Starting Salary: £29,758 - £31,252 pa

Contract: Six months

Job Profile

Are you passionate about digital marketing and content creation?

As part of a larger effort to build confidence in digital channels, we’re looking for someone to support our digital communications and education teams to help deliver exceptional content across our website, social media, e-mails, and blogs (among others).

You’ll be part of CAFOD’s Digital Team as part of the Communications Group, supporting marketing, promotion, and evaluation-related functions, and helping to coordinate digital requests. You’ll be trained to create content using some best-in-class digital tools, with emphasis on our shiny new implementation of Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

The role also carves out 40% of your time delivering digital promotion with CAFOD’s Education Team.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Marketing

• Editing and optimising digital content output for web, e-mail, and social channels
• Managing CAFOD school’s social media accounts implementing strategies for reaching a growing number of Catholic schools and families.

• Plan, contribute and evaluate content during corporate priority periods which is relevant to schools’ audiences.
• Ensure CAFOD’s Education work is visible and promoted in a widening range of external websites and new avenues

• Auditing keywords and meta data on the CAFOD website in line with SEO best practice
• Uploading and moderating blogs, and advising and training in optimising posts
• Editing and setting up emails on our primary and secondary e-mail tools. Testing emails, pages and other marketing content.
• Preparing online advertising assets for launch
• Coordinate paid promotion of organic social media content
• Delivering primary response on social media channels for comments and engagement.

Reporting

• Monitoring ads and reporting on PPC
• Webmaster tools: monitoring 404 pages
• Updating email and website reports using google analytics and other reporting tools

Other responsibilities

• Auditing of photos and other content on the CAFOD website (naming protocols and deduping) in line with SEO best practise.
• Providing extra capacity on key projects or on day-to-day work, as agreed with the Head of Digital, including production of online content for use across various CAFOD channels;
• Providing quality-control support, e.g. proof-reading, and assisting with training and advice to staff provided by the Communications team.
• Triaging online requests and chairing online requirements meetings for tracking requests and day to day support
• Providing digital training and support to teams across the organisation

 This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect.  CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse.  CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount.  Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures. 

Person Specification/ Essential Criteria

Understanding our context

• Understanding CAFOD: Understanding what is distinctive about CAFOD as a Catholic development agency and ability to learn what will resonate with a Catholic audience.
• Understanding International Development: Able to demonstrate an understanding of solidarity and human dignity in the way people are portrayed
• An understanding of school communities, preferably in a Catholic context.

Working together

• Managing ourselves: A self-starter; willing to take responsibility for getting the work done. Ability to make suggestions about how to address problems.
• Working with others: Ability to build collaborative relationships across CAFOD. Collaborative work style with the ability to build strong relationships across CAFOD.
• Communicating: We’re looking for a strong verbal and written communicator with the ability to present ideas clearly.

Making change happen

• Achieving results: Use judgement to make sound decisions and communicate and implement them, with a strong attention to detail.

Job-specific competencies

• Digital skills and experience, including experience with digital and social media platforms for business.
• Copywriting and editing skills for web, requiring little additional supervision, including social media channels best practise.
• Working knowledge of html, SEO, PPC, email marketing, social media management, and other digital tools.
• Experience with Google analytics and reporting
• An understanding of Catholic school communities

Desirable Criteria

• Presentation skills.
• Experience in training other people on digital skills.
• Experience creating e-mails on a e-mail tool, like Mailchimp, Dotmailer, or Marketing Cloud.

Interview Date: Monday, 16th November 2020

Please click on Current Vacancies to know more about the role and to apply. Please note that we do not accept CV's and thefore you will need to complete an online application through our Recruitment portal. 

Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

We’re Anthony Nolan and we save the lives of people with blood cancer who need a stem cell transplant.

We’re unique. Thanks to the incredible donors on our register, our pioneering research and our passionate fundraisers, we give the chance of life to three people a day.

But we won’t stop there. We want to be there for everyone who needs a transplant; from finding a match, through every step of a patient’s transplant journey. And together we can reach the remarkable day when we can save the lives of everyone with blood cancer.

And now we want you to join our lifesaving team. We are looking for a Head of Communications to join our Engagement Division as part of our Engagement Leadership Group.   

Title: Head of Communications

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience (inclusive London Weighting)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Initially flexible working, normal base Anthony Nolan Head Office (flexible working location will be considered)

As Head of Communications, you will be an accomplished communications leader, taking a strategic approach to communications, both externally and internally and deliver against a fame agenda.  You will build a plan, relationships and ensure that we drive the narrative to our audiences and also are quick to respond to a changing landscape across the whole gamut of our activity, from Fundraising and Register Recruitment to our Research and B2B activity with Transplant Centres, Cell & Gene Therapies and our critical Patient Services work. 

You will lead a committed and award-winning team, championing best practice communications to enable us to create cut through with audiences in support of our lifesaving work. 

You’ll have the skills to drive delivery and work effectively with stakeholders in the pursuit of excellence.  You’ll be a strong communicator and influencer able to enthuse and bring people with you on this ambitious journey; it’s going to be an exciting one!

