We're looking for an inspiring leader who can build strong and collaborative relationships with partners such as NHS and the Bank of England, whilst supporting and empowering young people to speak truth to power.  The postholder will be working on a range of dyynamic projects, with a specific focus on young people and health.

As the national youth council of the UK, The British Youth Council brings young people together to find their voice and use it for social and political change.  Through our programmes and membership services we create opportunities for young people to find their voice and use it for social and political change.

We are looking for an experienced youth development professional to join the team and help us to increase the reach and impact of our leadership and engagement opportunities. 

This post will be home working, although regular travel to the office will be required. As a part of the team the postholder will also support the design and delivery of a numbner of our key events, including residentials, throughout the year. It is also a job-share - working closely with another manager to co-lead the team to deliver great results with and for young people.

The British Youth Council  is committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safe recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working across our services.

This is an exciting opportunity to provide crucial support to the Individual Giving team to raise income through direct and interactive marketing.

Applicants

The successful candidate should have:

• Experience creating and managing direct marketing campaigns for a charity
• Experience of managing direct mail campaigns
• Experience of managing a campaign budget 

Expectations in the role

• To project manage a programme of direct marketing campaigns (including but not limited to mail, email, digital and telemarketing); including campaign planning, creative development, briefing data extractions, set up of backend procedures, co-ordinating print and production and liaising with agencies;
• To maximise value for money from all external suppliers including advertising space, print, enclosing and data processing through accurate briefings and negotiation;
• To ensure that any complaints or enquiries for information are dealt with in a sensitive and timely manner in line with the charity’s policy, and that thank you letters for special donations are sent promptly;

Please download the job description to see full role responsibilities.

About us

Muscular Dystrophy UK is the charity bringing individuals, families and professionals together to fight muscle-wasting conditions. We bring together more than 60 rare and very rare progressive muscle-weakening and wasting conditions, affecting around 70,000 children and adults in the UK.

Benefits

We appreciate the range of skills and experience our staff have to offer. In return for your enthusiasm and commitment we commit to actively developing and supporting you. We also offer a range of benefits including pension, life assurance, season ticket loan, ride to work scheme, health cash plan, and an employee assistance programme.

Location

This role is based at our office in Southwark, London with flexibility for home working (although we are still working from home until such time allows). It is within a short walking distance of Southwark and Borough Tube stations. It is also a short distance from Waterloo Station, London Bridge Station and Blackfriars Station. We are also a 5 minute walk from the Tate Modern and Southbank, perfect place to go for lunch during the warm summer months.

In order to apply, please click on the Apply Now button and send your CV with a covering letter detailing why you are best suited for the role.

Please note interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams in the week commencing 29 March.

*Unfortunately due to the high volume of applications we receive we will only contact candidates that are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date please note your application has been unsuccessful.

Supporter Engagement Senior Manager

£42,294 - £45,150 per annum

37 hours per week

Permanent

Home Based with regular visits to Lingfield/London offices

About Us

Young Epilepsy is the children and young people’s epilepsy charity. Our purpose is to create a society in which children and young people with epilepsy are enabled to thrive and fulfil their potential, in which their voices are respected, and their ambitions realised.

We work with children and young people across the country, as well as many of those people and organisations who shape their lives - parents, health and care professionals, researchers, teachers, policymakers and more.

Informed by young people and drawing on our strong legacy of expertise in education, health and research, we have developed and published our new 2020-2025 strategy. This focuses our work around 4 offers; Learning, Health, Research and Information, with firm foundations in our three value statements:

• Young people are at the centre of everything we do
• We work together to make a greater difference
• We are courageous and ambitious for change

These values will ensure that we always put the voices, the rights and the best interests of children and young people first and commit us to working in partnerships that can increase our impact. They also ensure that we are inspired by the courage and ambition of the young people with whom we work, knowing that together, we can drive the change in society and services we all want to see.

