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Are you an experienced communications coordinator, skilled in comms planning, content writing/asset production and delivery? The lung-health-focused European Respiratory Society (ERS) is looking for a new member of their small but very productive comms team. This permanent role offers hybrid working (between home and a Sheffield based office) and some flexibility with working hours. Though the immediate team is Sheffield based, this role requires day to day interactions with colleagues based at our offices in Lausanne (Switzerland) and Brussels (Belgium), plus respiratory-focused professionals dispersed globally. 

Who we are

ERS is a professional membership organisation serving the respiratory community - we bring together clinicians, researchers, and allied healthcare professionals (our members) and patients together for a common goal. Our mission is to promote lung health and alleviate suffering from respiratory disease. We have over 35,000 members globally from more than 160 countries, and more than 100 partnerships with medical societies worldwide. Our work is spread over three key pillars: science (supporting the scientific community and scientific excellence), education (we offer high-quality educational courses, training and resources) and advocacy (we use scientific evidence to advocate for policies which support better respiratory health outcomes).

The scope of the role

As a communications coordinator within ERS you will have an opportunity to work on projects across a wide spectrum, including, but not exclusive to: long term campaigns linked to influencing lung health policy, such as tobacco and air quality; supporting the delivery of major conferences and smaller events; initiatives to enhance scientific research; promotion of products, services and resources.

The suitable candidate MUST have direct experience of delivering a project in full: liaising with colleagues and project leads, assessing needs, communications planning, content writing/production and delivery across multiple channels, using platforms including social media and content management and mailing systems etc.

Audiences

The primary audience of our communications are most often respiratory professionals (researchers, clinicians, allied healthcare); however, particularly in relation to advocacy-based work, we do target policymakers, the news media and the general public. Additionally, we work very closely with the European Lung Foundation (ELF), which is an organisation which ensures the patient voice is included in our work, and that our work is translated for patients. We have joint campaigns with the ELF, such as our Healthy Lungs for Life campaign, that also extends our audience to the general public.

Main responsibilities of this role:

• Act as a contact for communications requests
• Assess communications needs
• Develop and implement communications plans that support strategic ERS initiatives
• Ensure clear and on-brand messaging across all ERS communications channels
• Create engaging content, which is both platform and audience appropriate
• Maintain the ERS website and other owned digital platforms and approve content for publishing where needed.
• Monitor and maintain all social media channels
• Create/edit images and video for use on ERS channels
• Use content management systems (CMS), mailing systems and social media channels to disseminate information
• Coordinate a bi-weekly newsletter
• General copywriting and editing
• Support web redesign projects and any development of digital platforms
• Updating digital media accounts such as Spotify and SoundCloud
• Write press releases
• Manage press queries and link ERS representatives with the press
• Liaise with external press consultants to facilitate press releases
• Use media distribution systems for press release dissemination and press reporting
• Facilitate press involvement at the ERS Congress.
• Mentor the communications assistant and assign tasks to them
• Some (limited) European travel may be required

Note: This is a mid-level position and a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role is required.