Benefits:

Financial

• Pension (employer 6% when you contribute 6% or more),
• Travel Insurance
• Interest free Travel Loan
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
• Life Assurance (4x annual salary)

Wellbeing & Health

• 27 days annual leave in addition to normal public holidays
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Hotline
• Medical Cash Plan
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gymflex

Family Friendly

• Paid dependents leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay
• Flexible start/finish times (role dependent)

And more! (full list of benefits available on website)

Anthony Nolan is an equal opportunities & living wage accredited employer. 

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK. 

You may have experience of the following: Communications, Comms, Creative, Third Sector, Voluntary Sector, Management,  Not for Profit, NFP etc 

Award-winning Julia’s House Children’s Hospices is seeking an experienced Media and Communications Officer for Wiltshire, with experience gained ideally within the charity sector. 

Julia’s House provides vital home-based and hospice-based care to many life-limited children across the county. The successful candidate will provide dedicated PR and communications support in Wiltshire across multiple channels including digital, raising awareness of Julia’s House and the care it provides to families across the county.  With no Government support, maintaining this lifeline for local families will be the focus of this new position, by creating and implementing PR and communications in support of the dedicated Wiltshire fundraising appeal.

With a sound knowledge of the Wiltshire area, community and media, the successful candidate will be based at our Devizes hospice a minimum of 2-3 days a week, with additional time at our Head Office in Poole, Dorset (subject to Government COVID-19 restrictions).

If you have the following qualities and experience and have the passion to see Julia’s House succeed, we would like to hear from you:-

• Ability to seek out and create compelling and engaging stories

• Experience of PR and media relations including writing press releases and dealing with the media

• Experience of campaign development and management to support brand awareness and fundraising goals

• Sound social media knowledge and experience of creating and marketing digital content

• Excellent communication and writing skills

• Work well within a multi-disciplinary team

• Self-starter, with initiative and a creative spark

In addition to a 35 hour week we offer 30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays) and a generous pension scheme amongst our benefits. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our family and be part of our passionate, dedicated team where you can make a significant difference to the lives of families in Wiltshire.

Closing date: 11 November 2020 

Interviews to be held during week commenting 23 November.

Job Description and Person Specification are available on our website.

The above post is subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Registered Charity No. 1067125

Julia’s House is a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For and has received their award for 10 years’ commitment to better workplaces

Julia’s House is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.   Based on our current staffing profile, we have identified that there is an under-representation of: (a) individuals of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, so would especially welcome BAME applicants for any of our vacant positions; and (b) males, so we would welcome male applicants for any of our vacant positions and especially for any care and nursing roles.  We also welcome applications from people living with a disability.

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is one of the UK's leading marine conservation and campaigning charities. Our mission is simple: to Create Ocean Activists Everywhere. Our projects and campaigns inspire, unite and empower individuals and communities to take action to protect our ocean, beaches, waves and wildlife. Our vision, Thriving Ocean, Thriving People, is about connecting all humans to the ocean and creating communities of people who want to make real change happen. We support and empower people to campaign together as the authentic voice of the ocean.

The organisation was founded in 1990 and became a charity in 2013. The charity is made up of a board of 11 trustees, an executive team of 21, 200+ Regional Reps and over 100,000 active volunteers around the UK. The charity also founded and runs the only marine conservation All Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster – the Ocean Conservation APPG, bringing together a collaborative voice for ocean in Westminster.

The charity has recently confirmed the Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and 2020 sees the start of the new decade and an opportunity for the charity to reflect on a 30 year legacy of high-impact environmental campaigning, and look forward to further establish itself as one of the most authentic and trusted voices in marine conservation. The year marks the start of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration which provides us with a powerful external frame to continue to develop and deliver our campaigns. In 2020, we will begin a decade devoted to the ocean, redoubling our efforts to mobilise volunteers, collect citizen science, influence legislation and diversify our campaign efforts. We will develop clear goals and a roadmap of campaigns to protect the ocean.

The latest annual report and accounts can be accessed through the Charity Commission.

Community and Values

The ever-growing SAS community believes in staying connected with the ocean. To strengthen this bond, we live by four core values, which matter deep down, to us all.

• Open: Together, we’re passionate, down to earth campaigners, born out of the community, with a deep unrelenting love of the ocean. We believe in building diverse, inclusive and active communities.
• Dynamic: We are dynamic, radical, active, energetic doers and campaigners. From the beaches to the front benches, we bring people together, empowering them to get stuck in and make real change happen.
• Authentic: We are human, doing our best. When we don’t get things right, we learn from it. We believe in authenticity. You can’t fake trust. We are deeply connected to and motivated by the ocean.
• Creative: We are creative and entrepreneurial. We move fast, think far and believe the future is bright. From our humble home, we make waves (of all shapes and sizes) to improve our greatest gift. A healthy ocean = a healthy society.

The Role and Opportunity

Proactive communication is the most important driver of our campaign impact, positioning, audience acquisition and fundraising potential.

We need someone with an eye for an ocean story, has their finger on the pulse of environmental stories, knows the pace of a breaking story, and can plan and deliver a campaign with precision. Someone who brings their instinctive understanding and technical experience of communications to enhance our high impact campaigns to protect the ocean.

