Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: £29,849.40 - £35,490.00 per annum
Closing Date: 8th December 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 15th December
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Challenge Events Officer to join our Mass Participation & 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, helping them back into education, training and employment.
Our mission is simple and bold:
to end youth homelessness by 2037.
Together with our partners, we support over
16,000 young people each year.
This role sits within the Mass Participation and Events team that recruits participants for our portfolio of fundraising events and provides a high quality experience to engage and retain supporters and maximise their fundraising potential. The team manages a diverse portfolio of events, ranging from numerous third-party challenge events to Sleep Outs and community-led activities.
The Challenge Events Officer will be a key member of the team, an excellent communicator, who will be responsible for supporting challenge event participants with their fundraising efforts in aid of Centrepoint. The post holder will also support the marketing and logistical planning of our portfolio of third-party challenge events.
It is an exciting time to join the team, with ambitious fundraising plans for 26/27.
Hybrid Working
Centrepoint operates a hybrid working model. The requirement is a minimum of 50% of your working week spent in the office. For most full-time colleagues, this means attending the office for five days over a two-week period (e.g., two days one week and three the next).
About You
You will be an energetic and personable individual with:
- Proven experience of working in a supporter or customer-facing role
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills, confident in communicating with varied audiences as well as possessing excellent copy-writing skills for supporter communications.
- Strong organisation and multi-tasking skills, in order to ensure Race Day runs smoothly
- Proactive and ambitious, always looking for creative ways of working.
What you’ll be doing:
- Engaging and stewarding challenge event participants, supporting them with their fundraising activities and building strong relationships that encourage loyalty and maximise fundraising potential.
- Supporting the delivery of marketing plans and Race Day logistics
- Managing admin processes, including thanking fundraisers, processing income, updating the Raiser’s Edge database, stock checking and sending out resources
- Managing the development of fundraising resources needed for event participants
- Working collaboratively with the Mass Participation and Events team to support one another to collectively reach the team target.
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts, you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training, and a wide range of benefits, including:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to 27)
- Healthcare cash plan
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Cycle to Work scheme
- 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 Challenge Events Officer, click ‘Apply’ now!
