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Check NowWe are Norfolk’s charity for people living with sight loss and visual impairment. Providing practical and emotional support at our hubs in Norwich, King’s Lynn and Great Yarmouth and in hospitals across Norfolk. Together with social and well-being activities for adults and children, young people and their families, daily living equipment, befriending services and specialist housing, we help those affected by sight loss to live life fully.
About the role
We are looking for a real team player who will work to integrate community fundraising and social media marketing into our volunteers and events teams. This is a time of change for the organisation and the ideal candidate will be someone who is not afraid to embrace and promote new challenges and new technology. This is a multi-tasking role and an ability to prioritise and organise a busy workload is essential. The two sides to the role (community fundraising & communications) are interlinked and there is an expectation to develop this in the role. A can-do attitude is more important to us than a long history of marketing experience, as on-going training and support will be provided.
Vision Norfolk (previously the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind) is going through a period of organisational change, which means the successful candidate will have room for growth and development in this role.
The ideal candidate will have:
· Experience of forging partnerships with companies, clubs or groups, from prospect researching through to pitching
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to develop compelling partnership proposals
· A real passion for team working and collaboration to drive results
· Meticulous attention to detail and data management to drive a new supporter pipeline
· A real passion for working in public fundraising and delivering engaging and inspiring supporter experiences
· Have an excellent knowledge of the best content for different social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube and a passion for emerging platforms and audiences
· DBS check required at Enhanced level
Please submit a covering letter (no longer than 2 x A4) along with your most recent CV. Please clearly address the points in the person specification with examples in your application.
Closing Date: 18th June 2022
Shortlisting w/c: 27th June 2022
Interviews: w/c: 4th July 2022
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A great opportunity for a strong communicator in a fast-growing charity that is helping improve access to medicines worldwide, saving lives and preventing avoidable suffering. International Health Partners (IHP) supports people in hard-to-reach, vulnerable and disaster-hit communities to get the medicines they need, by coordinating the safe and responsible donation of long-dated medical products. We work with our strong network of global healthcare, logistics and NGO partners, to source and send treatments to where they are needed most, to help prevent the needless suffering caused by a lack of access to healthcare. Our work is needed now more than ever. The global outbreak of COVID-19 has further highlighted the urgent need for improving access to medicines and for strengthening health systems. In the last two years, IHP has sent over 20 million treatments to vulnerable communities around the world including places such as Yemen, Lebanon, South Sudan and Haiti.
We are looking for someone who is naturally articulate, proactive and enthusiastic. You will help us raise IHP's profile and hence resources, through targeting marketing and brand campaigns in line with the communications strategy.
You will do this by producing strong communications and fundraising materials for our channels and for key stakeholders. These include IHP donors, NGO partners, logistics and healthcare companies. You will provide regular content for a range of media including our website, social media and newsletters. You will work closely with IHP colleagues to achieve IHP’s aims, and act as a point of liaison with other organisations looking to talk about our partnerships.
Can you help us tell the right story, to the right people, at the right time? Can you seek out new opportunities to get IHP’s brand in front of relevant audiences to ensure we can raise our profile, increase resources and deliver our vision? If so, this role could be for you. We are looking for someone with experience in a similar role and with knowledge of marketing and communications. Understanding of the charity sector and global health would be an advantage.
IHP is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Staff regularly spend time together praying for IHP’s work and there is therefore an occupational requirement that this position is held by a committed Christian. Please make it clear in the application how you meet this requirement.
If you would like to use your skills to make a real difference please apply now. The closing date for all applications is 10th June . Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and as such, suitable candidates may be invited to a conversation ahead of the closing date. Please submit your CV with a covering letter of no more than two A4 sides outlining how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification.
We offer excellent benefits including a company pension scheme, employee wellbeing and benefits support, training, development and a generous holiday entitlement. Our newest staff describe our culture as 'compassionate', 'dynamic' and 'rewarding', a place where you will be supported to 'thrive professionally and personally', In short, IHP is a great place to work and the role we play is genuinely rewarding.