Your role

The Fundraising and Communications teams at Young Epilepsy are going through an exciting phase of change and growth. With the challenges in the current funding climate, we need an agile and skilled team who can help us deliver our goals that will enable young people with epilepsy to thrive.

This means significantly increasing our income and engaging our supporters in a more meaningful way, putting them at the heart of our fundraising and delivering excellent customer service.

We need data driven insights to help us target our engagement in the right way and we need to improve and adapt our fundraising proposition to reflect the changing needs of both beneficiaries and donors and stand out in a crowded market.

With the development of a new website, investment in our brand and communications and with growing ambition across our service delivery, this role will be pivotal in navigating our way to success, in a time of complexity and uncertainty.

What we need from you

We are looking for candidates who can lead with vision, set clarity and purpose to a team dealing with ambiguity and change. This means thinking both creatively and analytically, staying focused on the goal, and having a passion for the work we do.

You will play a lead role establishing a Supporter Engagement team, support the development of our fundraising plan, and lead on developing and delivering our individual giving programme, appeals, products and campaigns.

The candidate we are looking for will have experience and skill in developing donor relationships, building quality data to gain valuable insights into supporter behaviour and a strong understanding of how to maximise digital channels to reach new audiences.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank Holidays (pro rata if part time)
• Paid overtime
• Occupational pension scheme
• Health Insurance Plans (Optional)
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Subsidised dining room
• Gym membership options (on and off-site)
• Perkbox, giving you access to nationwide discounts and benefits
• Supported studies, Numeracy, Literacy and Diploma level 3
• Opportunities for career progression
• A range of shift patterns
• Free parking on campus

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.

Young Epilepsy strives to employ people that reflect the community it serves; therefore, applications from minority groups and people with disabilities are particularly welcomed.

 
 Young Epilepsy is the operating name of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy. Registered Charity No: 311877 (England and Wales)

This is an opportunity to join a growing team at the Global Distributors Collective (GDC). The GDC started in October 2018 and, since then, we have gone from strength to strength supporting our members – last mile distribution organisations – to sell life-changing products to low-income, remote or otherwise marginalised people across the world. Our ambition is to make last mile distribution the first priority.

Engaging with our members and partners sits at the core of everything we do; from delivering our innovation workstream and providing technical assistance directly to our members, to hosting learning and collaboration events and gathering/disseminating research and insights. In this role you will work closely with the Head of the GDC, GDC Project Manager and particularly the Communications and Impact Manager to help shape and deliver an ambitious agenda of communications activities, to support last mile distribution companies to save time, money and increase their impact at the last mile. You will also coordinate our member engagement work, providing you with an opportunity to liaise directly with, and learn about, socially-driven companies operating all across the world.

No two days working for the GDC are the same. We are a small, fun and fast-paced team looking forward to welcoming a new team member into the mix!

About you

You are an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a questioning mind and desire to learn. As a communications professional, you will have exceptional written and verbal communications skills and be comfortable liaising with a range of stakeholders. Your eye for design means you are creative with the ability to champion the GDC brand, ensuring that our external communications are always top quality. You will be familiar with working in a customer- or client-facing role; experience working or volunteering within a membership organisation would be an asset.

You are comfortable to work remotely and undertake tasks independently, often delivering work to time-pressured deadlines; while also being a keen team player and ready to chip in when necessary. While you may not have prior experience of working in the international development sector, you’ll have an interest in development issues and finding ways to improve the lives of marginalised people.

As our small international team works predominantly in English, it’s important that you are a fluent English speaker. Many of our members speak French as a first language, so French language skills would also be an asset!

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our other benefits include:

• Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week
• 26 days holiday rising with continuous service, in addition to public holidays.
• Pension scheme - employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
• Bike to Work scheme.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme
• Remote working / home working is possible with this role.

About us

Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

Closing date for applications: midnight GMT Friday 19th March

Tentative Interview date: week commencing 29th March

Please note that, should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

Jubilee Debt Campaign is recruiting a new Executive Director to lead our work tackling poverty and inequality caused by unjust debt.

