John Whitgift Foundation is a Croydon based education and care charity that works to support people of all ages and backgrounds and brings them together to inspire a sense of community in all that we do. With this in mind, we are looking for a strategic and dynamic person to develop a comprehensive internal communications strategy to engage and inspire community amongst our 1,000 staff who are working across different sites and with diverse roles delivering our education and care services. The post holder will be an experienced internal communication professional with excellent skills in planning and delivering a multi-channel internal communications infrastructure with the ability to manage relationships with staff at all levels. Through the mission, vision, and values of the Foundation we are looking to develop a culture whereby staff in our schools, care homes and Carers Information Service feel connected and part of the wider Foundation. We are also delivering several major systems projects in HR and Finance and the role will be critical in supporting the roll out of these.

Cumbria CVS has a long history of supporting the voluntary sector and has played a key role in the Covid-response to date. We have now completed a strategic review and want to strengthen our team!  If you have the energy, enthusiasm and resilience to help our wonderful sector succeed in these challenging times and would like to work in a flexible, friendly team that is passionate about making a difference to communities across Cumbria, then this role may be for you.
We are recruiting a skilled, experienced and motivated Communications Manager (F/T) to support the development and implementation of an effective communications strategy for Cumbria CVS and the wider third sector, including digital communications.
We are especially looking for self-motivated individuals with relevant skills, qualifications and experience of partnership working and collaboration and if you have an understanding of and a commitment to the values of the Cumbria CVS - Leadership, Excellence, Equity, Integrity and Voluntarism - and would like to work for this forward thinking organisation, then we want to hear from you.

Application Pack:

Chapter are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Marketing Officer to join the team. Working under the direction of the Marketing Lead, you will manage Chapter’s marketing campaigns across the organisation and in line with the marketing strategy.

You will be competent in designing both digital and print campaigns and be able to demonstrate an ability to manage several social media accounts at a commercial level.

We are looking for a proactive individual who will support Chapter’s marketing and publicity as we embark on a significant phase of growth. You will have a strong commitment to improving the lives of people affected by mental ill-health.

We have a strong commitment to promote equality and equal opportunities. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental ill-health.

Visit our website to download an application pack.

As part of your application, you must submit examples of previous design work undertaken, or links to appropriate examples.

Closing date for applications is midnight Sunday 14th March 2021.

Interviews will be held Thursday 25th March 2021. Due to current Government restrictions, it is likely that initial interviews will take place virtually.

Job Description

Job Title: Communications and Campaigns Manager – Inspiring Governance

Reports to: Director of Governance Programmes

Location: Flexible with occasional travel to London office - Quantum House, 22 – 24 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, EC4A 3EB

Purpose: The UK based Education and Employers charity aims to ensure that all young people have the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential. One of the ways it achieves this aim is via the Inspiring Governance recruitment service. Funded by the Department for Education, this is a free governor recruitment service which gets highly skilled volunteers to serve as governors in some of the most disadvantaged schools in England and in so doing, helping to raise educational achievement.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference by taking on a leading role in driving our communications and campaigns activities, both with volunteers and employers looking to support governance, and with recruiters looking to appoint governors in their school and local academy boards.

The postholder will primarily be responsible for developing and personally delivering a suite of communications and campaigns activity. They will work as part of a close and supportive team with other colleagues in Inspiring Governance and the wider charity.

Remuneration: circa £28-30k - depending upon experience

Additional Terms: 30 days paid holiday, exclusive of Statutory Holiday plus competitive pension scheme and a volunteering allowance of up to 5 days – pro rata in accordance with the length of contract. Additional family friendly benefits including enhancements to Statutory Payments.

