- Contract: Full Time, Permanent
- Salary: £28,980 – £34,543 (London), £24,840 – £30,403 (Manchester).
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.
Centrepoint is the leading youth homelessness charity and boasts a reputation for exciting media campaigns that use real stories, celebrity and quality research to amplify the voices and experiences of homeless young people and end youth homelessness. In this role you will be working with the team to secure first class media coverage in national, London-based and sector print, online and broadcast outlets.
Centrepoint operates a hybrid working model. The current requirement is a minimum of two days in the office per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. From 1 July 2025, this will increase to a minimum of 50% of your working week. For most full-time colleagues, this means attending the office for five days over a two-week period (e.g., two days one week and three days the next). For colleagues on different contracts (including part-time or compressed contracts) this will be adjusted accordingly.
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.
What you’ll be doing:
- Writing, co-ordinating and issuing media releases, briefing materials and features, and coordinating photo calls
- Developing a strong network of journalist contacts
- Leading proactive and reactive PR support for: policy-based news stories; fundraising news stories; London-based policy and fundraising announcements
- Identifying, interviewing and briefing young people and staff and assess their suitability to act as case studies or representatives to support Centrepoint’s media work.
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
- 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.