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and people-centred leader, with a strong strategic mindset and campaigning approach, and deep commitment to our vision, mission and values.

You will have significant experience in strategy and policy development, managing staff and teams, and fundraising from trusts and foundations, as well as a track record of influencing decision-makers, experience of being a media spokesperson, and a keen interest in organisational development. 

As Executive Director, you will be responsible for the effective leadership of Jubilee Debt Campaign, including setting our strategic direction, overseeing the development and delivery of our projects and campaigns, building the organisation and our funding base, managing the team, building and strengthening relationships with key stakeholders, and representing the organisation externally. 

This is a permanent role being offered on a full-time basis (5 days / 35 hours per week). Applications for job shares or annualised hours will be considered. 

We offer: 

• Pension contributions of up to 7.5% of your salary plus 1% of the average organisational salary

• An annual leave entitlement of 30 days per year plus bank holidays 

• Flexi-time working arrangements outside the core hours of 10am-4pm 

• Access to other benefits including interest-free season ticket loans and tax savings on bikes and home technology equipment via salary sacrifice schemes 

We strongly value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from women and from People of Colour, and encourage applicants who are unsure if they meet the requirements of the role to get in touch to discuss their suitability. 

The role will be working from home until Jubilee Debt Campaign decides it is safe for staff to return to working in the office.

Wirral Ark is looking for an experienced, proactive innovator as its new Chief Executive to help us both consolidate and build upon our current provision. Your experience might come from the charity, homelessness or housing sectors – but it is your personality that will be important to us.

The overall purpose of the role is to work with the Chair, Board and staff to maintain a clear and compelling vision for the organisation whilst effectively delivering our mission to reduce the impact of homelessness on the Wirral.

The new CEO will also be responsible for growing our business by developing an asset base and services that can help the organisation achieve its strategic objective to become substantially independent from government income streams in the medium to long term.

History of the charity 

Wirral Churches’ Ark Project, known as Wirral Ark, is a registered charity that exists to provide accommodation for the homeless, under the MainStay framework, as well as providing support and guidance for individuals to secure long-term accommodation.  We offer services throughout the region. 

We started life in 1991 as a temporary shelter. The service was set up by the Wallasey Council of Christian Churches with the aim of offering emergency accommodation for those who found themselves homeless.

Wirral Ark has evolved enormously over the years and now offers a whole range of support provision for homeless people. These include isolated people with mental health or substance problems, current and ex-offenders, former rough sleepers and people who are begging or street drinking. 

Through our work, we have become experts at working with, and supportively housing, people with complex problems – for example, people with severe mental health problems, a lifelong alcohol addiction, very challenging behaviour, or a combination of these and other issues. Our support pathway is designed for people with particularly complex needs. Its function is to help them into securing a permanent and sustainable home which they will remain in.

New leadership

Wirral Ark has undergone a significant period of growth in the last 4 years, increasing turnover from around £875K in 2017 to £1.2M in 2020, with a budget for around £1.3M in 2021.

Wirral Ark has successfully diversified its income during this period. It has done so in a climate of continuous cost cutting of welfare and homelessness support - both at a local and national level. The income of the charity is derived largely from Wirral Borough Council and primarily from  its Supporting People Contracts and Housing Benefit. Wirral Ark has targets to grow its own independent income from fundraising activities and the creation of income streams derived from its subsidiary, the Wirral Ark Trading CIC.

We believe this strategy is putting Wirral Ark into a robust position and will gives us a strong platform to further improve and build rounds our services. There are several important aspects of the work for Wirral Ark are still under development. We are now looking for an excellent leader to take us to the next level.

The charity have a stakeholder pension open to all employees satisfying the auto-enrolment criteria with employees currently contributing 5% and the charity 3%. Other options could be negotiated within the package.

To apply, please download the attached application form and job pack - including application guidance notes, person specification, job description and other key information.

Are you an experienced marketing and communications professional looking for your next challenge?

Are you interested in working for a progressive and constantly evolving organisation?

Are you passionate about creating real social change?