Appointment Terms: Fixed term contract – initially until March 31st, 2022

Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of communications and campaigns that contribute to driving volunteer sign ups, supporting our employer engagement, and successfully engaging recruiters with our governance recruitment services:

• Inspiring Governance: This is a free (at point of use) England wide online recruitment service that connects schools with skilled volunteers interested in being governors and trustees. The service is currently funded by the Department for Education (DfE) The programme has specific, and demanding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to meet around numbers of volunteers sourced and placed, the diversity of volunteers and the number of vacancies registered by schools.
• Inspiring FE Governance: This is a free (at point of use) England wide online recruitment service dedicated to finding individuals with the right skills to serve on Further Education (FE Boards) in England, including chairs of finance committees. Board members are committed volunteers and the role is like a company non-executive director. The Inspiring FE Governance service is funded by the Education and Training Foundation and run solely by Education and Employers. The programme has specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to meet, around numbers of volunteers sourced and placed for example.

We are looking for a strategic thinking, motivated individual who can evolve existing campaigns, develop new ones, and deliver a range of communications activity across multiple channels to promote the Inspiring Governance Service. The post-holder will understand governance and is passionate about supporting young people to realise their potential. Education and Employers is a small charity working at a rapid pace to bring about change and the ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills, able to absorb key information quickly and work well with a small team in a dynamic working environment.

Key Accountabilities:

Review, evolve and deliver our current communications strategy

• To review, critique and develop the current Inspiring Governance communications strategy
• Put in place plans to resource and deliver this strategy at minimum cost for maximum gain
• Undertake metrics tracking to secure management information on all our communications channels, helping to inform and revise our ongoing strategy

Managing our website and social media channels

• Manage the Inspiring Governance website, overseeing and generating all content and liaising with our website hosts to ensure the website is engaging, informative and accessible
• Generating and posting content (including video) for the Inspiring Governance social media channels (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) that is designed to maximise benefit and reach for the service itself
• Works with the website provider and other external agencies as appropriate (film companies/ designers) to develop briefs for and delivery of key communications and marketing assets
• Through well planned social media campaigns and activity, grow our followership in terms of reach and by securing influential followers that can magnify our communications reach
• Develop the ongoing content schedule for the Inspiring Governance news stories pages. Commission, author and edit articles for these pages, promoting them appropriately to secure the widest readership
• Developing a wider library of photos/ images that are engaging, support our written comms and are tailored appropriately at our governance audiences

Curate, maintain, update, and develop our resources for volunteers and recruiters

• Review our current resources and revise any branding in line with a change in our delivery partnership, which will involve re-branding some material and maintaining branding/ attributed IPR of others
• Update our resources in line with DfE issued advice and guidance on school and academy governance
• Refine and further develop Inspiring Governance’s existing offer to volunteers thus helping ensure volunteers are ready to take up their role on a governing board
• Signpost ongoing support in the market that volunteers can access during their first years in governance

Developing our existing and new campaigns

• Work with partners to develop the Everyone on Board campaign (to diversify schools governing boards) that to date has been jointly developed with the National Governance Association
• Work with partners to develop the Educators on Board campaign (to encourage more educators on to governing boards) that to date has been jointly developed with the National Governance Association
• Develop and expand the School Governor Champions campaign that encourages employers and organisations to become a corporate supporter of school governance
• Support the Head of Employer and Volunteer Engagement to develop employer and sector led campaigns like Take a Closer Look (engineers) and Health Ambassadors (NHS staff)
• Conceptualise and deliver new campaigns that help us achieve our objectives and contract KPIs

Review and update all our existing communications with volunteers and recruiters

• Review the range of automated e-mail and personal communication that goes to users of the service (both volunteers and recruiters). Ensure that these comms best support the user/ customer journey and reflect the friendly, helpful and straightforward approach the service currently takes to its users
• Draft content for and distribute regular communications that go to IG volunteers and recruiters such as the volunteer and recruiter newsletters and annual surveys
• Work with Inspiring the Future colleagues in the charity to put in place a communications approach that encourages ITF volunteers to deepen their volunteering commitment and register for Inspiring Governance

Partnership communications and wider PR/ press coverage

• Secure wider PR/Press coverage for the Inspiring Governance service and its campaigns in trade, regional and possibly national channels
• Work with educational stakeholders to support the wider promotion of the IG service and our messages. This will include the National Governance Association as a previous delivery partner but also professional associations and membership bodies
• Further develop our employer social media toolkit and ensure that employers and professional associations we work with have the copy and tools to promote the Inspiring Governance service within their internal and external communications networks
• Ensure Inspiring Governance maximises its exposure through linking to national campaigns such as volunteer’s week and National Careers Development Month.

