Communication officer jobs near Newcastle

Regional Communications Officer- South and South East of UK

About Emmaus

Emmaus is a homelessness charity helping formerly homeless people to rebuild their lives and regain lost self-esteem by providing them with a safe place to call home and meaningful work in one of our social enterprises. We understand that a home is more than just a roof over your head; it’s somewhere to belong, where you feel part of a community, and that’s what Emmaus offers.

About the role

The Regional Communications Officer role is an exciting, varied position working with Emmaus communities in the south and South East of the UK to increase their regional profile.

You will work closely with our communities to identify their communications needs and find creative ways to meet them. As part of a wider team, you will also share ideas with your colleagues and draw on one another’s experiences to maximise PR and communications opportunities.

The role is flexible so we are open to applications between 22.5 and 37.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday). You could be based at home or in your nearest Emmaus community, and frequent travel to communities in the region will be required (around one community each week dependent on requirements). Travel to our team meetings in Birmingham and other locations will be required on occasion.

Who are we looking for?

Your role will be to support Emmaus communities with communications activities that help them to achieve their ambitions. You will have strong skills in communications, public relations and marketing with at least two years’ experience of working in a busy communications role. Although not essential, knowledge and understanding of the charity sector would also be an advantage, and creativity and passion are a must.

If you have great communication skills, plenty of creative ideas, a positive “can do” attitude and a passion for what you do, we want to hear from you.

What we offer

• Starting salary - £26,058 to £28,276 per annum dependent on skills and experience (pro rata for part time)
• Working hours – 3 to 5 days (22.5 – 37.5 hours) per week Monday - Friday
• Flexible working – Options available, subject to the requirements of the role

• Annual leave – 25 days per annum plus eight bank holidays (pro rata for part time) and discretional shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Pension – Stakeholder pension with an employer contribution of 5%
• Life assurance – a death in service lump sum of 3 x salary
• Training & development – Individually tailored induction, training and development 

• Employee assistance – a 24/7 employee assistance scheme is available

To apply

To apply for this role, please complete our application form and equal opportunities monitoring form and email us by 9am on Monday 18 July. CVs will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held w/c Monday 25 July.

Regional Communications Officer- North of UK

About Emmaus

Emmaus is a homelessness charity helping formerly homeless people to rebuild their lives and regain lost self-esteem by providing them with a safe place to call home and meaningful work in one of our social enterprises. We understand that a home is more than just a roof over your head; it’s somewhere to belong, where you feel part of a community, and that’s what Emmaus offers.

About the role

The Regional Communications Officer role is an exciting, varied position working with Emmaus communities in the North of the UK to increase their regional profile.

You will work closely with our communities to identify their communications needs and find creative ways to meet them. As part of a wider team, you will also share ideas with your colleagues and draw on one another’s experiences to maximise PR and communications opportunities.

The role is flexible so we are open to applications between 22.5 and 37.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday). Communities currently covered by the role include North East, Leeds, Bradford and Hull, although this is subject to review. You could be based at home or in your nearest Emmaus community, and frequent travel to communities will be required (around one community each week dependent on requirements). Travel to our team meetings in Birmingham and other locations will be required on occasion.

Who are we looking for?

Your role will be to support Emmaus communities with communications activities that help them to achieve their ambitions. You will have strong skills in communications, public relations and marketing with at least two years’ experience of working in a busy communications role. Although not essential, knowledge and understanding of the charity sector would also be an advantage, and creativity and passion are a must.

If you have great communication skills, plenty of creative ideas, a positive “can do” attitude and a passion for what you do, we want to hear from you.

What we offer

• Starting salary - £26,058 to £28,276 per annum dependent on skills and experience (pro rata for part time)
• Working hours – 3 to 5 days (22.5 – 37.5 hours) per week Monday - Friday
• Flexible working – Options available, subject to the requirements of the role

• Annual leave – 25 days per annum, plus eight bank holidays and discretional days between Christmas and New Year (pro rata for part time)
• Pension – Stakeholder pension with an employer contribution of 5%
• Life assurance – a death in service lump sum of 3 x salary
• Training & development – Individually tailored induction, training and development 

• Employee assistance – a 24/7 employee assistance scheme is available

To apply

To apply for this role, please complete our application form and equal opportunities monitoring form and email us.