We’re looking for a Marketing and Communications Officer to help us to optimise our impact. You will help deliver a programme of engaging and effective marketing activity and ensuring our brand is effectively deployed across the organisation, and outcomes are measured and evaluated to ensure success.

With a strong foundation in marketing and communications principles, we’re looking for someone who has a good understanding of brand deployment, impactful and effective social media campaign planning, management and evaluation and ideally knows their way around CRM (customer relationship management).

You will have strong organisational skills, the ability to work flexibility within a busy team environment and be willing to support colleagues with strong interpersonal skills, and the confidence and ability to communicate effectively.  You’ll be an excellent time manager and multi-tasker with experience working in a marketing and communications team, preferably in a charity or membership environment.

To find out more about this role, please visit our website.

About Us

We are the RSA.  The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce.  We’re committed to a future that works for everyone, a future where we all can participate in its creation. With over 250 years of heritage in making significant social impact, we bring together, our rigorous research, proven change process, influential ideas platforms and our global community of over 30,000 problem solvers united in a desire to deliver solutions for lasting change.

To achieve this, we ask everyone – our staff, our Fellowship, our collaborators, our partners and wider society – to commit to our values and world view, and strive to achieve genuine positive impact in our lives. This isn’t something we can achieve overnight. But we are asking you to join us all on this journey. The commitment you make now, is a commitment to be with us, to shape us, to challenge us, and to stimulate us all, to find better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change.

It represents the pact you sign when you join us. A pact that represents everything we do, every decision we make, and every action we take.

And it represents how we act. In a way that represents out values, with rigour and proven processes. A relentless spirit. Open minds, and an open door.

We bring to life out Commit to Impact brand idea through every organisational touchpoint, so we can ask everyone who interacts with us: will you?

We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more!

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘apply for this job’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am 22 March 2021. Screening calls are expected to take place on 25 March and interviews will be on 30 March. A second interview will follow in the week commencing 5 April if you are successful in these initial stages, to be arranged on a 1:1 basis.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

Position: Digital Engagement Manager

Salary: Up to £37,000 per annum 

YE pay grade: 5

Duration: Permanent

Location: Flexible, either London office based or home-based with travel as required

This pivotal role offers an exciting opportunity for a talented digital engagement professional to join a small dedicated team working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Reporting to the Head of Marketing, we are seeking to recruit an established and innovative marketing professional with a passion for developing and delivering powerful social media campaigns and strategies to engage and excite our key audiences - potential and existing investors, teachers, educators, young people, journalists, policy makers and Young Enterprise staff.

The main purpose of this role is to design, implement and maintain an innovative digital engagement strategy which helps support and deliver the No Time Like The Future Strategy (2020- 2023), raise awareness of the Young Enterprise brand and the work of the charity with external audiences, and to drive engaging campaigns across all digital channels.

The role will work hands on to deliver compelling digital solutions and work closely with the Head of Public Affairs & Public Relations, the Communications Content Manager and members of the Senior Leadership Group.

You will need to be able to manage a number of competing tasks at one time. This role requires a proactive, organised and practical approach to ensure projects are delivered effectively and efficiently, providing high quality support and customer service across the organisation, both internally and externally.

The successful candidate will have proven experience in managing the expectations of a number of stakeholders with competing priorities.

Previous experience of managing website content using WordPress, excellent design/editing skills - Adobe (Indesign, Photoshop, Premier, Pro) or Canva is required,  experience of managing social media channels including Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn is essential. An ability to work unsupervised and problem-solving skills are also critical to this role.

Send your CV and covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) by no later than midday on Thursday 11 February 2021.

Please note that applications for this position may close prior to the deadline if there is sufficient interest, so you are advised to apply early.

Send your CV and covering letter outlining your suitability for the role (no more than 2 sides of A4)  by no later than midday on Friday 12th March 2021.

Please note that applications for this position may close prior to the deadline if there is sufficient interest, so you are advised to apply early.

Interviews will take place via video call on Tuesday 23rd March and Thursday 23rd March 2021.

