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JOB PURPOSE

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new organisation in start-up mode and help shape our digital channels from the ground up.

In this newly created role, you will be the focal point for the day-to-day editorial management of the charity’s social media channels and website. This will include content creation, scheduling, community engagement, analytics and campaign support.

Your first focus will be the launch of our social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. You will also manage our new website, working closely with the digital fundraising team.

The role sits with the Communications team which is responsible for raising awareness and public engagement with the charity’s fundraising activity, UNHCR’s humanitarian work and the broader refugee cause.  You will collaborate with teams across the charity, including digital fundraising (who manage paid social advertising, display, search and email marketing), partnerships, special appeals, community fundraising and events. You will also be the key focal point for our coordination with UNHCR’s global and UK Branch Office social media teams.

If you think you have the relevant skills and the passion to use them to support refugees, we would love to hear from you. 

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

United Kingdom for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s new national charity partner for the United Kingdom. We generate public awareness of the plight of refugees and raise funds to help protect them through UNHCR’s humanitarian operations across the world.

Our supporters include UK private individuals, communities, corporate partners, trusts and foundations. The funds we raise help UNHCR deliver emergency relief such as shelter, medical care and basic supplies to people fleeing conflict and persecution, as well as healthcare, education and livelihoods opportunities for those who remain displaced over the long term.

Nobody chooses to be a refugee, but we can all play a part in their protection. We want those who work with us to share our values and passion for the cause.

We strongly value diversity and recognise that it is critical to our success and the cause that we serve. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all who work with us and strongly welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. 

We are also open to flexibility in many different ways, including an element of working from home and flexible hours.  Please don’t be afraid to speak to us about this at the interview stage, so we can explore what’s possible.

ROLE RESPONSIBLITIES 

Planning and coordination

• Launch and grow our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube channels
• Deliver and schedule content on a daily basis, with flexibility to respond to news events and emergencies at short notice
• Provide timely responses to supporter queries on social media, coordinating with Supporter Care colleagues on messaging and follow up needs
• Respond quickly to sensitive issues and foster the growth of our online supporter community
• Manage the charity’s website to ensure high quality, timely content that supports all areas of the charity, including individual giving, corporate partnerships, legacies, PR campaigns, advocacy and governance
• Responsible for website maintenance and UX best practice

Content creation and campaign support

• Produce or commission multimedia content, including video stories, infographics, blog posts, web stories and other content to support charity activity
• Apply understanding of UNHCR’s humanitarian work to deliver strong storytelling and relevance content to the audience
• Adapt content from UNHCR head office and field comms to localise for UK audiences
• Develop digital editorial plans to amplify campaigns, milestones and events
• Deliver planning and scheduling in a timely manner, and be quick to respond to news and emergencies
• Support development of an online influencer strategy to enable passionate advocates to get involved and spread the word about UK for UNHCR’s work
• Flag and navigate political sensitivities in line with UNHCR and charity policies

Analytics and best practice

• Deliver analytics on social media and organic website activity, recommending changes in strategy or mix to improve effectiveness
• Maintain a search engine optimisation routine, working closely with the digital fundraising team and UNHCR HQ digital team
• Keep up to date with digital communications and content trends, platforms and tools
• Provide subject matter expertise, proactive assistance and advice as required for planning and delivery of digital and supporter journey projects Work with external experts, such web developers, UX and SEO specialists, to deliver periodic reviews and bespoke solutions when required
• Observe all legal and legislative requirements, comply with policies and procedures, and demonstrate a high level of confidentiality and integrity.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND EXPERIENCE

Essential Experience

• Experience of managing social media channels to deliver engagement, campaigns and audience growth, preferably in the charity sector
• Experience in Content Management Systems (CMS) and website maintenance
• Experience of delivering digital comms that created an impression, raised awareness and prompted followers to take action
•  Experience of identifying and driving iterative improvements to digital channels through testing and analytics

Essential Skills/Knowledge

• Proficient in using Google Analytics and social media tools to evaluate performance and identify improvements 
• Knowledge of SEO and how to apply it to improve content and engagement
• Proficient in creating content for online use, using software such as Adobe Suite, Canva or similar to edit and produce basic assets
• Strong communication skills, applying tact and diplomacy in community management  
• Proficient in social media planning tools and platforms to schedule and post content  
• Researching images and writing compelling copy for different audience profiles
• The ability to prioritise multiple tasks, working proactively and sometimes under pressure
• Good attention to detail, strong ability to proof-read and pick up inconsistencies
• Understanding of GDPR principles
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills 
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
• Must have an interest in global humanitarian affairs

Desirable skills/experience

• Working in a not-for-profit or advocacy organisation
• Experience with refugee issues or field work
• Experience in a start-up environment and establishing channels from launch

You will help us deliver bold, urgent, inspiring communications that meet the challenges of the climate emergency.

