We are looking to expand our team by recruiting a Project Manager for our Access to Work Department.

Job title: Access to Work Project Manager
Reports to: Adult Services Manager
Salary: £28,880
Hours: 36 per week
Location: Based at 73 Summerstown, London SW17 0BQ. You may be required to work from other Generate sites.

About the charity 
Generate is a South West London based charity who have been creating opportunities and offering support to people with disabilities since 1972. Generate is committed to improving the lives of people with disabilities by supporting and encouraging them in a creative way to access opportunities in the community, be active citizens and reduce reliance on services.

About the role 
The Access to Work Project Manager has day to day responsibility for Generate’s Access to Work Service. Currently, the service provides one-to-one support workers to individuals with a range of disabilities, funded for in-work, job coaching and supported internships support through the Department of Work and Pensions’ Access to Work Programme. There is scope for this service to expand into other areas of supported employment. The Access to Work Project Manager will actively promote and secure new referrals to the service, as well as co-ordinating its day-to-day delivery.

You will proactively market the Access to Work Service to potential users of the service, as well as actively seeking new opportunities to develop and promote the employment service.

You will be a self-starter, enthusiastic and passionate about supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions in the workplace.

Ideally you will have direct experience of the DWP Access to Work scheme.

You will need to have the ability to manage a staff team and communicate effectively with our clients, their employers, partner agencies and our staff.

Closing date: 27th June 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full Job Description and full details on how to complete your application.
Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

All applicants are required to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide 2 references.

Generate is committed to equality and valuing diversity.

No agencies please.

About the Role

This Design Internship will contribute to our Pro Bono Division, which delivers projects free-of-charge to charities and non-profit organisations within the healthcare sector, with the aim of making a real difference to causes that our staff care about. We offer our full range of services on a pro bono basis, working collaboratively across our divisions and office locations to secure the right expertise to fulfil project briefs. Examples of recent pro bono projects can be found here and include creating patient information and education materials, and helping organisations to build their evidence base.

Costello Medical has a long-standing partnership with Findacure, a UK charity based in Cambridge that focuses on bringing the rare diseases community together to support each other in achieving their goals. This joint internship offers an exciting opportunity for a talented designer to gain insight into life in both a commercial and non-profit environment, whilst also making a real difference to Findacure and their work.

You will be responsible for a wide range of design projects, including creating posters, developing marketing materials for scientific exhibitions and conferences, creating medical illustrations and interactive content, building social media templates and updating internal resources. This will allow you to gain experience in all stages of a project, from the initial concept development to full production, allowing for real autonomy and creativity.

The start date will be 5th July 2021 or 16th August 2021 and the internship will last for 6 months. You will be based in Costello Medical’s Global Headquarters, in Cambridge.

What Background Should You Have?

This exciting opportunity is ideal for a proactive candidate who will relish the opportunity to work on a range of projects. We are looking for a talented individual with a great understanding of aesthetics and meticulous attention to detail. A high level of organisation and flexibility is also essential as you will be working on multiple projects at any one time.

Essential requirements for the role are:

• A degree level or higher qualification in a Design-based subject (minimum or expected 2.1 or equivalent), in addition to a highly innovative portfolio
• Fluency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop, as well as a high level of proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience in working with content management systems (such as WordPress) would be an advantage
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to use your initiative and work independently, in addition to working collaboratively within teams
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage conflicting deadlines

The role will involve close collaboration with all members of our established Design division, who will provide full training on the technical aspects of the role​, as well as the Findacure team. Although no previous experience in the scientific industry is required, an interest in applying graphic design to the healthcare and/or non-profit sector would be an advantage.

What We Offer

Costello Medical are committed to our company values which are central to creating our fun, friendly and innovative workplace in which we strive to deliver the highest standards of quality. As a result, we have been listed in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work For list for four consecutive years.