You will have a strong appreciation of grassroots movements and the convening power of ‘open environmental campaign brands’ in delivering impact and change, whilst maintaining brand authenticity and cohesion. You will know how to position an organisation at a national and international level.

We need an energetic, committed and strategic individual, with great experience of turning communications strategy into real impact.

We are a small, agile team with the ability to deliver big and you will need to be collaborative, inspirational and decisive. You will be skilled at empowering teams to create and deliver consistently bold and brilliant content efficiently in house. We are a practical charity, and you will be able to roll up your sleeves, write, create content and work on tight timeframes, capacity and budgets.

You will have a strong appreciation for the platforms and systems that can support taking our communication offer to the next level and you will help identify and implement these as needed.

Importantly, you will understand how digital tools can help influence the debate to bring about change and grow our supporter base. You will have a strong grasp of environmental issues, spot opportunities, and understand how to engage and mobilise new audiences at this crucial time for our environment.

This new role with the charity will be both strategic and hands on, delivering trackable and meaningful uplift on a powerful existing communications ecosystem. The main responsibilities are outlined below but this is not a definitive list and it will change and evolve over time.

Responsibilities

General

• Review and map the SAS communications ecosystem and network;
• Lead the development and implementation of SAS’s communications (& marketing) strategy;
• Oversee digital comms ecosystem – E-newsletters, website, social media platforms;
• Grow our audience share and brand awareness;
• Line manage the Digital Communications Officer;
• Provide dotted-line communication management and support across the team;
• Support the CEO to appoint and manage a PR agency;
• Ensure our campaigns are aligned with external communication opportunities;
• Manage the budget and forecasting for marketing and communications;
• Develop an ambassador’s programme.

Brand Management

• Oversee all aspects of the SAS brand including copywriting; image & film management; IP; events, office and physical spaces; partnerships;
• Create and implement a consistent tone of voice and brand representation;
• Work with the campaigns team and CEO on M&C Saatchi (pro bono) annual flagship campaign.

Communications and Public Relations

• Lead the re-development of the SAS website and ensure that it is properly maintained by the heads of each department;
• Support the campaigns team and curate communications for major campaign launches and community activations;

• Curate, manage and cultivate social media platforms and audiences - Facebook; Instagram; Twitter; LinkedIn; Wikipedia;
• PR – Work alongside PR agency. Proactive and reactive news responses; planning; press releases and sell-in; media relationships; media monitoring and reporting; inbound enquiries; supporting CEO voice;
• Media Training - supporting the team to excel in representing the charity (from copywriting to media appearances);
• Track, monitor and communicate our reach and impact.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• To adopt a positive approach to personal and professional development;
• To be aware of, and act on, relevant governance responsibilities and requirements as an employee of SAS and adhere to these wherever you are working;
• To maintain confidentiality in all areas of work at SAS;
• To work with the broader SAS team and to perform any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the post;
• To demonstrate a strong commitment to creating an inclusive, equal and diverse workplace.

Personal Specification

• Thrives in a fast-paced campaigning environment and has flexibility and agility in approach where necessary;
• Ideally has experience of working both agency and client side;
• Ideally has experience of campaigning within the charity sector;
• An agile, flexible leader able to inspire others to act;
• Develops open and collaborative relationships, able to delegate and empower;
• Possesses excellent communication, interpersonal and diplomacy skills;
• Deals with conflict and pressure maturely and rationally;
• Experienced in dealing with hostile audiences and firefighting digital attacks;

• Works positively to address challenging personal and organisational goals, taking responsibility for resolving problems;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Adept at engaging a variety of cross-sectorial stakeholders and managing diverse relationships.

Knowledge and Passion for the Cause

• Is passionate about marine conservation and the wider environment;
• Fully supports the aims and objectives of the charity;
• Understands the critical role the ocean plays in current environmental challenges;
• Committed to supporting investigative work, empowering ocean activists in action and movement building.

Surfers Against Sewage values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

21 hours per week (open to job sharing and flexible working), £30,000 pro rata, based in Kensington & Chelsea, but home working due to COVID19, initial 12-month contract.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Young K&C as a Communications and Marketing Officer.  We are looking for someone with experience of creating and using digital content to reach new audiences and engage with diverse communities.

Young K&C is a new charity established to support children and young people in Kensington & Chelsea.  Young K&C is an innovative cross-sector partnership, working with youth clubs, charities, schools, businesses and Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.  

The successful candidate will develop and manage high quality digital marketing campaigns to help grow the awareness and digital footprint of Young K&C and the children and youth organisations that it works with.

You will help to create content to optimise marketing presence and performance via print publications, website, social media and other online channels.

This will support Young K&C to develop new business partners and to reach new audiences including young people in Kensington and Chelsea.

This role will suit someone with experience of developing professional marketing and communications.

Interested?  Upload your CV with contact details for 2 referees and a short supporting statement (max 2 sides A4) outlining how you fulfil the person specification, by 10am on Monday 16 November 2020.

Young K&C: Communications and Admin Officer, Job Description

YOU! What will you need to do?