This varied job will see you develop compelling content and also take on the technical challenges of running our digital platforms. You should be a creative thinker, storyteller and designer who can expand our audience and deepen their engagement with us. We’re after someone who can bring great planning skills and a strategic approach to a wide range of projects – balancing competing demands from stakeholders and partners.

We’re looking for someone patient and tenacious with an eye for detail, comfortable using data and analytics to shape our digital output. You don’t need to be a climate expert – but you must be committed to working towards a better, brighter future for all.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious and dynamic communications expert to join the Southmead Hospital Charity.

Why apply? As part of the NHS, and working as Southmead Hospital Charity’s Communications and Marketing Manager, you will:

• Make a difference: Working for the wonderful NHS. Southmead Hospital Charity raises funds for projects that are beyond the remit of the NHS but have a huge impact on the lives of our patients, visitors and staff.
• Shape the future: in this role, you will play a lead role in ensuring that the Charity’s growth continues and raise the awareness of the Charity throughout Bristol and the South West.
• Be part of a dedicated and committed team: North Bristol NHS Trust is a centre of excellence for the South West and beyond. Our pioneering treatments and advances in care are internationally recognised.
• You will have access to NHS benefits, including 27 days annual leave to start & bank holidays and an excellent NHS pension.

If you are from outside the area, Bristol is consistently voted as one of the best places to live in the UK, with a rich history, thriving arts, music, gastronomic and independent retail scenes. It also offers excellent transport links and easy access to the spectacular countryside and coastlines of South Wales, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. Our offices are based in Southmead Hospital – a state of the art, amazing facility with an excellent reputation.

The role:

The Communications and Marketing Manager will lead the Charity’s communications and marketing activity with responsibility to significantly raise the Charity’s profile to drive income and raise awareness of the Charity throughout Bristol and the South West. The role is integral to achieving our Charity’s objectives and ensuring we are engaging with our audiences and donors in an effective and meaningful way.

The Communications and Marketing Manager will deliver a robust and innovative donor centric communications plan and support the work of the fundraising teams to generate increased engagement, raise the importance of what we do and benefit our causes with more donations. This creative role will develop, manage and measure the Charity’s communications and ensure a consistent tone of voice across all communications and platforms, promoting and protecting the reputation of NBT & the Charity at all times.

Working closely with fundraising colleagues, the ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills – both written and verbal, understand the importance of the donor journey and bring enthusiasm for the role, with excellent attention to detail. This is a really exciting time to join our team.

Interviews will be held on Thursday, 3 September 2020

For further information about this role, please see who to contact on the NHS Jobs listing by clicking apply.

Apply now as we are looking to close the advert when significant applications have been received.

We're looking for a Communcations and Campaigns Officer to join our enthusiastic and dedicated team to manage our internal and external communications systems and to develop our social media presence.

Main responsibiliites will be in the following areas:

• Managing internal communications 
• Managing external communications including social media and website content
• Collating, editing and circulating the bi-monthly newsletter to Member Agencies
• Developing our social media prsence and creating website content relevant to survivors and our Member Agencies
• Supporting creative and strategic planning of campaigns
• Managing media requests

Person specification

Our ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate commitment to TST's ethos, mission and values
• Have excellent ability to research, analyse and present information
• Be familiar with social media and digital campaign concepts
• Be an effective and compassionate communicator
• Be confident in using MS office
• Be flexible in their approach to team and project work

An understanding of gender based violence and the work of specialist rape and sexual abuse support services will be an advantage.  Work experience, particularly in a communications or campaigns focussed role in the specialist sexual violence voluntary sector or general voluntary sector will be regarded as relevant and important as much as education or specific qualifications.

