Advertising fundraising manager jobs near Manchester, Greater Manchester

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Regional Fundraising Manager to join our Community Fundraising and Events team. This role covers the West of England (including Wales and Northern Ireland), the ideal candidate will be based within the region. You will join us working 35 hours per week for a period of up to 18 months and in return you will receive a competitive salary of up to £33,884.72 per annum plus excellent benefits.

Cats Protection is the UK’s leading feline welfare charity with a nationwide network of adoption and homing centres, volunteer-run branches and charity shops. During 2021, we helped 137,000 cats and kittens. That's the equivalent of around 375 cats a day!

The Community Fundraising and Events department sits within the Marketing and Income Generation Directorate. Community Fundraising is delivered by our National team who support our network of local branches, centres and volunteers to raise funds within their communities. We are a busy department with lots of exciting things in the pipeline and the Regional Fundraising Manager is an integral part of this growth.

Responsibilities of our Regional Fundraising Manager:

As Regional Fundraising Manager you will have full responsibility for developing and increasing Cats Protection community fundraising in your defined region. You will research, identify and promote new and existing fundraising activities and third-party fundraisers with support from the Income Generation department  

What we’re looking for in our Regional Fundraising Manager:

• Significant fundraising experience
• Experience of managing multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities in an efficient and effective way
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively
• Flexible to attend evening and weekend meeting and undertake extensive travel throughout your region

What we can offer you:

• salary of up to £33,884.72 per annum plus excellent benefits
• generous annual leave entitlement
• contribution pension scheme
• life assurance scheme
• range of health benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• and more

Join us as our Regional Fundraising Manager and know you are helping to make a real difference to cats and kittens across the UK!

Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications or CVs that are emailed to us directly. Please note any applications received after the closing date may not be responded to.

Closing date:  12th July 2022

Virtual interview date: 18th July 2022

Please note, should we receive a large amount of applications for this vacancy, we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date.

Cats Protection is committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk and protecting anyone that comes into contact with us from harm.  We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Charity People are thrilled to be working with the British Heart Foundation to recruit a Fundraising Manager to join their busy and successful team in Cheshire.

Fundraising Manager
Location: Field based role covering Cheshire
Contract: 12-Month FTC (Maternity)
Salary: £32,050 - £33,050 including car allowance (basic salary £27,500 - £28,500) + benefits
Flexible working, life and family-friendly

This is a really exciting opportunity for someone to join a super successful fundraising team. As this role is a maternity cover you will be doing a real mix of community and corporate fundraising. The COTY relationships are up and running so this will be a great opportunity to account manage and steward some regional corporates! This is a diverse role where no two days are the same. You'll focus on achieving ambitious income targets through identifying, securing and managing community fundraising partnerships. You'll also lead on the recruitment, management and support of fundraising group networks, supporters, and volunteer fundraisers within the community to maximise income in Cheshire.

This is such a fantastic opportunity for someone who is tenacious and driven, with a proven track record of fundraising at a community level and delivering significant income. You'll be a relationship builder at heart, someone who thrives on forging new relationships through meaningful and authentic connections, whether that be from fundraising groups, committees or new volunteer groups in your area.

Life and family-friendly culture with flexible working. You will be joining a brave and ambitious team, every one of them as passionate as you are about making an impact on funding life-saving science.

Generous benefits include 30 days holiday plus public/bank holidays, private medical insurance, dental health cover and contribution towards your gym membership, learning & development training, Pension - 8% employee and 10% employer contributions.

To apply: Please get in touch with a copy of your CV or profile in the first instance to Ellen Drummond at Charity People.

Deadline: Only because this role has been previously advertised, we will be recruiting on a rolling basis for this opportunity, so please get in touch ASAP if you are interested.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Title: Digital Marketing Manager

Salary: £35,000 + £3,500 London allowance

Hours/Contract: 35 hours/week

Contract Type: Permanent

Based: London and home based

Closing date: 18 July midnight

Interview date: w/c: 25 July TBC

At an exciting time in its development, Marie Curie is looking for a talented Digital Marketing Manager to drive and lead the paid digital marketing strategy for the organisation.