The key areas that you will be working on are:

• Developing and implementing campaigns and digital strategy for Young K&C
• Supporting plans to grow opportunities for membership, partnerships and income generation, including liaising with schools and businesses
• Creating professionally designed content for our website, newsletter and other publications
• Communications: promoting Young K&C and our member organisations on social media and helping with developing content for our websites
• Working with a youth steering group, and supporting them to input into the development of Young K&C

As the organisation develops, then your role is likely to adapt.

Responsibilities

Communications and Digital: 

• Develop, manage and update content for website and social media
• Promote local charities and opportunities for young people via social media
• Create engaging content for social media, including short video/GIFs
• Create and design short publications for Young K&C, including regular email updates and newsletter
• Help develop promotional materials for Young K&C

Youth Steering Group:

• Working with Young K&C’s staff team to recruit local young people to take part in a steering group for Young K&C
• Organise meetings and support for the youth steering group
• Work closely with RBKC’s youth council

YOU! What kind of person are we looking for?

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills or characteristics in the application. It is essential that you give evidence or examples of your experience, knowledge and skills where possible.

Excellent Communication Skills – you will have excellent communication skills, including writing skills.  You will have good attention to detail and will be able to check and proof read for accuracy.

Experience within a digital, marketing or communications role including –

• Experience of managing and developing social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok) and developing engaging content, including short videos
• Experience of using design software such as Adobe suite and Canva for digital and print design
• Content management systems and ability to adapt to new online platforms
• Understanding of SEO and paid social

Interpersonal skills – you have good interpersonal skills and some experience of engaging with a diverse group of people, including local young people.

Mucking in – working in a small team with tight resources you will enjoy helping out with getting things done.

The cause – you will be passionate about our vision to support children and young people, committed to supporting diversity and inclusion.

Flexibility – you will be able to work effectively from home and/or from our small office in Kensington and Chelsea.

Role:  An exciting new communications role, putting into action our communications strategy both for Bridge 5 Mill and in the lead up to and delivery of our Community Shares Campaign for the Kindling Farm.

Background

We are at a challenging and exciting time in the life of our organisations and there has never been a more important time for us to communicate our vision, the opportunities we have to offer and the ways people can get involved. We are looking for someone with the experience, skills and energy to help us do that.

The Fairfield Group is a pioneering family of organisations based in Greater Manchester and promoting ecological and social justice through a number of activities and projects. Fairfield Environment Trust (FET) is the umbrella organisation, a registered charity that owns three delivery bodies: the Kindling Trust, Bridge 5 Mill and Fairfield Environmental Services (Fairfield Recycling). Each subsidiary focuses on a different aspect of FET’s objectives. This post would specifically focus on Bridge 5 Mill and The Kindling Trust.

Bridge 5 Mill is Manchester's first centre for sustainable living. We provide offices for a range of amazing tenants who share our vision and, we are a thriving centre and venue for many events and activities.

The Kindling Trust works to create a fairer, more sustainable society, starting with the food system. Over the last 13 years, Kindling have established and run a series of practical projects to engage people in sustainable food and farming. The next exciting stage of our development is to establish a pioneering agroforestry farm on 100 acres close to Manchester.

Six months ago, as for many organisations, our situation changed radically. We had to close Bridge 5 Mill to events and Kindling had to focus all of its resources on delivering our immediate work and, understandably in these uncertain times, some our staff moved on to new adventures. However, with our combined resources we have created a new role that we are very excited about and think works really well across the two organisations. We are looking for someone to work with us and lead on the communications strategy and implementation for our two organisations.

At Bridge 5 Mill, this role will promote our friendly, beautiful and ecologically sustainable building as a great office space and events venue. For the Kindling Trust the role will be to work with us in the lead up to and delivery of our very exciting Community Shares Campaign for our agroforestry farm.

Job Description:

Main Duties:

Bridge 5 Mill Communications Role

To develop and improve our marketing and communications resources, including:

• Improving signage, displays etc. to enhance the Mill’s appeal and functionality.
• Developing clear and professional documentation such as vacant office details, tenancy agreements and tenant handbook.
• Developing marketing and publicity materials.
• Developing a strategy to promote Bridge 5 Mill across social media platforms, including; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

To assist the Board of Directors to rebuild, maintain and maximise income from renting empty office space and room hirers by:

• Generating content (photos, text and video) for use in publicity material and on social media, involving the Mill’s facilities, activities, events and work of our tenants.
• Ensuring the content of Bridge 5 Mill marketing and publicity and social media activity promotes Bridge 5 Mill as a unique, professional and inspiring events venue and office space.
• Ensuring all content is in line with Bridge 5 Mill and Fairfield Environment Trust policies (including; FET aims and objectives and Bridge 5 Mill equalities and sustainable procurement policies).
• Distributing publicity, posters and flyers for Bridge 5 Mill, and organised or co-promoted events.
• Working with hire customers of Bridge 5 Mill, tenants, partner organisations and individuals to promote their events and projects across social media, and to support the aims and objectives of Bridge 5 Mill.

Kindling Trust Communications Role

To support the Board of Directors with the promotion of the Kindling Trust, its partners and the Kindling Farm’s Community Shares Campaign.

