Acquisition Manager (Agency Face To Face) in London

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary: £39,434 - £46,109 per annum

Closing Date: 16th September 2024

Interviews will be held w/c 23rd & 30th September

Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for an Acquisition Manager (Agency Face-to-Face) to join our Individual Giving Team based in London.

About us

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.

Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year.

Our Individual Giving team is high performing, bringing in over £20 million annually to the charity. Face-to-Face fundraising has been instrumental in growing our income and regular giving base, and this role will be a vital part of ensuring it continues to grow and innovate.

About you

• Effective communicator with natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
• Able decision maker with a can do attitude.
• Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
• Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
• Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
• Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.
• Living within a commutable distance to London, and be able to travel into the office 2-3 days a week.

What you’ll be doing

• Strategically plan, develop, and implement our agency Face-to-Face programme.
• Manage the performance of the agency programme, including overseeing all campaigns.
• Set, monitor, and review annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Develop strategic and operational plans for the year, including donor forecasts and project plans.
• Continually evolve the programme, improving lifetime value, and expanding our agency portfolio.
• Work entrepreneurially, developing innovative ideas for campaign improvement and expansion.
• Strengthen relationships with existing partners and build new ones.
• Manage an expenditure budget of c. £4 million, ensuring a breakeven of under 36 months.
• Lead and manage the Direct Marketing Officer.

Why join Centrepoint?

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%
• 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 organization.

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 an Acquisition Manager (Agency Face-to-Face) click ‘Apply’ now!