 CVs will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held w/c Monday 18 July.

Every day in the UK, 13 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth.

Sands is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity and exists to reduce the number of babies dying and to support anyone affected by the death of a baby, before, during or shortly after birth.

This role plays a pivotal part in planning and delivering marketing and communications activities to key audiences, such as supporters, volunteers, journalists, ambassadors and staff. Integrated marketing campaigns are integral to Sands’ growth and are key to driving brand awareness, reach, engagement, income growth and social change.

The duties of the role include writing, editing, co-ordinating and publishing content across various channels, including Sands’ website, social media, email, and print and online marketing materials. You will need to work closely with other internal teams to plan and implement communications and marketing campaigns to drive awareness or income, while progressively improving organisational understanding of what works for different audiences.

You will also support the Marketing & Campaigns Manager in the delivery of our major integrated campaigns and appeals, and work closely with other members of the Engagement team to support all communications aims and outcomes.

An excellent communicator and team player, you will have a sound knowledge and experience of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and related platforms. With paid online marketing experience (e.g. in PPC or Social Media), comfortable using digital tools (e.g. Google Analytics) and be able to write engaging copy with good editorial skills.  

This role will specialise in leading marketing and communications support of the Research, Education and Policy department, which covers a range of work including our work to save babies’ lives, training and education, and influencing policy through campaigning and advocacy.

The role will also work across a variety of other teams, projects, campaigns and activities.

#Care to join us?

We are looking for Communications Officer (Staff & Families) to join our friendly and welcoming team here at Hft (for a fixed term role). This is your chance to make a real difference to people's lives.

Location: Central Support Services
Salary / hourly rate: £28,787.87
Employment type: Full Time
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract: Fixed term

Closing date: 04/07/2022
Interview date: 08/07/2022

What will you be doing?

Main purpose of Role:

To work closely with the Senior Communications Manager (Staff & Families) to support the delivery of an effective strategy and channels of communication that encourage positive dialogue between Hft staff, other key internal stakeholders and families of the people supported by Hft.

Core Accountabilities or Responsibilities and Success Definitions

• Daily monitoring of the Hft Communication inbox and responding to enquiries as appropriate, filtering requests for support to the wider team.
• To manage the newsreel on The Hub (our staff intranet) – sourcing and writing news articles (minimum of 3/week) and publishing monthly polls, countdowns and videos.
• To support the Senior Communications Manager in the production of Fusion, Hft’s staff newsletter (3 editions/year) including contributing to storyboard creation, drafting and editing copy and liaising with contributors, designers and printers.
• Coordinating the production of Family Newsletters (published 3 times/year) including design and copywriting of national pages, plus engaging, training and supporting local editors to produce 24 regionalised inserts.
• Producing and delivering monthly comms packs for all regions, including the design of posters, flyers and other materials.
• To provide support for reactive communications and change projects, including coordinating comms plans, key messaging, factsheets and corporate emails.
• Support for all other channels on an ad hoc basis, including Core App, email updates, and CEO briefing.
• To support team processes, including regular logging of activity via the IC tracker, content calendar and measures dashboard, and attendance at weekly meetings.
• Support the Senior Communications Manager in the delivery of updates for families of the people we support, through email updates, family factsheets, family webpages and family videos.
• Update, manage stock and distribute welcome packs for services to share with families.
• To support the Senior Communications Manager in the development of existing and new communication channels across Hft as/when required.
• To work with the Senior Communications Manager to monitor and evaluate the success of Hft internal communications, taking responsibility for capturing analytics on a regular basis, as well as collating and sharing feedback for projects
• To support the Senior Communications Manager in managing the annual staff Awards, including executing a communication plan and support for coordination and delivery of any associated event or ceremony.
• To work closely with the External Communications team to support the execution of the shared Content Generation Strategy, generating and repurposing content across a range of channels, as well as checking on and gaining appropriate consent.
• To source, write and share engaging content which uses the team’s ‘Challenge Action Transformation’ (CAT) approach and messaging framework.
• To build collaborative working relationships across the organisation to help support information sharing and raise the profile of the internal communications team.
• To be an active ambassador for the Hft Brand.
• To undertake any other duties as appropriate to this role.

