Salary: £34,085.47 per annum
Location: Flexible - travel to London-based office, fundraising and industry events required occasionally
Contract: Fixed term contract from January 2025 – February 2026
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Closing date: Tuesday the 19th of November at 11:30pm
Do you have proven experience of working in a fundraising and/or marketing environment plus a solid grasp of implementing digital marketing utilising a range of platforms including Meta Business Suite, Google Ads and Google Analytics? Then join Shelter as a Digital Fundraising and Marketing Manager and you could soon be playing an important role at the heart of our Community and Events team.
About the role
As Digital Fundraising Manager you’ll play a vital part in effectively delivering a Community and Events digital strategy that seeks to acquire and retain a range of Community and Events supporter audiences. Day-to-day, you’ll be line managed by the Senior Digital Fundraising and Marketing Manager who will lead on strategy. You’ll also get to work closely with Community & Events team members, as well as colleagues across the organisation - including other Income Generation teams, Digital, Marketing, social media, CRM and Creative – to ensure strategy is implemented.
Playing your part in programme development and delivery, planning and managing the delivery of end-to-end campaigns and carrying out digital specific research – these are just some aspects of this superb career development opportunity.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About you
You have a strong understanding of best practice in digital marketing and communications and spotting and recommending opportunities for improvement. You also have great project and campaign management skills, plus the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
Comfortable working collaboratively and across teams, you’re confident having input into complex and new data and analytics processes too. You’re innovative, audience-led, supporter/customer-centric and keen to provide the best possible experience to Shelter supporters.
You also thrive on keeping ahead of emerging trends and horizon scanning, are used to testing and optimising campaigns and not afraid to share failures and successes and quickly recommend findings. Above all, you’re excited by the prospect of working in an innovative team to improve Shelter’s Community & Events fundraising offerings.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
About the team
Our Community and Events teams sits within a wider Income Generation directorate that’s focused on a variety of other types of fundraising.
Welcoming, supportive and keen to meet you, we work hard (but try to have a lot of fun too) and passionately believe in developing our people. We’re also delivering an ambitious 3-year plan aimed at raising our Community and Events income from £5.5m to £8.3m.
This is a great chance to take your digital skills to the next level, implement strategic plans and work with a Senior Digital Fundraising and Marketing Manager and stakeholders across the organisation to help improve performance.
How to apply
Please click ‘Apply for Job’ below. You are required to submit a CV and responses to the 'About you' points outlined in the job description of no more than 350 words each. Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviour below throughout your responses:
- We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
Any applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
