Senior Community and Events Manager
- Employer
- Shelter
- Location
- London, EC1
- Salary
- £40,784 pa (pro rata) + excellent benefits
- Closing date
- 25 Feb 2019
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- Function
- Fundraising, Marketing, Campaigning, Management, Community Fundraising, Events Fundraising, Supporter Development
- Sector
- Housing & Homelessness
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Contract
Job Details
Fixed term – 13 months maternity cover
Closing date: 25 February 2019 at 5.00pm.
1st interview: 5 March, 2nd interview: 12 March 2019.
Do you have experience of working within project teams in a fundraising, events or marketing environment and a real desire to own, manage and develop your own portfolio? Then join Shelter as a Senior Community & Events Manager 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.
Our Community and Events team prides itself on developing and delivering creative, innovative partnerships, products and events while ensuring excellent customer service. A high value challenge events portfolio includes Shelter’s own flagship events - Vertical Rush and Urban Rush. We also support, develop and promote successful community fundraising initiatives and deliver an ambitious special events portfolio of high-profile cultural events and festival partnerships.
About the Role
The challenge here will be to lead our portfolio of bespoke Challenge Events and develop a strategy that will maximise growth and engagement potential and in turn increase income. As well as setting, managing and reporting on budgets for your own portfolio, we’ll rely on you to line manage the Community & Events Manager and one of the Community & Events Co-ordinators too. The role also offers great development potential via the opportunity to drive forward our Bespoke Events series, explore new ways of working and maximise potential growth across our entire portfolio of events.
About you
Creative, innovative and proactive, your successful track record to date has been gained in a related environment. What’s more, you enjoy working as part of a team and are comfortable line-managing others. The ability to apply lateral thinking, challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas is important too, as is respect for others’ opinions. Adept at using databases/CRM systems, you know your way round Microsoft Office too. And, when it comes to communicating effectively with a diverse range of people at all levels, again, you can be counted upon to deliver.
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 (pro rata), 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.
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
- Website
- http://www.shelter.org.uk/jobs
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