What’s in it for you?

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and support along the way.

With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible.

We offer

• Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options.
• Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
• Annual staff award scheme – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme
• 25 days holiday (pro rata for part time staff)
• A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
• We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group.

We strongly encourage all colleagues to remain fully vaccinated as part of our wider infection control procedures. This includes Central Support Services colleagues as they may be required to visit services as part of their work and/or work alongside colleagues who do.

Find your place with us and change lives.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

You may have experience of the following: You may have experience of the following: Communications Manager, Communications Officer, Digital Officer, Membership Officer, Project Management, etc.

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This is an exciting time for Parkinson’s UK, we want to reach as many people as possible so
we can improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson’s. We are looking for people to join
our network, make genuine connections, and be part of a larger team that works together
to support the Parkinson’s community.

About the role

You'll develop, lead and deliver a communications plan to support the physical activity
strategy of the charity and our wider strategic programmes of work for the Parkinson's
community.

You'll identify, shape and create effective digital and offline content to inspire, inform and
engage the Parkinson's community. You'll promote resources and opportunities to be active
with partners, activity and healthcare providers and our community, and inspire people with
Parkinson's to become and stay active.

What you’ll do

● Lead on the development and implementation of the physical activity
communications strategy and plan, to maximise community and partner
engagement.
● Work collaboratively with communications colleagues across the charity to ensure
effective audience planning and consistent cohesive and complementary messaging
● Use insight and data to understand audience needs and motivation, working
collaboratively with people with Parkinson’s and partners to create content that
meets their needs.
● Advise and support community development colleagues to create high quality and
user friendly communications and web content.
● Create, publish and approve high quality on brand physical activity content across
local network programmes
● Build more effective use of digital platforms, e.g. social media and online
communities.
● Champion Parkinson’s UK brand, and make sure our comms are aligned with core
messaging, brand guidelines and values.

What you’ll bring

● Collaboration and engagement skills with the ability to work in an inclusive and user
focused way with colleagues, volunteers and networks
● Skilled communicator at all levels; able to deliver complex messages to a range of
audiences effectively
● Demonstrable experience of creating communications plans that deliver on
organisational priorities and meet audience needs.
● Content creation experience (digital and offline) and an understanding of how
messaging and content enhances a brand.
● Experience of using audience insight and data to drive content creation and iteration
● Experience of operating in a modern digital workplace, including using digital tools
to work collaboratively and productively.
● Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to work autonomously, prioritise
your own workload effectively and manage competing time pressures

Please apply by sending us your CV, together with a supporting statement. The
supporting statement should fully demonstrate how you meet all the criteria as stated
in the "What you'll bring" section of the role description.
The successful candidate will be required to:
● have exceptional written and verbal communication skills
● provide their own broadband service with a minimum download speed of 2Mb
● have a confidential space in which to work

The vacancy

This is an exciting time for Parkinson’s UK, we want to reach as many people as possible so we can improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson’s. We are looking for people to join our network, make genuine connections, and be part of a larger team that works together to support the Parkinson’s community.

About the role

This is your chance to make an impact to improve and develop how we communicate locally to build our communities. We want people to know about the fantastic opportunities to get involved locally, volunteering and participating in our growing local community development.

Working with colleagues and people living with Parkinson’s, you’ll identify, and create digital and offline content, and consistent messaging to inspire, motivate and engage the Parkinson’s community. You’ll share and signpost to expert advice, activities and opportunities and inspire  people to be part of and shape the work of the charity at UK and local levels.

What you’ll do 

• Lead on the development and implementation of the England Team community communications plan, to maximise community interest and engagement with our local work.
• Work collaboratively with communications colleagues across the charity to ensure effective audience planning and consistent, cohesive and complementary messaging
• Use insight and data to understand audience need and motivation, and use these in your content creation.
• Work collaboratively with people with Parkinson’s to build content that meets their needs.
• Create, publish and approve high quality, user-friendly on brand content across local networks programmes.

