Contract: Full time (37.5 hours per week), 6 Months FTC
Location: Manchester or London
Salary: £24,840- £30,403 (Manchester) or £28,980- £34,543 (London)
Closing Date: 30th September 2024
Interviews will be held w/c 7th October 2024
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a six-month Events Officer 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.
Sleep Out is Centrepoint’s flagship event and has been running for over 15 years. In its current iteration Sleep Out has annual community events in London and a corporate event in London. There are plans to bring back a Manchester Sleep Out as well for the first time since 2019 in early 2025. We also have a Hold Your Own Sleep Out digital product, for people to sleep out wherever and whenever they choose.
Centrepoint has recently secured an exciting multi-year corporate sponsor for Sleep Out for the first time in its history. It is an amazing time to be joining the team as they work on creating and delivering a new strategy in line with this investment and are predicting significant growth in the next few years. We’re looking for a six-month role to support in this initial development and growth phase.
About you
- Effective communicator with natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
- Able decision maker with a can do attitude.
- Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
- Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
- Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
- Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.
What you’ll be doing
Exciting time to join the team as they develop and deliver a strategy for our Sleep Out products alongside our corporate partner, Nationwide Building Society. It is a particularly busy time of year for the team and we’re looking for someone who can get started quickly. The Events Officer will be responsible for:
- Supporting to deliver Sleep Out London Community and Manchester Community events and our Hold Your Own Sleep Out Product
- Working on event organising elements such as logistics, marketing and participant stewardship
- Supporting the account management for some of our corporate partners taking part in Sleep Outs
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 organisation.
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 an Events Officer click ‘Apply’ now!
