Challenge Event Coordinator

Position

Join Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as a Challenge Event Coordinator and play a vital role in our fundraising team. This position is central to managing our portfolio challenge events, directly generating essential revenue to fund MSF's medical humanitarian operations worldwide. We are looking for a highly organized and results-driven professional capable of managing complex logistics, motivating participants, and hitting ambitious fundraising targets. If you are committed to independent humanitarian action and excel at high-impact service delivery, apply now to help us save lives.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Mon Fri

Duration: Permanent

Location: London - hybrid, 2 days per week in London office

Salary: £35,375.80 per annum

Job Purpose:

The Challenge Events Fundraising Coordinator supports individuals and organisations raising funds for MSF, ensuring the safe processing and acknowledgement of donations and the administrative processing tasks related to community fundraising, ensuring supporters have the best possible experience with MSF when raising funds for our work.

The Challenge Events Coordinator plays a pivotal role in delivering and growing the third-party challenge events portfolio, including flagship events such as the London Marathon and Royal Parks Half Marathon. You will project manage the events calendar from planning to recruiting, stewarding, and supporting participants, ensuring they have an exceptional experience throughout their fundraising journey. A key focus will be providing outstanding supporter care while building lasting relationships to maximise engagement and income. This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact, supporting vital work that transforms lives, while contributing to the growth and success of the organisation s challenge events programme.

The Challenge Event Coordinator will also work collaboratively within the team, supporting day-to-day operations of the wider Community Fundraising and Commercial Engagement Team helping to create a seamless and rewarding experience for MSF s community of supporters across all fundraising initiatives including in-memory and tribute donations.

Please download the full job and person specification below for further details.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of events fundraising (preferably third party) and fundraising practices.
• Awareness of current trends in the UK events market and charity sector, with the ability to apply insights to improve MSF s challenge events programme.
• Familiarity with social media platforms and their use in promoting events or fundraising activities.
• Basic understanding of fundraising compliance and law in relation to challenge events.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - with the ability to authentically communicate to support fundraisers, convey the work of the MSF UK and show impact of support.
• Ability to build and develop strong relationships, internally and externally, to be able to maximise opportunities.
• Ability to manage deadlines and effectively balance a varied and ever-changing workload whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently within general guidelines, using initiative to solve problems, drive progress, and identify opportunities to grow income and enhance brand awareness.
• Flexible, can-do attitude and good team player this role involves working very closely and collaboratively with colleagues in the fundraising team and wider office.
• Experience in the practical use of personal IT equipment and Microsoft Office 365 suite. The ability to effectively collaborate and communicate within a hybrid working environment utilising Teams, SharePoint, One Drive, Yammer or similar platforms.
• Experience using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM/Database) system.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Commitment to the aims and values of MSF and interest in international humanitarian aid work.
• Willingness to work occasionally evenings and weekends and to travel nationally and internationally if required.

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply on our website by submitting a copy of your CV together with a letter of motivation by the closing date.

Please apply as soon as possible as MSF reserves the right to close the vacancy early, or on the appointment of a candidate. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Recruitment timetable:

• Closing date for applications: Monday, 26 January 2026, 9:00am (GMT)
• First round interviews:4. 5 & 6 February 2026
• Projected Start Date: March 2026