Communications Digital Officer Jobs in Holborn, Greater London
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We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Social Media Manager to join our Communications team. This is a new and exciting role that is both creative and strategic. You will lead on the DEC’s social media presence and expertise to deliver impactful content on all our channels and explore new opportunities to reach our audiences.
Ideally, you will have worked in an NGO, can demonstrate successes in a similar role, have proven experience advising senior leaders and have exceptional “people” skills.
If you’re passionate about using your skills to raise funds for our national appeals, share stories of communities affected by disasters and have great ideas on how to demonstrate the impact of our work, we’d love to hear from you!
As part of a small, successful core team, you will collaborate with colleagues from across our 15 member charities as well as our national partners. The DEC provides opportunities to learn and grow in a supportive and productive environment.
Please download the job description for full details of the team, responsibilities and required/desired competencies, experience, skills and knowledge.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you proactive, highly organised and an excellent communicator? Do you want to use your skills to help drive progressive change? We’re a fast-paced and friendly employee-owned digital agency that works a four-day week, and we’d love to hear from you.
The role
As Forward Action’s Partnerships Officer, you’ll support the Partnerships Director to build and maintain strong relationships with our partners, so we can help them achieve change on everything from climate change to refugee rights.
In this fast-paced role, you’ll manage the administration side of our partnerships, from initial contact and briefing, through proposal management, all the way to issuing contracts and drafting scopes. You’ll work across multiple projects and deadlines, managing processes, organising meetings, following up action points, and keeping accurate partnership records.
You’ll champion the partner experience and ensure we always deliver value. This includes meeting with organisations to explore their goals, and briefing colleagues on new partners’ needs. You’ll also lead on our marketing and webinar programme, coordinating plans and working with colleagues and freelancers to deliver outstanding content.
This is a busy role with lots of opportunities to learn new skills, and you’ll be supported by a kind, open and inclusive team. We prioritise work/life balance, offering flexible working and a four-day week. As a Forward Action employee, you’ll co-own the company and share in its success.
About you
You’ll have experience as an account manager or another relationship-based role in fundraising, events, sales or marketing. You might have worked in an agency or the NGO sector, but this isn’t essential.
You’ll be highly organised, thrive on working quickly and efficiently, and have a sharp eye for detail. You’ll also be proactive, process driven, and an excellent problem solver who’s always keen to improve the way we do things. And as the first point of contact for many of our partners, you’ll be a great communicator who’s brilliant at building relationships.
Crucially, you’ll be excited by the work we do and passionate about your role in helping our partners deliver real world change.
As a mission-led organisation, we exist to try to make the world a fairer, more equitable place. That includes working to build a truly diverse, inclusive workplace and sector. We are therefore particularly keen to receive applications from communities that experience discrimination, for example on the basis of race, disability, socio-economic status or gender identity.
We believe in principles of anti-oppression and are proud to be undertaking a review of our policies, practices and processes to ensure we’re embedding them internally, as well as in our work with partners.
Benefits and location
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Contract: This is a permanent full time posiiton
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Hours: We work a 4-day week: 30 hours, Monday to Thursday
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Location: Remote in the UK, or from our London office. In-person meetings in London 1-2 times a month.
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Other benefits: 5 weeks’ holiday plus Christmas break, generous parental leave and a good work-life balance. Read more about our benefits – including working hours, period policy and sustainable travel allowance – in the jobs section of our website
Who we are
Forward Action is an employee-owned agency that helps partners achieve progressive change by using digital tools to unlock people power. We do everything from developing strategies and building movement stories to setting up landing pages, running ads and much more.
Our work enables organisations to deliver phenomenal impact. We’ve raised millions with Refuge, helped Dignity in Dying influence a crucial vote in the House of Lords, and worked with Freedom From Torture to inspire action to stop the Rwanda deportations.
Read more about who we are, what we do and the values that drive us on our website
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Challenge Partners is seeking a purpose-led sales leader to deliver a crucial strand of our ambitious strategy to benefit 500,000 pupils each year by 2027.
Applications from our growth target regions - North West, North East, Yorkshire and Humber, and the Midlands - are strongly encouraged, but not essential. Weekly term-time office days in London are a requirement of the role, but we would consider reduced office days for a successful candidate based in one of these target regions.
Challenge Partners is an England-wide education charity with a mission to reduce educational inequality and improve the life chances of all children. We do this by delivering programmes and networks to boost school improvement, leadership development, and pupil progress.