Wider charity contribution

• When required provide support to the wider charity’s communications activities and priorities. For example, this could be supporting the release of our research reports like the recent Value of Volunteering report.

Other

• Represent the charity’s governance programmes and the Director at external events and conferences as appropriate
•  Proactively contribute ideas and thoughts into the governance programmes team and into the wider Charity; both on Inspiring Governance Comms and the charity’s wider work; 
• Other ad hoc duties as required.

Person specification:

Skills/ Knowledge/ Expertise

Essential

• Degree or equivalent experience e.g. CMI/CAM Cert/Dip
• Management level experience of developing and delivering communication strategies and executing them via effective programme and project management;
• Demonstrable supplier, client, and stakeholder engagement experience (including working with designers, printers, schools and wider educational stakeholders and their representatives);
• Management level experience of managing and delivering across a communications function (experience of engaging employers/ volunteers and schools/academies would be ideal) including scoping and delivering a programme of activity to achieve demanding Key Performance Metrics;
• Excellent IT skills and demonstrable experience of effectively using a content management system – we use Word Press;
• Excellent drafting and copy writing skills and the ability to structure and produce compelling and grammatically correct written content for a range of audiences;
• Demonstrable experience of conceptualising, planning and executing national comms campaigns to achieve demonstrable target group behaviours, such as encouraging volunteer and recruiter sign up to a service;
• Demonstrable experience of engaging and working effectively and collaboratively with colleagues and external partners across multiple geographical locations;
• Excellent people skills, the ability to influence (including with senior representatives) and the manner to professionally represent both the governance programmes and the Charity as a whole with schools, academy trusts and educational/ employer stakeholders;

Desirable

• A passion for supporting young people in realising their potential through placing skilled volunteers as governors in schools; 
• A successful track record in delivering tangible outcomes through engagement with schools, volunteers, employers and educational stakeholders;
• Experience of producing video and photography content to a standard that can be used on public facing websites;
• Specialist knowledge of the education and employment sectors and the policy environment underpinning these in order to tailor effective messaging;
• Experience and/or knowledge of governance within an education context; willingness to become a governor desirable
• Experience of working to deliver significant national Key Performance Metrics using resources (human and financial) efficiently and effectively; 
  • Understanding of risk management and data protection.

Personal Attributes

• Good level of education, demonstrating strong client facing aptitude and communication skills both written and verbal. Comfort and confidence in working with a variety of senior external stakeholders
• Self-motivated and relentless in pursuing goals, having an entrepreneurial and enterprising approach to their work;
• Good working knowledge and practical application of Microsoft office tools and the ability to understand and work with customer relationship management software – we currently operate our services on a Salesforce platform;
• A solutions orientated “doer”- ability to pro-actively anticipate requirements and act to provide workable solutions to these;
• Influencer - demonstrates personal ‘presence’ and gains the confidence of others through temperament, capability and calibre;
• Demonstrates sensitivity and possesses the ability to effectively manage the organisational tensions that sometimes develop between internal and external stakeholders involved in the organisation and delivery of communications. 
• Team Player: working collaboratively and flexibly with other colleagues to achieve outcomes and is keen to add value to the Charity’s culture and ethos;
• Able to undertake some occasional work in the evenings and at weekends;
• Able to travel in the UK (England primarily).

Application process 

The Education and Employers Charity values having its current diverse workforce.  We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all individuals from all backgrounds.

The closing date for applications is midday on the 15th March 2021. Successfully shortlisted candidates will be notified no later than close of play on Friday 19th March. Online interviews will take place via Zoom or MS Teams on either the 24th or 25th March.