Location

Our offices are based in Rugby, Warwickshire.  We are currently working remotely and will only return to the office when it is appropriate to do so.  We appreciate that the appropriate time to return to the office may be different for some people.   There may in future be travel requirements to support events.

Are you on a mission to use digital communications to create sustainable change?

Do you have experience in creating successful strategies and compelling content for a range of digital channels?

Salary: between £31,500 to £38,000 depending on experience, plus 6% employer’s ethical pension contribution and 25 days annual leave, rising by one day a year for up to five years’ service.

There is no time to waste in taking urgent, radical action to tackle the climate and ecological emergency. At Bioregional we’ve been championing sustainable change for 25 years using our sustainability framework, One Planet Living®.

We’re now looking for an exceptional digital communications manager who wants to use their skills to inspire others to help create a better, more sustainable future.

Experience and responsibilities

You will already have spent at least three to five years working in communications, with experience in:

• digital strategy development and implementation, as well as creating shareable content across channels eg websites, social media, email marketing
• creating communications and/or marketing strategies based on the needs of different audiences
• providing communications advice and building positive working relationships across teams
• championing user-led content design for websites, including creating user personas and mapping user journeys

You’ll also have a good eye for design and experience managing external designers, as well as ideally knowing how to use Canva or Adobe Spark yourself.

As part of our friendly and ambitious comms team, and with scope for developing in your role, you will be:

• Leading on developing and implementing our digital strategy and engagement, with overall responsibility for managing our website
• Working with our Senior Communications Officer to create compelling content for the website and social media, as well as email newsletters
• Measuring the success of this content against our KPIs and making suggestions for iterative improvements
• Using SEO and Google Ads to drive quality traffic to our website
• Developing our annual content marketing schedule focused on Bioregional’s marketing priorities and managing our blog, including writing and editing content
• Liaising with our network of One Planet Living partners to share their inspiring sustainability stories and ensure brand coherence, including producing their annual progress reports
• Producing marketing and other communications resources, such as our annual review, brochures, insight reports etc
• Acting as an internal ambassador for the power of comms by providing strategic communications advice and training for staff

About Bioregional

Bioregional is an award-winning social enterprise and charity working at the cutting edge of sustainability.

Our ambition is simple. We want to inspire people to live happy, healthy lives within the natural limits of the planet, leaving space for wildlife and wilderness. We call this One Planet Living.

We work with businesses, developers, local authorities and other partners to help them tackle the climate and ecological emergency, and use stories of success to inspire wider change.

More information

Due to Covid-19, the role is currently based at home, but we have created a supportive team atmosphere digitally. Usually the role is based at our offices at BedZED eco-village in Hackbridge, South London, which is 30 minutes by train from London Victoria or Blackfriars.

Bioregional is committed to increasing diversity within our organisation, and the environmental sector as a whole. We welcome applications from everyone, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

Deadline for applications: 9am, Monday 17 August

Interviews will be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 August. These will be done remotely via Zoom.

The overall purpose of the Communications Assistant role is to complete a short-term project with Self injury Support to:

1. Support the overall development of organisational communications
2. Develop systems to co-ordinate digital and other organisational communications including management of website and social media
3. Update existing organisational contact databases and develop new contact databases
4. Work with project managers to develop systems to promote their work to targeted audiences

Starting Salary: £35,002 - £36,479 pro rata

Hours: 17.5 hours a week

Job Profile

The postholder is responsible for the development of prayer and reflection resources for the Catholic community. These resources can be both digital and offline and will enable the Catholic community to participate in CAFOD’s mission through prayer.

The role sits within the Theology Programme. This is a cross-organisational programme based in the Fundraising and Participation Group.

The ideal candidate will have a proven understanding and awareness of the Catholic Church and parish life. With a keen eye for detail, excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), creative ideas, and an interest in digital and audio-visual forms of communication, they will be able to create engaging spiritual content for a Catholic audience of all ages.