Please submit a CV and a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification. This should include reference to how you meet the occupational faith requirement and confirmation that you have the right to work in the UK. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
Most of us can readily access the medicines we need. But for millions of people around the world who don’t have this reliable access,... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Communications Officer to join our small but busy and highly respected communications team. You will be responsible for Clinks’ social media presence, planning and coordinating e-communications and website content and providing support to Clinks’ staff in the writing and production of publications. You will ensure accuracy and consistency across our communications channels and play an important role in ensuring voluntary sector organisations working in criminal justice have access to up to date knowledge of developments in the criminal justice system and Clinks’ support. You will support the Communications Manager to implement Clinks’ communications strategy to develop Clinks’ profile and support the achievement of our strategic objectives.
This is an exciting role for the right person to work in a small but dynamic organisation, within a fast paced external environment, and where you will learn a lot from voluntary organisations working in criminal justice.
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An ambitious and proactive Communications professional is required to support our exciting programme of growth over the next few years so that we can support more vulnerable families to give their children the best start in life. We’re looking for someone to help us build our social profile and create engaging content that tells the story of our work, help demonstrates our impact and engages with a wide audience.
This is a multifaceted role, which requires the post holder to take a central position within our organisation. They will play a key role in the development and implementation of our communications strategy to raise awareness of Home-Start Barnet and our services with a wide range of stakeholders.
We envisage the role being split mainly between social media (70%), marketing materials (20%) and website (10%).
About us
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Communications Officer
£27,000 to £30,000, 8% pension, generous annual leave and life insurance
Full-time, permanent
Location: London Bridge and flexible home working
In this rewarding and varied role, help us to communicate the need for better, greener, fairer transport through the media, social media, supporter communications and more.
As the country's leading transport charity, Campaign for Better Transport regularly features in national print and broadcast media, yet our small size gives you the chance to work on an exciting range of communications work with a strong campaigning focus.
We are looking for a creative and effective communicator with excellent writing skills, able to turn complex information into compelling news, PR coverage and social media content. You will have a good understanding of the media and experience of delivering communications across a range of channels.
Key responsibilities include:
- Writing press releases and responding to media enquiries
- Creating and posting content for the website and social media
- Writing to our supporters and responding to messages via email and social media
- Providing communications support for campaigns
Please download the job pack and equality monitoring form before applying.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a full-time Communications Officer to lead the communications work of the organisation. The post holder will be creating and embedding a new communications strategy to strengthen and transform our communications and enhance how we communicate the organisation’s role, vision, priorities and activities and ensure positive and balanced coverage in the media.
The Communications Officer will lead the work to bring migrants’ authentic voices into the media and migration debates and strengthen the communications capacity of the organisation and our members in London, Birmingham and Glasgow.
The ideal candidate will have experience of developing and implementing ambitious and creative communications strategies for small organisations that want to have a big impact. You will have an active interest in current affairs and the issues surrounding migration to the UK, knowledge of channels and a collaborative approach that puts migrants, refugees and asylum seekers at the core of our communications.
This is a hands-on role with both strategic work and operational communications delivery. You should be a self-starter, able to work effectively within a small team and to tight deadlines.
About Migrant Voice
Migrant Voice is a migrant-led, national organisation which builds a community of migrant voices to speak for themselves and to set the agenda on migration and address structural inequalities that surround migrants and shape society.
Our campaigns have featured in the Guardian, on BBC Newsnight, ITV News and across other national and regional media. We believe that first-hand accounts of the lived experience of migrants to the UK are the only way to challenge misconception. We work with all types of migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, across the UK with campaign/advocacy to achieve migrants’ rights and justice for all.
Main duties and responsibilities
We will require the Communications Officer to work closely with senior management and lead on the delivery of the areas of work below:
- Create an ambitious communications strategy compatible with our new strategic plan and Theory of Change including undertaking a review of our channels and key audiences.
- Embed the new communications strategy into the working practices and systems of the organisation, and train and support the staff team to implement it.
- Develop and optimise Migrant Voice’s key messages and identify opportunities to achieve our communications objectives.
- Lead our communications work ensuring that what and how we communicate is leading to the change we want to see in line with our strategy.
- Manage the communications infrastructure for the organisation, including our website and social media channels and their content and style.
- Build on our ‘Meet the Editors’ programme and continue to organise, publicise and facilitate events and meetings between migrants and journalists and editors, to enable dialogue about migration and migrants’ experiences to take place and create opportunities for and influence media stories.
