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Community Fundraiser

Employer
Shelter
Location
London, EC1
Salary
£33,070 pa plus excellent benefits
Closing date
21 Feb 2019

Job Details

Closing date: 21st February 2019 at 11.30pm

Do you have experience of working within community fundraising and volunteer management and a real desire to get involved in an exciting new initiative? Then join Shelter as a Community Fundraiser and you could soon be doing just that.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Community Fundraising is part of our Community & Events team, which consists of three other Income Generation functions: 3rd Party Challenge, Mass Participation and Special Event. The Community and Events team prides itself on developing and delivering creative, innovative partnerships, products and events while ensuring excellent customer service.  Our activities are important for Income Generation but also as an opportunity to raise the profile of the organisation and attract new, and hopefully loyal and regular, supporters to Shelter.

About the Role

As part of a brand new team tasked with developing an effective Community Fundraising programme both nationally and for Central London, this is a great opportunity to get in at the start and shape the future of how we work with supporters at a local level. You’ll collaborate with teams across the organisation, including the Shelter London Hub and Retail Shops, as you help to maximise community engagement as part of a new strategy that’s clearly focused on delivering at a local level. You will also work across our centralised teams in Income Generation in order to ensure we provide a more cohesive offering. Put simply, you’ll make sure people feel closer to Shelter as a local rather than national charity and that every supporter remains at the heart of the planning and implementation of this new initiative every step of the way.

About you

Someone who is bold, ambitious and who can bring fresh ideas about how to shape community fundraising, you will need community fundraising or corporate fundraising experience. You’ll also need to be able to collaborate and build effective working relationships, both internally and externally, with a diverse range of people. A track record of meeting and exceeding financial targets would be a distinct advantage, while experience of reporting using Raisers Edge or a similar database is essential. Commercially aware, customer focused and results-driven, you’re proactive, creative and innovative too. What's more, you're not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas or ways of doing things when relevant.


Apply to be part of our award-winning fundraising team and be the change you want to see in society.

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

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.


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.

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.

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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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