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Introducing Chance UK
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Do you believe every child deserves the chance of a better future?
We’re a small organisation with a big ambition – to help every child flourish. The need for our work has never been greater and we are in an exciting period of growth in order to meet that challenge.
We provide a range of empowering services for children aged 5-13 and their parents and carers. We pride ourselves on developing evidence-based services, which put children at the heart of our work, and our services are designed to build social and emotional skills and resilience.
We know what we do works. We provide our unique support in a variety of ways and working at Chance UK puts you right at the heart of changing children’s and families’ lives. You will be a core part of our team, so it is vital you share our values and support our mission.
It is important that our team reflects the diversity of the communities we work with. We are actively seeking people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, people who identify as male and people from LGBTQ+ communities. We are also keen to hear from those who have lived or professional experience of the issues we work on, including school exclusion and Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND).
We value our team through offering a range of benefits, including:
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, 2 Wellbeing days, an extra celebration day and additional leave over Christmas
- Matched pension contributions up to 5%, entitlement from the start of your employment
- Enhanced maternity/paternity and shared parental leave
- Flexible working
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Access to employee assistance programme
Please note that Chance UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and therefore our recruitment process for this post will include an enhanced DBS check.
Key Information
Reporting to: Senior Communications and External Affairs Manager
Employment type: Full time
Director reports: N/A
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Office based. We are a hybrid-working organisation. Our main office is a few minutes from Finsbury Park station.
Start date: ASAP
Salary: £29,400 – £31,500, depending on experience
Closing date: 2nd June 2024
Interview: Week commencing 10th June 2024
About the Role
This is an exciting time to join Chance UK’s external Affairs team, as we gear up to the delivery of a new ambitious long-term strategy anchored in amplifying the voices of the children and families we work with. We want to take our campaigning and advocacy to new heights, expanding on our digital communications and ensuring we reach more children, parents, stakeholders and decision makers.
You will be a part of a small but mighty team, delivering high profile campaigns and engaging, child-centered communications that showcase our evidence that what we do works, and aims to change policy and practice at local and national level.
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Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you a confident communicator with a knack for telling stories?
Does talking to young people about their future ambitions excite you?
And do you enjoy working as part of a team?
Young Start distributes money from dormant accounts on behalf of the Scottish Government to projects that are run for and by young people aged eight to 25. Since 2012, it has distributed over £60 million to thousands of projects across Scotland.
You will be part of the Communications and Engagement team responsible for telling the story of our Young Start funding in Scotland to a variety of audiences.
You will also provide communications support and advice to a recently established Young Start development team tasked with ensuring that children and young people are better engaged with and centred in the work of the Young Start funding programme.
Responsibilities include:
•Leading on all regular announcements of Young Start funding to the media and stakeholders
•Interviewing young people behind the projects to produce content for media features, case studies and online social media channels
•Supporting our funding teams to deliver Young Start customer communications
•Managing the yearly production of the Young Start Annual Report, at the request of the Scottish Government.
•Supporting the Young Start team to deliver its work putting young people front and centre of the Young Start programme.
About you
You will be comfortable speaking to children and young people about the impact that the funding is making in their lives and telling their stories with duty of care and a creative and engaging approach.
You will be collaborative in nature and enjoy working proactively and in partnership with colleagues across the fund. An open, supportive and flexible team working approach is necessary.
You will be adept at managing a busy and varied workload.
There can be occasional weekend and evening working to suit the needs of young people, but most of our work takes place on weekdays in normal working hours.
Interview Date: W/C 3rd June, On site with competency questions and an on the day pre-interview task. Will confirm details to the First stage interview candidates.
Location: This role is based in our Glasgow office, however we have a flexible, hybrid approach to working. Should you have a question on work pattern, please ask.
On application, please align your supporting statement to the criteria below:
Essential:
1)Strong writing skills and ability to adapt your writing for different audiences
2) An understanding of Scotland’s media landscape
3) Experience of producing and repurposing content for a variety of platforms such as press releases and social media channels
4) Experience of building rapport with journalists and/or other stakeholders
Desirable:
1)Ability to manage a busy and diverse workload
2)Experience of selling in stories to the media
3) Knowledge of the community and voluntary sector, particularly with regard to young people
4) Experience of sharing skills, knowledge and creative ideas as part of a team.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.