- Build and develop relationships with media contacts and increase opportunities for members’ contributions to radio, TV, print and social media outlets, as well as to MV’s own communication channels.
- Daily contact with senior officers and staff in potentially all areas of the organisation to support on projects, campaigns, and organisational public relations.
- Produce high-level written material and media copy including editorials, promotional materials and news releases.
- Create policy/issues briefings based on migrants’ experiences raised at our activities and disseminate to policy makers.
- Raise the profile of migrants’ issues in the media and create opportunities for migrants’ voices to be heard, including rapidly responding to news stories, planning our proactive strategy, brokering interviews and other media opportunities, pitching and responding to media enquiries.
- Train, mentor and support migrant individuals and groups to enhance their capacity and confidence in speaking with the media.
- Evaluate media and public relations activity to assess its effectiveness, impact and value and uses the results to influence future strategy and work plans.
- Work independently, including undertaking your own administrative duties related to the work.
- Adhere to MV’s policies and procedures and demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and confidentiality.
Further Information
Application:
Individuals interested in applying should send an up-to-date CV and a maximum of 4 A4 pages cover letter describing their skills, experience, suitability and approach to the work to be undertaken. They should also send a filled equal opportunities monitoring form (no additional attachments please).
Deadline for applications:
Monday 6 June, 2022 at 9am. Interviews with those short-listed will take place on Tuesday 14 June, 2022, in person at our London office.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
High Trees Community Development Trust
High Trees was born of the local community 23 years ago, through collective community action to save the old library based in Tulse Hill, turning it into a Community Development Trust. Today, High Trees has grown significantly and is a well-regarded and trusted community anchor in Lambeth, delivering and leading on a range of integrated services to connect people and communities to strengthen skills and build stronger voices.
Our 5 cornerstone support areas provide integrated services in:
- Employment & Welfare Advice
- Community Education & Training
- Community Action
- Children, Young People & Families
- Partnerships & Development
The Role
High Trees’ Communications Officer sits at the heart of our team, allowing us to reach new users, communicate our offer to the local community clearly and demonstrate our impact to our funders and other key stakeholders.
As a Communications Officer, you will sit within the Partnerships and Development team, coordinating our communications by creating and editing content and working closely with each service team to engage our different audiences.
Responsible for implementing our comms plans, and being ambitious about the quality and potential reach of our work this is one of the key roles that us to communicate who we are, why we do the work we do and the impact it has.
Reporting to the Partnerships and Development Manager, your role will include ensuring the publication of new content to the highest quality standard. You will update and maintain our website on WordPress, grow our social media reach, and design engaging multimedia material that highlight our work and community. You will build relationships with each of our teams, assessing their needs and creating top-quality content for all our channels.
Your strengths will include an instinctively ability to modify tone and content for different audiences while keeping within the High Trees voice and our brand guidlines, the ability to design flyers, reports and other media, the ability to update our website content using WordPress, familiarity with all social media channels and an excellent attention to detail and the ability to proofread flawlessly.
In a typical month you may design several flyers to publicise our activities, create an impact report for one of our funders, work with one of our teams to put together an event with learners while ensuring our newsletter goes out on schedule, our social media is active and varied, collate the case studies sent through from our different teams and create a new page on our website for one of our new partnerships.
You will have at least 1 years’ experience (perhaps significantly more) working in communications, perhaps in the VCS sector. You will have experience maintaining websites , developing materials for print and online distribution and creating a variety of written materials for different audiences.
High Trees was born of the local community 22 years ago, through collective community action to save the old library based in Tulse Hill, turni... Read more
The role
Want to work in communications and at the heart of a campaigning, humanitarian charity, tackling needless deaths and the climate emergency? Want to work in a research-driven team that finds the evidence that will drive change, and use your communication skills to inspire, inform, and mobilise people to campaign with us for that change?
Who we are
Brake is a national, acclaimed charity tackling one of the biggest issues of our time - the daily horrific carnage of deaths, injuries, and air pollution on roads. Traffic is the biggest killer of young people worldwide, poisoning our lungs and contributing hugely to the climate emergency. Brake’s vision is that people get around in safe and healthy ways. Our values require us to be evidence-based, aim high, and work collaboratively. We have a 25-year reputation for campaigning for positive change, advising government, encouraging action in communities, delivering the UK’s National Road Victim Service, and fundraising so we can campaign more and support victims more.