By leading our sales and marketing, you will deliver a crucial strand of our exciting strategy to enhance and extend Challenge Partners to benefit 500,000 pupils each year by 2027. Reporting to the Chief Executive, your main objective will be to drive sales to increase the number of new schools and trusts joining Challenge Partners. You will also devise and lead marketing campaigns to build our brand and profile.
You will be the sales and marketing expert in the organisation, with good commercial sense and sensitivity to the sector. You will be able to design, execute and monitor impactful campaigns to help us reach new schools and trusts. You will have the personal credibility to win the confidence of school and trust leaders and the tenacity to convert interest into sales personally and through your small team.
You will be a strong and highly-skilled communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop and strengthen new and existing relationships. As a confident public speaker, you will engage and inspire audiences of school and trust leaders. As a senior leader you will have a track record of building, managing and developing high-performing teams and play an important role on our Leadership Team in steering the organisation and upholding our culture.
We are a small, but diverse and dynamic team. We expect everyone in the central team to get stuck in, so you will need to be comfortable to both set the strategy and ‘do the do’ in the functions you oversee.
All employees at Challenge Partners will be subject to an enhanced DBS check as part of our commitment to safeguarding.
Challenge Partners is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion and we are working towards a goal where our team fully reflects the diversity and difference in lived experiences. We strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups including: people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, and those with disabilities.
Strictly no agencies.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a proactive and passionate individual with a strong background in digital marketing and fundraising to help us bring rivers back to life.
Our rivers face more threats than ever. SERT’s Working with Communities Team educates and engages local communities and other stakeholders who have the power, influence (and money!) to help make our rivers thrive again. This role will play a key part in making this happen by helping us reach more people from a wider range of audiences, and connecting them to the issues facing rivers, the solutions that will make a difference and by raising our profile in the expert delivery of them.
This new role within our Working with Communities Team will develop and implement a digital strategy to amplify and support SERT’s presence through increased brand profile, supporter acquisition and engagement and donated revenue. This will involve creating and managing online marketing and fundraising campaigns for the Trust across our digital platforms that grow support for our mission, generate income, reach new audiences and promote the value of the South East’s rivers.
The role will refine the Trust’s existing supporter journey to increase donor revenue making use of its established channels (organic social media, newsletter, website) as well as researching and implementing new channels such as paid advertising, SEO, online campaigns (including crowdfunding) and new social platforms.
You will also find creative and compelling ways to talk about our work, share case studies and successes and make our website the go-to resource for expert and inspiring information about rivers and how to help them.
The ideal candidate would have a background in marcoms and fundraising for non-profits, be a compelling storyteller, and be highly confident and competent in digital communications.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Digital Marketing Manager
We are seeking a talented, experienced and proactive individual to join the charity at this critical and exciting stage of growth and development, and to lead on the delivery of the new digital marketing strategy.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a small but hard-working marketing team at the national charity caring for the NHS, and to support the organisation with their digital marketing activity.
Position: Digital Marketing Manager
Location: Home based and flexible – able to work in Warwick and London offices occasionally, and at other locations nationally when required.
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum
Hours: Full Time (35 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 days with service increments) plus 8 bank holiday, Personal Pension Scheme, Healthcare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff Awards Scheme, Company Sick Pay Scheme, Flexible working patterns
Closing Date: Friday 31st May 23.59
Interview Date: W/C 10th June
About the Role
NHS Charities Together is at an exciting stage in its journey and about to embark on an ambitious new strategy. As the mission of the organisation evolves, the digital channels and digital marketing practices need to evolve with it, ensuring that digital opportunities and learnings across the entire organisation is maximised – to achieve the brand and fundraising objectives.
As the Digital Marketing Manager, your key responsibilities include:
· Delivery of the digital marketing strategy
· Website, Google Analytics and paid social management
· Championing digital knowledge and expertise across the organisation
· Agency management
· Supporting comms and wider teams with digital marketing activities.
About You
You will have experience of delivering digital marketing campaigns and activities in a communications, marketing or fundraising environment. You will be analytical, with a keen eye for detail with the ability to provide guidance and help for other teams across the organisation. With an excellent understanding of key digital marketing metrics, you be confident making data driven decisions.
You will also have experience of:
· Managing digital channels, including websites, analytics platforms, and social media accounts.
· Working with key digital marketing tools including GA4, Meta Business manager and others where relevant.
· Implementing SEO across digital channels.
· Monitoring and evaluating digital activity, with good analytical skills and ability to apply insights into practice.