The stipend for interns is £1,500 per calendar month, and you will be entitled to statutory holiday

Digital Fundraising Intern

Sightsavers is looking for a Digital Fundraising Intern to work within its Digital Fundraising team. This internship is a flexible 3-5 days per week, 6-month position and we will pay the relevant living wage according to the number of days worked per week.

Location: UK (Haywards Heath with remote working)

Salary: Living Wage

Contract: Flexible 3-5 days per week, 6-month fixed term contract

Sightsavers’ vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes and where visually impaired people participate equally in society. We are an international organisation working with partners in developing countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities. Could you join our team and make a real difference as a Digital Fundraising Intern?

About the role

The Digital Fundraising Intern will support colleagues across the Digital Fundraising team and beyond, ensuring campaigns, online content and journeys are as good as they can be. This position will support the delivery of digital activity to help increase income, supporter recruitment and retention through digital channels, including email, search, display and paid social. The main responsibilities, with appropriate support, will include:

• Moderating virtual event groups through Facebook, following our branding and messaging guidelines.
• Writing and creating stories, posts and donation pages on the website.
• Assisting with writing copy and building emails in the email platform and supporting the data processes and reporting of our email campaigns.
• Helping deliver paid advertising activity.
• Assisting with website testing, spot-checking and proof-reading.
• Shadowing members of the digital fundraising team.
• Assisting with monitoring and reporting on digital fundraising activity to help the team deliver against their targets.
• Undertaking research projects and providing admin support as required.

As our Digital Fundraising Intern you will be working in an international charity with a skilled team of digital fundraisers, gaining valuable experience and knowledge, specifically in Individual Giving fundraising.  You will be given the opportunity to really get stuck-in and enjoy the role whilst gaining experience and knowledge of the skillset required to work in fundraising and develop your digital skills.  In return we will:

• Make sure that you gain a wide range of digital fundraising experiences to boost your CV
• Ensure you have meaningful projects to work on
• Offer training and support for your role
• Respect and listen to your views and ideas
• Provide an encouraging and friendly working atmosphere
• Offer you generous holidays and access to fitness and wellness discounts

About you

Prior experience in international development and digital fundraising is not essential. We are looking for candidates with a real passion for digital, and the desire to make an impact and progress their personal development.

This is a demanding role and is suited to motivated individuals who enjoy being busy, stretched and working hard. Ideally you would primarily work from our Haywards Heath office (as COVID-restrictions allow/ from mid-June onwards) – but other arrangements can be considered for exceptional candidates.

Key requirements:

• A passion for all things digital and the ability to demonstrate this.
• Strong work ethic with good organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and activities.
• An interest in data and analytics and/or strong writing and editing skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work both in a team and independently.
• Strong IT literacy.
• A strong interest in fundraising and the third sector and a commitment to equal opportunities for all.

Strong academic results are naturally a significant advantage – but we will absolutely consider all engaging, passionate applications. Diversity is important to us at Sightsavers and so we especially welcome applications from candidates with backgrounds typically under-represented in the sector and/ or reflecting the communities we seek to serve.

Next steps

Please read the full job description and make a compelling application via our careers portal, paying particular attention to the ‘motivations’ section.  We are keen to make a quick appointment, with the successful applicant ideally being able to start in July to support scheduled campaigns. We anticipate that interviews will be held w/c 5 July 2021 with a short role-specific task forming part of the assessment process.

Do you want to help make the world a better place for children? Viva is seeking an intern keen to blend their excellent communication and IT skills with their Christian faith in a unique year-long opportunity within the international development sector.

As our Research Development Intern you will work closely with our International Programme Manager to create tools and resources that will be used to drive child protection work all over the world. You will support Viva’s international Network Development Team to maximise the impact of programmes run by our partner networks.

A large part of the role will involve adapting existing programme materials and uploading them onto our brand-new Learning Management System so they can easily be accessed by our global partners. You will also have the opportunity to learn from international colleagues about the programmes they have developed and why they are effective.

