Senior Planning and Project Executive

Salary: £34,085.47 plus £5023 London weighting if applicable

Location: London Old Street or Home-based

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: Tuesday 25th February at 11:30pm.

Are you a motivated and positive person who is passionate about our cause and eager to grow your career in planning/project management? If this sounds like you, apply to be a Senior Planning and Project Executive to play a vital role in our fight for home.

About the role

A focus of this role is supporting the delivery of Shelter's key fundraising initiative, the Winter Fundraising Campaign. The Winter Campaign is a major income generator for Shelter, involving cross-departmental collaboration.

You will gather information from stakeholders to ensure a cohesive, organisation-wide approach to the projects you support. The campaign also includes a variety of public-facing activities, such as advertising, direct marketing appeals, events, and corporate partnerships, all amplified through press and social media.

This role offers the opportunity to grow into an accomplished Project Manager. You'll gain hands-on experience with project management tools and processes, manage smaller-scale projects, engage with diverse stakeholders, and provide admin and finance management support. It's an exciting chance for growth and learning in a supportive environment where success is based on your merit.

Further to this, the role will have a joint focus on cross-directorate planning. You will assist the Head of Planning and Project Management with organisation-wide planning initiatives, and will collaborate with stakeholders across all levels to support Shelter's planning and prioritisation processes.

You will be the lead administrative support for a variety of short and medium-term planning and resourcing activities, and will support the Head of Planning and Project Management and Income Generation leadership team in keeping said processes and activities running smoothly.

About you

Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential, as you'll work with a variety of teams across Shelter's Income Generation directorate. You will need to be comfortable taking responsibility for leading on smaller projects and working with the Senior Fundraising Project Manager to deliver projects of all sizes, and embrace opportunities for learning and decision-making.

Proactivity is important, whether it's setting up meetings, asking questions, or suggesting new ideas. You'll also have the chance to volunteer in our retail shops and visit Shelter Hubs to deepen your understanding of our cause. Effective time management, organisation, and attention to detail will help you navigate the workload and manage both administrative tasks and complex projects.

Above all, a positive attitude towards learning, an open mind, and a solutions-focused approach will be crucial to your success.

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. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

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.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

This role sits within the Planning & Project Management team in our Income Generation directorate. This team leads on delivering key projects such as Shelter's Winter Campaign, as well as acting as the backbone for many of Income Generation's planning processes.

The team sits within a wider sub-directorate known as Fundraising Enablement, which is responsible for product development & innovation, fundraising standards & compliance and planning and project management.

Due to cross-directorate working the team works on a variety of different strategic planning initiatives, as well as introducing new tools and processes to support teams in performing at their best.

How to apply

Please submit your CV along with a supporting statement. In the supporting statement, please give relevant examples in line with the role responsibilities of how you meet the criteria in the 'About you' section of the job description, following the STAR format. Please also demonstrate how you address these two behaviours below in your answers:

• We work together to achieve our shared purpose
• We learn from our experiences and are open to risk

Any applications submitted without an expression of interest will not be considered.

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It's our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

Safeguarding statement

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.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.