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Head of Integrated Fundraising Projects

Employer
Shelter
Location
London EC1
Salary
Up to £50k pa plus excellent benefits
Closing date
24 Sep 2018

Job Details

Closing date: 24th September 2018 at 11.30pm

We’re looking for a results-driven individual with proven experience in a leadership role managing complex integrated fundraising/marketing campaigns to join us in an exciting new role as Head of Integrated Fundraising Projects.

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.

Our award-winning fundraising division consists of five successful teams: Community and Events, High Value Partnerships, Individual Giving, Digital Fundraising and Database Management and Insight. The Heads of each make up a Department Management Team that helps lead and deliver Shelter’s fundraising strategy. The department also works very closely with the rest of the organisation to develop fundraising opportunities and build strong supporter engagement. Currently, fundraising generates over £35m gross income a year, of which a high percentage is unrestricted, thus giving us an exceptional level of investment flexibility.

About the Role

A large focus of your role (about 60-75%) will be on leading our annual Christmas Campaign, which currently generates £3.5m but has the potential, and we have the ambition, to double this. It’s a key income generator and its success is essential for our financial sustainability. It’s also our flagship integrated campaign, which brings together many departments and touches almost everyone in the organisation. Indeed, it will see you work across all areas of fundraising, as well as with retail, campaigns, media, digital, and services colleagues. The role will also see you lead a number of integrated projects that are a combination of cross organisational and cross directorate, as well as strategic and operational.

About you

You’ll need to be an excellent collaborator with a track record of growing income/performance of a fundraising or marketing campaign. You should also be an experienced senior project manager who is used to working with project management methodologies and processes. Adept at working across a diverse range of tasks simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail, your impeccable time management skills are complemented by the ability to think strategically and act operationally. It also goes without saying that you have excellent written and verbal communication skills and are great at developing strong working relationships. What’s more, you’re creative and commercially aware and not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas when necessary.

Benefits include 30 days’ annual leave, the possibility of flexible working, enhanced family friendly policies and significant opportunities for learning and development.

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.

For further information about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Company

The housing crisis is now a national emergency.

Shelter was founded 52 years ago, not by the wealthy or powerful, but as a community organisation whose purpose was to change society. That means we’re needed more now than at any time in our history: for millions of our fellow citizens the fundamental human need for a safe home is ignored.

Forget finding who’s to blame for this. Shelter is here to do far more than just point out what’s gone wrong. We are here to put it right, and that’s why our aim is for this strategy to be nothing less than a turning point for both Shelter and our country.

Without a home, no one can achieve their full potential. With millions whose right to a home is under threat, neither can the country. We believe that because the need for a home is so all-consuming, a home is a basic moral right, and everything we will do from now will be done to defend that right.

We’ve all talked so much about the ‘housing crisis’ that we’ve stopped believing it can be solved. The phrase has become like wallpaper. But this is a national emergency, and one that demands fearless, ambitious action.

In developing this strategy, it’s been vital to start with our own people: those who rely on our services, our volunteers, our employees. We aim to rebuild a movement, stronger than ever, and a movement must start with a simple idea that unites everyone within Shelter, our best advocates. Change starts here, in our work with individuals, spreading through communities, and across society.

We identify in this strategy six million households whose right to a home is either denied or under threat at this very moment. Soaring rents that squeeze out food and clothing, being thrown out of your home through no fault of your own, simply being too poor to afford a home: the terror of homelessness is everywhere.

Many are living in grossly unfit and unsafe conditions, adults and children whose lives are blighted by fear and despair. Discrimination is rampant in private renting and we have lost sight of the simple fact that we need a home just as much as we need healthcare and education. We are building the fewest social homes in 70 years, at a time when more and more people desperately need them.

In Shelter’s services, our people work tirelessly to alleviate the sheer destitution they see day in and day out. We will be a rock in the storm every day for those who need us. But our aim is bigger – to cut this suffering off at source – and we acknowledge in this strategy that we can’t do it overnight, neither can we do it alone.

For the first time, Shelter is committing in this strategy to ten-year goals as well as three-year goals so we can be confident of building to the necessary changes over the next decade. And at the same time we commit in this strategy to building the movement of people who will make this change possible.

We plan in the next three years to have 500,000 supporters join us in our mission to respond to this emergency, through campaigning, volunteering and donating. It is people that can power the change we seek.

This national emergency has been decades in the making. Now is the moment to act together with one purpose. In the community, our hubs and shops will be magnets for everyone with a role in ending the national emergency. Nationally, we will work with everyone who sees the desperate need for change: no one group or party is to blame for the emergency, and no one group or party can end it either.

Shelter: it’s a fundamental need and a basic moral right. Please join us to defend it.

Polly Neate, Chief Executive

Helen Baker, Chair

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