Intranet Content Strategist
Our client is an internationally renowned publisher of high quality chemical science knowledge and the professional body for chemists in the UK, with a thriving international community of over 50,000 members in 125 countries and over 600 staff. As a not-for-profit organisation, they reinvest all of their income to achieve their charitable objectives to support the chemical sciences community and advance chemistry.
Position: Intranet Content Strategist
Location: Cambridge (Commutable from Alconbury, Bedford, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge North, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton, Ely, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton, Histon & Impington, Hitchin, Huntingdon, Longstanton, Milton, Newmarket, Northstowe, Oakington, Orchard-Park, Royston, Saffron Walden, Somersham, St Ives, St Neots, Stevenage, Swavesey, Waterbeach, Wyton and surrounding areas)
Job type: Full Time, Temporary (14 months)
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £40,828 - £49,899 per annum
Benefits: Excellent contributory pension scheme, generous paid holidays, learning and career development, subsidised staff restaurant (Cambridge office), staff sports and social club, free private healthcare plan, income protection scheme, critical illness insurance, life assurance, free on-site parking (Cambridge office), season ticket, car / motor cycle and cycle to work schemes, membership subscription, employee assistance programme, eye-care at work scheme, wellness initiatives, flexible work environment, employee recognition, long service awards, membership subscription to professional body, two discounted staff flats on-site (Cambridge office), Litmus reward gateway benefits and more.
Closing Date: 19 July 2020
About the role:
Our client has an exciting opportunity to join our multi-award winning communications team to help shape the content of their new digital workplace platform. This opportunity is based at their Cambridge office and is available on a temporary (14 month) full-time (35 hours per week) basis.
Join over 600 of their employees worldwide and help them advance excellence in chemical sciences.
As an Intranet Content Strategist, you will work with our Communications and Technology teams to shape a new intranet content strategy that aligns to our goals and brand values. You will carry out a detailed audit and analysis of the current intranet content and user experience to provide their employees with an exceptional experience. A true expert, you will share content architecture and strategy best practice with internal stakeholders, and lead focus groups to test proposals. You will ensure that content is fresh, inspiring, accurate, relevant, well-organised and accessible.
Knowledge and skills required in this role:
• Demonstrable experience working in content strategy and of having successfully delivered similar projects in the past.
• Degree in a communications’ related field or equivalent experience demonstrating a knowledge of Content Strategy as a discipline and of best practice.
• Evidence of developing and delivering a content strategy that reflects an organisations brand values.
• Knowledge and experience of strategic and tactical communications planning.
• Demonstrable and outstanding project management skills.
• Awareness of the importance of good UX design in the development of websites and intranets.
• Experience working in a complex organisation highly preferred.
• Highly organised and deadline driven with a proven track-record of working strategically and delivering to tight deadlines.
• Creative skills through a range of media.
• Exemplary verbal and written communications skills.
• Proactive and problem solving with a can-do attitude.
• Critical judgement, resilience, and composure under pressure.
• Experience at managing conflicting requests and priorities, as well as setting and delivering to realistic
deadlines.
• A desire to promote and enable the positive impact of chemistry, and science generally, on social, political,and economic issues.
If you are interested in this opportunity, apply now.
You may have experience of the following: Marketing Executive, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Campaigns, Email Marketing, Marketing Communications, Internal Communications, Marketing Administrator, Communications Executive, Communications Assistant, Communications Officer, Communications Administrator, Events Management, Digital Marketing, Social Media, etc.
Reporting to: Chief Executive
Job Role: Develop a fundraising programme to include development of UKAHT’s membership.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be a well-rounded fundraiser with experience across a wide variety of fundraising sources that match the ambitions of the charity. A passion for heritage, environment and culture is essential - as is cultivating close and attentive relationships with supporters. We are looking for a collaborative worker who can roll-up their sleeves and enable the whole team to become fundraisers in their different capacities.
About You
- You are passionate about Antarctica, cultural heritage, public engagement and inspiring young people about the future of this fascinating continent.
- You feel confident representing the organisation to a variety of stakeholders, and creating bespoke cases for support for each audience.
- You are an experienced fundraiser, with a successful track record of helping charitable organisations to attract and grow income and funding from a wide range of public and private sources.
- You are entrepreneurial, ambitious but practical in your approach to fundraising and appreciate the balance of skills and requirements that this discipline requires.
- You are a proactive networker and collaborator.
- You are a strong communicator - able to identify and build effective relationships across all stakeholder groups and at all levels of seniority.
Person Specification:
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE (essentials and desirables)
Proven experience of securing significant funding from a variety of sources, including high net worth individuals, corporates, trusts, and foundations, and through face to face negotiations
Track record of success fundraising and cultivation of donors for campaigns of £250,000+
Track record of designing and implementing development strategies, including revenue and capital fundraising activities
Experience of budget development and management, and an understanding of management accounts
Proven ability to manage and grow a list of active and significant donors
Knowledge of relevant charity and tax laws
Experience of fundraising for arts, environment or education causes
Extensive networks and existing relationships with public bodies, trust and foundations, businesses, and philanthropists
Experience of working with high net worth individuals and senior volunteer boards
SKILLS, ABILITIES AND ATTITUDES (essentials and desirables)
Ability to inspire and motivate colleagues to create an effective and efficient department focused on successful income generating initiatives
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of people
High attention to detail, particularly regarding written work, budget and event planning
Excellent influencing, negotiation, and diplomacy skills
Ability to think and operate strategically and provide flexible solutions
Able to deliver to demanding deadlines and with a hands-on approach
Good IT skills including databases
Ability to self-motivate, work as part of a small team, and support colleagues
Confident, resilient, and resourceful
A commitment to excellence and professionalism
Appreciation of and support for the aims and ethos of UKAHT
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading and managing fundraising activity across the organisation, ensuring that colleagues are alerted to relevant opportunities in their business areas and working with them to develop and curate effective relationships with funders, donors, partners and clients in a proactive and methodical manner.