What you’ll bring

• Skilled communicator at all levels - able to deliver complex messages to a range of audiences effectively
• Demonstrable experience of creating communications plans that deliver on organisational priorities and meet audience needs.
• Content creation experience (digital and offline) and an understanding of how messaging and content enhances a brand.
• Knowledge of content management systems.
• Experience of using analysis tools to monitor and report on performance and of analysing and interpreting data to inform recommendations for strategic decision making

What's it like to work for us?

We aim to find a cure and improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson's - and you could help us achieve this.

We offer a variety of paid job roles and volunteer opportunities both at our UK office in London and across the UK

The organisation:

We are excited to be partnered with a wonderful mental health charity to help find their next Digital Communications Officer. This is an initial 3-month contract.

As the Digital Communications Officer you will develop and support the organisation’s ongoing digital communications activity on the website.

Key responsibilities:

• To implement new content, design and functionality, with awareness of the following:
  • site architecture, wireframes and page layouts
  • text, images, graphics and other multimedia files
  • forms and usage of third-party integrations for data capture
  • SEO impacts on new and existing content
  • web accessibility standards
• To respond positively and in a timely manner to all requests for content additions, amendments and ad-hoc requests from the Digital Manager, internal teams and the organisation’s branches (via the Digital Service Desk), working within agreed timescales
• Produce and maintain test plans, best practice guides and end-user documentation where required
• Edit content from the internal team at Central Office, and give appropriate feedback where needed
• Provide advice and support to branches creating their own digital content through our Digital Service Desk
• Work with the Social Media Manager, Digital Manager and staff teams to produce effective and engaging content in support of external activity across the organization.

Person specification:

• Demonstrable experience of updating websites using content management systems.

• Experience using web analytics packages, interpreting results, testing and optimising user journeys.
• Understanding of user experience and accessibility to inform web design and development activity
• Able to create written content which adheres to the organisation’s editorial guidelines
• Understanding of the sensitivities of dealing with a vulnerable online audience

• An understanding of responsive design
• An understanding of digital marketing, user journeys, personas, and marketing attribution
• Proven image editing and design skills with some experience using design packages such as Photoshop
• Able to interpret visual identity guidelines and apply them creatively and consistently across a range of digital channels

What's on offer:

This a full-time role offering a day rate of £120-£130 PAYE. The role offers flexible working with the option to work fully remotely or hybrid with their office being in central London. This is an initial 3-month contract with the potential for a permanent contract.

Please apply today so as not to miss out!

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

Does the opportunity to develop communications strategy and content in collaboration with volunteers in different parts of the world excite you?

Do you have fresh ideas for increasing the visibility of the Transition movement and its contribution to regeneration?

Are you keen to work in a non-hierarchical organisation exploring, and seeking to model, the changes we want to see in the world?

Communications and Engagement Officer

We are currently looking to recruit a full-time Communications and Engagement Officer to join a creative and productive team.

This is a really exciting time to be involved with an ambitious and growing organisation that is committed to bringing the property sector together to create real social change.

Position: Digital Communications & Engagement Officer

Location: Remote

Hours: Full Time (37.5hrs per week)

Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 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, health insurance, support for external mentoring and scope for flexible working.

Closing Date: 18th July 2022

The Role

As Communications and Engagement Officer, you will work closely with the Communications and Engagement Manager, Head of Communications and Engagement, Fundraising Events Team, Corporate Partnerships Team, and Programmes and Impact Team to raise the charity’s profile across multiple communications channels and build supporter engagement with both our corporate and individual supporters.

The successful candidate will lead on digital channels and provide support to the wider team across all marketing and communications activities, with a focus on events marketing.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Managing and developing the social media channels
• Managing and developing the website
• Developing tailored digital content for corporate supporters
• Leading on marketing and communications and partner events and managing e-mail communications

Staff are currently all working remotely from home, with minimal expectations on colleagues to be in the office (at least once a month). You will be able to design a working pattern that suits you, your family, the needs of the job and the team. We hope this encourages candidates from across the UK.

About You

We are looking for a digital-savvy communications all-rounder who is full of ideas and energy. This role will give the successful candidate with the scope and vision the opportunity to take the digital channels to the next level.