· Digital audiences and using digital data to understand audiences.
· Managing external agencies and getting the most out of them.
About the Organisation
This is an exciting time to join the organisation as we begin to plan and deliver against our newly launched strategy, to achieve our vision of a future with a thriving NHS and the best possible healthcare for everyone, in which the finance team plays a vital role.
You will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and a supporting statement outlining how you meet the job description, person specification and any preference for a specific programme, via NFP People. The supporting statement should be no more than 2 sides of A4.
Please indicate which role you are applying for. If applying for both please submit a single CV but a separate personal statement for each outlining how your skills and experience meet the requirements of each role.
Other roles you may have experience of could include Digital Marketing, Marketing, Digital, Marketing and Communications, Digital Marketing and Communications, Digital Marketing Manager, Marketing Manager, Digital Manager, Marketing and Communications Manager, Digital Marketing and Communications Manager, Fundraising, Digital Fundraising, Campaigns.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Purpose of the Role
The Digital Marketing Manager will implement and help develop a new digital marketing strategy, crucial to the ongoing development of ArtsEd’s profile and reputation and the successful delivery of all our programmes.
Understanding the needs of current and prospective students and pupils and their parents, and being able to identify digital plans and initiatives which will enable ArtsEd to meet both the long and short-term needs is a central aspect of the role.
The Digital Marketing Manager will lead in the planning and implementation of digitally creative and customer focused campaigns and will be responsible for the achievement of student and pupil recruitment targets. They will work closely with senior staff and the rest of the Marketing team to deliver highly effective experiences to all stakeholders and potential stakeholders.
The Digital Marketing Manager will be responsible for the continuing development of ArtsEd’s online profile amongst all of our target audiences, including high-level industry connections, potential supporters and the local community, alongside potential students, pupils and parents.
In addition, the Digital Marketing Manager will be responsible for ensuring that ArtsEd’s messaging is consistent, innovative and compelling across all platforms.
Digital Marketing
- Plan and execute digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, email, social media and display advertising campaigns in collaboration with the wider marketing team.
- Use digital marketing expertise to create effective user funnels to optimise conversion rates, tracking user behaviour in order to refine processes.
- Collaborate closely with staff across the organisation to identify storytelling opportunities to ensure a full understanding of ArtsEd’s broad range of target audiences.
- Set up digital advertising campaigns through Meta, Google Ads and other platforms
- Utilise excellent graphic design skills to collaborate with the team on the design and delivery of different digital campaigns for all stakeholder groups. This will include mass e-mails, social media posts and digital collateral as required.
- Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnels.
- Monitor social media communications (both comments on posts and direct messages) and respond in a timely and appropriate manner.
Design & Brand
- Be a guardian of the ArtsEd brand, ensuring correct and effective use of our branding and house style both internally and externally.
- Ensure all digital information is accurate, up to date and relevant.
- Ensure ArtsEd embraces and celebrates diversity and inclusion through all digital marketing touchpoints.
- Develop and manage image library including liaising with relevant staff to select images, co-ordinating in-house photography and film requirements, up-dating plasma screen and fulfilling external requests for images.
- Ensure all touchpoints communicate ArtsEd visual identity. Working with the wider Marketing team to review and implement ArtsEd brand architecture structure on digital platforms
Graphic Design
- Create print and digital advertising material using Canva or similar software.
- Design and create in-house digital signage and support the Marketing Officer where needed.
- Support the print production process, liaising with printers and publications, proof reading and adapting print collateral as required.
Recruitment
- Lead on the implementation and delivery of a robust digital marketing strategy to optimise student and pupil recruitment across the whole organisation. This will include:
- Building on existing digital activity to maximise its reach and impact against all of our target audiences, including digital and associated print advertising.
- Managing an associated programme of recruitment focused events and activities, both virtual and face-to-face, to raise our profile and to maximise our enquires, registrations, applications and acceptances across all of our activities.
- Supporting the relevant teams in the delivery of this programme, which will include existing activity e.g. Day School and Sixth Form Open Days, degree audition days and our outreach programme.
- To programme our email marketing conversion communication using software Mailer Lite/MailChimp
- Overseeing the production of all marketing collateral.
Social Media
- Overseeing the planning and delivery of a social media plan that aligns with and enhances all strands of the marketing and communications strategy
- Create engaging and content drive social media assets.
- Oversee and a schedule the delivery of day-to-day social media content
- Work with the marketing officer to Launch as short form video content strategy for all platforms with aligns with the Marketing and organisations strategy.
