CRM Administrator

Job title: CRM Administrator 

Manager: Senior Data and Innovation Manager 

Location: London, Birmingham or Manchester, with the option to work remotely for up to 60% of your time per month 

Salary: London £30,000-£34,000, Manchester and Birmingham £28,500- £32,500 

Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) 

Contract: Permanent 

Overall purpose 

This CRM Administrator role will sit within our Data and Innovation team. This team conducts analysis and creates systems to ensure that Breaking Barriers is as efficient, effective and evidence-based as possible. They help us to ensure we are continually providing the best possible support to our clients, as well as to demonstrate our impact and the need for our services to our supporters and partners. In addition, the team builds systems to assist the fundraising team in stewarding supporters and generating income.   

The post-holder will be responsible for managing and improving the organisation’s database (Salesforce), training and supporting the end users of the CRM, and creating reports to analyse Breaking Barriers’ data. The CRM system is our ‘single source of truth’, and holds data relating to the clients we support, the activities they have participated in and the positive outcomes they have achieved, as well as information about all of our donors, event attendees, mailing list subscribers referral partners and other key contacts.  

The role would suit someone with aptitude for thinking clearly about data, some experience in either CRM administration or data analysis, and a keen interest to learn more. There is scope to further develop a wide-range of data-related skills in the role, including transforming and analysing data in Excel, customising CRM systems, planning data architectures and conducting statistical analyses. 

To view the full job description and person specification, as well as details on our accessible recruitment process, please view the attached recruitment pack.

Other considerations

• As part of our safeguarding commitment to our clients, we carry out preemployment checks to ensure that successful applicants are suitable to work with adults at risk. These include obtaining references and verifying a candidate’s identity and right to work in the UK.
• Some travel between our different areas of operation (including London, Birmingham and Manchester) will be required. Occasional evening or weekend work may be required. Time off in lieu would be provided in this case.
• We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

How to apply

If you are looking for a role where you can make a real difference, we want to hear from you. To apply, please submit a CV and statement (up to approximately 500 words/1 A4 page) outlining:

• Why you are interested in the role
• What skills you would bring to be successful in this role
• Any experience you would like to highlight
• Any reasonable adjustments you require for the interview process
• Disclosure of disabilities if you wish to do so (as a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role)

Please note that applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Closing date for applications is 11:30pm on Friday 3rd January. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis so please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

We belong to the Experts by Experience Employment Initiative, which advocates and supports organisations to employ more people from a refugee background. With this in mind, we particularly welcome applicants with experience of seeking asylum and/or a refugee background. 

If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for an independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network. Please reach out to HR Manager Dani Meier for further details (we are unable to include email addresses in this advert, but you can find contact details on the final page of the attached recruitment pack).