Position: Marketing Officer (Brand)
Type: Full time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: MS National Centre, London
Salary: £30,010 - £34,577 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band E, Level 1
Department: Marketing & Brand

At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.

Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.

About this job

As we move through an extremely exciting transformation period with a brand-new organisational strategy and focus, we’re looking for a passionate Marketing Officer to join our newly structured Marketing and Brand team to support the organisation in putting our audiences at the centre of everything we do.

This role will focus on ensuring we’re always being led by insights from people affected by MS in order to meet their needs and beyond. We want to ensure we’re empowering our community as well as providing a platform as well as being a powerful voice for our community. Co-production is essential and working with our community will be central to all our actions.

We’ll create a clear and purposeful brand story that everyone can understand and talk about that will provide a more consistent experience of the MS Society.

The Marketing Officer – Brand, will support the Brand Marketing Manager on ensuring the quality, consistency and strategic development of our brand. This role will be responsible for maintaining and co-ordinating the marketing resource systems and respond to user enquiries, supplier correspondence, monitor creation of new assets, provide performance and stock reports, and billing/transactions reports from the respective systems.

We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.

The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our new 5 year strategy.

As part of this exciting transformation, we’ll be moving from our current National Centre based in Cricklewood, London to Finsbury Park, London later this year. We’re expecting to be moving into our new office from August 2021.

Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 10 March

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity.

No agencies please.

About the Together Trust

We’re one of the North West’s leading disability charities, offering individual care, support and education to thousands of people each year.

Our work wouldn’t be possible without our incredible team of staff and volunteers who are positive role models to the people we support.

You’ll be joining an organisation driven by its values and desire to see meaningful change - the people we support really are at the heart of everything we do.

We want you to grow and develop - so we’ll support you to shape the career that you want to have.

We can’t promise a job with us will be easy. But what we can say is your work will be filled with meaning.

A job at the Together Trust is more than just a job. Together we’ll change lives.

The Together Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. It is a commitment we expect and require from all our staff and volunteers. All Successful applicants will undertake stringent recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS.

About you

We're on the lookout for a creative and talented content officer to join our team. Your mission will be to grow our brand awareness and engagement within the sector. You'll work closely with the communications team to implement strategies and tactics to produce content that reflects our culture and mobilizes staff to become brand advocates.

You'll be responsible for creating compelling content, leveraging a range of communication methods, including, but not limited to; social media, video content, webinars and ebooks to help grow our presence as a leading charity in the region. We don't expect you to be an expert in all mediums, but we are looking for someone multi-disciplined, creative and eager to learn. You should have a real love for the written word, a track record of crafting engaging and original content as well as managing delivery across multiple formats, channels and platforms.

Benefits

You'll get to help the people we support celebrate along the road to a brighter future. And, be part of an incredible team of like-minded peers. Together we work hard, laugh a lot, and support each other. We also have a range of rewards and benefits for our staff:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays. Pro rated for part time roles) rising to 27 days after 5 years and 30 days after 10 years.
• A company pension plan with 7% employer contribution

• Opportunity to purchase a health plan to claim towards therapy, dental and more
• Unlimited access to our employee assistance programme for advice and support
• Support from mental health first aiders
• Follow your ambitions and progress your career through on-the-job training, apprenticeships and qualifications

Are you experienced in managing an organisation’s digital presence and passionate about managing digital platforms and running innovative and effective campaigns to help create a just world, free of poverty? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Role

SCIAF has an exciting opportunity to join our team as the permanent Senior Digital Marketing & Engagement Officer. The role sits in the Marketing and Communications team and plays a vital role in overseeing and managing SCIAF’s digital presence, optimising user experience and growing our online reach and community. The post holder will also work closely with teams within the Public Engagement Department to plan and execute innovative digital marketing for fundraising appeals and campaigns.

The role will be based in our Glasgow office, although you may be working from home initially.  There will also be opportunities to work flexibly in the future.