For this role, you will need excellent written communication skills and the ability to present work creatively, including through the use of videos, infographics and images. You will have a secure understanding of the Christian faith and be ready to engage with and write biblically based materials for our target audience of churches and Christian faith-based organisations.

You will be a team player, yet able to work independently, be confident with a variety of computer programmes and you should be a fast learner and happy to take up a variety of tasks. You will need to be educated to degree level or working towards completion of degree or other equivalent level qualification.

Lucy, our current intern, says, “This internship offers a fantastic opportunity to commit time to helping protect children, whilst also investing time in developing your own skills and knowledge alongside the amazing Viva team. I have really enjoyed this year whilst learning so much, and am so glad I’ve had the chance to contribute to the vital work of this charity.”

Are you up for committing a year to a charity that is changing children’s lives around the world? We would love to hear from you.

To apply, please click on the 'Apply' button for full application details. The closing date for applications is midnight on Wednesday 30 June 2021. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 13 July 2021.  

This is a part-time position for one year based at our office in Oxford (with the option of part-office, part-home working). The salary will be the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (the rate of pay will be at the relevant statutory minimum level).

Head of Digital Skills and Capability - Wales

Salary: £65k - £75k (depending on experience)

Location: Wales - at present we do not have a physical office and are all working remotely. Once restrictions ease, we will discuss with our staff any potential blended models of home and office/hub working. We will continue to support remote working where needed.

Term: Fixed term contract to March 2022. We are seeking to secure future funding for CDPS from April 2022 onwards and the role may be extended.

This role is available as a secondment for Welsh public sector employees. Please follow your own organisation’s policy around informing and getting permission from line managers.

The ability to speak and write Welsh is desirable.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be judged less favourably than those submitted in English.

Summary

About the Centre for Digital Public Services (CDPS)

Here to deliver better public services that work for everyone the Centre for Digital Public Services (Wales) is an arms-length body of Welsh Government setup to enable and support digital transformation of public services in Wales.

The Role

As Head of Digital Skills and Capability you’ll be at the forefront of supporting our remit for digital transformation in Welsh public services. The role will include not just helping build digital transformation skills and confidence of staff in existing roles, but also how to support those who want to move to digital within the Welsh public sector. The role will also look at how we can support workforce planning across the Welsh public sector, making it an employer of choice for people with the appropriate digital skills.

This is a role at the heart of our remit, scaling digital expertise across public services.

What You’ll Do

• Set and deliver the plan for building digital capability, confidence and development across the Welsh public sector that.
• supports existing digital professionals across the Welsh public sector.
• helps reduce any digital skills gaps within the sector.
• builds a shared understanding within the sector of digital transformation, iterative design and user-centered design.
• upskills existing Welsh public sector employees who are new to digital.
• Build strong working relationships with our stakeholders, our users and our business and training partners.
• Develop a culture that focuses on user experience, feedback and data, allowing for continuous improvement of our support and services.
• Design and implement performance measures and key performance indicators to measure the value and success of the digital capability programme, inform future learning and development activities, and demonstrate return on investment.
• Work with digital colleagues in the public, private, academic and third sectors around Wales and wider to identify ways to support people at all experience levels in understanding how increased digital capability can improve their effectiveness, performance and ability to work.
• Provide information on best practice in professional development in the DDaT professions across digital public services in Wales.
• Develop and implement sustainable approaches to apprenticeships, internships, career pathways, and learning and development.
• Call upon a range of external contacts, including suppliers, thought leaders, other professional bodies, and use these relationships to maintain and enhance user-centred, efficient public services.
• Delivering, coordinating and supporting tangible improvements in skills and capability improvements in large and/or complex Welsh public sector organisations.

Who you are

We want to hear from people with skills in

• Building capability and skills development programmes ideally within public services.
• Creating training programmes that meet user needs and requirements, working collaboratively with our stakeholders and potential users of our training services.
• Sharing expertise within the wider digital, data and technology community.
• Analysis, synthesis and integration of quantitative and qualitative data.
• Fluency in spoken and written Welsh (desirable).
• Confident communication: able to persuade; negotiate; influence; network; and collaborate.
• Getting to the heart of an issue, demonstrating expert knowledge in an applied setting.
• Understanding of the political and social landscape of Wales.