We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)
It starts with community.
Digital Communications Coordinator - RCN02442
Salary per annum: £36,705*
Contract type: Permanent
Any RCN office with hybrid working, 35 hours, permanent contract
At the Royal College of Nursing we’re an optimistic organisation. And we’ve got good reason to be. We all share the same voice when it comes to changing the shape of the health policies of the future and as the largest trade union of nursing staff and students in the UK – with over half a million members – all we can see are the infinite possibilities for a brighter future. Join us and you will too.
We're accredited with Investors in People Silver Standard. Our people are our greatest asset, and we want people who can contribute to our purpose in line with our values.
If you’re looking to find a workplace with strong values of fairness, social justice and the opportunity to make a real difference to thousands of nursing professionals, then the Digital Communications Coordinator role may be a good fit for you.
As a Digital Communications Coordinator you will work across the UK assisting the Activist Engagement team with digital support to improve the engagement of our active members throughout the four countries. You’ll be working closely with members and RCN staff coordinating the digital tools and platforms needed to develop and enhance peer to peer communication for our active members, strengthening activist communities and building power.
It's a job full of possibilities as you could get involved in anything from member participation using digital technology; data management; to scoping the market for new and innovative technology to support member participation.
In this role you will be working to across two main areas of priority: digital tools and data management. You’re day-to-day will be coordinating all the digital engagement tools and platforms. This may include supporting member to member participation through existing platforms to scoping the technology market for new innovative ways to increase member engagement. With support from the Lead for Activist communities you will also manage all aspects of digital engagement data and work closely with the Data and IT teams to ensure data protection.
We’re looking for someone who is technology savvy and is comfortable working with numbers. Someone who pays attention to detail and who can work as part of a team while hitting individual targets. Who is a go-getter and can follow the direction set by the Lead for Activist Communities, the Head of Activist Engagement, and the over-all strategic direction of the Activism Academy. It is important you can build professional relationships with members and staff by promoting a working atmosphere where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Most importantly you will have a commitment to grow a deeper understanding of building activism which will help to shape the RCN’s activist engagement.
What we offer you
We expect you to work hard as a professional member of the Activism Academy, and we expect you to be rewarded for it. We offer an impressive range of benefits, a broad range of learning development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing programme. We offer annual leave up to 32 days plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break plus generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages.
*We offer a competitive pay structure with annual pay progression until you reach the top of the salary scale. We normally offer new employees the first point of the salary range, although you may be able to negotiate a higher starting salary depending on your skills, experience and current salary.
What we deliver for our members is wide and varied so when it comes to how we work one size doesn’t fit all. We also know that to empower our people to do their best work, they must be able to balance the demands of work and home. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance. Departments and directorates have their own hybrid ways of working which put the needs of the service they deliver – whether that’s to members or to colleagues - at their heart, in alignment with our hybrid working core principles. At the RCN it’s unlikely you will work from home for all your working time. Equally no one is expected to work solely in the office unless your role requires it. You can find out more by having a discussion with the recruiting manager.
Our selection process
Please submit a CV and answer the supporting questions demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. Please ensure your CV is in a simple format with minimal tables and sections. Any identifying information in your application will automatically be anonymised for shortlisting purposes.
We want your experience applying for a job with us to be the best it can be. Both interviews and assessments will by video call. If you foresee any problems, please let us know.
As a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities.
Opening date: 25 April 2024
Closing date: midnight on 19 May 2024
Assessment & interview date: 31 May 2024
Interview date: 31/05/2024
Contracted hours: 35
Harris Hill has a short term temp role for a Marketing and Communications Coordinator to join them ASAP for 1-1.5 months, supporting a leaver and revaluation period.
I am looking for someone who is confident in the following, who could potentially hit the ground running from notes from the previous postholder.
They are as follows:
Wordpress
Mailchimp
Google adds
Graphic design using adobe suite
Social media (FB, Instagram, X)
If you are confident with these programs, the client is certain you will be able to help.