Applications will only be accepted from those with the right to work in the UK with a valid passport/visa

Please note we will only consider applications with both a CV and covering letter.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered under any circumstances.

About the wider Education and Employers Charity

Education and Employers is an independent UK based charity launched in 2009 with the vision of “providing children and young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential”. It aims to achieve this by working with schools, employers, the national bodies that represent them and a wide range of other partners including the government and third sector organisations. The charity also works with partners internationally – more details here.

The charity runs Inspiring the Future, a free service which uses innovative match-making technology to connect volunteers with state schools and colleges, quickly, simply and at scale. Schools can very easily search a massive database of willing volunteers, filter against a wide range of criteria – e.g. subject, sector, career route and send them a message. It enables young people, wherever they live, whichever school they attend, the opportunity to meet people from a wide range of backgrounds doing jobs from across the whole world of work.

Over 55,000 people have already volunteered in the UK - people from all levels: apprentices to CEOs and all sectors: apps designers to zoologists and over 80% of English secondary schools have registered. People can volunteer from an hour a year in a local primary or secondary school to chat informally about their job and career route, take part in career speed networking session, give careers insights, provide mock interviews or feedback on CVs through to serving as a governor or trustee.  There is also the opportunity to link up with schools for workplace visits, job shadowing and mentoring.

Inspiring the Future operates on a technology platform kindly developed in partnership with Deloitte, Salesforce and Ordnance Survey. It allows the charity to run national campaigns such as Inspiring Women and others focused on specific geographic areas or economic sectors such as engineering, science, health and arts and culture. The campaigns have secured high profile support across government, business and teacher associations and ongoing corporate partnerships including our lead corporate partner Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

In partnership with the National Association of Head Teachers the charity has developed a version for primary schools called Primary Futures and over 4,500 primaries have already signed up. To see a short clip on how it works please click here.  All campaigns run through Inspiring the Future share a common objective: to broaden young people’s horizons, raise their aspirations and show them the range of opportunities and careers routes e.g. apprenticeships and university open to them. Over 1.8 million interactions between young people and volunteers from the world of work have already taken place.

In partnership with the National Governance Association the charity currently runs Inspiring Governance the free governor recruitment and support service. This Department for Education funded service aims to get highly skilled volunteers to serve as governors in some of the most disadvantaged schools in England and in so doing help raise educational achievement. From April 1st, 2021, this will be delivered solely by Education and Employers and will focus only on governor recruitment.

Since the Charity’s launch it has sought to understand what difference employer engagement in education makes to young people and the economy. It works with academics and researchers from around the world and its own research is regularly cited by government and international organisations like the OECD. The research, which has informed and influenced a range of government policies, shows that employer engagement helps improve social mobility, reduces the likelihood of young people becoming NEET (not in education, employment of training), increases the amount they earn in adult life, helps them make better informed career choices and leads to improvements in educational attainment.

This is an exciting and wide-ranging role for an experienced strategic, creative, and hands-on marketing and communications professional, to join Young Enterprise at a pivotal time in our history. One year into a game-changing 3-year strategy, on the cusp of celebrating our diamond anniversary in 2022. 

The role forms part of the Senior Leadership Group, reporting to the CEO. We are looking for a strategic leader to take Young Enterprise’s marketing and communications to the next level, engaging young people, educators, volunteers, and supporters. The successful candidate will have a passion for creating compelling content and communications strategies.

The main purpose of this role will be to oversee the development of engaging content and communications campaigns for YE’s three-year strategy – currently the No Time Like The Future Strategy (NTLTF) -  including the development and delivery of creative, innovative, and effective multi-platform marketing, engagement, and profile-raising campaigns for Young Enterprise.

You will lead the Marketing Team and Communications Team, working closely with the Public Affairs & Public Relations (PA&PR) Team and other stakeholders across Young Enterprise to identify, agree and align marketing and communications for the Charity.

You’ll work collaboratively internally (Programmes, Fundraising, Evaluation, Regional) looking at the ways in which communications messages are being tangibly applied and measured throughout the functions.

