Job description
Contract – Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary - £32,206 – £35,228 per annum
Closing date – 31st July 2023
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Direct Marketing Officer to join our Development Team, within Individual Giving, based in Aldgate. In return, you will receive a competitive salary plus excellent benefits.
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently.
Together with our partners, we support over 14,000 homeless young people each year.
In this key role, you will play an integral part in the Development Team, working to deliver our donor development and retention programme and help raise cash income from our existing supporters in 2023/24.
We have a very successful cash programme and are looking for someone with drive, initiative and a passion for creativity and analysis to deliver the programme and help expand it further, maximising digital and offline channels to increase engagement and long-term value of our existing supporters.
In this role you will be:
- Supporting the Senior Direct Marketing Officer in planning, developing and delivering all cash appeals both on and offline, virtual gifts programme and engagement communications
- Collaborating with different stakeholders both internally and externally, to balance needs and get the best outcome for Centrepoint and the homeless young people we support
- Regularly analysing and reporting on the performance of campaigns, identifying trends in supporter behaviour across campaigns to inform the strategy for future activities
- Ensuring that digital channels form a key part of the cash programme
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%
- Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale
- 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 organisation.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
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 Direct Marketing Officer click ‘Apply’ now!