The following tasks being carried out in the next few months:

• Printing promotional materials (e.g. business cards, leaflets, T-Shirts, newsletter, the community shares prospectus and materials for our sister co-op Veg Box People).
• Getting our vans wrapped (Kindling, Veg Box People and Manchester Veg People).
• Organising stall materials and props including banners and pull ups.
• Editing existing video footage to create a series of shorts
• Improving the signage for our Woodbank Community Food Hub project

The role will also involve a number of regular tasks including:

• Co-ordinating the content for our E-news.
• Distributing the monthly E-news.
• Writing or co-ordinating content for our website, including a ‘Latest News’ once a fortnight.
• Promoting of our activities and events through social media.

Additionally this role will promote our Kindling Farm Community Shares Campaign, working with the Kindling team to:

• Organise a programme of talks to local groups, regional and national events etc. leading up to and during the campaign.
• Organise stalls at relevant events.
• Promote the campaign through social media (including the video shorts created).

General responsibilities of this post

• Reporting progress to the Fairfield Environment Trust’s Board of Trustees.
• Reflecting the Fairfield Group’s vision and principles, strategy and policies at all times.
• Be aware of and complying with all relevant policies and procedures.
• Fulfilling such other duties and assignments as may be required from time to time.
• Working with the Fairfield Group Finance Worker to manage the communications budget.

Location: This role can be based in either our Birmingham or Leeds hub. Please specify your preferred office location when applying

Reporting to: Director of Strategy and Innovation

The Youth Futures Foundation is a new, independent, not for profit organisation set up to tackle youth unemployment with a £90million endowment from the Reclaim Fund. We are looking for bold and impactful ways to help young people find and keep good jobs. There are over 750,000 young people not in education or employment in the UK. Young people are twice as likely to be unemployed than older adults in the labour market and BAME and disadvantaged young people disproportionately bear the brunt of it.

We are building an ‘empowerment foundation’ to identify practical solutions that work in a complex world yet are simple and cost effective enough to roll out across multiple locations, to reach as many young people as possible. To do this, we are now building our own inspiring team to help us achieve our vision.

As our Head of Marketing and Communications working with the Director of Strategy & Innovation you will create and deliver the organisation’s overall marketing and communications strategy to support YFF grow its influence and impact, with young people always front and centre. You will need to be creative, innovative and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You will bring a vision for building a movement of people and organisations committed to improving employment prospects for young people that spans our online presence, press activity, real and virtual events. You will think ‘digital first’ and know how to create a highly professional, user centric online presence that makes complex ideas appear simple through clarity of thought, harnessing animation, film and podcasts, coupled with the intelligent creation of bespoke online toolkits. You will have the freedom and budget to engage external partners to make this happen.

We need your creative flair to tell our story and motivate others to join our cause. You will do this through articulating and promoting the Youth Futures vision and strategy, highlighting and linking to the great work our many and varied partners are doing in this field, sharing the stories of young people looking for work, and developing user friendly toolkits to make information about ‘what works’ accessible and useful for young people, practitioners, employers and enablers (ie Government, funders, commissioners).

We are especially interested in hearing from individuals who are Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background, and those who have lived experience that reflects the lives of the young people we are seeking to support. Whatever your background, if you have a personal mission that aligns with ours, and the ability to engage equally well with young people sat on the floor of a community centre as you do with business and government leaders in imposing board rooms, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

The closing date is 11.59pm 4th November 2020.

School-Home Support (SHS) is a dynamic national charity working with children and families to maximise educational opportunities and improve life chances. We exist to ensure every child is able to be at school, ready to learn. Whatever it takes. SHS partners with schools and families to look beyond the classroom to understand and tackle the issues affecting children’s ability to be at school, ready to learn.

Communications and Marketing Manager
Full-time, permanent contract
London (but other locations in England will be considered)
Salary £30,000 - £32,000 per annum

As a small organisation facing a big challenge, SHS requires a passionate and driven communications and marketing specialist to help promote SHS vital work to support some of the most vulnerable children in the country. It is our ambition to further develop our national reach by working to influence school leaders, policymakers and funders to and help us deliver even more impact nationally.

Experience of working in a digital marketing-focused role is important as are excellent communication skills, the commitment and drive to deliver against deadlines, a can-do attitude, a genuine passion for our work and readiness for a role that provides opportunity to make your mark. You’ll need to demonstrate the highest quality standards in all aspects of your previous work and a commitment to our mission.

Closing date: Close of play Monday 2 November
Interviews to take place on 12 November
Due to COVID-19, interviews will take place online:

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 the School-Home Support website where you can download the job description and application form. 

School-Home Support takes very seriously the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and is committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. Our safeguarding policy recognises that the welfare and interests of children are paramount in all circumstances.

SHS is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. 

These role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

No agencies please.

Communications Officer, London with remote working

£28.5k depending on experience, plus generous benefits

Medical research has never been more important.

The wellbeing of billions of people across the world depends on continual medical advances across all areas of health. And this challenge needs immense support, innovation and persistence.