The role will be responsible for developing, implementing and optimising digital marketing plans across paid channels. They will work with external agencies and internal colleagues to ensure that we drive the optimum mix and derive greatest benefit from PPC, social media advertising, display advertising, retargeting and partnerships, whilst also testing new opportunities that arise with these channels.

You will build relationships and work closely with key stakeholders across our Fundraising, Policy & Research and Caring Services. This includes collaborating with other marketing colleagues responsible for Brand, Supporter Campaigns and Caring Services. As well as the Digital team responsible for the website, mobile experience and analytics. In addition to supporting commercial fundraising and trading activity, you will also play a central role working with product and other marketing managers in delivering relevant and targeted campaigns to other Marie Curie audiences, including carers, patients and influencers.

What we are looking for:

• Demonstrable experience of planning and delivering successful digital marketing growth plans and integrated campaigns
• A confident leader with experience of briefing and managing internal and external creative teams, including our media buying agency, and managing media budgets
• Experience of building, executing and optimising both brand and acquisition activity, along with lead generation and identifying/exploiting partnership opportunities.
• A confident communicator with strong influencing skills. You will be a strategic thinker, with excellent commercial acumen and digital knowledge.
• The ability to work sensitively and diplomatically with others is essential, as is possessing a sense of pragmatism and flexibility whilst retaining a clear focus on objectives and ROI.
• Experience of digital marketing in the charity sector would be beneficial but not essential

What's in it for you:

• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Continuous development
• Industry leading training programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Working

For more information or an informal chat please contact [email protected]

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Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

Shortlisting and Interviews will happen on a rolling basis so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

About us:

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.

Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

Muti-award winning organisation Music Action International design and deliver creative music programmes with refugees & asylum seekers to improve health & wellbeing and bring communities together. We have an amazing opportunity to join our team as Development Manager to be responsible for income generation and marketing. There is also potentially the opportunity to get more involved in managing our programmes with children and teenagers.

We would love to find someone with varied experience in fundraising who is passionate about the arts, preferably with experience of working with refugees & asylum seekers.

We are especially interested in hearing from people with refugee heritage and people of colour.

Please complete our application form and send your CV

Application Deadline 20 July, 12pm. Interviews 26 & 27 July (Option to attend via Zoom)

- £37,606 to £40,934 (dependent on experience, pro-rata)
- 40 hours per week (option of 32 hours)
- Flexibility required, including evenings and weekends

HideOut Youth Zone’s state-of-the-art £6.6m facility opened in September 2020 to provide an engaging and inspiring place for thousands of young people aged 8 – 19 (up to 25 for those with additional needs) to spend their leisure time.  Open 7-nights a week, 52-weeks a year plus school holidays, the Youth Zone’s incredible facilities include a 3G pitch, 30ft climbing wall, boxing/mixed martial arts gym, 4-court sports hall, sensory room, fitness suite, recreation area and dance, arts, music and media suites and much more. 

THE ROLE
This is an exciting and formative time for HideOut Youth Zone as we move towards our full capacity offer (having first opened during the Covid-19 pandemic). Two years on from opening, we are seeking to expand our successful Patrons programme by inspiring other individuals in and around Manchester to offer their support with annual donations ranging from £25k to six-figure gifts, whilst also building a broad programme of support upwards of £1k.  The Philanthropy Manager will play an integral role in this endeavour, working with the Director of Fundraising, the CEO, key members of the Board and our existing Founder Patrons to generate new philanthropic income for our work with children & young people and stewarding existing supporters.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A demonstrable track record of income generation through personally securing at least four figure major donor gifts from high-net-worth individuals.
• Experience of developing a new pipeline of high-net-worth individual prospects and being pro-active in converting these to active donors.
• Experience of delivering effective and practical fundraising strategies.
• A sound understanding of high-net-worth fundraising techniques and processes. An ability to think and act strategically to move forward high net worth donor relationships, understanding their needs and motivations.
• Ability to build rapport with new contacts, quickly and effortlessly. Strong and persuasive written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to listen.
• High level of determination and resilience that, through innovative approaches, delivers exceptional results
• Knowledge and understanding of the issues faced by children and young people.
• A clear commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and demonstratable impact in this area.