- Be the expert in understanding movements regarding social networks ensuring ArtsEd has a presence and brand building content on the right platforms.
- To have responsibility for all digital advertising, including social paid adverts.
Website
- Manage through line managed staff all aspects of the ArtsEd website, ensuring that it remains relevant to all users at all times. This will include:-
- Ensuring factual content is kept up-to-date, imagery and video is regularly refreshed and that the overall site reflects ArtsEd’s unique offer.
- Identifying opportunities to create and update brand focused content
- SEO
- Analytics
Market Analysis/Planning
- Review and analysis of data to identify competitor tactics, market trends, new opportunities and challenges.
- Ability to understand different audiences and relevant content to ensure successful conversion rates and enhance the student and stakeholders experience.
- Explore new methods for collection of data and how this can be used to improve recruitment processes
- Complete quarterly digital impact reports
- Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs).
- Implement regular surveys of students and staff, collecting quantitative and qualitative material to support marketing and communication campaigns.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and best practices in online marketing and measurement.
- Shape outcome based on data.
Events
- Work with team on the planning and delivery on a programme of events, including Auditions, Open Evenings and Open Events.
Other
- Carry out any other duties as reasonably requested.
- Commitment to equity, inclusion and diversity
- Line management of direct report
Job Title: Social Media Officer
Reporting to: Digital Marketing Manager
Location of work: Flexible. This post holder can be based in our London office or a hybrid approach working from home with office visits as required, we continue to seek to enable flexible and remote working. The role will involve some irregular travel throughout England and Scotland.
Contract type: Ideally full-time, 35 hours per week, although part time / flexible hours may be considered. The role may require occasional evening and weekend work
Contract Length: Permanent
Salary: £31,500
BACKGROUND
Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools. Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England. Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition they need to be able to make the most of their morning lessons. Magic Breakfast also undertakes research, and campaigns for long-term solutions to end hunger as a barrier to learning.
This is an exciting time to join Magic Breakfast if you wish to make a difference to the lives of children. We are expanding our team to meet the challenge of ending child morning hunger, both for now and for good.
JOB PURPOSE
As part of the Brand and Marketing team, the Social Media Officer will lead on social media strategy for the organization, working closely with teams across Magic Breakfast to develop and diversify our presence on social media. Through innovative, compelling content creation the Social Media Officer will raise awareness of our work and the Magic Breakfast brand. The role's aims are to reach and engage new audiences and to strengthen brand advocacy with exisiting target audiences.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop Magic Breakfast social media channels to grow an engaging environment for people with lived experience of childhood morning hunger and our wider supporter network.
- Develop and deliver effective strategies that optimise and grow our social media channels.
- Liase with both Magic Breakfast and corporate partners' design, PR and social media agencies to deliver effective and timely campaigns
- Monitor, improve (through testing and optimisation) and report on the performance and effectiveness of social media content and campaigns
- Write impactful and engaging social posts, sourcing approprtiate imagery and developing video content in collaboration with the Multimedia Producer.
APPLICATION PROCESS
A clear alignment with Magic Breakfast's values and mission will be an important differentiator between applicants. The successful candidates will be enthusiastic and energetic, bring integrity, be willing to commit time to the role, and be passionate about addressing hunger as a barrier to education.
While Magic Breakfast welcomes applications from everyone, to better serve its communities it has has identified that we would particularly benefit from: young people earlier in their careers, people who have lived experience of poverty, navigating socio-economic adversity or were eligible for free school meals, and people from a minority ethnic background
Should you wish to discuss the role before applying please email our People and Culture Team, hr@magicbreakfast. com
Shortlisting - 28th and 29th May
First interview - 4th and 5th June
Second interview – 11th June
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Technical Officer – training and education
Payscale: £30,493 – 41,737, depending on experience and qualifications (plus London weighting where applicable).
About the HSA
The Humane Slaughter Association is a unique charity which promotes the welfare of farmed animals ‘Beyond the Farm Gate’; at markets, during transport, at slaughter, and when animals must be killed in emergencies.
Our vision is of a world where all farmed animals are transported and killed humanely and our mission is to research, advance and promote the use of humane methods for the transport, slaughter and killing of farmed animals.
We do this by offering practical advice, education, ad training to all those involved in transport, slaughter, or emergency killing of livestock animals, as well as by funding scientific research to develop more humane approaches. Although we are based in the UK, the charity is international and works worldwide.