Although scientists have tackled many diseases and conditions that affect human health, there are still areas of medical need that receive little or no support. That’s where we step in.

Funding research is our sole purpose. As the charitable foundation of the Medical Research Council (MRC), we are inspired by the responsibility and independence that our donated income gives us. We are guided by the wealth of expertise available to us and are bold and ambitious in the science we choose to support. We fund and support the most promising new medical research, wherever we discover great opportunities that are not being pursued.

Our current research priorities are the threat of drug-resistant infections, adolescent mental health and pain research. These are key public health challenges requiring ground-breaking ideas from some of the UK’s leading scientists.

We are looking for a Communications Officer to join our small but expanding team in our central London offices.

Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager, you will play a crucial role in telling the story of the Foundation, and that of the ground-breaking research and researchers we support. Your work will inspire potential supporters to help us fund even more cutting-edge medical research and attract funding applications from emerging research leaders.

Working three days a week for the Foundation, the other two days will be split evenly between two of our linked charities: the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) and the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF).

GACD is an alliance of international public funding agencies, which supports research activities intended to improve the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory problems, cancers and mental health issues. Their work focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and key vulnerable populations, where 80 per cent of deaths from chronic diseases occur.

AREF was established by the Medical Research Foundation in 2015, with the mission of improving the quality and impact of health research in Africa – by nurturing African-led research in and for the region. AREF’s vision is to grow a community of African researchers working in Africa, who lead world-class research that benefits patients, populations, policy makers and practitioners.

You will support the delivery and growth of proactive communications programmes across all three organisations, with the shared purpose of building their respective identities, reputations and profiles.

Who you are 

We need the very best people to help deliver our vision of advancing medical research, improving human health and changing people’s lives. We are inspired by our work and we will be looking for this in you too. Our team is proud to work for the Medical Research Foundation. We are ambitious for the Foundation and for ourselves. We are approachable – providing advice to everyone and explaining our work. We are dedicated and committed to achieving the most for our donors and our researchers.  And we are involved – constantly looking for new ways to engage and improve.

What you can bring to the role

You will have experience of communications in a health or science-focused organisation, supporting communications strategies across a range of channels, including traditional and social media. You will also have experience of producing creative communications content for a range of audiences, including translating complex scientific information for non-scientific audiences.

You are able to communicate clearly with colleagues, scientists and other stakeholders. You work in an organised manner and have the ability to respond flexibly and positively to unexpected changes or demands. You have a strong grasp of digital media, including photoshop, social media management software and Google Analytics.

Our offer:

• A salary c. £28.5k, dependant on experience.
• Annual pay award, performance award scheme and other rewards.
• Generous pension contribution, with no qualifying period.
• 30 days annual leave each year, plus public holidays.
• 36 hour working week, usually worked over 5 days.
• Flexi-time system and core working hours of 10am to 4pm.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Other health-related benefits.
• An opportunity to make a difference to human health.
• Fantastic colleagues.

How to apply

• Provide an up-to-date CV which includes your contact details, education and vocational qualifications, membership of professional bodies, career history and explanation of any breaks in your employment history.
• Provide a brief supporting statement setting out why you are the right candidate for this role making reference to the job description and the person specification.  The case that you make and the way that it is presented will form a key part of the shortlisting process. Please note that CVs without a supporting statement will not be considered.
• Complete the equal opportunities monitoring and declaration form.
• Let us know if you are not able to make any of the assessment or interview dates (the pre-arranged dates can be found in the recruitment pack).

A copy of the recruitment information pack and equal opportunities monitoring form are attached as separate documents.

Note that applicants who are invited to interview will be asked to demonstrate their right to live and work on a permanent/indefinite basis in the UK at the time of applying.

Closing date: 5 November 2020 at 9:00am

Interview date: 24 November 2020

This new role in Wakehurst’s Marketing & Strategic Communications team will be crucial in building Wakehurst’s reputation, driving visitation and membership growth, and creating an engaged stakeholder network in support of Wakehurst’s ambitious future development plans. Through a mix of communications, media relations and stakeholder engagement methodologies, the Strategic Communications Manager will ensure that all communications is strategic and goal-driven, whilst inspiring a culture of storytelling that means Wakehurst’s diverse offer is fully represented to its audiences. 

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is the world leader in plant science and conservation, with two leading visitor attractions: Kew Gardens and Wakehurst.

Wakehurst is Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex and one of the South East’s leading visitor destinations. It is nationally significant for its over 500 acres of inspirational gardens, temperate woodlands, a nature reserve, and a vibrant programme of public events and education. It is also home to the Millennium Seed Bank, the leading global wild-seed conservation project.

 A strong writer with a nose for a good story, our ideal candidate will have significant experience working in a PR or communications role at management level. They will have an aptitude for forward planning and be able to balance a strategic view with fast-paced, hands on delivery. Adept at managing diverse agendas, they will thrive working on complex projects with multiple stakeholders and bring a spirit of innovation to the team.

Experience managing events such as press launches and fundraising events for a range of different stakeholders, would be highly desirable. The role may suit someone with experience working for a cause-led, cultural or visitor attraction.

Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as a cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of museums and galleries, as well as access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.