Full details including a job description with person specification can be found on the vacancies page of our website. In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

WHY WORK FOR HIDEOUT
This is truly a fantastic opportunity to be part of the HideOut team and to help to create a long-lasting legacy for young people in the area. The benefits of working for HideOut include an onsite fitness suite, 33 days annual leave pro rata, learning & development opportunities, branded workwear and Employee Assistance Programme (to see all benefits please view the job details page).

The strength of HideOut and the OnSide network of Youth Zones is the diversity of its people; we place huge value on equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds, communities and abilities.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Please complete a HideOut Youth Zone Application Form and email together with a copy of your up-to-date CV to our recruitment email address.

Please note that CVs alone will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: 10am on 22nd July 2022

For further information about HideOut Youth Zone please visit our website.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

- £27,789 to £30,222 pro-rata (dependent on experience)
- 24 hours per week (0.6fte)
- Flexibility required, including evenings and weekends

HideOut Youth Zone’s state-of-the-art £6.6m facility opened in September 2020 to provide an engaging and inspiring place for thousands of young people aged 8 – 19 (up to 25 for those with additional needs) to spend their leisure time.  Open 7-nights a week, 52-weeks a year plus school holidays, the Youth Zone’s incredible facilities include a 3G pitch, 30ft climbing wall, boxing/mixed martial arts gym, 4-court sports hall, sensory room, fitness suite, recreation area and dance, arts, music and media suites and much more. 

THE ROLE
This is an exciting and formative time for HideOut Youth Zone as we move forwards with our full capacity offer (having first opened during the Covid-19 pandemic). Two years on from opening, we are seeking to expand our current funding model.  The Grants & Trusts Manager will play an integral role in this endeavour, working with the Director of Fundraising, the CEO, key members of the Board and our operational team to identify a pipeline of Grants & Trusts making bodies, develop and maintain lasting relationships with them and secure an income target of £200,000pa.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A demonstrable track record of income generation through personally securing, at least four figure Grants & Trusts awards.
• Experience of developing a new pipeline of Grants & Trusts prospects and being pro-active in converting these to active donors.
• Experience of maintaining lasting relationships with grant making bodies leading to repeat donations.
• A sound understanding of Grants & Trusts fundraising techniques and processes. An ability to think and act strategically to move forward high net worth relationships, understanding their needs and motivations.
• Strong and persuasive written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to listen.
• The ability to recognise key operational activities that create compelling cases for support.
• High level of determination and resilience that, through innovative approaches, delivers exceptional results.
• Knowledge and understanding of the issues faced by children and young people.
• A clear commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and demonstratable impact in this area.
• Strong creative writing techniques and an ability to tell a compelling story.

Full details including a job description with person specification can be found on the vacancies page of our website. In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

WHY WORK FOR HIDEOUT
This is truly a fantastic opportunity to be part of the HideOut team and to help to create a long-lasting legacy for young people in the area. The benefits of working for HideOut include an onsite fitness suite, 33 days annual leave pro rata, learning & development opportunities, branded workwear and Employee Assistance Programme (to see all benefits please view the job details page).

The strength of HideOut and the OnSide network of Youth Zones is the diversity of its people; we place huge value on equal opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds, communities and abilities.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Please complete a HideOut Youth Zone Application Form from our website and email together with a copy of your up-to-date CV to our recruitment email address.

Please note that CVs alone will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: 10am on 22nd July 2022

For further information about HideOut Youth Zone please visit our website.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Location: Glasgow office or Homeworking
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
Travel: Frequent travel across mainland Scotland and monthly travel across the UK for team meetings and conferences
 

Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

Summary
Working closely with the Head of UK Delivery and colleagues across the four nations, you will put impact and evaluation at the heart of your work, to deliver our service and support activities. Working with funders, commissioners and community partners, this is a key role to support pathways for patients in Scotland.

About the role
You will be the operational lead for Scotland, line-managing a team of Regional Officers in delivering and developing a consistent four nations approach to supporting people with Arthritis and MSK conditions.

