Job Description

Region

London

Vacancy Type

Permanent/Full Time

Job Summary

Senior Sporting Events Executive

34,300 and 37,300 per year

Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office

What the job involves

Our Events and Community Fundraising team raises vital funds for Prostate Cancer UK through a wide range of activities, events and challenges. Alongside our own flagship events, we recruit teams for some of the UK's best-loved sporting events, including the TCS London Marathon, Great North Run and the London Landmarks Half Marathon. The team also organise our flagship walking event, March for Men, and our Tour de France themed cycling event, the Grand Depart Classic.


As Senior Sporting Events Executive, you'll take the operational lead in delivering income across our third-party events programme, alongside project managing our team of London Marathon runners. You'll manage at least one Events and Community Coordinator, supporting their development and ensuring the team delivers outstanding supporter care at every stage. You'll also play a key role in spotting and developing new opportunities within the charity events market.


This is a hands-on role covering every aspect of event delivery; from leading project meetings, setting budgets and developing marketing plans, to crafting supporter communications, managing logistics and providing on-the-day event support. You'll also oversee post-event processes such as remittance and thanking supporters, ensuring we maximise income and provide a first-class experience for every participant. Working closely with teams across the charity, you'll help deliver a packed calendar of events and take the lead in coordinating our brilliant volunteers on event days.

What we want from you

You'll bring experience of working within a sporting events team, with a track record of supporting the delivery of large-scale events; from marketing and communications right through to event-day execution. A capable and supportive leader, you'll know how to motivate both your team and our supporters, bringing energy and enthusiasm to every stage of the journey.


Your communication skills will shine across every platform; whether that's over the phone, by email or through digital channels, and you'll have the ability to write engaging, motivational content that connects with people. You'll also be comfortable speaking in front of groups, inspiring supporters and helping them feel part of something special.


Highly organised and proactive, you'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects and priorities with ease. You'll have experience using databases to maintain accurate records, track progress and evaluate results, and you'll approach every task with professionalism and discretion, ensuring sensitive information is always handled with care. Comfortable negotiating with stakeholders and suppliers, you'll help shape strong partnerships and deliver outstanding events from start to finish.

Why work with us?

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men - prostate cancer. It's a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.


Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men's health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We're blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.


Work with us and you'll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

What we offer

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We'll support you to develop your skills and expertise.


We offer a competitive benefits package, including:


Generous leave entitlements that increase with service One 'development day' a month to use for training or personal development Enhanced contributory pension scheme Life insurance and group income protection Health Cash Plan Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts Loans for season tickets or cycles

This role is in salary Band 3. We will appoint at a salary between 34,300 and 37,300 per year. We aim to pay the median salary for the sector and after 12 months' successful service all colleagues are moved to the midpoint of the pay band. Those appointed below the midpoint will have their salary increased at that time. The midpoint salary for this role is 40,300.


We operate national salaries that account for our contractual base being our London office. We also pay a working from home allowance at the HMRC tax free rate of 312 per year.


We are committed to paying at least the London Living Wage for all roles.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK we're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men. This includes ground-breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. To make this happen, we're dedicated to being an inclusive, proactive organisation, as we strive to be Allies to Black communities. We'll achieve this by advocating and working alongside those communities to promote change. We're also working to be Allies to each other, not only protected groups. In 2024, we launched our New Allyship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identify as an Ally.


We've also signed Business in the Communities Race at Work Charter, as a dedication to our Black health equity work and wider EDI priorities. As a signatory, we're responsible and accountable for driving positive change.

Our people networks

We're continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:


Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues -- and our allies -- can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people Mind & Body - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness Culture Club - Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

How and where we work

Our hybrid working approach is based on guiding principles and combines choice around where you work effectively most of the time with clear expectations on connection time, usually at our London Bridge office (SE1 2QN).


We are all expected to be in the office at least

four days a month

(pro-rata for part time colleagues) to work with and alongside colleagues in our immediate team and beyond to build connections and strong working relationships. We value that face-to-face time for relationships, projects and decisions. We're very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs to and from the office and other London locations.


We trust our colleagues to work in this way with the flexibility to juggle personal commitments with work. We aim to balance the needs of individuals, teams and the charity.


We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and will make reasonable adjustments for colleagues with a disability, neurodiversity or long-term physical or mental health condition.


For this role we expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office one day per week, including every other Wednesday. There will be some additional in person attendance for training and induction in your first few months to enable you to get to know your new role and colleagues.

Next steps

The closing date is Sunday 2

nd

November 2025.

Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.

Interviews:

By arrangement. Currently scheduled for the week of

Monday 10

th

November 2025

.

How to apply

To complete your application, you'll be asked to upload your CV and complete the supporting information section through our application portal. Please fill in parts one and two of our application for your personal statement, both have an 8000-character limit. You may wish to use a method such as the 'STAR' technique or similar. When completing the statements please ensure you clearly provide a full and relevant example of how the criteria apply.

PART ONE

Please address the skills, experience and competencies listed under Who you are using real examples where possible and telling us how you are a good match for the role.


This provides you with a great opportunity to showcase your knowledge, skills and experience. The most important aspects of this role will be used in reviewing and shortlisting applications:


Leadership qualities to drive and motivate the sporting event team Excellent communication skills via telephone, email, letter and digital platforms Ability to negotiate with key stakeholders when drawing up event contracts Experience of using a database to maintain accurate records, evaluating, and reporting on results Excellent organisational skills to support complex activity streams - confident using your own initiative and able to manage multiple and competing priorities within a fast-paced environment Ability to write clear, motivational communications Ability to speak in front of supporters and motivate them throughout their event
Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion when handling sensitive and confidential information

PART TWO

Please provide us with any further supporting information that you feel will benefit your application. You may want to reference the values and behaviours sections.

This provides you with an opportunity to further support your application, showcase your understanding of the role and show how you feel you'll be able to contribute to the success of Prostate Cancer UK.


Apply via the apply now link at the top and bottom of this page where you'll be taken through to our career portal.

Got a question?

Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements or any other questions - we're here to help: hr@prostatecanceruk.org


We look forward to receiving your application!


Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887.