If you are interested in this position, please visit our website for more information and to apply.

Closing Date: 01/11/2020

Interviews are planned for w/c 16th and 23rd November

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.

No agencies please. 

Marketing & Communications Officer (Philanthropy)

Salary: £21,326 per annum + good range of benefits

Contract: Fixed term 6 months – 36.5 hours per week (open to part time for right candidate)

Based: Milton Keynes

World Vision is an international children’s charity working with children, their communities, and with supporters and partners, in almost 100 countries.

Through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy we’ve helped bring lasting change to millions of children, over more than 60 years. And as a Christian organisation, everything we do is motivated by our faith as we strive to reflect God’s unconditional love.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Job Purpose

Are you an experienced marketing professional/content creator looking to use your skills to make a difference in the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable children?

We are looking for an exceptional person to join the philanthropy team on a fixed term basis to create a suite of high-value, inspiring fundraising communication materials for child sponsors and other World Vision supporters on the mid-level journey, demonstrating the difference their support is making

This role will also support high level donor communications and report writing within the philanthropy team.

This role will give you the opportunity to develop fundraising propositions that inspire our supporters and invite them to transform the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. It will be your job to ensure our communications truly reflect World Vision’s mission and Christian ethos to our diverse supporter base.

You will create compelling copy content, as well as manage relationships with our design, print, agencies, working collaboratively to produce emotive communications that ‘reach’ our supporters and bring to life the change they are making. You will have experience in writing marketing/fundraising copy or report writing, coordinating projects, working to timelines, managing multiple stakeholders.

In addition to the salary indicated, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking. Like many organisations we’re mainly working remotely right now, and longer-term this role could be carried out in part remotely. The role will have a significant stakeholder management component to it as well as a strong emphasis on networking and relationship building internally, so you would need to be in the Milton Keynes office at least twice a week.

All applicants must be willing to work within a Christian framework and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the attached Job Description.

Closing Date for applications: 18th November 2020

Interview Dates: W/C 26th November 2020

World Vision UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation and race.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK - Job Applicant Privacy Notice available on our website.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early and commence interviews should we receive a high volume of applications, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

No agencies please.

The Head of Policy Impact and Communications is an exciting new role created at Design Council which leads our charitable mission to spread awareness of the value of design and influence for greater use of design, and to create commercial partnerships that do design and allow the organisation to thrive.

This involves:

• developing and influencing policies that promote good design and building alliances that can make the case more persuasively together
• measuring the impact and telling the story of the value of our work, and communicating/marketing our offer to create new and funded design partnerships that deliver value
• supporting delivery teams to use the best creative communication & storytelling methods as part of creating change, including harnessing & showcasing a diversity of talent within design.

The role:

• leads the Policy, Impact and Communications team, managing staff and working with external agencies
• forms part of the senior management team, along with colleagues in the delivery team and corporate services team
• reports into the Chief Design Officer, who with two other Directors and the Chief Exec lead the organisation

We are looking for someone who:

• Combines data and stories into compelling new narratives that influence policymakers and organisations to use design
• Builds relationships and alliances with other organisations with similar interests to speak with a bigger voice
• Stitches together, connects and weaves insights from our various project work, and that of the wider design sector
• Amplifies the diversity of design
• Proactively scan the horizon for influencing opportunities
• Is creative and curious in visual and digital methods
• Has an entrepreneurial mindset and can spot business opportunities which widen the use of design and our services
• Cares for the team and how they can be the best they can be

We value inclusion, equality and diversity, and we know that can only design better for all, when we bring together people from different backgrounds and perspectives. Therefore, we are actively recruiting for a diversity of candidates that reflects the ‘all’ of the society we are designing with and for. We are happy to hear about and explore reasonable adjustments that we could make which mean that the role would be attractive to a greater diversity of person. This includes the ability to work from home, flexible working,  compressed hours or other arrangements.

To apply please send a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability for this role.

THE WELCOME DIRECTORY - helping faith communities welcome people leaving prison. Established as a charity in 2016 the Welcome Directory is entering a new and exciting phase of development. Already 127 Faith Communities have registered with us to state clearly that people leaving prison will find a welcome with them. Over the next two years our aim is to substantially increase that number, moving towards our simple yet powerful vision: to help faith communities become places where people who leave prison find acceptance. A place to belong that not only nurtures faith but also offers appropriate practical support.

People are at the very heart of this work; people who have found the benefits of being part of a faith community whether inside or outside the prison gates. If nothing else, we hope that engaging with The Welcome Directory will help faith communities to understand that in a deeper way; that those leaving prison have a name, a story as well as hopes and dreams for their lives beyond the prison gate.

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder will develop engagement and funds from donors and ensure communications with all key stakeholders, including the engagement of new faith communities.