Key Responsibilities

1.Develop prayer and reflection resources for the Catholic community on CAFOD’s priority themes and issues

• Research and develop the resources necessary to communicate with members of the Catholic community of all ages, enabling them to pray and reflect on CAFOD’s priority themes and issues
• Contribute to the development of appropriate key messages for the adult Catholic community, particularly those aged 35-45
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with CAFOD staff and volunteers about programme resources and liaise with CAFOD colleagues to ensure their effective promotion

1. Maintain the Pray section of the CAFOD website and the Theology Programme’s online presence.

• Ensure that the programme offers effective, creative, engaging online resources for the Catholic community, enabling them to pray and reflect on CAFOD’s priority themes and issues 

1. Contribute to the monitoring of Theology Programme resources to measure and improve their effectiveness.
2. Contribute to wider organisational thinking on external communications, offering a clear understanding of the adult Catholic community and parish life.

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

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

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

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

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

Person Specification/Essential Criteria

Understanding our context 

-Understanding Catholic identity: Able to communicate effectively with CAFOD’s audiences of all ages via a range of on and offline techniques

-Understanding CAFOD: Understands and actively supports CAFOD’s vision, mission and values and has a willingness to learn about CAFOD’s priority themes and issues

Working together

-Working with others: Builds collaborative relationships with colleagues across CAFOD, with the ability to compromise and find creative solutions

-Communicating: Able to present complex issues and ideas simply and clearly, excellent written and verbal skills and the ability to communicate politely and effectively with supporters and internal stakeholders

-Looking outwards: Keeps up to date with news and developments in fields of publishing and communications.  Builds cooperative, professional relationships with supporters and suppliers

Making change happen

-Managing resources: Delivers communications on time and within budget.

-Achieving results: Uses own judgement to make sound decisions, accepts responsibility for decisions made and action taken.

Job-specific competencies

1. Demonstrable ability to create engaging spiritual content, both written and audio-visual, for a Catholic audience.
2. Proven understanding and awareness of the Catholic Church and parish life.
3. Proven interest in digital communications, with experience of using digital channels and of uploading content to websites.
4. Knowledge of publishing production processes including writing, copy editing and proof reading.
5. Interest in all forms of communication.

Desirable Criteria

1. Understanding of Theology sufficient to edit for accessibility.

 Please click here for a full list of CAFOD’s Staff Benefits

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

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

Communications Manager

 (ref: SUS2959)

£31,369 per annum

37.5 hours per week - based in Edinburgh

Sustrans Scotland is looking for a dynamic and passionate communications manager to lead a team to make a big impact in Scotland. This is an exciting new role with a variety of responsibilities. You will lead a team to manage communications of our full portfolio of Transport Scotland funded projects. You’ll also provide strategic communications and media support for all Sustrans Scotland’s policy and advocacy work.

You will have experience of mass and specialist communications, of developing and implementing communications plans and of the development and delivery of high-impact communications campaigns. You will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the communications environment through media, digital and marketing. With your passion for our values and the promotion of sustainable transport, you will thrive on using your experience of working with all forms of media, giving advice and support to Sustrans.

Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9.00am on Monday 17 August 2020. Interviews will take place via MS Teams or Zoom during week of Monday 24 August 2020. 

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.  We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.

Healthwatch Richmond is the consumer champion for health and social care in Richmond upon Thames. It gives the community a strong voice to influence and challenge how local care services are designed and run and the power to hold providers of local health and social care to account.

Through planning and delivering a programme of outreach and engagement activities and communications you'll gather the views and experiences of people who use NHS and social care to identify trends. With support from our Chief Officer and volunteers you'll undertake targeted projects and service reviews to develop an evidence based to inform the development of, or improve NHS and social care for our community.

You’ll produce Healthwatch Richmond’s communications, writing articles about the work you’re involved in and collating news stories for publication in media, newsletters, bulletins and online. Through this work you'll help to raise awareness of Healthwatch and help people to get the support that they need.

As part of a small organisation you will be involved in many aspects of our challenging and constantly evolving, but ultimately very rewarding work. The ability to pick-up new skills and approaches, adapt and find pragmatic solutions is essential to the role.

The role

‘Inspiring Financial Leadership’ summarises both CFG’s identity and its purpose as an organisation that supports thousands of financial leaders in the charity sector. Our vision is of a charity sector that is financially confident, dynamic and trustworthy. We provide a range of services to our members and the sector more widely. These include training, a range of publications and a sector-leading programme of meetings and conferences throughout the year both physical and virtual.  We also work with other sector bodies to lobby the government and regulator on legal and regulatory issues affecting the sector. The organisation has grown consistently in recent years.