This role would suit someone with a good understanding and experience of marketing in the voluntary youth sector, with a passion for equality and inclusion, and who is confident and enthusiastic about digital communications and social media.

Send your CV and covering letter outlining your suitability for the role (no more than 2 sides of A4) by no later than midday on Friday 12th March 2021.

Please note that applications for this position may close prior to the deadline if there is sufficient interest, so you are advised to apply early.

Interviews will take place via video call on Tuesday 23rd March and Thursday 23rd March 2021.

This is an opportunity to join a growing team at the Global Distributors Collective (GDC). The GDC started in October 2018 and, since then, we have gone from strength to strength supporting our members – last mile distribution organisations – to sell life-changing products to low-income, remote or otherwise marginalised people across the world. Our ambition is to make last mile distribution the first priority.

Engaging with our members and partners sits at the core of everything we do; from delivering our innovation workstream and providing technical assistance directly to our members, to hosting learning and collaboration events and gathering/disseminating research and insights. In this role you will work closely with the Head of the GDC, GDC Project Manager and particularly the Communications and Impact Manager to help shape and deliver an ambitious agenda of communications activities, to support last mile distribution companies to save time, money and increase their impact at the last mile. You will also coordinate our member engagement work, providing you with an opportunity to liaise directly with, and learn about, socially-driven companies operating all across the world.

No two days working for the GDC are the same. We are a small, fun and fast-paced team looking forward to welcoming a new team member into the mix!

About you

You are an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a questioning mind and desire to learn. As a communications professional, you will have exceptional written and verbal communications skills and be comfortable liaising with a range of stakeholders. Your eye for design means you are creative with the ability to champion the GDC brand, ensuring that our external communications are always top quality. You will be familiar with working in a customer- or client-facing role; experience working or volunteering within a membership organisation would be an asset.

You are comfortable to work remotely and undertake tasks independently, often delivering work to time-pressured deadlines; while also being a keen team player and ready to chip in when necessary. While you may not have prior experience of working in the international development sector, you’ll have an interest in development issues and finding ways to improve the lives of marginalised people.

As our small international team works predominantly in English, it’s important that you are a fluent English speaker. Many of our members speak French as a first language, so French language skills would also be an asset!

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, working with values driven and highly engaged colleagues, work life balance and flexible working – these are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

Our other benefits include:

• Full time roles are contracted at 35 hours per week
• 26 days holiday rising with continuous service, in addition to public holidays.
• Pension scheme - employer contributes 10.5% of salary and the employee contributes 5%.
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary).
• Bike to Work scheme.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme
• Remote working / home working is possible with this role.

About us

Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

Additional information

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as disability, race, age, religion, gender, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

Closing date for applications: midnight GMT Friday 19th March

Tentative Interview date: week commencing 29th March

Please note that, should we recruit a suitable candidate before the closing date, we will close applications earlier than the specified date.

Have a flair for creative, compelling writing? Able to write clearly and concisely for a variety of audiences? Good with hitting strict deadlines? This could be the job for you!

We need a Website Copywriter to help get our new website up and running. You'll have a flair for writing elegant, engaging copy that has an impact on our viewers. You'll have excellent writing skills, with an ability to write concisely for a wide range of audiences with strict deadlines.

Whilst this is a short term 12 week contract you will be playing a vital role in getting the new website off the ground.

Plelase visit the website for further information and note the deadline for applications is 09:00 on 15 March.

This role is an exciting opportunity to use your experience in the Events and Brand Support Officer role to make a difference in the field of health care research.  

Knowledge Translation (KT) is essential in achieving Cochrane’s vision and maximizes the benefit of the work of our global contributors. The Cochrane Knowledge Translation Strategy (KT Strategy) elaborates on Strategy 2020’s fundamental commitment to the dissemination, use and impact of Cochrane evidence.

This role will lead on supporting, developing and implementing Cochrane’s annual marketing and events calendar, to lead and coordinate Cochrane’s organizational virtual events in 2021 as well as preparations towards 2022’s events including Cochrane’s Toronto Colloquium hosted by Cochrane Canada, 11 - 14 September 2022, along with supporting brand and event activities of Cochrane’s Groups.