Technical Officer – training and education
The postholder for this role will play a central role in developing and maintaining our educational and training resources. This will enable us to promote humane transport and slaughter of farmed animals to a diverse audience through multiple channels, including face-to-face teaching and training, online written and audio-visual material as well as interactive e-learning.
In collaboration with colleagues, the postholder will be responsible for the development of learning and training materials including information on our website, e-learning material, video training, lecture material etc.
A key component of this role will be to take complex scientific and technical information and tailor it to a diverse range of audiences around the world.
Another important route by which HSA promotes humane transport and slaughter is through conferences, symposia, and webinars. The postholder will be closely involved in the organisation and deliver of these events.
Key Skills, Qualifications and Attributes
Essential
· A degree in agriculture, life science, veterinary medicine (or a related field) or equivalent professional experience.
· An understanding of the basic principles of animal welfare at slaughter.
· Comfortable with working with and producing material which describes the slaughter process in detail.
· A demonstrable ability to summarise complex information for a range of audiences with different levels of technical expertise.
· Excellent written and oral communication skills.
· Strong IT skills ideally including experience with MS office and SharePoint, as well as software for creation of visual content (ideally including PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite and/or Canva).
· Experience of preparing and delivering oral and written presentations/reports to a varied audience
· Ability to work to targets, with excellent organisational skills.
· Team player, but comfortable working alone when necessary.
Desirable
· Expertise in animal welfare at slaughter and/or during transport (this expertise could have been gained though working with the livestock industry or as an educator, veterinarian, animal welfare researcher, regulator, or policymaker).
· A postgraduate qualification, ideally in animal welfare or a related area.
· A qualification in teaching and learning at the higher or further education level (e.g. FHEA).
· Understanding of the laws and regulations relating to the welfare of animals (in the UK and/or elsewhere) undergoing transport and slaughter.
· Expertise in the welfare of farmed or wild-caught aquatic animals.
· Website editing and design expertise.
· Skills in video content creation and editing.
· Experience of using social media including Twitter/X, LinkedIn and/or YouTube to deliver animal welfare or technical information.
· Experience of using learning management systems or online course delivery platforms to deliver educational material.
· Experience of event planning and organisation (e.g. scientific conferences)
· Experience of online events delivered through platforms such as Zoom or GoToWebinar.
Personal Attributes
The candidate must be comfortable with the charity’s approach to animal welfare which includes co-operation with the livestock and slaughter industries. Whilst the HSA wishes to ensure the highest standards of welfare for animals farmed for food or other products, it does not oppose the slaughter of animals per se. Candidates must be comfortable working within the livestock industry and other key stakeholders whilst striving to ensure the humane treatment of animals undergoing transport or slaughter.
Job Benefits
Payscale: £30,493 – 41,737 (depending on experience and qualifications) plus London weighting, where applicable.
Contract Type: Permanent/full-time, subject to a satisfactory probationary period. Part-time and flexible working arrangements may be possible.
Location: Office-based or remote (within the UK) according to the wishes of the applicant. The HSA offices are currently based in Hertfordshire, UK. The postholder will need to travel to meetings around the UK and occasionally overseas.
Contributory pension scheme (inc. employer’s pension contribution of 8% of gross salary).
25 days paid holiday per year (allowance increases with length of service), plus statutory holidays.
Excellent training opportunities.
Eligibility
Because the charity is based in the UK, you must be legally entitled to work and reside in the UK. The successful candidate will be expected to reside in the UK whilst employed by the charity.
Candidates should ideally hold a UK driving licence or other licence which allows them to drive in the UK.
Please note, that if you wish to work from home, we require a reliable internet connection with a minimum 10Mb/s broadband.
To Apply
Please also specify your current remuneration details and notice period and include the names of two referees (including your current or most recent employer) who may be contacted if you are offered the position. We will not contact referees without your permission.
Closing Date for applications is Midnight (GMT) Friday 7 June 2024
We would be grateful if you would also complete a diversity monitoring form – this will be sent to you once we receive your application and can be returned anonymously. The answers provided on this form play no role in the shortlisting of candidates.
Selection Process
Initial online screening interviews will be held in the week commencing: 17 June 2024
We plan to hold initial online screening interviews will be held in the week commencing: 17 June 2024, with shortlisted candidates invited to an in-person interview at our offices in Hertfordshire in the week commencing 24June 2024.
Please let us know if you require any special arrangements should you be invited to interview.