We need a Communications Manager who will work closely with other functions of the company to support our external and internal communications across all channels, and raise our voice to support our organisational delivery and complement the work of our policy, membership and marketing teams.

Why work for us?

We are a friendly team with a great sense of humour that enjoys the work that we do. There is lots of potential for development for talented individuals within CFG, and we can provide an excellent platform for career progression within the sector. We also offer a superb range of benefits including a generous pension contribution, flexible working, season ticket loans and childcare vouchers.

How to Apply

Please read the full job description and person specification (pdf), then email your CV.

Deadline for applications: We will be reviewing candidates as and when we receive CVs and cover letters and will appoint as soon as we meet the right person. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please apply early. This position is available immediately.

For information on the data we process during recruitment, please see our GDPR compliant Privacy Notice(pdf).

Thanks to the commitment and generosity of our supporters, the Scottish Bible Society is a charity that helps people in over 200 countries and territories around the world to receive Bibles in a language they understand and a format they can use.  We are involved in transformative projects that include teaching people how to read using the Bible, contributing to education programmes for children and much more!

We have an exciting opportunity for a creative and strategic leader who excels in a senior management position and as part of a senior leadership team.  You will be someone with communications, marketing and PR experience that can raise the profile of the SBS brand, engage audiences to respond by supporting the SBS mission, and motivate a staff team to deliver the organisational objectives.  You will have experience of managing campaigns that help meet fundraising targets for a charitable organisation, or a background in campaign management that drives sales for a commercial organisation.

The role reports to the Chief Executive.  You will be articulate, have strong influencing skills and proven stakeholder management skills to work with all levels of staff in the organisation, our board of directors, and external partners.  This is a senior role in an organisation with a strong Christian ethos, therefore there is an occupational requirement that the post holder is a practising Christian.

• Full-time role based at Bible House, Edinburgh near Haymarket train station.
• Out of normal business hours or occasional weekend work may be required, with time off in lieu in return.
• Some UK and overseas travel from time-to-time may be required, with time off in lieu in return.
• Salary depending on experience.
• Closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 14th August 2020.
• Interviews will take place during the first half of September 2020.

For the full job description please visit our website.

We are looking for an outstanding Communications Manager to join our dynamic and motivated team.

At Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, we have an ambitious mission to shift the dial on some of the  biggest health issues of our time. To do this, we make use of every tool in our kit to drive impact. Strategic communications and stakeholder engagement play a big role in helping us do just that.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone enthusiastic with a great eye for good communications and who pride themselves on having standards well above average.

Working closely with other teams in the Charity and external contractors, you will be part of a group of driven people committed to working together to make an impact. We have ambitious plans in 2020/21 including a branding project, redeveloping our website and launching our fourth urban health programme.

You will play an important role in shaping our communications, driving excellence and helping to embed a dynamic culture of content-making within the organisation.

Key accountabilities

The Communications Manager role is key to help us achieve the high bar we set for our communications work. You will:

• Plan and deliver outstanding communications driven by our organisational mission and goals
• Ensure high quality and timely outputs
• Help measure the impact of our communications

Responsibilities

• Work with the Head of Communications and the Director of Communications (job share) to plan and design engaging campaigns and day-to-day communications outputs for our channels
• Lead and manage a portfolio of owned communications campaigns and activities
• Manage communications projects from start to end, including planning, delivering and evaluating
• Commission, brief and manage external providers such as photographers, videographers, designers and copywriters to ensure high quality outputs
• Write, edit and produce engaging and relevant content at pace for web, social media and e-newsletters as well as earned and paid channels
• Work with other teams in the Charity to collate and source content from our supported projects
• Provide other colleagues with sound advice and support to ensure outstanding communications outputs
• Build and nurture key relationships inside the Charity and beyond
• Evaluate and report to stakeholders on owned activities and results

Person specification

Skills, attributes and abilities

• Able to assimilate and translate complex ideas into engaging and persuasive communications
• Has a digital-first mindset, with a passion for understanding audience needs and for pushing quality upwards
• Able to use their creativity to deliver excellent communications that engage, influence and/or help us amplify our work
• Brings a strong news sense and ability to identify the stories that are worth telling from a varied and rich pool of opportunities
• Thrives working with multiple projects and deadlines and juggling demands
• Has standards above average and an appetite for being part of a high-performing team
• Able to assess performance of communications, draw valuable insights and apply learning
• Enjoys working in places with a clear and ambitious mission and ways of working that challenge the norm
• Brings energy and pace to the work, and a strong can-do attitude