Key requirements

• Supporting delivery of our strategy in Scotland, alongside day-to-day team management, representing and championing the breadth of service provision of our cross-organisational working groups.
• You will provide effective operational management to achieve high levels of performance within a framework of continuous improvement, and ensuring services are delivered with excellence through well-trained volunteers.
• Sharing insight and learning across the four nations to align approaches as appropriate and working collaboratively to define and develop support through external partnerships.
• An understanding of the external environment we work with in NHS and local authorities, and an ability to identify opportunities for the charity to support people with MSK conditions including arthritis.
• Identify and maximise funding opportunities, working closely with fundraising colleagues to develop funding and grant submissions and plan for long-term needs and financial resilience at a service level.

We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of the advertised date.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales.

Interviews
First interviews expected: Wednesday 20 July 2022 on Microsoft Teams.
Second interviews: In person, date to be confirmed.

Market Insight Manager (Maternity Cover)

Flexible Working – Monthly Travel to Milton Keynes

Salary: £30,763 - £36,192 pro rata + good range of benefits

Contract: 12 Month Fixed Term – 27 hours per week – Flexible working options considered

An opportunity to use your Insights experience to drive our Public Engagement strategy forwards, giving hope and a future to Children around the World.

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Help lead our Public Engagement teams in putting audience insight at the heart of everything we do, defining our audience strategy for a changing market place and providing actionable audience and market intelligence that enables us to drive the effectiveness of our marketing and fundraising activity.

As an experienced market researcher, this role offers you the opportunity to make a real impact- leading projects that define how we implement our marketing and fundraising strategy across our Public Engagement department.

The role will involve building a deeper understanding of core audiences through our new audience segmentation and embedding this across our Public Engagement team. You will need to develop creative ways to bring it to life and use it to ensure our our activities and communications are based on strong audience insight. You will act as as a consultant on key campaigns, representing and championing the supporter voice and developing ways of working and tools that help teams place our audiences at the centre of their work.

In addition, you will use your research skills to commission and conduct qualitative and quantitative research as well as market analysis, helping senior stakeholders to make the best decisions based on real audience insight. As an engaging communicator, you will be able to disseminate these insights across the organisation in an impactful way, working with teams on an ongoing basis to help them implement the findings in their work.

As an experienced researcher, you will bring:

• A proven track record in managing, carrying out and commissioning research projects
• A strong understanding of qualitative research methods and tools
• Knowledge of quantitative research methods and approaches to test design
• An good understanding of supporter segmentations and how to apply and embed these as part of a marketing strategy
• Experience working with or analysing reports from Microsoft Dynamics, or similar CRM platforms
• Experience of collating and presenting research on the external environment, market trends and competitor activity to inform strategic decision making
• Strong communication and stakeholder relationship building skills
• Experience of the fundraising sector would be advantageous

All applicants must be willing to work within a Christian framework and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary indicated, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria of the role.

**Please note that you MUST be holding the Right to work in the UK documentation as unfortunately this role is not sponsored**

Closing date for applications: 6th July 2022

Please note, we reserve the right to interview and appoint before the advertised closing date.

World Vision UK is a registered organisation operating the MDS Scheme and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be requesting they complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application.

• Team: Communications
• Salary: 30000
• Location: Flexible. This role will be required to travel to our London HQ at least once a month, but can work flexibly as per Bite Back 2030’s hybrid working policy.

About Bite Back 2030 

Be part of the creative and agile team behind Bite Back 2030’s exceptional teenage activists. Join us as our new Communications Manager and contribute to a 10-year journey to help make the food system healthier and fairer and achieve our goal of halving childhood obesity by 2030.

We believe young people are the key voice in driving this change in our food system, and are growing a movement of young people to raise their voice and drive impact. In the past two years, our National Youth Board — including incredible campaigners like Christina and Dev — have won campaigns to extend free school meals during the holiday, end junk food advertising online and before 9pm on TV, and to improve the quality of school food. 

Biteback is strongly committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Purpose of the Role

We are seeking a new Communications Manager to drive our ambitious communications plans as we scale our movement across the country. 

The Communications Manager will report to our Senior Communications Manager and be responsible for leading on direct communications campaigns, and supporting a range of internal and external communications across our growing organisation. 