- Leading in delivering new fundraising and projects, including time-bound campaigns and new creative initiatives to grow income sustainably and ensure that the organisation follows appropriate internal and external applications and reporting timeframes and processes.
- Supporting colleagues in drafting correspondence and documentation, such as reports, briefings, applications, presentations, or other communication items to support development activity.
- Designing and implementing systems to identify and assess relevant opportunities.
- Developing and managing effective policies and procedures in line with best practice in the sector.
- Ensuring income generation activity is produced, filed, and archived in a systematic and efficient way, for all research, contracts, reports, and other records relating to fundraising.
- Managing development budgets and other related resources.
- Deliver a successful income generation plan that enables the delivery of UKAHT’s strategic plans and has the support of the CEO and Chair of the Board of Trustees.
- Lead fundraising activities across cultivation events, stakeholder management, sponsorship, individual giving, legacies, and capital projects.
- Develop and maintain productive and positive relationships with Trustees and Ambassadors.
- Support the development of UKAHT’s business plan.
- Represent UKAHT at internal and external networking opportunities, developing existing and new donor relationships, and deputise for the CEO where necessary.
FUNDRAISING AND ADVOCACY
- Be personally accountable for successful generation of major income to support programmes and the delivery of the ongoing strategy, agreeing fundraising targets with the Director and regularly reporting on progress.
- Set and achieve fundraising targets, showing year on year growth in activity and results.
- Manage and motivate directly or indirectly effective use of the Chair, Trustees, and Ambassadors for cultivating prospects and developing projects.
- Develop and maintain UKAHT’s relationships with funders, including major donors, trusts and foundations, corporate partners, and statutory bodies.
- Develop and maintain supporter schemes, including introduction of a legacy group.
- Have responsibility for development events, including private views and patrons’ programmes, ensuring high standards of donor care are maintained.
- Keep appraised of latest developments in the sector.
- Work closely with the Digital Engagement Manager to maximise case for support messaging, develop advocacy materials, undertake successful digital campaigns.
- Ensure accurate and appropriate accreditation of supporters, sponsors, and partners.
ADMINISTRATION
- Produce reports for and make presentations to the Board of Trustees, as necessary.
- Ensure supporters are reported to in an appropriate and timely fashion.
- Manage development budgets and prepare financial data.
- Support the maintenance of an accurate database.
- Carry out any other duties as deemed appropriate by the CEO.
TERMS:
UKAHT is committed to providing excellent terms and conditions of employment for all employees.
Location
Pre-COVID this role was based in the UKAHT office in Cambridge:
High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET. However, as we adjust to a COVID world we envisage a flexible blend of homeworking with some office-based work.
Salary: £38,000-£40,000 pro rota + benefits
Working Hours: 3 or 4 days a week (working week 37.5 hours) with potential for full time in the future
Holidays: 25 days per year pro rota of paid leave plus the usual public holidays.
Expenses: All reasonable travel costs incurred as part of the role will be reimbursed as per UKAHT policy
Benefits: UKAHT operates a contributory pension scheme into which you will be enrolled.
Probationary period: The appointment will be subject to a six month probationary period
Notice period: Upon completion of the probationary period the period of notice will be two months by either party.
UKAHT is committed to equal opportunities and to learning how to increase the diversity of our people. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons and encourage applications from people currently underrepresented in the Polar regions, including women in senior leadership positions, members of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities and LGBTQI+ people. We also welcome flexible working arrangements.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Catering Consultancy Manager
Reference number: A0030620
Location: Flexible
Salary starting at £34,643 to £38,632 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
This is an exciting time to join the Visitor Operations Consultancy at the RSPB and this role will be responsible for the implementation of the RSPB's Catering strategy across our reserves as well as contributing to the overall Commercial Strategy development and implementation.
This role will develop team work plans and provide specialist commercial expertise to support the Catering strategy. The role can be flexibly based however occassional travel will be required to our headquarters at The Lodge, Sandy in addition to general requirements for travel within the role.
This role will be integral as the consulting lead for all the catering workstreams increasing profitability, developing business cases for new catering outlets and systems as well as supporting new ways of working with operational teams across the UK.
This role is primarily setting direction across the RSPB's catering operation, bringing energy, commercial expertise and excellent relationship building skills to ensure future growth.
About You
- You have the drive and determination to help roll out strategy, new ways of working and lead change.
- You have commercial acumen, extensive experience in business planning and a proven track record of leading commercial growth.
- You thrive in taking on challenges with a positive, solutions focussed approach.
- You are a confident, inspiring and assertive leader who works collaboratively with others across multi-disciplinary teams.
- You are passionate about ensuring excellence in customer service on sites so that teams are motivated to keep the visitor at the heart of the offer.
- You have exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
If you would like to work with some of the most beautiful places in the UK, making a significant contribution to our cause in saving nature, this could be the role for you.
Closing date: 17 July 2020
Interview date: 22 July 2020
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website, where you can download the role profile and application details.
No agencies please.
* Temporary working from home required due to Covid-19 pandemic *
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Interview date: Monday 3rd August
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