Community Engagement Coordinator

This role is critical to our future success in collecting Plasma & Blood donations. Through your efforts, you will be supporting the delivery of important Community Engagement activity for NHS Blood and Transplant that will save and improve peoples lives As a Community Engagement Coordinator - Plasma, you will be working to help build our donor base of Plasma and Blood donors for one of our fantastic Plasma Donor Centres and raising awareness and educating communities about plasma donation. Key responsibilities include organizing and executing donor acquisition and awareness activities such as community events, on-site engagement at Plasma Donation Centres, and exploring business development opportunities The position involves proactively approaching new businesses in line with strategic objectives, building and managing relationships with third sector and corporate partners to maximize benefits for NHSBT. Accurate maintenance of the Relationship Management database is essential, along with promoting Organ Donation and other forms of donation where appropriate You will also be using your organisational skills to coordinate and deliver events with the support of our talented events team, In this role you will support the plan for new recruits, raise awareness and educate about Plasma. Your responsibilities will include:

• Organising and undertaking new acquisition and awareness activity, such as events in the community, on-session engagement with donors at the Plasma DC and exploring all relevant business development opportunities.
• Approaching new businesses as agreed with their line manager / within the strategic plan to meet organisational objectives.
• Developing key relationships with key third sector and corporate organisations within the region.
• Managing relationships so that they provide maximum benefit to NHSBT.
• Maintaining the Relationship Management database in a timely and accurate manner.
• Promoting organ donation and other forms of donation where appropriate.
  
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.