Shelter Vacancy – Regional Community Fundraiser
Shelter is a charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in Great Britain. Shelter exists to defend the right to a safe home. Every year, we help millions of people struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support, and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that one day, the right to a home will exist for everyone.
Regional Community Fundraiser
£30,822 (plus £4,830 London Weighting allowance, if working regularly from London office)
To apply for this role, please click here.
Additional Information – Conditions
Permanent
Location: Shelter Hub or London office + flexible working practices / flexible WFH
Closing date: Sunday 17th April at 11.30pm
Interview date: week commencing 18th April (subject to change if required)
Are you a people person who establishes relationships easily? Do you have a passion for working with a local community? Do you want to work with one of the UK’s leading housing and homelessness charities?
About you
You’ll be an enthusiastic, personable individual, with a passion to share Shelter’s work with supporters in the community.
You will also have:
- Demonstrable experience of building relationships within a local community
- Excellent customer service skills
- An ability to work collaboratively across a wide range of teams and stakeholders
About the role and team
Working within the Community Fundraising team, you’ll need to be able to start and build relationships effectively, to tell the story of why people should support Shelter’s fight to end homelessness and bad housing. You will achieve this by working closely with Services colleagues in our Community Hubs to plan exciting local fundraising opportunities and engaging with local community groups. As the Regional Community Fundraiser, you’ll be responsible for establishing relationships with new supporters, with a focus on Faith Groups, and maintaining existing supporter relationships in and around North London.
Supported by the Community Fundraising Area Manager and the rest of the team, you’ll have the space to develop your fundraising and relationship management skills, learning from high-performing Income Generation colleagues.
We are committed to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. We’ve taken significant steps to achieve this, working closely with our Anti-Racism Steering Group, but appreciate there is more hard work to come. We welcome you on our journey.
About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle daily 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, motivated individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time.
At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. We are committed to offering fully flexible working to help all employees maintain work-life balance. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
