Sleep Out Manager in London

Interviews will be held w/c Monday 25th May. Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Sleep Out Manager to join our Mass Participation & Events 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.

The Sleep Out Manager plays a vital role in managing our flagship fundraising event, Sleep Out. Increased investment from our headline event sponsor, Nationwide Building Society, has enabled the development of a new visual identity and refreshed messaging, so it is an exciting time to join the team and maximise the opportunity.

About you: Ambitious, highly motivated individual with strong project management skills, and experience of organising fundraising events. An excellent communicator, confident in engaging a wide range of stakeholders at all levels and building effective relationships internally and externally. Able decision maker with a can-do attitude. Flexible, always adapting to changing needs. Committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning. Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsibility for the successful delivery and growth of the Sleep Out portfolio; comprising a London corporate event, public events in London and Manchester and our ‘Host Your Own Sleep Out’ programme.
• Responsibility for annual planning and budgeting for the Sleep Out portfolio, including financial management, quarterly reforecasting, and delivery against financial targets.
• Leading a cross-departmental working group to deliver the corporate event. Responsibility for the logistics and strategy of the event.
• Heading up a team of three, you’ll create a positive and inspiring culture, which empowers team members to achieve their best.

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.

We operate a hybrid working model, with a minimum of 50% office attendance (typically 2–3 days per week). 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.