Challenge Events Officer

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Centrepoint Full time

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

**Salary**: £32,206 - £35,228 per annum

Closing Date: Monday 25th March

Interviews will be held w/c Monday 1st April

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 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.

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 communication, 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 logístical planning of our portfolio of third-party 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**
- 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 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._
- 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



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