You should be

• Naturally curious and able to champion your own learning and development.
• A champion for user-centred practices embedded within agile delivery.
• Respectful in your approach to stakeholders and services who aren’t as familiar with user-centred design.
• Proactive and will take the initiative rather than to see a problem and ignore it.
• Committed to the development of improved digital strategy across Wales.
• Alert to opportunities to improve our teams, tools and processes.

If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can rock the role, we’d love to learn more about you, so do please apply.

We are passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of disability, neurodivergence, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, gender and gender presentation, marital status, sexual orientation, culture and religion.

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement - 28 days annual leave plus public holidays.
• 37.5-hour week for all full-time team members.
• Flexible working policy.
• Enhanced contribution to our workplace pension.

How to Apply

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter to support your application.

The covering letter should be no more than two sides of A4. Please provide evidence in the letter of your suitability for the role, based on our "Who You Are" section and explain why you are interested in the position and where you saw the job advertised.

Closing date: 30 June, 12:00

About ReachOut

ReachOut is a mentoring charity that works with young people from disadvantaged communities in London, Greater Manchester and Liverpool to raise aspirations and help them grow in character and academic attainment. We improve Numeracy, Literacy and Communication Skills whilst reinforcing our core values of Fairness, Self-Control, Good Judgement and Staying Power.

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have developed ReachOut Home, our online mentoring programme. ReachOut Home supports our young people’s emotional wellbeing, with a particular focus on character education and building skills to navigate our ‘new normal’. Our online provision has allowed us to take our mentoring programme into new parts of the UK and depending on the situation, we will continue to provide our online programme alongside our face to face delivery when it is safe to do so.

Role Description

We are looking for enthusiastic, collaborative and positive individuals to join our Leadership Programme and become Project Leaders. As a Project Leader, you will run a weekly mentoring project with a group of young people from a primary or secondary school, facilitating the 2-hour sessions alongside other responsibilities. The Leadership Programme is an opportunity to gain and improve your leadership, management and communication skills whilst having a massive impact on the lives of young people. You will be supporting them to raise their aspirations, develop their character, and build their academic attainment and self-confidence. Are you up for the challenge?

Role Details

As a Project Leader you will:

• Spend 2 hours planning and 2 hours delivering your mentoring session each week during term time for 10 - 16 young people and their mentors.
• Manage and support the young people.
• Manage and support the volunteer mentors.
• Complete monitoring and evaluation activities to ensure sessions are as impactful as possible for your mentees.
• Attend ReachOut events and socials with your mentors.
• Follow ReachOut’s policies and procedures to safeguard young people.

Please download the information pack from our website for full details about the job role.

Personal Specification

Experience

• Has worked with groups of young people in the range 9 to 16 years’ old
• Has the potential to take on a leadership role
• Can demonstrate commitment to a cause/activity and has taken an active role in it (e.g. captain of a sports team, president of a society)
• Has professional work experience (e.g. internships, summer placements, etc.) This can also be regular voluntary experience but should roles where you have had responsibility for something, worked to deadlines, worked with others etc.

Skills

• Maths and English skills, (minimum grade C at GCSE or equivalent)
• Communication skills (face-to-face, email, text, phone)
• Good organisation skills (can manage tasks effectively, accurately and in a timely fashion)
• Confident using IT; email, MS Forms, excel and video conferencing

Personal attributes

• Passionate about ReachOut’s mission
• Demonstrates ReachOut’s Character Strengths: Fairness, Good Judgement, Self-Control and Staying Power
• Demonstrate good teamwork skills such as collaboration and delegation
• Open to feedback with a genuine desire to learn and develop personally
• Enthusiastic and energetic
• Excited by challenges
• Prepared to be adaptable and creative
• Positive
• Sociable

Application Instructions

To apply for the Leadership Programme, please visit our website. Applicants must ensure they are available to attend evenings and weekends online training through September 2021. Upon completion of the induction training, all Project Leaders will be paid a lump sum of £50.