Who we’re looking for

We’re seeking someone with extensive skills and experience in managing an organisation’s digital presence, and a passion for developing and running exciting and effective digital campaigns to help us to reach our ambitious goals – whether through fundraising, campaigning for political change or raising our brand profile.

The role would suit someone with both creative and technical skills, able to combine strategy and innovation with data analysis and testing.

As a small team, we are looking for a high-performing individual with initiative and enthusiasm, someone flexible and responsive, who can use creativity and strong problem-solving skills to help us reach our goals.

About SCIAF

SCIAF is the official overseas aid and development agency of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Our mission is to enable the poorest to lift themselves out of poverty and work together to protect our common home, help people recover from disaster, and inspire people in Scotland to put their faith into action. SCIAF works in partnership with local and church organisations, supporting communities across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, to bring about lasting change. We reach out to those in need, regardless of age, race or religion and believe in supporting the whole person, including their spiritual wellbeing, political voice, cultural and community life.

Safeguarding

The post-holder will travel overseas to less developed parts of the world as required and will therefore come into contact with children and vulnerable adults.  SCIAF undertakes to ensure that all staff, volunteers and relevant others, whose work might involve contact with children, will have completed additional recruitment procedures and have obtained a satisfactory Enhanced PVG Check from Disclosure Scotland.  We would also confirm that all staff are expected to adhere to a Code of Conduct which specifies the attitudes and behaviour that all staff are expected to maintain.

What next?

Please read the full Job Description and Person Specification from the SCIAF website carefully, and get in touch if you have any questions or would like an informal discussion. You can find the application by following the APPLY instructions on Charity Job.

Closing date for completed applications:  26 March 2021.

Interviews:  to be held week beginning 5 April 2021.

Communications and Engagement Manager

We are currently seeking an experienced Communications & Engagement Manager to manage and deliver a communications and engagement strategy. This is a brand new, exciting role, giving the successful candidate the opportunity to put their stamp on communications. You will be a confident self-starter, who is good at looking for solutions, a great-people person and brilliant planner.

Position: Communications and Engagement Manager

Location: Central London - Currently home-based due to Covid restrictions with an opportunity to work flexibly from the central London office when allowed

Hours: Full Time (37.5hrs per week)  

Salary: £30,000 - £36,000 pa

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 25 days per year (not including bank holidays) pension, free annual flu jabs and annual sight tests, cycle to work scheme, ½ day a month entitlement to volunteer for a charity of your choice in work time, interest-free annual travel card loans, an employee assistance programme, staff discount scheme, support for external mentoring, free fruit every week and scope for flexible working.

Closing Date: 10 March 5pm

Interview Dates: 1st Interview Wednesday 17 March and 2nd Interview Monday 22 March

The Role

It’s a really exciting time to be involved with this ambitious and growing organisation that’s

committed to bringing the property sector together to create real social change. This is a great opportunity for a communications and marketing professional with good experience across the whole mix including digital, social media, brand and PR. Ideally with charity sector experience but certainly with a keen interest in the cause and passion for communications for good.

The Communications and Engagement Manager will deliver the communications and engagement strategy with both the property industry and the homelessness sector. Working closely with the Head of Communications and Engagement, you’ll deliver an ambitious strategy to improve and amplify the communications over the next three years.

You’ll work closely across the organisation:

• Delivering marketing campaigns with the Events team
• Developing bespoke engagement plans with the Corporate Partnerships Team
• Working with Programmes & Impact to develop and communicate the difference the organisation is making
• Working with the CEO and DCEO to build their personal brands in the industry

About You

As Communications and Engagement Manager, you will have a relevant marketing or communications qualification or relevant experience in a similar role. You will have:

• An informed interest in communications and engagement
• Knowledge of fundraising and experience of working with fundraising teams
• Knowledge of the media landscape and experience of securing media coverage
• Experience of delivering a successful communications strategy
• Demonstrable success of working with external agencies and internal departments to deliver marketing and communications campaigns, ideally with a social purpose
• Experience of monitoring and analysing communications activity against objectives
• Experience of delivering digital communications and increasing engagement through these
• Excellent written communication skills with experience of tailoring writing for different audiences and channels
• Excellent project management skills

In return…

The charity has an ambitious mission to end youth homelessness, so it’s an exciting time to join this dynamic and growing organisation. Along with an excellent benefits package, there are career development and flexible working opportunities.