You will have experience of:

• Working in a similar role, preferably within the charity or property sector
• Producing content with copy for digital platforms including web, content management systems
• Social media and community management
• Growing and developing social media channels
• Paid social media, managing a Google AdWords account and using Google Analytics
• Devising and developing audience focused content ideas across multiple communications channels, with a focus on social media

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, Digital Communications, Marketing and Communications, Digital Marketing and Communications, Communications Officer, Digital Communications Officer, Marketing and Communications Officer, Digital Marketing and Communications Officer, Communications Executive, Digital Communications Executive, Marketing and Communications Executive, Digital Marketing and Communications Executive, Engagement Officer, Communications and Engagement Officer, Digital Communications and Engagement Officer.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

The Talent Set are thrilled to be working with RNID to find their new PR and Communications Lead.

RNID operate a fully remote working model, with no core working hours (although naturally this team will need to reflect the UK press functionality), so you can be based from anywhere in the UK!

RNID is working daily to make life more inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss or tinnitus. The organisation has been through a complete transformation, while building on the best of their past. They’ve returned to their former, much-loved name, become wholly remote working, and established a new strategy, focused on reaching the 12 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus. They are creating a radically different culture which is externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile and future orientated.

The PR & Communications Lead will be a strategic and hands-on leader who will help the organisation massively increase their reach as a key to meeting their strategic aims.

Key responsibilities:

• Create and drive our media strategy, positioning our charity to lead national media conversations about our ground-breaking work and campaigns
• Work closely with Marketing and Brand colleagues to plan and deliver integrated campaigns to optimise reach and impact
• Work across teams at the planning and delivery stages to make sure our campaigns will be newsworthy and work for the media
• Build relationships with key contacts in the media (editors, journalists, and producers)
• Oversee the social media team, ensuring our social media strategy and plans are aligned with our wider communication strategy, and that our social media channels and PR work strongly together and are fast to respond, while always in line with our tone of voice
• Optimise our use of case studies, by supporting the PR and Stories Manager to ensure we have effective systems to identify, create and sell in the most compelling stories

Person specification:

• An experienced media and PR manager, adept at working in fast-changing situations to generate high quality, impactful media coverage on a range of issues.
• You have a strategic media outlook but are also still excited and energised by getting on the phone to journalists and selling a great story in, or crafting a compelling press release.
• You understand how social media works, and how it links in with our PR work as well as brand, fundraising and campaigning.
• You have great interpersonal skills that allow you to influence internal and external stakeholders effectively.
• You are values-led in how you work with colleagues, particularly as a line manager, and enjoy building a shared purpose and culture within your team and wider.
• You care about social justice and are passionate about getting the voices of people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus heard by the public and those with the power to make change.

To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.

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

Please note any third-party CVs submitted to RNID will be redirected to The Talent Set for review.

Communications and Marketing Specialist

We are looking for a Communications and Marketing Specialist to play a key role in continuing to grow a positive brand reputation for a new start-up that inspires investment in peace.

This position is part-funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Position: Communications and Marketing Specialist

Location: Home-based with occasional travel

Hours: Full-time (part-time considered)

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Benefits: 28 days’ holiday pro rata, employer contributed pension scheme, flexible working and home-based working

Close Date: The position is open until 25th July OR until a suitable candidate is identified, whichever comes first.

The Role

As Communications and Marketing Specialist, you will be vital in promoting and inspiring engagement and action with the work of the charity and its sister entity. This position will actively increase audience engagement by designing and delivering creative, thoughtful and inspiring high-quality engaging content across external media interfaces in line with the communications strategy and message house.

The Communications and Marketing Specialist will enjoy working both as part of a team through our virtual office and independently, and will be able to travel for in-person team meetings occasionally.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Communication strategy
• External Communications
• Coordinate public engagement
• Mighty Heart Communications, Products and Services
• Data and Site Management

About You

As Communications and Marketing Specialist, you will have solid experience in similar marketing and communication roles and a passion for social change and conflict prevention. You will be a proactive, creative and adept communicator and storyteller who thrives on creating innovative communication strategies and content that attracts and retains supporters and contributes to a world where destructive conflict is transformed.