We aim to respond to applications within 2 weeks of receiving your application. Applications will be assessed as they come in and assessment centres will be held on a rolling basis. Once the position is filled the vacancy will be closed so applicants are advised to apply early.

Please note, if you are a successful candidate you will be required to undergo an enhanced criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service. ReachOut will cover the cost of the check and guide you through the process. All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated Tutor to join our 3 ship programme within our Lifestyle and Works team.

The 3 Ships are Mencap’s education based programmes for supporting people with a learning disability to move closer to the job market and gain employment. The 3 Ships are Supported Internships, Traineeships and Apprenticeships. This Tutor role will focus on Supported Internships.

As a Tutor you will focus on the delivery of the educational element of these programmes; designing and delivering creative lessons to a diverse group of learners which will include Employability and functional skills topics. 

The successful candidate will deliver elements of teaching, learning and assessment to learners including accredited functional skills in both English and Mathematics. This role would suit a highly motivated and qualified teacher or someone looking to pursue this career. 

The role is full time Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week and based in the Kingston and Richmond area. Some travel may be required.

At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap!

Key skills and requirements (essential):

• Experience of supporting people
• Experience of delivering against targets
• Experience of working with a diverse group of learners
• A-C/9-4 English & Maths GCSE (or equivalent)
• Recognised teaching qualification at level 5 (DTLLS, PGCE, CertEd) Or willingness to work towards
• Knowledge and experience of delivering and assessing functional skills English and Maths up to level 2
• Experience & knowledge of safe working practices
• Good classroom management skills and strategies
• Good time management and planning skills

All candidates offered an interview for this role will need to provide evidence of their GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent) at interview stage or prior to interview stage. 

(Please see the ‘role profile’ for a more extensive list of responsibilities, experiences and key skills required for this role and the full Job Description and Personal Specification)

Please note - The salary will be dependent on your level of qualification Level 3 PTLLS and Level 4 CTLLS £25,500 FTE.

Level 5 DTLLS, PGCE or Cert Ed £27,540 FTE. 

If you have the relevant skills and experiences we are looking for and this opportunity sounds like the perfect role for you, please apply with your up to date CV. 

This role will close on 13th June and interviews will commence shortly after the close date on Microsoft Teams.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. To find out more about the scheme please visit the direct gov website.

Vacancy ID: 21481

It is a hugely exciting time to join Career Ready as we continue to celebrate and build our brand alongside our soon to be launched, new 3-year strategy.

The Marketing Engagement Officer is a new role in our Communication Team and has been created to help raise awareness of Career Ready, secure new lead generation opportunities, and support our partners across each stage of their relationship journey.

You will play a leading role in shaping Career Ready’s external marcomms, having the opportunity to be creative and independent in your thinking, and use a range of marketing tactics and tools. Joining a Communications Team of three, this is an exciting opportunity to develop and implement a marketing strategy which will help ensure that young people across the UK are able to reach their full potential. 

The successful candidate will work collaboratively throughout Career Ready to support our strategy to secure, onboard, and promote new employer partners, as well as raise awareness of our corporate brand.

Job Description: Marketing Engagement Officer

Reporting to: Head of Communications

Reports: None

Salary: £30,000-35,000

Contract: Full-time (35 Hours), fixed term six-month contract

Please note - whilst the role is advertised as being based in our offices situated in Canary Wharf, London, Career Ready is currently operating as a remote-working organisation and will remain flexible in the future. During this remote-working period a WFH allowance of £300pa (pro rata) is paid.