The role will help support a programme of work jointly run between a mental health organisation and the NHS. For a full JD and details, please apply for further information.
We are seeking a talented and creative Marketing Communications Coordinator to join our team. You will be responsible for increasing our profile and building on our reputation with customers, stakeholders, partners. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, both written and verbal, have a strong attention to detail, and a passion for marketing. You should be highly organised and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
If you believe that you have the passion, commitment, and skills to take this opportunity forward then we would like to hear from you.
Please include the names and contact details of two people, at least one of whom should be a recent employer or contract holder, who are able to provide references relating to your work and on your suitability for this post.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Position: Head of Internal Communications and Engagement
Contract: 1 year fixed term contract. (There may be the possibility to further extend the contract end date and this will continue to be reviewed while the successful candidate is in post)
Hours: Full-time (35 hours a week)
Location: Office-based in London, N4 with flexibility to work remotely
Salary: £60,946 - £66,695 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band H3
About us
We make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.
Our strategy is based on what people affected by MS have told us is important to them. It gives us a clear and determined focus.
Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.
Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive working environment where you'll be able to make a difference.
About this job
Achieving a high level of engagement with our people is key to achieving our ambitious goals. We’re looking for a strategic thinker, effective influencer and outstanding planner to lead our high performing internal communications and engagement function.
At a time of transformative and exciting change within the organisation, this role will be responsible for developing internal communications and engagement initiatives that inspire people and drive cultural change.
This is an exciting, challenging opportunity. And is ideal for an enthusiastic and proactive individual with excellent interpersonal skills and experience in communicating strategically to an internal audience.
The post-holder will have a central role in ensuring all of our people feel engaged, valued and well informed, and have a voice which is heard.
Responsible for the delivery of a UK-wide internal communications and engagement strategy that supports our organisational strategy, this role will seek to continually improve our engagement and communications approach, including the use of new technologies and innovations.
The role will be responsible for internal communication channels and resources, such as our intranet, virtual strategic updates and e-newsletters.
As a member of our Leadership Group, you’ll also actively contribute to the strategic leadership, planning and policy formulation of the MS Society as a whole.
We recognise the significant and excellent contributions; experience; and skills our employees bring to the MS Society.
Working with external pay and reward consultants, we’re taking active steps this year to review our employees’ pay and benefits package. Ensuring we’re aligned with the most accurate and up-to-date benchmarks for the UK charity sector.
Please note this is a fixed term contract for 1 year. There may be the possibility to further extend the contract end date and this will continue to be reviewed while the successful candidate is in post.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Monday 27 May 2024
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Equal Opportunities
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format.
Safeguarding
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.
This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.
We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance
- 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
- More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
- Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
- Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family
- Generous sick pay entitlement
- More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
- Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
- Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
- Enhanced leave for new parents
- Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
- Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
- 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
- New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
- In the event of miscarriage or still birth
- To support fertility treatments
- For antenatal appointments for both parents
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service scheme
- Health cash plans to help offset the cost of health care for you and your family
Thinking about your finances
- Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
- Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
- New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work
- Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
- Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
- New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
- Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
- Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
- 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal
No agencies please.
We are looking for a Communications and Engagement Officer with at least two years of relevant experience, who will be able to contribute to our new VCS Capacity Building contract.
Having a good level of experience in producing and designing communications content, excellent copy writing skills with the ability to create clear and compelling content, excellent attention to detail and a strong track record in developing communications which stand out and increase both engagement and awareness.
Someone who enjoys working with the local community and able to use their communication and engagement skills to ensure we are reaching all parts of the VCS community within the Borough of Haringey. Having knowledge of the VCS within Haringey would be an advantage, but not essential.
You’ll have strong digital skills, including Adobe Creative Cloud (or at least InDesign), website CMS, social media and Microsoft O365, with an interest in learning and developing your skills on the job.
The role
MIND in Haringey and its partner Public Voice delivers the Voluntary and Community (VCS) Capacity Building contract commissioned by the London Borough of Haringey. The contract, which runs from May 2024 to April 2027 can be extended for a further four years at the discretion of the Client. The Contract includes the administration and management of the Volunteer Centre and the development and promotion of a Navigation Network (NavNet) knowledge sharing platform, META Workplace.