Knowledge and qualifications

• Graduate or equivalent experience
• Excellent understanding of the latest in communications techniques

Experience (essential)

• Project management – managing multiple deadlines, projects and suppliers to ensure outputs on time and on budget
• Strong copy writing, copy editing and proof reading
• Experience commissioning, managing and delivering creative projects

Experience (desirable)

• Experience in a managerial role in communications
• Experience in a busy communications environment (e.g. press office)
• Use of Content Management Systems (Drupal)
• Editing video content (Adobe Premiere or equivalent)
• Experience of foundation/not for profit or health communications

Duration: 6-month fixed term contract (October 2020 – March 2021) with the potential to become permanent
Working hours: Part time, 2 or 3 days per week (15 - 22.5 hours) - to be agreed with candidate
Location: Initially remote working with office arrangements for 2021 TBC (within Central London). Attendance will be required in Central London for meetings.

Salary  £47,300 per annum pro rata.
Starting date: October 2020
Key relationships: Job share partner, comms manager, all members of the public affairs team, all other Impetus staff, trustees, journalists and suppliers / agencies.

About Impetus
Impetus transforms the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life.
We find, fund and build the most promising charities working with these young people, providing core funding and working shoulder-to-shoulder with their leaders to help them become stronger organisations.
In partnership with other funders, we help our charities expand and we influence policy and decision makers so that all young people get the support they need.
Impetus currently has 35 members of staff, supporting 15 charities with programmes across England, Wales and Scotland
About this role
The Head of Communications occupies a unique and exciting role within Impetus as they sit at the heart of our organisation and work across all teams, giving them insight into all our work and allowing them to draw this together to build an exciting, engaging narrative and body of work to build our profile.
Our long-standing Head of Communications is returning from a period of maternity
leave in October 2020 on a part-time basis, this role would work alongside her on a
job share basis. We’ve split the role of the Head of Communications along the lines
of key competences. Our current Head of Communications would lead on corporate
communications, the design elements of our brand, marketing and charity support.
This role would lead on PR, policy comms, messaging and digital.
We are therefore primarily looking for someone with PR skills and experience in this
role. You will be responsible for delivering Impetus’ PR strategy and plans, working
closely with the policy team to maximise the impact of our advocacy work and across
the organisation to help externally communicate who we are and what we do. You
will work to position the charity as a leader in our field among policymakers, social
sector leaders, media and funders, with a focus on cultivating strong relationships
with key journalists. As part of a job share, you will be responsible for using your
excellent communication and planning skills to work collaboratively with your job
share partner.
Key responsibilities
Print, broadcast and digital media
• Lead PR strategy including identify target audiences and outlets, maintain the
forward look calendar, cultivating journalist relationships, drafting media
statements, managing launches and announcements, achieving media
coverage
• Manage the team to deliver our Digital Strategy, and look for opportunities to
further engage our stakeholders through digital
• Oversee maintenance of the website and ensure it continues to be up-to-date
and engaging
• Ensure we achieve our PR and digital target KPIs
Messaging
• Lead on developing and managing the Impetus brand messaging as part of
the comms strategy review we’re launching in the autumn
• Ensure all comms is in line with messaging guidelines. Train and support staff
in use of messaging.
• Develop, produce and update the key messaging resources for staff and
trustees, including template presentations, speeches and fundraising
materials
Driving communications across the organisation
• Work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in the public affairs, events, philanthropy, operations and investment teams to:
o maximise the communications value of policy and research initiatives
o maximise the communications value of all donor events
o provide communications support to enable colleagues to achieve organisational objectives.
Person specification
Essential
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
• Ability to work in partnership and with flexibility
• Ability to build and maintain influential external relationships and strategic alliances
• Ability to work as a team player, enlisting support from others
• Excellent attention to detail
• A strong track record of crafting and managing messaging
• A strong track record of PR strategy and media relations
• Experience of managing the PR and digital functions for an organisation
• Project management experience and ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently
• A commitment to Impetus’ mission
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Desirable
• Experience in all aspects of digital comms
• Experience of running policy campaigns
• Experience of data management / segmented communications
• Knowledge of the youth sector
• Knowledge of the private equity sector
How to apply
Please send your CV and a one-page cover letter telling us why you’re applying for this role by 9am Monday 10 August 2020.
You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission.
You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage. First round interviews will take place week commencing 17 August 2020.
Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
Impetus is an equal opportunity employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, or marital status. We value diversity and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Summary