Main responsibilities and accountabilities

• Work closely with the Head of Communications and Head of Partnership Development to implement an employer marketing strategy to accelerate our growth in employer partners, using a range of marketing approaches, processes, and tools.
• Work with the Head of Communications to map out the user journey of Career Ready’s partners and provide support across all stages, boosting lead generation and partner retention.
• Create and deliver marketing content including website articles, email marketing, printed materials, social media (including paid advertising) monitoring impact and return on investment.
• Copywriting for a range of mediums, including web copy, e-newsletters, social media, printed materials, corporate communications, and digital advertising.
• Research and develop new opportunities to engage with key target audiences, working with other teams to broaden our reach and awareness.
• Support our team of Account Managers to provide onboarding and ongoing promotional support to key partners.
• Support the targeted marketing & recruitment of corporate volunteers, through focussed marketing activity, that creates new ambassadors from within business to support our work;
• Harness the opportunity to create brand ambassadors from within our corporate network and support colleagues in creating compelling and engaging propositions for our employer audiences;
• Support our corporate partner story telling, through case studies, impact and insights to shine a spot light on the business and society value of working with Career Ready for both the young people and the employers we support;
• Support the development of stakeholder centred events and engaging products that place us front and centre of the solutions to the D&I, social value and talent pipeline objectives that our corporate partners are grappling with;
• Support the development of a proactive speaker engagement plan for our leadership team that secures our brand profile and voice is on platforms where we want to be seen and heard, to network and inspire with the employer and community partners we want to work with;
• Deliver excellent creative and innovative marketing solutions to achieve our focussed corporate partner sector and regionally based growth targets;
• support our approach to achieving holistic partnership engagement across our interventions and our marketing goal to increase the number of paid internships our employer partners are providing the young people we serve;
• Provide creative and logistical support for events – both physical and digital –to ensure efficient delivery.
• Support the Head of Communications with the delivery of national campaigns, including political influencing and outreach.
• Liaise with external stakeholders and suppliers where required, providing a high-level of support and professionalism.
• Champion the Career Ready brand, acting as a brand ambassador, supporting others to effectively apply the brand design and messaging.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of key activities and campaigns, contributing to regular reporting.
• Other duties as may be specified by the Head of Communications from time to time.

Person specification

Essential skills

• Excellent understanding of customer segmentation and targeting
• Excellent creative writing skills and standards of written English
• Knowledge of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams
• Proficient in the use of social media, email marketing, web analytics and CRM platforms
• Analytical skills to highlight key campaign successes and weaknesses
• Strong communicator, both verbally and written
• Excellent project management skills and knowledge
• Excellent attention to detail
• Independent thinking and ability to manage own workload to tight deadlines
• Ability to work effectively with others and in a team, to convene and facilitate stakeholders to collaborate on projects.

Desirable

• Knowledge of GDPR and wider data protection best practice
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Knowledge, understanding and interest in social, political and economic issues relating to Career Ready’s mission.

Benefits

• Plus 6% contribution to personal pension plan, subject to 3% employee contribution
• Annual leave: 25 days per annum plus bank/public holidays. The Charity is also closed between Christmas and New Year and there are an additional 2 days of leave available in August.
• Interest-free season ticket or bicycle purchase loans (or Cycle To Work Scheme).
• Access to both our Reward Gateway Portal and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Work Anniversary Gift Voucher

Timetable:

Closing date for applications: 9.00am on Friday 2nd July 2021

Initial interviews will be held in week commencing 12th July 2021.

If you are interested in the role, please apply using the button below and submit your CV and a covering statement (of no more than a single A4 page) that demonstrates clearly, through examples, how your experience meets the requirements of the role and what attracts you to Career Ready. 

Please note that if your application is not accompanied by a covering letter your application will not be considered.

