ideally 21 hours) or Full Time (35 hours) with some flexibility around hours worked.
About the role
We are looking for a confident and organised Projects and Events Executive to plan, support and help to deliver a high-profile event taking place in Quarter 2 of 2026. This is the first time Sightsavers have taken part in this event, which presents excellent fundraising and publicity opportunities; you will utilise your experience of managing and delivering high profile projects or events to ensure the event is a huge success, providing a distinctive and impactful platform for Sightsavers to promote our work.
Whilst the details of the event are currently confidential, we are able to discuss at interview stage, with communications made public in early 2026.
About you
As the Projects and Events Executive, you will be highly organised with excellent communication skills, including experience of diplomatic and professional liaison with external stakeholders. You will utilise your exceptional time, budget and project management skills in all logistical aspects of the planning and delivery of the event, including volunteer management, accessibility requirements and meeting deliverables and deadlines. A commitment to equality, excellent writing skills and an understanding of accessibility requirements will underpin your work.
Hours
The Projects and Events Executive role can initially be worked in a part time capacity although it will need to increase to full time in the month leading up to the event; flexibility is required in the lead up to and during the event to work occasional unsociable hours and travel within the UK.
Essential:
- Proven experience of managing and delivering high profile events or projects
- Demonstrable experience in a role that demanded exceptional organisational skills and communication skills
- Experience of managing volunteers and / or teams
- Experience of liaising effectively with external stakeholders and donors
- Demonstrable experience of effective time and budget management in a busy role with conflicting deadlines
- Must be able to travel to London during week of event (mid 2026). Details of event currently confidential but can be discussed in interview
- Flexibility; able to work some unsociable hours in the lead-up to and during the event, and to travel within the UK
- Excellent writing skills
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for disabled people
Desirable:
- Experience of managing large-scale / high-profile events for charity / non-profit organisation
- A commitment to, and good understanding of accessibility requirements and adjustments; including accessible staff documents and materials, event accessibility and any requirements for staff and volunteers
- Understanding of the process of, and experience of assisting with the production of event materials
- Experience dealing with accessibility requirements
- Experience of creating accessible promotional and briefing materials
- Experience of promoting events on social media channels
This is a varied role, please read the full job description for further details.
Benefits
Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.
To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.
We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in late January 2026 and the evaluation process will include a written task and an interview.
Closing date: Wednesday 17 December
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.
In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.
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