Role: Challenge Events Manager
Contract: Full Time, 12 Months FTC
Salary: £43,000- £46,109 per annum
Closing Date: 10th September
Interviews will be held w/c: 16th September 2024
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a one-year fixed-term maternity cover Challenge 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 Challenge Events Manager will be a key member of the Mass Participation & Events team where you will be responsible for the management of our third-party challenge events, with oversight of all aspects including marketing, logistics and stewardship. The post holder will have responsibility for generating growth in the programme as well as line-managing the Challenge Events Officer who supports the delivery of our challenge events.
It is an exciting time to join the team, with ambitious fundraising and recruitment targets for 24/25 and plans to develop a strategy to achieve income growth.
About you
- Excellent 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
- Experience of developing and delivering successful multiple-stream marketing plans marketing plans
- Experience of managing charity events, and strong organisational skills
What you’ll be doing
- Managing and successfully delivering Centrepoint’s portfolio of third-party challenge events
- Leading the development and delivery of multi-stream marketing strategies to successfully recruit challenge event participants
- Researching opportunities to grow the programme, in order to increase income and participation
- Line-management of the Challenge Events Officer
- 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 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 Challenge Events Manager. Click ‘Apply’ now!
