Contract: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)
Location: London or Manchester
Salary: £32,500 - £34,500 (London)
Closing Date: 4th November 2024
Interviews will be held w/c 11th November 2024
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for an experienced Case for
Support Lead to join our Fundraising Strategy and Operations team based in London. This role will
deliver compelling and impactful content about our services. This will be used by fundraisers to help inspire fundraising audiences and deliver ambitious fundraising targets.
About Centrepoint:
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, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year. Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness by 2037.
About the team:
The Fundraising Strategy & Operations Team deliver the Fundraising strategy (and associated strategies) and provide high quality operations to support the Fundraising Directorate. The team has a variety of different functions including Supporter Care, Strategic Liaison with Service teams, Compliance, Supporter Journeys and Communications as well as general administration. The team deliver small and large scale process and systems projects to ensure fundraisers can focus on excellent relationships with donors and supporters.
About you:
- A creative thinker with an independent and autonomous approach to your work.
- Excellent copywriting skills and experience.
- Experience of understanding and interpreting complex information and data and articulate it in a compelling way, both in writing and verbally.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, particularly listening skills, tact, diplomacy and assertiveness.
- Positive attitude, ability to think creatively and identify new opportunities.
- Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
- You will have excellent people skills and a track record that shows your ability to integrate quickly into complex organisations.
What you will be doing:
This is an exciting new role within a growing Fundraising Strategy and Operations Team, which will lead on the development of compelling cases for support (and other similar content) for use by the wider Fundraising Directorate.
You will work cross-organisationally to identify, understand and articulate the charity’s core activities, strategic funding priorities and appeal/campaign themes.
You will also ensure all fundraising teams have access to materials, content and resources which enable them to build fundraising asks that are accurate, impactful and inspiring.
With our fundraised income having more than doubled over the past five years (approximately £40m in 2023/24), the chosen candidate will be joining Centrepoint and our Fundraising Directorate at a hugely exciting time. The Case for Support Lead will play a crucial role in enabling us to continue this upward trajectory, support the Fundraising Directorates ambitious Growth Strategy, and ultimately, work towards ending youth homelessness by 2037.
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 Case for Support Lead. Click ‘Apply’ now!