We are looking for a self-motivated and highly organized individual who is able to work effectively and collaboratively with a diverse range of contacts across the world.  

Cochrane is a global, independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making vast amounts of research evidence useful for informing decisions about health. We do this by synthesizing research findings to produce the best available evidence on what can work, what might harm and where more research is needed. Our work is recognised as the international gold standard for high quality, trusted information. An understanding of Cochrane’s work and health research more generally is an advantage, but not essential.

Job Advertisement Title: Development Communications Coordinator

Salary:  £33,376 - £37,682 per annum

Location: Home-based to start, moving to mixed-mode working when restrictions allow

Job Summary

Do you have a gift with words and a track record of delivering high quality communications? Can your storytelling skills help inspire philanthropists to make a donation in support of research and education initiatives with the potential to change the world?

We are looking for an exceptional Development Communications Coordinator to deliver communications and copywriting to support ambitious fundraising goals.

This is a new role which is fixed for one year to provide additional support at a busy and exciting time for the Advancement Division at Imperial College London.

About us

The Advancement Division is responsible for securing support for the College by building strong relationships with alumni and friends. The Supporter Engagement Team comprises three strands of work; Development Events, Development Communications and Donor Relations. The post sits within Development Communications.

Duties and responsibilities

You will work across the university and take on a wide range of communication tasks – spanning both printed and digital. These will include writing fundraising proposals; contributing to promotional materials for fundraising priorities; writing case studies to illustrate the impact of philanthropy at Imperial; and creating new digital content (web copy, video content) for fundraising and donor stewardship purposes.

Working in a team of three, you’ll use your creativity and storytelling skills to craft communications that support frontline fundraisers in connecting with prospective donors and inspiring them to make a gift to Imperial.

It goes without saying that you’ll need strong writing skills and the ability to produce accurate and engaging copy to tight deadlines. Much of your day to day will be spent on desk research and copywriting, but you’ll also need to be someone who’s comfortable in reaching out to colleagues across the university to get the information you need. That could mean calling a donor for a quote, interviewing an academic on technical aspects of their work, or quizzing fundraisers about their donor’s interests.

You will need to be methodical and structured in your thinking, and able to take and work to a tight brief. But we’re also looking for someone who can bring creative flair to the role: curiosity, playfulness, and an eye for a good story are important too.

Essential requirements

You will have experience of delivering high quality communications and writing copy to an agreed brief. You will be able to prioritise and work under pressure, producing excellent work to tight deadlines. You will know how to structure complex information to make it engaging for readers and will be comfortable in carrying out desk research to provide additional context. The post-holder will be able to work with staff at all levels, including senior colleagues and College leaders. While able to work independently, you’ll enjoy being part of a team, and be able to give and receive critical feedback on draft copy/communications.

Further Information

This role is full-time and fixed-term for one year.

Closing date: 15/03/2021

Llamau is daring to imagine a world without homelessness – will you help us to create it?

Llamau’s mission is to end youth homelessness and homelessness for women in Wales. It’s a big ambition and to some people it might seem impossible, but we know that if we all work together, homelessness genuinely doesn’t have to exist.

We’re looking for a passionate, talented and experienced person join Team Llamau and develop, motivate and lead our skilled Income Generation and Fundraising Teams.

You’ll be an excellent relationship builder with a proven track record in developing and meeting income generation targets. You will have demonstrable experience of working in a senior role and in supporting and motivating your teams to deliver the charity’s income generation and communications strategies.

You’ll be working alongside passionate and supportive colleagues in a rewarding environment, where you’ll be making a huge contribution to creating a Wales without homelessness, every single day. 

Reference: SFC07

Location: Head Office, Cardiff

Working hours: Full Time working hours are 37 hours per week.  This will include some evenings and weekends for which TOIL will be given. Please note that flexibility is required to work outside these hours in order to fulfil the responsibilities of the post.