Key responsibilities and outcomes

The Communications Manager will have an eye for detail and deliver communications which inspire audiences to take action. Key responsibilities include: 

• Develop and deliver direct communications campaigns, which connect external audiences with our core aims, inspiring them to play their part in transforming food systems to protect child health

• Work closely with the Senior Communications Manager to support media engagement activity, including creating press releases, developing key lines/responses and compiling briefing documents

• Provide support and guidance to teams across Bite Back to create powerful written materials which are on-brand and on-message, including presentations, promotional information and training resources

• Take a leading role on producing internal communications at our growing organisation, working closely with our People and Alumni Manager to make sure all staff are well-informed and engaged with activity taking place across the country 

• Provide ongoing management of our internal newsletter for staff, Youth Board members and Trustees, coordinating exciting content on a weekly basis that brings us closer together as one team, celebrates successes and sparks action

• Work as part of a team to support the delivery of events

Application deadline: 9 am, Wednesday 13 July 

Interview date: Interviews will take place online, w/c 25 July

Marketing and Communications Manager at Pancreatic Cancer Action

Permanent, full time role

Hybrid role can be home based with travel to the Hampshire office once a month

Salary: £40,000 to £45,000

Deadline for applications: Friday 8th July

First stage interviews: w/c 11th July

Second stage interviews: w/c 18th July

Charity People is delighted to be working with Pancreatic Cancer Action to recruit for their next Marketing and Communications Manager. Working towards a core goal of ensuring that more people survive pancreatic cancer; the current figure is 7% and only 1% ten years after diagnosis; the charity is led by a dynamic CEO and this role is supported by a talented team of colleagues and Trustees.

This is an exciting period of growth for the charity as they consolidate their services and campaigns, and expand their team. As Marketing and Communications Manager you will undertake the following main responsibilities:

• Line manage a team of two which will potentially grow in the future including supporting the team to deliver marketing campaigns and programmes targeting multiple audiences in collaboration with colleagues to drive engagement
• Development and implementation of the charity's marketing and communication strategies, ensuring that they support the overall charity vision, engage more audiences and donors, are within budget, and communicate the charity's strategic objectives
• Work across the entire spectrum of communications disciplines including media and public relations, internal comms, brand marketing, advertising, marketing, digital and social media, and production of materials
• Inspire and lead the marketing team to offer a first class marketing service across the charity including working closely with the Fundraising Development Manager and fundraising team
• Create and implement a PR strategy for the organisation, including reactive and proactive media plans, and utilising internal stakeholders where possible to continue to raise the profile of the charity; with the aim of increasing the charity's profile across media, and with influencers and external organisations
• Take responsibility for the charity's press office
• Develop and deliver creative and impactful marketing programmes and campaigns that use channels, including digital, effectively
• Manage the implementation, tracking and measurement of integrated marketing campaigns
• Employ strong project management skills to ensure marketing deliverables and milestones are met, from defining the initial approach clearly, brief writing, ensuring timings are mapped and costings defined and agreed
• Feedback on marketing performance on a monthly basis to the CEO and prepare reports for the quarterly Trustee meetings using clearly defined metrics and reporting methodologies

We'd love to see applications from individuals with the following skills and experience:

• Experience of developing and implementing marketing strategy; including of leading a brand strategy, and of leading marketing programmes and campaigns from initial brief to implementation and review; across a range of channels including digital
• Previous experience of managing, developing and leading a team
• Press and media communications experience
• Experience of managing, forecasting and control of budgets and of being able to deliver high profile campaigns within budget
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written including brief writing and copywriting, and the ability to build strong relationships across an organisation
• Excellent understating of brand and its role within an organisation
• Excellent knowledge of design principles and the ability to recommend direction

If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to Alice from Charity People, your consultant for this role.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

£32,000 to £35,000 per annum

37.5 hours per week – With flexibility for the right candidate

Home Based or Office Based – Your Choice!

Pension, enhanced annual leave, plus much more

About TuVida
TuVida is a not-for-profit organisation that gives support to both carers and people needing care.

Our goal is to provide the most appropriate care and support to people who need it, to enable them to live their lives to the fullest.

We work in many different areas across the UK — providing our services to more than

11,000 people each and every year.

Our vision

A society where every person who is ill or disabled and every carer can live well and enjoy life.