Our hard-hitting ‘did you know?’ and human-interest stories, and our innovative campaigns and fundraising drives, have seen us consistently in the news. We have a strong supporter base and range of digital supporter communications.
Who you are
You’re a values-driven, effective and creative communicator, passionate about making a difference and with experience using different communication methods and channels to engage with a range of stakeholders, in clear, resonant and impactful ways that bring issues to life and motivate people to take action and give funds. You’re also an analytical thinker who enjoys the challenge of investigating, evidencing and weighing up complex multi-faceted issues, getting to the heart of them and seeking out news stories. You have a reputation for rigorous fact checking and conveying evidenced and interesting perspectives accurately, articulately and persuasively. You thrive on non-hierarchical team-working, relationship building and networking, and you’re comfortable working with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. You’re innovative, flexible and outcome focussed, equally happy undertaking hands-on delivery in a fast-moving environment and thinking strategically.
Key tasks
- Supporting the development, coordination and delivery of our communication plans and activities, including PR, marketing communications and supporter communications, to enable us to communicate Brake’s cause, work, impact, campaigns and participation opportunities across all audiences and communication channels.
- Working with internal and external expertise to produce a broad range of evidence-based accessible content including content that is headline-grabbing news.
- Writing press releases, managing Brake’s relationships with the media, responding to media requests and briefing Brake’s media spokespeople for TV and radio appearances.
- Drafting communications for our strategic partners, supporters and the wider public, ranging from Government consultation responses, to newsletters to fact sheets.
- Building our stakeholder contact base and supporting the accurate updating and maintenance of contacts on our customer relationship management system.
- Reporting our communication activity and outcomes against KPIs, so we can evaluate our communication impact.
You bring
- Campaigning zeal and understanding of what it means to campaign. You care about people and the planet and believe in campaigning. You have political astuteness and a keen interest in Government policymaking and stakeholder advising and influencing and the power of people to make a difference through taking action and funding charities to do more. Experience of campaigning or active support for a campaigning charity at any level would be advantageous.
- Communication skills. You have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You have a track record of producing clean, well-structured, succinct, evidence-based written content, tailored to different audiences and channels. Every word you write carries additional meaning and is concise, compelling and impactful, helping people understand, care and take action.
- Research skills. You have analytical expertise and attention to detail, demonstrated through previous academic or practitioner experience investigating complex issues and translating these correctly. You fact check, retain information integrity, and risk manage to prevent libel or slander.
- People skills. You are a great relationship builder at all levels; you will be managing media relationships with national, regional and sector journalists as well as partner stakeholder relationships, including road victims and leaders of national organisations.
- System skills. You have a willingness to learn and carefully use IT systems that help us log and share our contacts and analyse our communications impact, as well as proficiency in all standard Office IT systems including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- An organised and team-centred approach, combined with flexibility. You have an ability to plan, work in teams and across teams and flexibly, responding to emerging events and acting on initiative as required. You pragmatically balance multiple priorities to deadlines.
- It will be advantageous to live within two hours of central London.
About the team and how we work
- You will be joining a skilled, dedicated and friendly team, with a visionary, dynamic and expert Chief Executive committed to growing the charity’s impact, and a knowledgeable and engaged Board of Trustees.
- Our team works remotely and encourages use of sustainable transport.
- We are open to secondments and candidates wanting to work flexibly or part time.
- Brake actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We employ based on 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.
- Employees are subject to driver licence checks. If you drive, please note we do not accept applications from serious traffic offenders due to the nature of our work.
Duration - 12-month contract (with possibility of extension), 3+ days per week considered
Start date - asap
Salary - circa £30k (pro-rated for part time)
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Job Summary
To provide day-to-day operational support for the Marketing and Communications team and its outputs. In this role you will support the team in executing tasks across content, communications, marketing, etc.
The Marketing and Communications Officer is responsible for the delivery of internal and external marketing and communications activities for akt across a range of platforms. This will involve, but not limited to:
- multichannel campaign planning and delivery
- producing engaging marketing materials for social media, website, email, and print
- campaign optimisation and reporting
- website management
- copywriting, proofreading, and brand awareness
- advert and newsletter creation
- administration and database management
- organising and attending akt events
For more information, please see the job description on our careers page.