On Call: Participation in Llamau’s office buildings On Call rota

Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience

Contract: Full Time, Permanent 

Please submit your completed application by midday on 8th March 2021.

Marketing and Communications Officer

Salary on appointment: £24,307 – 26,278 (performance related scale range up to £28,249). Pay award pending.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

We are seeking an innovative Marketing and Communications Officer, ideally with charity experience to support and drive our excellent reputation of being a leading children and young people’s charity operating across East Anglia. We want a dynamic, engaging professional who will build on Break’s huge success of delivering high quality impactful services for over 50 years.

At Break, we put relationships at the heart of what we do so we need an enthusiastic person to join our ambitious and innovative team.

About you
The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in marketing and communications, ideally within the charity sector. Experience of: Working on fundraising campaigns, supporting recruitment marketing, delivering internal communication strategies, copywriting, creating video content or creative design work would be desirable.  

With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you will be confident building and maintaining relationships, both internally and externally and will have a focus on positive outcomes, creating new and better means to build on Break’s success.

We are looking for a proactive can-do individual who can hit the ground running and will thrive in a fast moving environment. You will need to enjoy working across a variety of sectors to convey important messages about Break’s critical work.

If you feel you have the skills, experience, drive and enthusiasm to join this dynamic and successful charity we would like to hear from you as soon as possible.

In return, we will offer you a supportive work environment with a fantastic team, and a smarter working approach to nurture your career with us.

Break is Investors in People Gold accredited and has featured in the Times Best Companies list on three occasions.

For over 50 years our work has positively changed young lives, that's why we need you. Join us at this pivotal time for the organisation, we can't wait to hear from you.

Interviews will take place virtually on 25th Match 2021

Please note, all invites to interview will be sent via email. Please regularly check your emails, including any spam folders, for further communication from us. Failure to attend an interview may result in your application being withdrawn

To comply with the Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act 2006 and additional amendments, and UK Border Agency (UKBA) requirements, all prospective employees will be asked to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK. We will ask to see and take a copy of an appropriate official document as set out in the UKBA guidelines. Do not send anything now, further information will be sent to you should you be invited to interview.

We are committed to equality of opportunity. Your current immigration status will not be taken into account when assessing your application against the selection criteria for the post.  We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (“the Modern Slavery PEC”) is looking to recruit an experienced, organised and motivated Research Operations and Communications Manager to join our growing team.

The Modern Slavery PEC was created by the investment of public funding to enhance understanding of modern slavery and transform the effectiveness of law and policies designed to overcome it. Co-creating, conducting and commissioning high quality research is at the heart of the Centre’s work and we aim to bring together academics, policymakers, parliamentarians, businesses, civil society, survivors and the public on a scale not seen before in the UK to collaborate on solving this global challenge.

The Centre is a consortium of six organisations led by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law (part of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)) and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). 

The Research Operations and Communications Manager will play a pivotal role in developing and coordinating research project calls and funding, setting up and leading on managing the lifecycle of the Centre’s research projects. This will include supporting the communications activities around the projects, as well as supporting the core operations and day to day communications activities of the Centre.

You will have excellent communication skills, a proactive and organised approach, a positive attitude to new opportunities and a commitment to working collaboratively on a variety of operational and communications activities.

You will have experience of working within a research management role, an understanding of the processes that underpin calls for funding and research post-award processes and demonstrable skills to manage the operationalisation of research calls being delivered by the Modern Slavery PEC. You will be an excellent writer, with the ability to identify and adapt your style for different audiences, with experience of using social media in a professional capacity.

 We will support remote working throughout the pandemic. Once lockdowns are fully eased, we would expect the successful candidate to come to the office - located in Russell Square, London - for a minimum of two days per week – and we would expect there to be additional travel where necessary to support the aims of the role and the Modern Slavery PEC.