Our mission

To be architects of and deliver innovative and practical services that are trusted and accessible for anyone who is ill, disabled or a carer, their families and communities. We will work with partners to use resources effectively to meet increasing needs as a trusted provider in health and social care.

About the role
The Communications Manager will provide leadership and direction to TuVida’s communications, marketing and digital work across the UK and be responsible for producing high-quality content and messaging that engages customers and staff and builds brand recognition.

The role will include the development and implementation of a communication plan with a focus on internal communications, service marketing, digital infrastructure, and stakeholder engagement.

Main aims of the post

The role will help us to embed our brand across the UK, supporting our operational and commercial teams to develop our offer to commissioners, funders and key stakeholders, working to develop TuVida’s offer to carers and those with care needs

The role will support and deliver the operational communications alongside a small team, working with a motivated group of communication ambassadors across the organisation.

You will use your skills, experience, and knowledge to empower, upskill, support and deliver our internal communications, through and with your colleagues.

The role will support and develop internal and external relations by co-ordinating the delivery of communication activities across a range of areas including broad-based internal communications, press, crisis response statements, public relations, and marketing

Scope and accountability –

Our new Communications Manager will:

• Consult on, develop and deliver a Communication Plan for TuVida

• Forward plan and prioritise their own workload and work with other team members to ensure delivery of agreed objectives and timetabled work

• Use own initiative in relation to delivery of your work, problem solving and decision making with a level of autonomy, referring complex issues to the nominated member for their area of work

• Be responsible for managing relationships and communicating with staff at all levels of TuVida

• Demonstrate and promote the impact our services achieve in order to maintain and increase funding, invite and retain effective partnerships and attract quality candidates for staff and volunteer vacancies.

• Deliver on internal and external communication objectives, in line with the wider TuVida Strategy

• Be instrumental and proactive in supporting a positive culture within the wider TuVida environment

• Develop and manage appropriate external relationships and provide communications and engagement support and advice to senior members of staff within the organisation

• Undertake learning and development relevant for growth within the role

Key accountabilities

Internal communications

• To develop appropriate internal communications and processes across a range of platforms to effectively support information flow and employee engagement.
• To develop key messages, creating and maintaining appropriate and consistent language and terminology across all media.
• To provide guidance to staff on relevant areas of marketing and communications, including key communication issues.
• To play an active role in innovation and development forums across the charity, contributing ideas and solutions to regular meetings, providing support to the wider teams as required.
• To ensure proper usage of brand as per guidelines, and give effective training and guidance to departments and individuals
• To support the development of digital staff engagement

External communications

• To plan and deliver campaigns to; raise the profile of, and promote, the organisation; increase voluntary income; and raise awareness of key issues.
• To increase the charity’s profile across media and with key stakeholders through building and managing effective relationships and producing compelling press releases, articles and statements.
• To oversee the management and growth of the organisation’s social media presence, working with the small internal team to keep content up to date and fresh.
• To manage the charity’s brand, ensuring consistency across all internal and external communications.
• To act as a spokesperson for the charity when necessary, with support and guidance from the

Senior Leaders.

• To liaise with colleagues to formulate appropriate media responses, providing guidance in media and stakeholder handling.
• To liaise with insurers and other appropriate parties e.g. PR Crisis Team (insurer-linked) and

Carers Trust when managing crisis situations.

Website

• To manage the relationship with our external website development company.
• Support and develop teams across TuVida to keep our website up to date, acting as the administrator for the website.
• To oversee development and maintenance of the technical aspects of the staff intranet

Income generation

• To work alongside senior managers and other members of staff to develop the strategic direction of marketing and communications to all stakeholders.
• To effectively deliver, monitor, evaluate and report on progress of marketing and communications as per the communications plan.
• To generate content across all media, including copy writing and production of marketing materials and key publications both online and in print.
• To co-ordinate multi-media advertising of the charity’s services in order to increase revenue.
• General duties

• To monitor, analyse and evaluate performance of channels and content, and present KPI reports to relevant colleagues including Senior Leaders
• To carry out other ad hoc projects or tasks of a similar nature, at the discretion of the senior

Leaders and Trustees of the charity.

