Job Advert: Trusts & Statutory Fundraising Officer
Nationwide, Nationwide, United Kingdom, E1 7PF
Contract: Full Time, Permanent.
Salary: Salary Band E: £28,980 - £34,543 (London), £24,840 - £30,403 (Outside London)
Closing Date: 14/04/2025
Interviews will be held w/c: 21/04/2025
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Trusts & Statutory Fundraising Officer to join our Fundraising Team based in London or Manchester.
About us
Centrepoint is the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity. We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. We provide homeless young people with accommodation, mental health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037. Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year.
The Trust & Statutory Fundraising Officer will build relationships with funders to raise income for a variety of impactful services that transform the lives of homeless young people including; homelessness prevention, independent living skills, mental health services, education and training, employability, and capital projects.
You’ll be joining a team of 5 Trusts & Statutory fundraisers, as the team goes through an exciting period of growth. If you want to play a role in raising the resources that will help young people to escape homelessness and turn their lives around apply today!
What you will be doing
- Manage a portfolio of trusts and statutory donors (size of up to £30,000) who give both unrestricted and restricted gifts to Centrepoint
- Collaborate with service teams and finance colleagues to write restricted funding proposals and budgets
- Provide excellent stewardship to donors, producing high quality written communications and reports to sustain and uplift relationships
- Build strong relationships with donors through phone-calls and face to face meetings
- Research trust and statutory funders to identify new donors Centrepoint can work with
- Support the Trusts and Statutory Fundraising Manager on higher value funding opportunities (£30,000-£100,000)
- Maintain an up-to-date donor database for your portfolio of donors (Raiser’s Edge)
- Provide administrative support to the Trusts & Statutory team on internal processes, including recording income
- Work collaboratively with Officers across the wider Relationship Fundraising Team (which includes Philanthropy and Corporate fundraising)
- Live Centrepoint’s values, demonstrating Energy, Accountability, Focus, Integrity, Humility and Entrepreneurship
The role is offered on a hybrid working basis with home working combined with 5 days per fortnight on average in our London or Manchester office.
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
- Private Medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Trusts & Statutory Fundraising Officer. Click ‘Apply’ now!