Close date: 31st May 2022 11.59pm
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we help families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them. And you could be a part of the team making it happen.
The Role
We're lucky to have corporate and brand partnerships with some fantastic businesses - including some household names - who are just as passionate as we are about helping families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them.
As Communications Officer, you will take lead on providing communications support on Young Lives vs Cancer’s corporate and brand partnerships and a range of communications projects at Young Lives vs Cancer.
This role will include delivering a wide range of marketing, PR, social media, internal communications and engagement activities to help raise the profile of Young Lives vs Cancer and inspire corporate partners' staff to raise vital funds.
Young Lives vs Cancer is open to and in support of flexible working. We are currently defining our approach to hybrid working. Your flexibility requirements, including location and that of the role will be discussed at interview stage with you.
About You
You will have experience in delivering PR, internal communications, social media and marketing. It is a really varied role where you can put all of your communications experience into practice whether you're working with our partners at a well-known pub chain to write copy for its customer magazine; writing a media release about a teddy bear being sold by one of our high street partners or crafting content for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or Linkedin.
You will be happy to develop and maintain strong relationships with Young Lives vs Cancer staff and partners across the UK at all levels of the organisations.
What we Offer
In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes generous annual leave entitlement, enhanced pension and employee savings scheme. To find out more about our benefits package, please visit our website.
At Young Lives vs Cancer, we recognise that opportunities for too many people remain a condition of their race, class, sex, disability, sexual orientation – or a combination. This has never been acceptable to us as an organisation. At Young Lives vs Cancer, we do not just accept difference — we value it, we celebrate it, we nurture it, and we thrive off it. We positively welcome your application irrespective of your background.
We are on a journey, and if you join us, you will be part of a community that is committed make a difference to the lives of children and young people with cancer.
Young Lives vs Cancer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Location: Flexible
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 35 hours per week
Salary: Outside of London: £28,033 - £31,496; London-based: £29,656 - £33,336
Closing Date: 22 May 2022
You may have experience of the following: You may have experience of the following: Communications Manager, Communications Officer, Digital Officer, Membership Officer, Project Management, Charity, Third Sector, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.
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Communications Officer
We have an exciting opportunity for a Communications Officer to join our small but busy and highly respected communications team. You will be responsible for Clinks’ social media presence, planning and coordinating e-communications and website content and providing support to Clinks’ staff in the writing and production of publications. You will ensure accuracy and consistency across our communications channels and play an important role in ensuring voluntary sector organisations working in criminal justice have access to up to date knowledge of developments in the criminal justice system and Clinks’ support. You will support the Communications Manager to implement Clinks’ communications strategy to develop Clinks’ profile and support the achievement of our strategic objectives.
This is an exciting role for the right person to work in a small but dynamic organisation, within a fast paced external environment, and where you will learn a lot from voluntary organisations working in criminal justice.
About Clinks
Thousands of voluntary organisations support people in the criminal justice system. They provide vital support to people serving their sentence in prison, in the community and people returning to the community after prison.
Clinks supports, promotes and represents the voluntary sector working with people in the criminal justice system and their families. Our vision is of a vibrant, independent and resilient voluntary sector that enables people to transform their lives.
Over the last couple of years these organisations have demonstrated strength, adaptability and resilience in the face of the damage and harm inflicted by Covid-19 on people in contact with the criminal justice system and the organisations that support them, combined with large scale changes in the criminal justice policy and operating environment. We are now at a critical moment to address longstanding, systemic problems facing the criminal justice system and the people within it. We are committed to working with the sector and the government to build a post pandemic future with a fairer criminal justice system that utilises the vast expertise and diversity of voluntary organisations, treating them as equal partners. A future where organisations not only survive but thrive.
Clinks is an equal opportunities employer committed to increasing diversity and actively working towards becoming anti-racist. Applicants from racially minoritised communities, those that have a disability or who are from a less privileged background, are particularly encouraged to apply.
Individuals with direct experience of the criminal justice system and/or with protected characteristics are actively encouraged to apply. This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Clinks' recruitment policy is that there is no requirement to disclose any convictions when applying for this role.