This will include, but may not be limited to:

• Ensuring the development of a communications strategy suitable for the operational development of The Welcome Directory
• Identifying and developing key relationships with donors of The Welcome Directory (including institutional, corporate, individual), successfully raising funds
• Developing grant proposal narratives and media where required for both donor applications and reporting, in collaboration with the Project Manager
• Maintaining and developing The Welcome Directory website, social media, and media engagement
• Effectively communicating with stakeholders, though the development and dissemination of a quarterly newsletter
• The development of stories from Faith Communities about their experiences of welcoming people from prison, in collaboration with the Regional Lead
• Ensuring resources for the Prisons Awareness course are up to date/ statistics are updated annually
• Ensuring registration details of faith communities are regularly updated
• From time to time, you may be required to undertake additional activities which are appropriate to the development nature of this role as required by your line manager.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

General: The post is to be home-based. Travel expenses as required for the successful development of the project may be claimed and suitable equipment for fulfilling the job will be provided.

Salary: £12,000 pa                                   

Pensions: As the employer, The Welcome Directory pays National Insurance contributions under the ‘not-contracted-out’ contributions scheme and all members of staff not in a pension scheme are required to join one. The Welcome Directory will, during the term of the post contribute 5% of salary provided that the staff member also makes a contribution.

Hours of Duty: Normal hours of work are 20 hours per week, equivalent 2.5 days, excluding an hour’s unpaid break for lunch.

Annual Leave: 10 days paid leave per year exclusive of public and additional holidays.

Contract: The post is offered on a 1 Year fixed term basis and is subject to a 3-month probationary period.

Location: Home based

Accountable to: the Project Manager

Key relationships: The Welcome Directory staff, Supporters, Registered Faith Communities, Existing and Potential Donors, Prison Chaplaincy  

PERSON SPECIFICATION: The post is open to any person with experience of charity communications and fundraising with recent or ongoing experience of the resettlement of offenders. The ideal post holder will be able to demonstrate a high level of awareness of the resettlement issues faced by those leaving prisons as understood by Prison Chaplains. 

Essential

Personal Attributes:

• Supportive of the faith-based ethos and purposes of the organisation
• Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly
• Self-directing with capacity to prioritise
• Ability to meet deadlines

Education:

• Educated to at least an undergraduate diploma level

Skills/Aptitudes:

• Advanced written and oral communication skills
• Proven ability to engage with donors in order to achieve financial support
• Ability to relate well to people of all faiths
• Analytical skills
• IT skills to an Advanced level, including use of technology such as Zoom

Experience/ Knowledge:

• Writing successful funding bids for charity
• Media communications, including social media and web management
• Social networking in a corporate setting
• Understanding of resettlement issues faced by those leaving prison           

Circumstances:

• Willingness and ability to travel, with occasional overnight stays                       

Desirable

Personal Attributes:

• Commitment to their own faith and the life of their faith community

Education:

• Degree and/ or Higher Degree

Experience/ Knowledge:

• Prison Chaplaincy structures and the justice system
• Working within a multi-faith team
• Working with / alongside Multi-Faith Prison Chaplaincy
• Working with / alongside those in leadership in Faith Communities

GENERAL CONDITIONS:

Equality of opportunity, and diversity

Equal treatment amongst people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse perspectives is one of the central precepts of The Welcome Directory. The Welcome Directory as an employing body values the richness which this equal treatment brings to the workplace.  It therefore has an equal opportunities policy in place which not only requires the employer to fulfil certain obligations but also places responsibilities on staff.  Staff found to be contravening the policy or acting outside its spirit will be subject to disciplinary action, which could lead to dismissal.

The Welcome Directory is committed to implement the terms of all relevant Diversity legislation and to improving opportunities for people safeguarded by the protected characteristics.

Standards of Behaviour and Conduct

Staff are expected to act at all times with due consideration for others and in a manner befitting their position as employees of a body representative of Faith Communities and as professionals, whatever their job.

It is important that all members of staff present a neat and tidy appearance at all times. The post holder will be expected to model this to all staff and stakeholders. The general appearance should help convey a professional and efficient approach to work. Whilst not wishing to impose unreasonable obligations on staff, The Welcome Directory nonetheless expects you to look smart in appearance at all times while representing the organisation.

In this post, any action that would exclude the holder from prison will disqualify them from this employment.

It is a condition of employment that the post holder is in possession of a recent and valid DBS certificate 

Health and Safety Responsibilities

Staff must ensure that they do not endanger themselves or others by any act or omission on their part.

Home-working staff must ensure that they are mindful of health and safety responsibilities in their work place.

Confidentiality

Staff must not pass on to unauthorised persons, any information obtained in the course of their duties without the permission of their line manager or the trustees. 

Please apply by submitting a letter of application explaining why you think you would be suited to this role and a current CV

The Welcome Directory is also recruiting for a Regional Lead (0.5 FTE). Please refer to the separate Job Description for more information.

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a global research and learning organisation for equitable and sustainable change. 

At the heart of the Institute, the Knowledge, Impact and Policy cluster supports both IDS and our international partners in universities, think tanks, donors, INGOs, governments and development agencies to broker knowledge more effectively and improve its use in research, policy processes, programming and learning. 

We now require an experienced and highly motivated communications professional to help us to deliver an exciting portfolio of projects. 

The Communications and Impact manager will liaise with external partners, policy actors and the media. 

You will need excellent written and verbal communication skills, project management experience, and experience of managing relationships with international partners.