The Modern Slavery PEC is committed to being inclusive and diverse and particularly encourages applications from women, people with disabilities, BAME applicants, LGBT+ applicants and other minorities. The PEC is committed to ensuring that the voice of people with lived experience of modern slavery informs research and policy and we encourage applications from those who have been directly affected by modern slavery. In the spirit of our values, we commit to offer a fair and equitable recruitment process for all applicants.

Full details, including the job description, person specification and how to apply are available in the Job Description below. 

Application deadline: 23:59 on 7 March 2021.

A unique opportunity to devise, develop and implement the delivery of Prison Fellowship's internal and external communications.

Put your faith into practice and enable us to tell our story in a way which inspires action.

You will be an experienced communications professional, working as part of a small team who are passionate about serving people in prison.

This role is currently home-based due to the ongoing pandemic. Once it is safe to do so, the post holder will be required to spend some of their working week in our Westminster office.

Please apply with a full CV and covering letter.

You will be embarking on this new and rewarding role in Big Leaf Foundation, working with the support of the trustees and core team to develop and implement a communications and campaigns strategy for the organisation that helps deliver our objectives and increases support for our overall vision.

You will also support the development of our new young leader’s programme, working with the team and the young people to explore potential campaigning partnerships and empowering the young people we support to have a meaningful voice within local and/or national campaigns. 

Big Leaf Foundation is now entering its third year and we are expanding – both in terms of the number of displaced young people we support and our geographical spread. To ensure we can continue to fulfil our objectives we need to engage more people in our work and make our collective ‘voice’ louder through increased awareness of the issues and how people can help. We also want to build links with other organisations that campaign to improve the rights of displaced young people and/or ensure existing legal rights are upheld – exploring how Big Leaf can best support and add value to these campaigns.

• Contract: Self-employed position funded for 1 year (with option to extend subject to funding).
• Hours: Full-time (40 hours) p/w
• Salary: £115 – £135 per day depending on experience
• Location: Surrey (home-based but with some in person meetings/activities)
• Reports to: Line Manager & Trustees
• Closing date: 17 March 2021
• Interviews: week commencing 22 March 2021
• Start date: 19 April 2021

KEY TASKS

Communications

• Develop and implement a communications strategy to engage more people in our work and make our collective ‘voice’ louder through increased awareness of both the issues and how people can support.
• Cultivate existing and new relationships with the media/journalists to grow the organisation’s influence and reach. 
• Draft, edit and proofread materials (website content, newsletter, blogs, reports, social media content etc) and project manage design of materials as needed.
• Support the wider Big Leaf Foundation (BLF) team to create impactful content that is consistently on brand, representative of BLF’s voice and in line with the overall communications strategy, providing team training and editorial oversight as needed.
• Work with the BLF team to produce relevant documents and content (incl. case studies) to support fundraising activities. 
• Contribute to BLF fundraising activities through the writing of case studies/content as needed.
• Ensure BLF beneficiaries and directly affected individuals have a meaningful voice within our communications, keeping safeguarding front of mind at all times.
• Regularly evaluate communication activities and make recommendations for continuous improvement.

Campaigns & advocacy

• Cultivate relationships with organisations that campaign to improve the rights of displaced people; and/or ensure existing legal rights are upheld, exploring how Big Leaf Foundation (BLF) can best support and add value to these campaigns. 
• Work with the BLF team to support the new young leaders programme (currently in the planning phase); exploring potential campaigning partnerships and empowering young people (who want to) to participate in local/national campaigns.
• Develop and maintain relationships with local MPs to build their understanding of the issues/challenges facing local displaced young people; and work with BLF caseworkers to obtain local MP support/advocacy on individual cases, where appropriate.
• Ensure BLF campaigns and advocacy activities are in-line with Charity Commission rules on political campaigning.

General

• Represent BLF (aims, mission and programmes) to external audiences.
• Understand your responsibilities in regard to safeguarding and data protection and retain best practice to inform your work with BLF.
• Liaise with other members of the BLF team and trustees as needed to fulfil the role and undertake other areas of work as required.

TO APPLY

If you feel that you have the skills, experience and motivation required for this role, please complete the application form and return it to us before 6pm on 17 March 2021.