You understand how to increase brand awareness and recognition, and you are a natural instigator, thinker and doer, able to work well both independently and as a growing team. You will have the skills and experience in realising communications strategies to maximise results, creating interactive and engaging content for different audiences, and managing multiple stakeholder interests that converts interest into action across audience segments. You are comfortable working with the unknown and thrive on creating alignment out of complexity.

You find that your personal values align with the organisations, namely: vision - the future belongs to those that can see it; balance - balancing left and right brain thinking, effectiveness - doing the inner work through reflective practises; power and presence through courageous conversations; remaining light and resourceful in facilitating and catalysing change; and a dedication to connecting the local to global.

You will be proficient in design, WordPress and publishing software, have experience using contents management systems and knowledge of google analytics, digital marketing and analysis.

You will be asked to submit your CV and a cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role.

About the Organisation

The charity was founded by three times peace prize nominee Dr Scilla Elworthy and is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) whose mission is to generate a groundswell of people from all sectors who believe that a world without destructive conflict is possible and necessary.

You may also have experience in areas such as Marketing, Communications, Marketing and Communications, Marketing Specialist, Communications Specialist, Marketing and Communications Specialist, Marketing Officer, Communications Officer, Marketing and Communications Officer, Marketing Executive, Communications Executive, Marketing and Communications Executive, Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing and Communications.

Every day in the UK, 13 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth.

Sands is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity and exists to reduce the number of babies dying and to support anyone affected by the death of a baby, before, during or shortly after birth.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Digital Community Officer to manage the delivery and stewardship of our growing digital fundraising events programme, which currently raises over £2 million for Sands.

This is an exciting time to join Sands as we are in a period of ambitious growth. This role will make a valuable contribution to Sands’ fundraising strategy, and will help to test and deliver new initiatives and opportunities within digital fundraising. 

You will be responsible for the management of our online fundraising communities, work with third party agencies on the implementation of new and existing activities, support the innovation pipeline in this area as well as help improve our stewardship processes.

Additionally, the duties of the role include developing and building positive relationships with a range of stakeholders to ensure activities succeed and to achieve their full potential. 

With relevant experience of digital fundraising, you will able to demonstrate a good understanding of social media’s role within this function.

A highly effective all-round communicator, you will have excellent copywriting and storytelling skills.  You will be highly-organised and be able to produce demonstrate considerable attention to detail whilst working to tight deadlines. 

Please note that this is a fixed-term role for 12 months.

Interim Head of Communications

Full Time (part time / job share options available)

Fixed Term: Up to 12 months contract starting in September / October 2022

Closing Date: 21st July 2022

Location: Remote (timezone: GMT-1 to GMT+6). 

Working Day: Flexible working hours throughout the week. Daily core hours are 11:00-16:00 GMT. Our Full Time work week is approximately 40 hours.

Team: Communications

Travel:  Remote working, location flexible - some international travel may be required

Benefits: Working at Peek has many benefits. Please find more information about those benefits here.

To Apply:  Submit your full application through our recruitment site by the closing date noted above.

Millions of people worldwide are losing their sight unnecessarily.Join a mission driven award winning team who are intent on changing this.

The Role

Peek Vision is a social enterprise developing innovative tools to bring better vision and health to people in low- and middle-income countries.  We are looking for somebody to lead our communications activity during an exciting period of growth for our organisation.

The successful candidate will enjoy a broad role with oversight of our communications, branding, website, social media and PR activities.  You will focus on using Peek’s communications activities to engage NGO, civil society and academic partners, while working with team members and potentially contractors to develop our marketing, product and fundraising communications activities.

This is a demanding but rewarding role for somebody with the experience and confidence to manage multiple priorities and use their expert judgement to deliver effective communications.  If you have relevant and proven experience of managing communications in the charity, health, academic or technology sector and are keen for a new challenge in a diverse, dynamic team, we would love to hear from you.

The role will be contracted for a period of up to 12 months providing coverage during a maternity leave.  While the overall role is a full time position, we welcome applicants who wish to work part time as a job share (with agencies or another contractor providing the remaining capacity) as well as applicants who wish to apply as a secondment from an existing role, provided their current employer supports this.  Peek offers a flexible working environment in terms of hours and location.  Candidates will need to have proof of eligibility to work in their location.   Candidates’ working hours will need to be able to practically accommodate teams working in the GMT timezone.  