The Community Collaborative team will be located across different sectors of the Borough employed by either MIND in Haringey or Public Voice who make up the consortium partners. Day-to-day management of the Community Collaborative service is the responsibility of the Haringey Community Collaborative Manager.
We translate the insights and needs of people into actions to improve public services, leading to reduced inequalities and improved outcomes.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Job Title: Global Communications Officer
Reporting to: Senior Global Communications Manager
Contract Type: Full time (37.5 Hours) Permanent
Principal Location: London
Salary: £27,000-£30,000
Street Child, a rapidly expanding international children's charity, are searching for a dynamic, confident individual with a passion for communications and a drive to make a difference. We need a Global Communications Officer who is adaptable, personable, and ready to tackle any task with gusto!
This is a real opportunity for a talented individual to drive forward their career in communications, working at the heart of our busy MMC (marketing, media and communications) team. If you're a proactive communicator with a passion for making a difference and the flexibility to take on diverse tasks, apply now and be a part of our dynamic team! Bottom of Form!
In this role you will be instrumental in enhancing the communication capabilities of our global programs and local partners. You will also be responsible for cultivating and nurturing celebrity partnerships, both existing and new, to support our mission. You'll collaborate closely with fundraising teams to create impactful collateral and refine fundraising strategies.
This role will report directly to our Senior Global Communications Manager but work closely with our fundraising teams and frequently support the rest of the organisation across programmes and global fundraising.
Supporting global programmes and local partners (30%):
- Identify compelling stories and program updates for amplification on Street Child's channels.
- Enhance in-country communication capabilities by creating materials and providing training.
- Assist program participation in external events and integrate communication plans into project timelines.
Developing celebrity partnerships (30%):
- Maintain relationships with celebrity supporters and drive partnership plans.
- Secure high-profile support for our activities and manage social media coverage sensitively.
- Identify and engage new high-profile supporters and advise colleagues on partnership strategies.
Communications resource for fundraising teams (20%):
- Provide communication support for fundraising events and community resource generation.
- Establish communication calendars and plan for fundraising initiatives.
Wider MMC Support (20%):
- Manage our digital asset bank and ensure best practice use.
- Monitor key metrics, deliver the Annual Report, and maintain our brand identity.
- Represent Street Child internally and externally and fulfill other role-related duties.
The location for this role is in London, with a willingness to work in our London office three, or more, days of the week.
Street Child began working in Sierra Leone in 2008 with one project for 100 children. In just 15 years we have reached over 1,000,000 children across more than 20 countries. Powerful, imaginative, professional, and at times brave, communications and story-telling have been a key driver in our early development - and will be equally critical if we are to continue to grow our impact for children living in the world's toughest contexts.
To apply, please submit your CV and a covering note explaining why you think you could make an extraordinary impact in this role - ideally ASAP. We are reviewing applications and interviewing on a rolling basis.
Pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy. Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
A newly created role as Marketing Communications and Planning Manager at a fast-moving and growing Health Charity has arisen. The charity supports millions of people across the UK and you could join them, working in London just 1 day a week in a full-time, permanent role.
You will be responsible for planning and ensuring the delivery of a strategically aligned plan for the Marketing and Communications Team. As a natural collaborator, you will ensure the charity deliver insight-led campaigns, planning for the right audience, across the right channel, delivering effective content and messages in the most impactful way.
Your experience of managing integrated marketing, digital and communications campaigns is key.
Have you delivered big brand campaigns? Do you understand budget management and how to work with and manage varied project teams, prioritising needs and timelines effeciently? Then, please get in touch!
Required skills/experience:
- Experience working within the charity sector
- Strategic communications planning (oversight over many initiatives)
- A strong influencer
- Channel expert
- Managed large brand campaigns (comms plan, rather than brand guardian role)
- Someone excited to take on a new challenge and enthusiastic about the cause!
This is a full-time, permanent role. Will consider 4 days a week.
Hybrid- working minimum of just 1 day in the office in Aldgate, London.
Salary £40-45k.
Amazing benefits (33 days holiday, plus bank holidays and enhanced parental leave, plus many more).