Registered Charity Numbers 1092891 (England & Wales) SCO43678 (Scotland)

Responsible for: Supporting the delivery of Engineers Without Borders UK’s marketing activities.
Location: Remote (UK based)
Type of post: Nine month internship, 7.5 hours per week (0.2 FTE)
Remuneration: London Living Wage (currently £10.85 per hour)
Leave: 24 days per annum, plus public holidays (pro rata’d). For a one day week over nine months this equates to 5 days leave
Start date: From August 2021
Application deadline: Midnight (BST), Wednesday 7 July
Interview: w/c Monday 19 July, virtual

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Marketing Intern will have responsibility for shaping, creating and analysing our organisational digital presence to support the aims of our 2021-2030 strategy. As our Marketing Intern you will:

• Develop content and coordinate all social media channels in a consistent ‘on brand’ voice in line with our high standards.
• Ensure the website is fully optimised for search engines including set up of Google Adwords.
• Monitor, report and analyse results to improve performance, using tools such as Google analytics. You will make recommendations to the Communications and Marketing Coordinator and implement agreed changes.
• Ensure all social media platforms and third party sites are updated in line with the new strategy.
• Carry out ad hoc marketing activities as required, for example with resource creation, editing and reviews to support the wider activity of Engineers Without Borders UK.
• Act as a brand champion across the organisation.

You will be expected to work independently and collaboratively with others in the team to ensure that your outputs fit within the wider charitable operations. As part of a small team you may engage in activities outside of the initial scope of your role – this is a great opportunity to develop broader skills and experience as part of your professional growth.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

To ensure you’re the right person for the role and can achieve success for Engineers Without Borders UK, we think that the following skills, expertise and attitudes are essential for this internship:

• Passionate about our purpose
• Experience of producing high quality and creative social media content. This can be evidenced through personal accounts or content created for organisations
• Experience in two or more of the following platforms:
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

• Experience tailoring content for different audiences and platforms
• Excellent eye for detail and exemplary proofreading skills
• An interest in identifying trends and insights and the ability to analyse data, draw conclusions and put recommendations into action
• Excellent written communications skills, and an innovative and creative approach.
• Positive attitude with excellent self-motivation and ability to work on your own initiative
• Proven ability and desire to work as part of a team

The following are highly desirable:

• Experience of supporting an organisation’s marketing activities
• Experience of Google Adwords
• Experience producing communications and marketing in line with brand guidelines
• Familiarity with InDesign, Canva, scheduling tools (e.g. Lightful) and basic video editing tools (e.g. WeVideo)
• Experience volunteering/working an organisation related to social/environmental justice

TO APPLY

To apply for the role please download and complete the below application form and return it before the deadline.

The deadline for applications is midnight (BST) Wednesday 7 July 2021. We expect to interview shortlisted candidates during the week of 19 July 2021.

We know that applying for a job is a two-way process – you will want to find out about us as an organisation just as much as we want to find out about the skills, knowledge and abilities that you could bring to Engineers Without Borders UK. Please do get in touch with us  if you would like to discuss the role and organisation before you submit your application.

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for details of why and how we collect and store your data.

Engineers Without Borders UK is committed to selecting candidates for employment based on aptitude and ability, irrespective of gender, race, ethnic origin, disability, nationality, sexuality, religion or belief, marital status or social class.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising & Events intern to join the team!

If successful, you will gain valuable paid work experience with the fundraising team during a busy challenge events period. You can use your creativity, social media skills and drive to engage new and existing supporters and help raise money for Redthread’s projects in London, Nottinghamshire and Birmingham.

This is an internship, and we want to support someone into their first role within the charity sector. We are looking for someone who can truly learn from their time with us, so don't worry if you don't have any experience!

We recognise that people from Black and Asian communities and other minoritised ethnic groups are under-represented in the charity sector, particularly in the field of fundraising, as are those with disabilities. We particularly encourage people from under-represented groups to apply for this opportunity.

The contract is for 12-weeks fixed-term, for two days per week. This post will be home-based with the potential for occasional visits to Redthread’s main office in Victoria, London (when appropriate and necessary).

For more details of the duties and responsibilities you'll have, as well as what we're looking for in an intern and how to apply, please download the full Job Pack from our website via the button below.

Closing date: 9am on Wednesday, 30th June 2021.

If we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the closing date. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.