About the Organisation

As the property industry’s charity working to end youth homelessness in the UK, the organisation brings remarkable businesses and individuals from across the property industry together to support charities providing accommodation for young people who are or have been homeless, or who are at risk of homelessness in the future. Through a unique network of corporate partners, it invests funding and expertise where to achieve lasting impact.

You may also have experience in areas such as Communications, Communications and Engagement, Engagement, Digital, Digital Communications, Content, Corporate Partnerships, Supporter Engagement, Fundraising, Supporter, Programme, Programme Manager, Homelessness, Vulnerable Adult, Housing, Policy, Media, Donor, Major Donor, Marketing, Marketing and Communications, Marketing and Digital, Digital Communication, Digital Engagement, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Brand, PR, Public Relations, External Relations.

The Sociological Review Foundation, a registered charity whose purpose is to advance the education of the public on the subject of sociology and related disciplines, are looking to appoint their first Communications Officer to join their team during an exciting time of organisational growth and development. The role reports directly to the Operations Director and will lead on the development and implementation of the organisation’s communication plans.

Working with the Operations Director and the Management Team, and embedded in the Foundation’s digital and support team, the successful candidate will lead on internal and external communications including:

• Developing and implementing communication plans that contribute to internal and external stakeholders’ awareness of, and participation in, our work. 
• Creating and communicating engaging and informative content tailored to communication channels and their audiences
• Generating communications, outputs and materials to support our fundraising activities

Main responsibilities

• Provides input into internal and external communication plans, and leads on their implementation and adaption to projects and their audiences
• Leads on digital and public engagement activities to promote events, projects and activities to both academic and non-academic audiences
• Oversees all content and its coherence as part of the SR brand
• Provides input into researching and identifying audiences as well as devising communication plans to engage with them
• Creates and communicates engaging and informative content (newsletters, website content, reports, pieces of written work to accompany visual content), tailored to communication channels and relevant audiences 
• Works with the Digital Editor and Theme Editors to research authors, solicit contributions and identify relevant accompanying articles from the Journal archive. 
• Liaises with blog authors with respect to deadlines and amendments suggested by the Digital Editorand Theme Editors 
• Liaises with the Fundraising Manager to generate communications, outputs and materials in accordance with funder requirements,including newsletters, project updates, impact reports, and Cases for Support for initiatives
• Compiles testimonials, references, feedback, and case studies from beneficiaries

Prospectus is delighted to be working with The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) to recruit a Communications Officer who will support the effective delivery of the A4S strategy in line with its mission to make sustainable decision making business as usual. A4S works across the global finance community to drive change. They have a presence in a number of geographies with the purpose to transform finance to deliver a sustainable future.

The overall purpose of this role is to work with the communications team, comprising world-leading industry experts, to develop and implement A4S's strategy, including growing their online following. You will lead on digital analytics, reporting on performance, recommend improvements and manage the development of content and collateral, across all media, to maximize communication efforts for events, projects and day-to-day stakeholder engagement. You will also maintain and manage communications templates, ensuring all collateral and materials adhere to the A4S brand guideline and leverage their CRM and other systems for marketing purposes, including list building and campaign tracking.

To be successful as a Communications Officer, you will have a strong track record in a communications and marketing role and be able to demonstrate strong written communications skills. Having the ability to analyse information effectively and being comfortable working on your own initiative and plan effectively are also important. You will be able to build strong relationships with a wide range of individuals, globally.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply, simply submit your CV. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and arrange for a call to assess your suitability and discuss the role further. Please note that the role may close earlier than the date advertised. Please note, we are currently experiencing high volumes of interest in vacancies so it may not be possible to answer any individual queries on positions prior to an application.