I look forward to hearing from you! Please apply now if keen, we will review applications on a rolling basis, and hold interviews on a rolling basis.
1st interviews – online, 2nd interviews face to face.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Director Fundraising Communications to join our high performing charity team.
Already one of the best performing NHS Charities in the sector, with an annual income of £4m, we have a new opening for an inspirational and committed Deputy Director Fundraising Communications to lead our fundraising and communications strategies and to take our income to a new level.
We have ambitious plans to support the NHS here in Nottingham by running multiple £m campaigns across a range of services, including our Children’s Hospital and our Regional Cancer Centre.
Every day hundreds of patients and families choose to support Nottingham’s NHS hospital because of the incredible care they have received.
Your role will be to develop a strategy that increases our supporter acquisition, improves our donor retention and maximises that support to reach our goals.
You will need to be a strategist and a detailed analyst, excel with budgets, reports and presentations, and lead a team of committed fundraisers across a range of income streams.
You will be a natural and enthusiastic leader, who can direct, support and inspire a high-performing team.
With experience of working in a complex environment, you will be organised with a high-level of attention to detail, plus have the ability to work alongside adjacent departments in Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
We are looking for someone who is dynamic, creative, ambitious and team-oriented, with proven experience working for a fast-paced organisation.
As well as evidence of high-level strategic thinking, you will be comfortable diving into the day-to-day work, and so a broad skill set is a must together with a sharp focus on delivering return-on-investment, demonstrating impact of campaigns on revenue, and building our audiences.
This is a complex role requiring a high level of political acumen, excellent relationship skills and a desire to improve our ability and capacity to generate income at every level, from digital fundraising to major gifts.
The Charity has been serving the Hospital Trust for 17 years and has given over £60m funding for specialist equipment, medical research, enhancements to the hospital environment, and staff wellbeing and support programmes.
If you feel you have the right blend of skills and experience to lead this vital function for the Charity, then please do get in touch.
This role will be appointed on a permanent and Full-Time basis and there are options for Hybrid-Working - salary of circa £60,000 according to experience.
About Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
ENN’s vision is: Every individual confronted by malnutrition has access to the knowledge, tools, services and resources they require to meet their needs. Working in a networked approach ENN contributes research, convenes, brokers and exchanges knowledge to support practitioners within national governments, civil society, UN, donor and academic organisations working on malnutrition. Through these collaborations we enable all agencies to implement evidence-based nutrition programming, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries and in fragile and conflict affected states.
ENN is a well-established and highly respected UK-registered organisation established in 1996. ENN is governed by a Board of Trustees and has its head office in Oxfordshire, UK. ENN is financially supported by bilateral donors, international non- governmental organisations and United Nations agencies.
Purpose of the role
To maximise ENN’s impact, functioning and profile through the use of improved communication and digital strategy, accessibility, culture and practice.
Key responsibilities
Communications Strategy
- Lead the development and socialisation of an effective organisational communications strategy and implementation plan
- Analyse and brief ENN team and trustees on evolving Communications and Digital environment.
- Build a Communications and Digital culture through training and mentoring colleagues in the improved use of communications and digital tools and the establishment of organisational norms and ways of working.
- Curation of aligned branding, internal and external communication across all ENN’s workstreams, in line with ENN values and strategic objectives.
- Focal point for all ENN marketing, communications and digital issues
- Understand, segment and expand ENN’s current audience and networks and, in collaboration with others, increase visibility, presence and engagement with ENN’s network and audience
- Develop ENN’s Communications and Digital policies and risk management.
- Work with teams, collaborators and suppliers to embed clear processes, ways of working and guidance to deliver ENN’s communications strategy.
Management and Delivery
- Set up and maintain a communications plan and reporting framework to help drive a coordinated approach to communication across ENN’s portfolio
- Lead work with relevant teams and ENN’s partners to create and deliver digital communications, media and campaign programmes
- Maximise opportunities to drive brand awareness, raise the profile of ENN and engage with press and media where relevant
- Develop, measure and report on metrics, KPIs and other insightful analytics to inform decision making, evaluate impact and contribute to future strategy
- Manage the Communications and Digital Budget and the procurement of comms and digital resources as required
- Ensure internal digital procedures comply with appropriate standards and legislation and develop, monitor and maintain a digital governance model and guidelines which are fully compliant
- The CDM acts as an advisor to ENN’s Management Team, participating in meetings when appropriate, and is a standing member of the Strategic Leadership Team.