Responsibilities and Attributes

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• Maintain oversight of Peek’s Communications & brand strategy to ensure coherent and consistent communications across all external channels.

• Maintain Peek’s Partner communications strategy and support partnerships communications activities, including writing news stories, case studies developing social media campaigns and supporting partners to use Peek’s brand correctly.

• Implement Peek’s new messaging platform and marcomms plan; develop internal communications tools & resources to help team members deliver consistent messaging & branding for Peek.

• Deliver Public Relations activities (e.g. media relations, events) and contribute to other areas of communications as needed.

• Own and maintain strategic oversight of Peek’s website, social media channels, corporate brochures and other print / digital assets; plan and work with team members to produce new content for these channels in line with our strategy and activities.

• Manage Peek’s thought leadership strategy (including working with Peek CEO and other team members to support events, public speaking and other relevant opportunities).

• Manage relationships with freelancers / contractors and be accountable for the Interim Digital Communications Manager.

The desirable attributes for the role are:

• A strong communicator who is skilled at working with diverse audiences across different cultures, locations and sectors.

• Able to maintain strategic oversight of a complex and rapidly changing communications environment.

• Collaborative and empathetic, with the confidence to make judgement calls when they are needed.

• Experienced managing concurrent projects in multiple countries and contexts.

• Highly organised but comfortable with constant change and unknowns.

• An enthusiastic team player who can work with minimal supervision and use minimal resources effectively.

• Creative and proactive in devising communications strategies and solutions to support our mission-driven organisation. 

About Peek

Over a billion people worldwide have vision loss but don’t need to and numbers are rising.  Simple, cost- effective treatments exist but specialists are in short supply and resources are limited.  Many people who need access to eye health remain invisible to services.

Peek Vision is an award-winning social enterprise that powers eye health providers in low- and middle-income countries to optimise their services and strengthen health systems.  Our software, programme design and data intelligence platform help eye health programmes become more efficient, more equitable and more effective. Users can screen for eye health conditions using just a smartphone, follow the patient journey from screening to treatment and view real-time data dashboards to identify where patients are being left behind.  People who would have been invisible to health workers are made visible, so that nobody is left behind.

Peek works in partnership with eye health providers, governments and NGOs. Together, we aim to make large-scale, sustainable improvements to health systems, bringing better vision and eye health to everyone.

Our tools include:

• Software for community and school eye health programmes that powers screening, data capture and analysis, plus the RAAB7 eye health survey platform

• Programme Design to set up eye health programmes for success

• Data Analysis based on insights from our software to enable services to continuously improve and ensure nobody is left behind.

Peek is an equal opportunity employer. Peek will not discriminate and will take measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of age, disability, gender, marital status, parenthood, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other factor which may be deemed discriminatory. Further the diversity of our team is important and crucial to our impact and we seek to ensure our team has affinities or links to the communities where we are most active.  

Every 90 seconds, someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with a brain injury. It can affect anyone at any time. When it does, Headway is here to help.

Headway is the UK’s leading charity working to improve life after brain injury. We are passionate about helping people to rebuild their lives, relearn lost skills and regain a degree of independence.

We know that with the right help, at the right time, there can be life after brain injury.

We’re seeking a creative, inspiring communicator with the ability to think strategically and the passion to influence change.

You will lead our talented communications team in securing high-profile media coverage, creating engaging, emotive multi-media content, strengthening our award-winning range of information resources, and driving change on a political level.

You will have experience of working with traditional and digital media, have devised and run successful awareness campaigns, and be able to demonstrate a proven track record of providing the media with statements on demand.

You will also have excellent writing, editing and presentation skills.

This is a hands-on role in which you will be responsible for a small but highly-talented team who are passionate about raising awareness of brain injury.

If you are looking to challenge yourself in an exciting role within an organisation that is making a difference to the lives of thousands of people across the UK, we’d love to hear from you.

• Home working or office based (Nottingham)
• Closing date for applications: 15 July 2022
• Interviews: w/c 18 July 2022
• Salary: c.£60,000

Headway is an equal opportunities employer.
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