Benefits
Clinks is an ethical employer offering an excellent benefits package, including competitive salary rates, a 6% employers company pension contribution and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. We offer a monthly wellbeing day off to support healthy mental wellbeing and operate a flexible working approach to support work/life balance. We also provide internal coaching pairs, an employee assistance programme and employee resource groups to enhance inclusion.
How to apply for the job
Please see the job description, application form and equalities monitoring form on the Clinks website. The equalities monitoring data is anonymised and data is received separately from the rest of the application.
The deadline for applications is9am Monday 6 June 2022
Interviews are expected to take place on 24th June. If you are unable to attend on this date please inform us in your application. We will endeavour to accommodate shortlisted candidates' availability where possible.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
Unfortunately, we are unable to notify non-shortlisted applicants. If you do not hear from us by the interview date, please assume that you were unsuccessful on this occasion and thank you for your interesting in working for Clinks.
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Prospectus is pleased to be supporting a leading London public research university, who are looking to recruit a full-time permanent Staff Communications Officer. This will be a hybrid working, of two days onsite (South East London)
This role is responsible for managing communications to the organisations staff. It mixes longer-term strategic planning and community engagement through to daily, hands-on delivery of communications products like newsletters and managing the intranet.
You will act as an ambassador for the CRM, promoting an integrated and multi-channel approach. You will compile and write the weekly staff newsletter, develop annual internal communications to all colleagues, work with stakeholders to deliver communication needs and support communication activities across professional services departments.
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, covers letters are not required. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and arrange for a call to discuss the role further.
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Children's charity with national reach is looking for a Marketing and Communications Officer to join our team in a newly created role. Starlight is dedicated to using the power of play to make the experience of illness and treatment better for children and their families across the UK.
You’ll help deliver high impact multi-channel marketing campaigns, develop case studies, support the Media & Communications Manager to generate media coverage, copywrite a range of marketing and fundraising materials and build relationships with celebrities and influencers. If you have a strong eye for comms and a passion for protecting play for seriously ill children, this could be the role for you.
We are looking for someone to work as a key member of the Marketing team and with other key colleagues across the Fundraising department and the wider organisation, to support our work to drive change in the provision of play in hospitals and to increase reach and engagement with new audiences.
You'll be a communications all-rounder with skills across copywriting, marketing, media relations, content creation and digital and social media. The ideal candidate will be a proactive, creative problem solver ready to turn their hand to a wide range of projects and will like nothing more than the buzz of finding and creating compelling stories that inspire our audiences.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Manage the charity’s case study library of families, play professionals and fundraisers. Work with colleagues to source case studies and lead on interviewing and writing up stories.
- Be pro-active in helping to spot media opportunities for the charity and assist in the selling in of content to raise the profile of Starlight amongst target audiences.
- Assist with celebrity ambassador and influencer liaison as part of planned campaigns, media opportunities and event attendance.
- Be a copywriting and proof-reading resource for key fundraising, marketing, email, press releases and communications projects.
- Monitor Starlight and relevant news coverage in the media and share internally.
- Provide general support to the marketing and communications team specifically the Head of Marketing and Communications and Media & Communications Manager.
Please submit your CV accompanied by a supporting statement which demonstrates
how your experience matches the person specification and highlights your most
relevant, recent experience for this role
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Ambitious about Autism is the national charity standing with autistic children and young people. We are seeking an excellent and proactive communicator to join our small yet dynamic team and help us increase positive awareness and engagement with our vital work.
We are currently looking for a PR and Communications Officer who will focus on profiling all aspects of our charity's work, from digging out inspiring stories from our education, employment, and youth participation services to promoting our fundraising activities and driving awareness of our policy priorities and campaigning work.
We are looking for an individual who will:
- Have a background in journalism or PR
- Experience of developing inspiring communications for internal and external audiences.
- The ability to build influential relationships with a range of stakeholders, including colleagues and external partners.
- Be responsible for engaging our high-profile supporters, including our patrons and ambassadors, and seek out new opportunities to expand this network to reach new audiences.
In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the lives of autistic children and young people. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.
If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact Stephen Vickers
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
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This is a newly created role to facilitate the Rackets Cubed scaling plan to reach at least 150 programmes by 2024/2025. The main purpose of the role is to support our Chief administrator and help develop the charity’s communications.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.