• To have a strong work ethic and positive attitude to work. Be professional, but more importantly to be approachable and amiable, creating in others a deep respect for your integrity.
• Share the values of the organisation and demonstrate a commitment to the cause of carers and those living with long-term conditions and disabilities.
• To be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children.
• To work at all times within the philosophy and policies of TuVida.
• To treat all beneficiaries, staff and stakeholders of the organisation with respect and sensitivity, recognising the need for confidentiality at all times.
• To comply with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and with TuVida policies and procedures.
• To have a commitment to developing quality by the implementation of TuVida policies and procedures along with any other standards set by TuVida.
• To respect the personal choice and lifestyles of colleagues, carers, and people with care needs, ensuring that equal opportunity principles are applied at all times.
• To undertake any other duties that may be considered commensurate with the level of the post.

So who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is passionate about getting communications right! You will have an keen eye for detail, a tenacious approach to tackling your work and a professionalism and insight that enables you to see the bigger picture

You will have experience in the marketing and communications field, preferably within the third sector (but not essential), with a ‘digital first’ approach to your work, you will have practical experience of developing social media presence as well as using digital platforms to engage and communicate with our staff.

Our ideal candidate would be a true allrounder! Someone who has experience across Microsoft platforms, understands design, can support and develop communications champions and can lead by example.

A more detailed person specification can be found later on in this document

Does this sound like you?

Then apply today

The organisation:

This is a wonderful health charity who are looking for an Interim Digital Engagement Manager to join their team for a 12-month FTC.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with wider teams to develop and improve processes to support on project management, planning and cross collaboration.
• Develop and manage paid advertising strategy
• Manage the Senior Digital Engagement Officer, Senior social media and Digital Optimisation Officer and Senior Digital Fundraising Officer, ensuring they have the training to enable them to perform their roles and that they have clear objectives.
• Ensure digital marketing plans for campaigns and projects are integrated with the wider marketing and communication strategy.
• Manage relationships with digital agencies and ensure they are on budget.
• Used knowledge gained from monitoring, reporting and evaluating digital marketing and communications activity to implement test and learn frameworks and optimise engagement.

Person specification:

• Experience of working across a range of digital communications platforms, including email marketing, social media management and website CMS
• Copywriting, content creation and editorial skills
• The ability to think strategically and create and implement plans
• Excellent stakeholder management skills as well as the ability to manage relationships with freelancers and agencies.
• Experience monitoring, evaluating and report building on engagement with digital channels.

What's on offer:

This a full-time role offering a salary £38,000-£40,000 pro rata. The role offers flexible working either being completely remote or hybrid option in the organisations central London location.

Please apply today so as not to miss out!

We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving national charity, as part of our high-performing Central Region Business Development team. You will use a wide range of commercial and interpersonal skills to develop the way our services support children, young people and families.

As a Business Development Manager, the core area of your work will be working with teams of Barnardo's colleagues to produce compelling proposals to commissioners and partners. As such, you'll be able to demonstrate:

• Strong organisational skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• The ability to elicit and articulate great ideas
• Strong written and spoken communication

You will need to be a good writer, communicating ideas effectively on paper with an ability to analyse large volumes of information to develop clear and compelling responses to tenders. It is critical that you can build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support the development of proposals and service design.

You will manage all aspects of proposals and tenders, leading the development and delivery of bids, working to deadlines, ensuring that we present strong business cases and bids that underpin successful outcomes. In addition, there will be the opportunity to help us develop new services and innovations in priority growth areas, monitor market intelligence, assess commercial and contract risks and work alongside operational colleagues in Children's Services across the Central region.

Your project management skills may have been developed in any sector, and may need further development, but your commitment to the work we do will be demonstrated by your enthusiasm and ability to learn. In Business Development we are a supportive team, with stimulating and challenging work and extensive opportunities to learn and to help Barnardo's transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children.

When completing your application please refer to your skills, knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

This full time role (36.25 hours) will operate on a 'Work from Anywhere' basis, meaning that you can work both from home and/or from our Halesowen office or another 'hub' that's nearest to where you live. Some travel may be required.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact the service directly.