Operations and Delivery
Training:
- Oversee ENN and partner awareness, knowledge and understanding of the evolving context and best practices in communications, digital and marketing including use of appropriate media levers
- Develop and implement training programmes and pilots for internal colleagues on the use of all communications media around standards, best practices and house styles, including use of social media
Platform management:
- Manage and develop ENN social media platforms for optimal visibility, engagement and impact, working with donors and collaborators to proactively engage their platforms and networks towards mutually beneficial ends
- Oversee the management and development of ENN’s website including a new CMS and Forum platform
- Review and deliver performance indicators across all relevant platforms to ensure SEO and high user engagement is measured
Content:
- Work with copy editors, proof-readers, designers, podcast and video producers, developers and external agencies to create new, or update existing digital and publications content
- As a member of the FEX editorial team, provide specific and tailored input and support to ENN’s flagship publication Field Exchange (FEX) on style, brand, design and presentation of print and on-line content.
- Develop and apply guidance to ensure content is engaging and consistent with brand, house styles and tone
- Oversee and approve ENN’s social media content
- Develop and manage a bank of content including stories and images for use in ENN’s publications, products, monitoring and evaluation work and media usage.
- Coordinate publication of all marketing and publicity materials to ensure optimised impact
Analytics and reporting:
- Actively use omnichannel and multichannel reporting, analysis and insight to help develop and optimise campaigns, incorporating other monitoring & evaluation outputs where relevant.
- Digital tools - Identify existing and emerging digital metric tools that track and capture the full impact of our online engagement to reveal where and to what extent our work is making a difference
Other
- Other duties as identified with the line manager.
Reporting line: This position reports to ENN’s CEO
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification or experience preferably in media, journalism, science health or humanitarian communications, digital production, marketing or public relations
- Demonstrable experience of creating and implementing successful communication and digital strategies
- Demonstrable experience of planning, creating and publishing engaging content across digital channels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to adapt technical and scientific information for a range of audiences
- Experience in website project management and implementation
- Excellent team-working skills and ability to work collaboratively and autonomously
- Proficient in SEO, Google Analytics, content marketing and digital marketing strategies
- Experience in web content writing and management, web design and database management
- Experience in managing external communications providers including proof-readers, copy-editors, creatives / designers, translators, podcast and video producers, print publishers and web designers
- Excellent personal and professional integrity, strong cross-cultural awareness, demonstrable commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
- Fluency in English (written and oral)
Desirable
- Experience designing and delivering training in communications, marketing and digital media to colleagues
- Copy-editing / proofreading experience
- Understanding of GDPR regulations relevant to communications and marketing and ability to implement
- Familiarity with relevant guidelines on ethical communications and their relevance and application to ENN’s work
- Understanding of intellectual property rights in relation to digital images and artworks
- Experience working in international development or related sector
- Graphic design experience in applications such as Canva or Adobe products
- Digital Production skills such as video and audio production
- Strong working knowledge of French or Arabic.
Terms and Conditions
Type of contract: Permanent
- Location: Office-based, with the opportunity to work from home 1 – 2 days a week. ENN’s office is in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
- Holidays: 25 days plus UK Public Holidays, increasing by one day per annum after two complete years of service to a maximum of 27 days per annum. Pro-rata for part-time staff.
- Pension: Auto-Enrolment to ENN scheme with a generous Employer contribution of 5%
- Salary: £39,000 per annum, full-time equivalent, dependent on experience and suitability for the role
- Hours of work: We are ideally looking for a full-time candidate (37.5 hours per week), however, applications for part time hours (i.e. a minimum of 0.8FTE / 30 hours per week) may also be considered
- Benefits: Dental cover, Life cover, Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing contribution
Eligibility to work
Must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. A relocation package is not available for this position.
Application Process
Please submit a Cover Letter (no more than one page which explains why you are interested in the role and how your experience satisfies the Person Specification) along with your CV no later than 00.59 hours on 19th May 2024. Early applications are advised as we reserve the right to conclude the process before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.