Just Like Us, the LGBT+ charity for young people, is recruiting a Head of Comms and Media in a brand new role to join this award-winning startup and lead our comms and media strategy. You will be responsible for helping to grow our profile and managing our reputation through leading our external and internal communications, including our media engagement, social media channels, public-facing campaigns and communications with our people and young ambassadors.

You'll be responsible for working alongside the Chief Executive to ensure that more schools, teachers and young people than ever are aware of and connected to our work, as well as holding responsibility for our brand and externally-facing content, including social media. You will actively seek out media opportunities and develop relationships with press contacts across mainstream media outlets and the LGBT press as well as providing a final quality check on our school resources and other content. In doing so, you will build on our ongoing commitment to give a voice to the young people we serve.

about Just Like Us

our work

Just Like Us (JLU) is the LGBT+ charity for young people working for a world where LGBT+ young people live awesome lives. Our mission is to empower all young people to be the champions of LGBT+ equality at school and work. To do that, we run three programmes:

• Ambassador Programme: we partner with employers to train LGBT+ young adults to give talks and workshops in schools that use their own stories to champion LGBT+ equality and challenge prejudice

• School Diversity Week: our annual initiative empowers teachers and pupils across the country to tackle homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullying by organising activities that celebrate LGBT+ equality in education

• Pride Groups: a new programme training teachers to support students in establishing and running Pride Groups - student-led, school-based clubs for LGBT+ students and allies

our achievements

• Trained 300 LGBT+ young people as Ambassadors who’ve delivered talks to more than 56,000 pupils in schools across the UK 

• Involved more than 1,950,000 young people and teachers in celebrating LGBT+ equality through School Diversity Week

• Mentored 60 young people as part of our LGBT+ Senior Role Model programme

• Won Pink News Community Group of the Year, Business Charity Award, Guardian Change Hero and Prime Ministerial Point of Light. Featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC News, ITV News, Channel Five news, PinkNews, Attitude, DIVA, and Gay Times

• Partnered with leading companies including Facebook, J. P. Morgan and Travers Smith to provide training, mentoring and career opportunities to our young volunteers

• Built relationships with the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition and successive Secretaries of State for Education

the position

Salary: £35,000- £40,000    Pension: 6% matched

Holiday: 25 days (excl. public holidays)  Reporting to: Chief Executive

key responsibilities

• Work with the Chief Executive to develop and implement our comms and media strategy, including ongoing development of the Just Like Us brand identity

• Build and maintain strong relationships with national and regional press, tv, radio and media outlets in order to place stories and interviews for JLU

• Manage all responses to media enquiries as well as proactively seeking opportunities to raise JLU’s profile and protect its reputation

• Identify opportunities to amplify the voices of the young people that we serve

• Write, draft and edit news releases, blogs, case studies and other online content as well as email newsletters and other email communications

• Manage relationships with celebrities and other notable individuals

• Develop an annual communications and media plan,  identifying and managing media and communications opportunities for Just Like and ensuring messages reach our key audiences in accordance with our annual time table and strategy

• Line-manage our Programmes Assistant, who holds responsibility for our social media channels

• Develop Just Like Us and our position as a “thought leader” within the sector.

• Support the production of content, video and graphics for social media channels

• Manage communications and brand-related risks associated with reputation and quality, leading on crisis communications projects when needed

experience, skills and attributes 

As Head of Comms and Media at Just Like Us, you'll have:

• A genuine interest in the LGBT+ Education sector and a commitment to Just Like Us and our values

• At least four years’ experience of working in a communications and/or media role, preferably within an LGBT+ or education setting

• An ability to develop longer term strategic plans while being responsive to risks and opportunities

• Experience managing journalists, building relationships and managing press responses

• Experience in collating, analysing and making informed decisions using analytics (including social media)

• Exceptional written communication skills, an eye for design and the ability to produce high-quality content for a range of audiences and channels

• Line management and the ability to motivate others

Closing date: Monday 17th August 09:00am.