Job Title: Special Events Manager
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £40,000- £44,549 per annum
Closing Date: Monday 21st April
Interviews will be held w/c: 28th April.
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Special Events Manager to join our Mass Participation and Events Team based in London.
About us
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, 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 Special Events Manager is a key member of the Fundraising team, with responsibility for the delivery of a range of high value events that attract and engage supporters to help raise funds for Centrepoint. The post holder will also play a vital role in delivering our stewardship and cultivation events, recognising our most loyal and committed supporters.
The post holder will have experience in managing high-value fundraising events and will possess excellent relationship building skills. Creativity and initiative are essential to the success of this role. The post holder will have also be responsible for line-managing the Special Events Officer, who supports the delivery of our Special Events.
It is an exciting time to join the team, with ambitious fundraising and recruitment targets for 25/26 and plans to develop a strategy to achieve income growth.
About you
- Excellent event management skills, with experience of developing and delivering successful high-value fundraising events
- Strong relationship building skills, with the ability to communicate confidently with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Able decision maker with a can-do attitude.
- Creative and innovative, with an appetite to grow income
What you’ll be doing
- Supporting the Senior Special Events Manager with the development of the events portfolio
- Managing and successfully delivering Centrepoint’s special events
- Researching opportunities to grow the programme, to increase income and participation
- Line-management of the Special Events Officer
- Working collaboratively with the Mass Participation and Events team to collectively reach the team target.
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 Special Events Manager. Click ‘Apply’ now!