Employment Checks
All offers of employment are made subject to the following criteria:
Proof of eligibility to work in the UK, Proof of Residency, two references including one from your current (or most recent) employer.
The HSA requests no contact from employment agencies or media sales.
Humane Slaughter Association (HSA)
The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, AL4 8AN, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1582 831919
Registered Charity in England No 1159690: Charitable Incorporated Organisation
lease submit a letter (maximum 2 sides of A4) describing how you meet the person specification and explaining your motivation for wanting to work with us, alongside a comprehensive CV. Please include examples of your work which may be relevant to the role.
Please also specify your current remuneration details and notice period and include the names of two referees (including your current or most recent employer) who may be contacted if you are offered the position. We will not contact referees without your permission.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Based at our Head Office in Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 0BX
Status: Permanent
Salary: Band 6, £37,052, per annum, dependent on experience, plus 5% Outer London Fringe Allowance
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 16:30
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A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our successful challenge and community fundraising team. You'll be working closely with both the Digital and Challenge & Community teams to implement and maintain comprehensive digital strategies for our challenge & Community events that encompasses all areas of our digital communications to achieve fundraising goals.
About Us:
Combat Stress is the UK's leading mental health charity for veterans. For over a century we've been helping former servicemen and women deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. Today we provide specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues related to their military service. We provide a range of community, outpatient and residential mental health services to veterans with complex mental health problems. We provide services in-person, and via phone and online.
About the role:
You will work closely with both the Challenge and Community Events and Digital teams to implement and help develop and oversee a new digital marketing strategy, crucial to enable the Challenge & Community team to maximise participation and income whilst ensuring supporters have the best experience possible when taking part in any event for Combat Stress.
You will be developing and enhancing our digital programmes, creative development and optimising campaigns and social journeys. You'll manage thorough market research and identify target audiences in order to create data-driven campaigns and be able to identify and optimise digital plans and initiatives which will enable Combat Stress to meet both our long and short-term goals.
You will be working in a fast-paced environment which is fun and rewarding. You'll need to be able to prioritise a sometimes demanding and shifting workload, work well under pressure.
You must have previous experience working in a similar role with large income and expenditure budgets with a proven track record of successfully managing multiple digital campaigns from conception to execution.
This role is subject to a DBS check.
As a healthcare environment, and for the health and wellbeing of our staff, veterans and visitors, we encourage everyone at Combat Stress especially professionals that are veteran facing to take up the offer to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19
What we offer:
You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base.
Benefits:
* 27 days paid holiday plus bank holidays. After 5 years continuous service, this will increase to 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and after 10 years continuous service, this will increase to 33 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
* Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 11% of salary
* Discount shopping vouchers
* Cycle to work scheme
* Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
* Flexible working
* Access to Blue Light Card scheme
* Death in Service Scheme
Plus many more.
How to apply:
To apply, please upload a CV and covering letter on our recruitment portal found on our website.
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Closing date: 19 May 2024
Interview date: As and when applications come in
Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early, should we receive a sufficient amount of applicants
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We are looking for an Interim External Affairs Manager to help lead our communications activities from 24 June 2024 to 31 December, while our permanent External Affairs Manager is on sabbatical. This is a particularly exciting time to join the team, as we seek to maximise our impact ahead of the next general election and develop our strategy for the next few years.
The successful candidate will help to manage the day to day work of the External Affairs team, including supporting colleagues to enhance our reach on social media and digital channels, deliver our events programme and deepen our impact with key audiences.
You will be joining an inclusive and supportive team who welcome people from all backgrounds. What’s important isn’t your level of education or the opportunities which you have had, it’s about you and how you seize the opportunities ahead of you.
This is a diverse role and will include:
Communications and events
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Working with Head of External Affairs and Income (EA&I) to manage the External Affairs’ team’s day-to-day work, including supporting the team with social media, website and press relations
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Working with Head of EA&I to deliver communications strategy
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Overseeing and project managing the charity’s events programme
Leadership and management
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Leading External Affairs team catch ups and project planning
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Line managing an External Affairs Officer and an Intern with a focus on professional development
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Providing sign-off on a number of areas, including those that carry some risk to the charity
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Working with the Head of EA&I to collect key management information to report on the impact and reach of external affairs activities to the CEO
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Assisting with the charity’s other activities as required.
Influencing and stakeholder management
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Working with the Head of EA&I to manage and deliver the influencing strategy, including helping to deliver campaigns.
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Supporting team with public affairs engagement
Essential skills and qualities:
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A comms all-rounder who can help lead and manage our busy External Affairs team.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tell a clear story and to tailor content for different audiences.