ENN are committed to equality and diversity throughout our organisation and further expects all employees to comply with its codes of conduct, safeguarding policies and high ethical and professional standards.
Emergency Nutrition Network works to reduce undernutrition globally.
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Role Overview:
The Talent Set is thrilled to working with a well known medical charity as they hunt for an Senior Internal Communications and Engagement Officer to support them for a 12-month period.
Using your internal communications skills and understanding of organisational change management, you’ll coordinate, plan and deliver effective engagement strategies for internal change programmes across the charity.
Working primarily between the Internal Engagement & Communications and Delivery Services teams, you’ll collaborate on, plan, and deliver communication strategies that take colleagues on a supported journey through change, creating content that translates complex topics into compelling narratives to drive participation and adoption.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and deliver an engagement strategy for internal change communications within the charity, which helps support colleagues with the understanding and adoption of change.
- Plan and create content for internal channels, selecting the most appropriate tools to ensure colleagues are kept informed and engaged, regardless of location or working style.
- Use audience and business insight to develop engagement strategies that are tailored to recipients, appreciating that colleagues are based in different locations and roles.
- Oversee the involvement of various groups across the charity, to enable us to hear the voices and opinions of our workforce.
- Build effective relationships across the charity, acting as a trusted adviser to project teams, leaders and colleagues.
Person Specification:
- Proven experience in developing and implementing successful internal communication and engagement strategies, ideally including for change related programmes.
- Strong planning skills with the ability to effectively prioritise and manage multiple deadlines.
- Ability to translate complex topics and create compelling narrative for different audiences.
- An understanding of change adoption processes (e.g. PROSCI/ADKAR) is beneficial but not essential.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Proven experience of influencing and collaborating to achieve positive outcomes and engagement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to think creatively.
What’s on Offer:
- A full-time 12-month contract in a fantastic organisation.
- Competitive Salary of £36,000.
- Hybrid working with just 2-days per-week in their London office. Would Consider Remote for Candidates outside of London.
- Great opportunity to work in an amazing organisation that helps people worldwide.
How to Apply:
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role.
Commitment to Diversity:
The Talent Set and our partner organisation are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, age, or gender. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
About the role
Are you passionate about women’s health and the power of communications to advocate, inform, and influence? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join us as interim Head of Media and Communications.
In this role, you will play a vital part in the RCOG’s mission to improve the lives of women and girls around the world, through the delivery of creative communications campaigns and high-impact media stories. You will promote our guidelines, research and reports to support their use around the world to deliver high quality, safe and compassionate care for women.
Leading our busy press office, you will have opportunities to shape the media agenda on critical women’s health issues and champion the voices of women and girls through creative story-telling. Your social media expertise will ensure we are effectively listening to and engaging our members, partners and the public.
You will enjoy building and managing relationships with stakeholders to deliver opportunities for partnership working – including national health organisations, other Royal Colleges and women’s health charities. You will have excellent strategic judgement and be confident to advise senior College stakeholders on high profile and sensitive issues.
Reporting to the Director of Communications, you will line manage our Senior Media and Communications Officer and work closely with colleagues in our policy, public affairs and marketing teams to help ensure the College’s external affairs work is integrated, coherent and impactful.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of our annual media and communications plan, including priority campaigns in partnership with marketing, policy and public affairs colleagues
- Oversee our busy press office, ensuring we maintain strong media relations and are achieving high impact coverage on College priorities
- Deliver proactive external communications to promote awareness and impact of RCOG programmes, projects and products
- Ensure we are effectively using our social media and digital channels to listen, engage and influence, including production of videos, podcasts and webinars, etc.
- Build strong relationships with partners and stakeholders to gather intelligence and identify partnership opportunities
- Lead on ensuring the RCOG maintains effective communications and media processes, including forward planning tools, media logs, activity summaries, and evaluation reports.
About you
This position is well-suited to an experienced communications professional who is passionate about women’s health, and the role that creative communications and campaigns can play to advocate, inform, and influence.
