The Mulberry Bush Charity is looking to appoint a:

Marketing and Communications Executive

Salary (£ 20 – 27,000)

Full or part time position

Based near Witney

Flexibility for some remote working

28 days + Bank Holidays holiday (pro rata)

The Mulberry Bush is a highly successful and forward thinking charity, which has been meeting the needs of traumatised children and their families since 1948.

‘To transform the lives of all those affected by childhood trauma, through specialist therapeutic services’

The successful candidate will deliver high impact, integrated marketing and digital communications to strengthen the Mulberry Bush brand, whilst working to promote individual charity services and supporter engagement.  Working closely with senior management and all teams across the charity, this is an exciting opportunity to use the full range of your marketing and communications skills to help us achieve our charitable objectives and raise the money to make it happen.

Currently our services include:

• The Mulberry Bush School: a non-maintained residential special school and children’s home working with vulnerable and emotionally troubled primary aged children and their families. It has developed an outstanding reputation for successfully re-integrating severely emotionally troubled children back onto mainstream family, school and community life.
• The Mulberry Bush Outreach: offers training and consultation to develop reflective practice and collaborative working to strengthen the leadership cultures in mainstream schools and children’s social care organisations.
• The Mulberry Bush Research: Our research department is committed to research in therapeutic residential and foster care and aims to develop a research culture to influence practice nationally.
• The International Centre for Therapeutic Care: a global free alliance of child centred organisations that share therapeutic practice via our online The Therapeutic Care Journal.
• The Mulberry Bush Third Space: Our events and conference centre in Gloucestershire which holds the Planned Environment Therapy Archive and the National Child Care Library.

We offer a supportive multi- disciplinary working environment which includes comprehensive supervision, team working, relevant and regular training and with generous pay structures and holiday entitlements for all its staff.

Application deadline date: Fri 29th May 2020

Interview date: Wed 17th June (TBC)

Anticipated start date: July 2020

For further information and details on how to apply please contact Lucy Lowe by emailing her or visiting our website.

Responsibilities and Job Specifications

Key responsibilities

• Report to Head of Fundraising and Marketing, with close liaison with the CEO, COO and Service Leads
• Deliver integrated marketing / digital marketing communications, including strategy, execution, creative, production and reporting.
• Create electronic and hard copy collateral, including promotional assets, advertising, social media posts and website copy.
• Manage social media accounts and websites.
• End to end campaign management.
• Competent use of CRM system, Google Analytics and social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
• Manage all relevant agency relationships.
• Measure and report on campaign activity, including ROI.

Candidate specification

• Educated to degree level
• 3+ years’ experience of marketing and communications, with proven track record of delivery, ideally including experience in the not-for-profit sector.
• Responsible for driving marketing results and accountable for improved performance, leading change and ensuring high standards.
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior level colleagues.
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Ability to problem-solve, prioritise tasks and manage multiple projects.
• Strong oral and written communication, presentational and interpersonal skills.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills, but also highly creative.

The Mulberry Bush School is an equal opportunities employer and is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children as its utmost priority and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal background check from the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Responses mission is to enable people with severe and enduring mental health problems and complex needs to live their lives to the full. For over 50 years Response have been innovating, adapting and providing high quality services in the field and now operate across the Thames Valley and down to the South Coast. If you feel our values of Safe, Caring, Creative and Aspirational match yours – then please read on!

Senior Programme Manager

This is a new role reporting to the Chief Executive on a permanent, full time, basis, however a fixed term contract or part time hours could be considered.

• 25 days holiday + bank hols
• Free parking on site
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Social Events throughout the year
• Discounted shopping
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Training and Development
• Auto Enrolment Pension Scheme
• £500 Refer a Friend Bonus Scheme

Responsibilities

Responsible for leading and overseeing the development, coordination and management of projects and work streams in line with business objectives. Utilising best practice programme and project management to provide a coordinated and controlled environment in which to efficiently facilitate and deliver change to the organisation.

Duties

1. Champion and implement effective programme delivery, supporting the vision to attain a high-class transformation organisation.
2. Manage communication and engagement with programme stakeholders, developing and maintaining strategic relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit the organisation.
3. Provide overall direction and leadership for the programme and project delivery teams in scope of the role.
4. Ensure delivery of programme and project outcomes, benefits and mitigate risks.
5. Lead the programme, including set-up, management and delivery, ensuring that the programme delivers and meets all processes, standards and reporting requirements.
6. Identify, manage and resolve risks, track and manage costs and benefits, provide reports as required, and ensure all outputs meet requirements

What Response are Looking For

Essential: Commitment to Responses values, vision and mission. You will have experience in working with risk within a complex change portfolio, demonstrated change management experience and senior leadership within a complex change portfolio. Knowledge of housing in context of health and social care and tendering and commissioning.

The skills you will hold are as follows: ability to negotiate, influence and providing challenge to board-level stakeholders, strong relationship building and coaching skills including relations with residents, service users, staff, internal and external partners and the ability to establish credibility, respect and trust.

Desirable: Experience in the not for profit sector, housing association and private care sector. Postgraduate qualification in relevant field, business and management qualifications.

If this is a role you are interested in then please apply online now!

Closing date: 30th June 2020

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced communications professional looking for a part time role. Home-Start Oxford is a small but highly regarded charity providing support to vulnerable families with young children through their challenging times. We have ambitious plans to grow and reach more parents when they need us most. This new post to develop our communications, is key.

As well being a strategic thinker, you will be naturally curious with a journalistic flair for finding stories that can be told across a broad range of media. We are looking for:

• Experience creating a communication strategy and delivering against it
• Experience developing effective external comms across a range of channels, especially digital
• Strong writing skills
• Experience in the charity sector, and comms in support of fundraising. This is not essential, but will be an advantage.

Overview of the charity

Home-Start Oxford is a small charity making a big impact for families in the local area. Our trained volunteers and expert support staff help families with young children so they don’t have to face their toughest times alone.  The parents we support are often overwhelmed and isolated. They may be struggling with mental health, illness, disability, multiple birth, poverty, domestic abuse, separation or trauma. We provide both 1:1 and group support, operating from bases in Oxford and Witney.

Our award-winning charity has been helping families in Oxford City, West and Central Oxfordshire for over 30 years. We are an independent charity, and part of the wider Home-Start network – the largest volunteer-led family support movement in the UK. We work closely with other local Home-Starts regionally and nationally, as well as with Home-Start UK

You will be part of a welcoming, committed team based in our office in Blackbird Leys. We offer flexible working, and you will be part of a team in which everyone works part-time. You will be based primarily in the office and will need to attend our team meetings, which are currently on Tuesday morning, but on Monday when our group sessions resume. Otherwise, there is flexibility on the pattern of days and hours. We are currently working from home. 

The Role

It’s an exciting time to join Home-Start Oxford. We are embarking on an ambitious new three-year strategy to significantly increase the number of families we support through volunteer recruitment, training and fundraising.

Enhancing our communications to grow our reputation across all stakeholder groups is key to extending our reach, growing our community, and increasing our funding. Integral to this is the promotion of our values on parenting, equality and diversity.

We are in a strong place, and are investing in infrastructure and communications supported by a grant from Step-Change.

This is a new role and a great opportunity for a passionate self-starter who wants to make a real impact and lead the development and implementation of our communications activity.