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The ability to guide colleagues in producing a range of content for different platforms and audiences, including via social media, digital and press relations.
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The capacity to juggle competing priorities, and to help guide others in doing so.
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Strong project management, organisation and decision-making skills.
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Experience of organising events (particularly online) and an understanding of different tactics to engage audiences.
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A creative self-starter who can take the lead in identifying and acting upon opportunities to increase the impact of our communications activities.
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Strong reputation management skills.
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The ability to support and develop junior colleagues.
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An interest and/or background in campaigning.
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A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
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A passion for improving the lives of people with money and mental health problems.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are currently seeking an enthusiastic Press and Campaigns Officer to raise the profile of Carers First, building our brand awareness and engagement levels to reach new carers. The successful candidate will also help to raise awareness of the issues affecting carers and be responsible for our press and media activity, helping us to secure national and local coverage.
You will work to increase the charity’s local presence improving visibility and helping to increase engagement with Carers First across all the areas in which we work, supporting with the development and delivery of our campaigns and projects.
To be successful you will require 1-2 years of experience in a public relations or communications position, ideally within the charity or public sectors, excellent IT skills including ability to use Microsoft Office suite, along with superb organisational skills with a proven ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines and show attention to detail.
In return you will benefit from working for a not-for-profit organisation that delivers a service which makes a real difference to peoples’ lives. We offer training and development to help you grow your career, a good annual leave entitlement, flexible working options, access to our workplace pension, employee assistance programme and a Benenden Healthcare package.
If you are interested in becoming part of the team and have the skills and experience that we are looking for and are passionate about making a real difference, then please read the Job Description and Person Specification.
Appointments are subject to Carers First receiving suitable references and an appropriate disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
We encourage and welcome applications regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.
If you would like to discuss this role confidentially, please contact us and we will be happy to organise for one of the Team to contact you. Please note that if you have not been contacted within one week of submitting your online application, that your application has not been successful. Carers First is an Equal Opportunities Employer
At Ambitious about Autism, we're currently looking for a Policy and Campaigns Officer to join our team on a part time (0.4 FTE) basis.
The postholder will have a track record of influencing policy and an understanding and passion for issues affecting autistic children and young people across a range of areas, including education, employment, health and social care. You'll gather evidence and data that will influence change, using your written and verbal communication skills to engage with a wide range of audiences on our strategic priorities and raise awareness of our work.
You'll engage with autistic children, young people and their families to understand their priorities and embed their needs in our communications and policy work. You'll identify opportunities to communicate AaA's policy position and respond to these appropriately, working closely with the communications team to draft impactful statements, as well as web and social media copy.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Experience of working in a policy role, ideally in a relevant sector.
- Ability to identify appropriate sources, evaluate and analyse data and evidence to provide up-to-date, accurate information.
- Experience of producing high quality policy-related documents, as well as being able to write engaging pieces for a range of audiences.
- Experience of using social and digital media to develop and promote policy work.
In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.
If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact James Axford, Recruitment Officer.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely affected by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values. We draw on the expertise, unique perspectives and lived experience of our people – regardless of who they are or their background – to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.
The objectives of the Communications and Campaigns team are to increase the public profiles of Rethink Mental Illness and Mental Health UK, mobilise public support to bring about change and ensure that all colleagues are aware of, bought into and engaged in contributing to the values and direction of the charities.
How you will make a difference
I am a social media expert who thrives on planning, creating and delivering high quality content across Rethink Mental Illness’s and Mental Health UK’s social media channels (Twitter/X, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube).
I disseminate our messages and information to key audiences through clear and engaging social media posts that are tailored for different networks. I monitor the performance of our posts and I am proactive in incorporating best practice to ensure that our posts are well received by our audiences, and that our presence on our social media channels grows.
I regularly collaborate with colleagues across both charities, and the other founding charities of Mental Health UK, and key partners to create compelling and inspiring content.
*Appointments will be at the minimum of the band.
*London Allowance is paid for roles that are based within the Greater London area only.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Please see further details on our website
You can also follow us on Facebook / Twitter / Instagram and LinkedIn to find out more about the work we do!
Don’t meet all requirements?
If the role sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t exactly match every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply, you may be just the right person for our position!
Caring for our people.
We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:
- PULSE: our recognition, rewards, wellbeing, and benefits platform. Providing access to thousands of discounts and benefits including cashback; reloadable cards; savings etc. As well as being able to thank colleagues and nominate them for awards.