Requirements:
- Experience leading the development and delivery of integrated communications campaigns Excellent news sense and experience leading a busy press office covering high profile issues
- Ability to lead on and manage sensitive/ emotive/ ethical issues in a sensitive manner
- Creative and technically excellent writing skills
- In-depth experience to use digital channels to listen, engage and share information
- Confident in building partnerships and being a trusted advisor to senior colleagues
- Ability to work independently to meet deadlines, with a proactive and efficient working style
Our culture and benefits
The College offers an agile working policy meaning staff are able to work from home or in our stunning office in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:
- Agile and flexible working
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution after probation
- Enhanced occupational Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave policies
- Interest-free bike, season ticket and technology loans after probation
- Tailored Learning and Development and study leave
- Affinity staff networks
- Free lunch (onsite only)
- Employee Support Service counselling
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Lifestyle discounts
For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site
How to apply
- To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button, or our careers site to download the full Job Description.
- Closing date: 10.00am on Tuesday 28 May 2024
- Interviews to be held in person in week commencing 3 June 2024
We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We are therefore looking for candidates whose backgrounds, experience and identity enhance the diversity of our existing team. We are particularly encouraging applications from underrepresented groups at the College such as those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and those with a disability. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.
We are only accepting applicants with a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.
About us
The RCOG is a professional membership association dedicated to improving women’s health care across the world. We do this by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and working with partners to advocate for women’s health and health care across their life course. We are a global leader in this specialist area, supporting 16,000 members in the UK and internationally.
We are a values-led organisation placing high standards, innovation, openness, inclusiveness and trust at the centre of all we do.
LGBT Foundation is looking for a dynamic person to focus on external engagement in order to maximise our impact. Through taking an integrated approach, the role-holder will be responsible for driving forward three key areas:
- Engagement: Build a network of strategic relationships and opportunities to engage with
our communities and our stakeholders, increasing our influence and impact. - Fundraising: Create opportunities to significantly grow our unrestricted income and
support funding our ambitious Strategic Plan and growth trajectory. - Communications: Ensure we develop impactful communications and campaigns which
convert into positive action and increase our reach and profile.
LGBT Foundation is the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charity dedicated to the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ communities. Our extensive range of established services has made a significant impact on communities, promoting diversity and inclusion.
Our work continually adapts to the evolving needs of LGBTQ+ individuals, highlighting the strength, vitality, and central role of our communities in everything we do.
We operate hybrid working, but there will be an expectation for the postholder to work from
Manchester at least once a week, with national travel where required.
To apply for this role, please visit our jobs page at lgbt.foundation/jobs and complete our online application form.
The British Society for Immunology (BSI) is recruiting a permanent full-time Senior Marketing & Communications Officer to deliver engaging communications to a variety of audiences to drive the reach and influence of the Society’s work.
The British Society for Immunology is an influential and authoritative voice for immunology, a key scientific and health field that plays a central role in many of the most pressing global health challenges we face, including research into the COVID-19 pandemic, developing new treatments and vaccines against disease, and supporting ageing populations to experience healthier lives for longer. This role is split equally between supporting activities of the BSI and those of our publishing portfolio. On the BSI side, you will be responsible for developing and delivering our marketing and communications activity through a variety of channels. Activities can include promoting our membership offering to immunologists working in academia, industry and the clinical sector, promoting key activities such as our events or training offerings, and supporting initiatives to raise the importance and influence of immunology. On publishing, you will be responsible for developing and delivering impactful marketing activities to increase submissions and readership of our official journals, Clinical & Experimental Immunology, Immunotherapy Advances and Discovery Immunology, in particular building the reputation of our newer Open Access journals
This creative role is a fantastic opportunity for someone with excellent communication and organisational skills and a passion for science, who is looking to build their expertise and experience working on impactful marketing and communications projects in an innovative charity.
Please read the job description to find out more about the role. To apply, please email a copy of your CV and a cover letter explaining your suitability for the role. The deadline for applications is Monday 20 May. Interviews will be held via Zoom on Thursday 30 May.
Driven by our values and behaviours, we are a high-performing, ambitious and forward-thinking organisation, who value teamwork and collaboration. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds who are inspired by our values and behaviours.
We request no contact from agencies. Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted after the application deadline.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.