Barnardo's offers a hybrid working model covered under our `Work from Anywhere' Framework, therefore vacancies advertised with this as an opportunity are open for applicants to either work from home or any location within the UK, including Barnardo's Hub/Office that is a reasonable distance from your home address. 

Events and Digital Communications Facilitator

You will facilitate the annual Challenge Poverty Week in England and Wales, and support digital communications across all of Church Action on Poverty’s programmes, ensuring that they are coordinated as part of the organisation’s overarching communications strategy.

Key responsibilities

1. Building Dignity, Agency, and Power to end poverty: Challenge Poverty Week

• Liaising and supporting Challenge Poverty Week key partners in promoting engagement with the Week across a range of networks, organise ‘get involved’ events, planning themes and content for the Week
• Coordinate digital content for the Week, including branding materials, website and social media.
• Provide admin and other support for regular meetings to the Challenge Poverty Week project team and core partners meetings
• Support CPW events, including promotion, online bookings, technical support, and support for in-person events as required

2. Building a movement: engaging supporter and partners through digital communications

• Run Church Action on Poverty’s social channels on a day-to-day basis, including developing and optimising text, image, video and audio content for digital and social media output
• Gather copy and graphics from colleagues, and post blogs regularly to Church Action on Poverty’s website
• Create webpages for digital activism and fundraising campaigns using the Engaging Networks platform
• Add/update pages on website as required and ensure they are optimised for search engines
• Draft and send email bulletins to Church Action on Poverty’s campaigners, donors and partners
• Create, monitor and update advertising campaigns, using Facebook Ads Manager and Google AdWords

3. Building our capacity to grow the movement: quality control and monitoring impact

• Provide quality control support e.g. proof-reading, editing, brand guidelines, visual identity
• Follow guidelines to ensure all communications effectively support Church Action on Poverty’s values and strategy
• Work with the Communications and Supporter Relations Manager to coordinate communications from different programmes as part of our overarching communications strategy
• Ensure that all communications foreground the voices of people with lived experience of poverty, in a way that upholds their dignity, agency and power
• Work with the Communications and Supporter Relations Manager to identify and monitor online conversion and engagement goals using Google Analytics and social metrics

Accountability and relationships

You will be accountable to the Communications and Supporter Relations Manager. You will also have a close working relationship with other staff across all Church Action on Poverty’s programmes, and attend regular staff meetings and supervision sessions.

Duration: Permanent contract, with six month probationary period.

Hours: 35 hours per week including some 'unsocial' hours, evening and weekend working and overnight travelling for which Time Off in Lieu is provided.

Salary: Church Action on Poverty Salary Band C (SCP 14 - 22 on the local authority APT&C scale, currently £23,484 - £27,514), dependent on previous pay and experience.

Pension: Church Action on Poverty will make a contribution of up to 10% of salary to the NEST pension scheme, on the basis that the employee contributes not less than 5%.

Holidays: 25 days’ annual leave pro rata plus statutory holidays.

Location: Options to work from home or from our office in Salford.

Applications can only be made using our application form.  No CVs will be accepted. 

Person specification

Skills

Good organisational and administrative skills (A.I.R)

Good written communication skills  (A.I)

Good skills with Google and/or Microsoft Office software (A.I)

Ability to design and edit content using WordPress and/or other content management systems (A.I.R)

Skills in graphic editing, design, and/or video editing (A.I.R)

Ability to be an effective member of a team, but also to show initiative (A.I.R)

Ability to plan and manage time effectively (A.I.R)

Accuracy, reliability and a good attention to detail (A.I.R)

Knowledge

How to use social media to support organisational communication (ideally in a charity/values driven context) (A.I.R)

Good working knowledge of a variety of digital/social media platforms (Facebook, Google Adwords, analytics, WordPress, Eventbrite, Zoom etc) (A.I.R)

Experience

Experience of creating/managing effective social media content/ channels (A.I.R)

Experience of planning and delivering online and/or offline events (A.I.R)

Work-related circumstances

Interest in and sympathy with Church Action on Poverty’s vision and values. (I)

Willingness to work flexibly, including some evenings, weekends, and UK travel, including occasional overnight stays (I)

A = Application; I = Interview; R = Referenc