- Wagestream: gives you instant access to up to 50% of your pay. Also provides a library of expert tools, tips and articles plus, helps you start building a rainy-day pot straight from your salary.
- Wellbeing support: our Wellbeing hub gives physical, emotional, and mental health support. We also have a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments.
- Taking time for you: we work flexibly –you get to choose where you work, managing your own diary. We have generous annual leave, starting at 25 rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays, as well as your birthday off. We also offer the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave.
- Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme.
- Structured Corporate Induction: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way.
- £300 when you introduce a Friend: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member.
Who are we?
We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”
It is an exciting time to join our growing charity. We are on a transformation journey, one that supports the delivery of the organisation strategy – delivering Communities that Care. Supporting employees, managers and leaders through this change is a key priority for the People function. Just like its key that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic and our LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrate our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and (asexual) (LGBTQIA+), people with a disability, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We exist to fund research into beating blood cancer. In the past 60 years, we’ve invested more than £500 million into blood cancer research which has led to improved treatments and saved lives. Everything we do in the next five years will be based on a single aim – to stop people dying of blood cancer or the side effects of its treatments. We want to put people affected by blood cancer at the centre of everything we do.
As Research Involvement Lead, you’ll be responsible for leading a programme of patient and public involvement in research, a core component of our charity wide involvement strategy.
This role will ensure that our research strategy and funding programme is shaped by the priorities and needs of people affected by blood cancer. You’ll review and refine our processes to ensure they are in line with sector best practice and that they meet the needs of our community of people affected by blood cancer. You’ll further embed effective and meaningful involvement at all stages of the research cycle at Blood Cancer UK.
You’ll also work to support the involvement of people affected by blood cancer in external research and strategic projects across the UK. You will ensure that the research we and others fund is patient focussed and has the potential to accelerate progress and deliver the maximum impact for the communities we support.
Part time applications (minimum 28 hours a week) will be considered for the right candidate, please specify whether you wish to work full time or part time in your cover letter.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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JOIN THE TEAM AT HAVEN HOUSE CHILDREN’S HOSPICE
We are hiring an experienced Digital Fundraising & Marketing Manager to help us grow our fundraising and supporters and improve our brand presence in the areas we deliver our care. We want someone to join us who loves being part of a hardworking and collaborative team.
If you are dedicated and ambitious, Haven House Children's Hospice is an excellent place to grow your career. Don't hesitate to apply.
Responsibilities:
- To work with the team to collate an overall digital fundraising plan, communication channels, and measures of success
- Develop, create and implement multichannel digital fundraising campaigns, working with the relevant fundraising team
- To monitor new digital fundraising opportunities, agreeing tests with managers subject to budgets, and reporting on performance
- Evaluate, assess and adjust campaigns against digital fundraising and marketing key goals
- Help improve the website as a tool for fundraising and supporter engagement, focusing on the creation and development of landing pages, donation forms, and supporter actions
- Create engaging, impactful, and creative content to support fundraising and marketing campaigns for paid and organic digital and social media activity maximising engagement levels and income growth whenever possible.
- To lead ongoing strategic and operations testing across emails and digital fundraising to optimise fundraising for Haven House
- Produce high-quality, timely and inspiring emails for donors and supporters, to increase income and engagement
- Devise and manage innovative social media campaigns to increase social engagement, ensuring suitable mechanisms are in place to effectively evaluate their success
- Work with website developers to implement Google Analytics and Facebook tracking across the website and third-party tools
- Experience with creating and producing newsletters and appeals within an email service provider and experience with building campaigns through social media tools like Facebook Ad Manager within the software packages
At Haven House the focus within the Income Generation and Marketing Team is to put the supporter and donor at the centre of everything we do, ensuring they feel inspired by our work and the children and families we support; engaged and committed to our cause and ultimately make a commitment to do something amazing.
If this role sounds right for you and you have the right skills and experience, please do download the job description and apply by returning the application form to Resourcing.
Benefits:
- As an employee you will be entitled to the following range of benefits:
- Hybrid office/home arrangement (3 days in the office)
- 27 days' annual leave
- Pension scheme (company matches contribution up to 7%
- Free onsite parking
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care voucher scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Cover
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment.
Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.
Closing date: 30 May 2024
Interview: w/c 6 June 2024
Please note, we reserve the right to interview on a rolling basis so this role may close before the above date if we find a successful candidate.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.