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New Writing North is the creative writing and reading development agency for the North of England. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, we have produced nationally significant work since 1996. We are a committed team of 18, a registered charity, and a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.

We believe that talent is everywhere but that opportunities are not, and that it is our job to create opportunities. We develop programmes and activities that support individuals and communities to engage with creative reading and writing both professionally and for pleasure. We help good writing find local, regional, national, and international audiences.

New Writing North’s annual programme includes the management of major international literary prizes and awards; open-access and targeted talent development programmes; the production of festivals and events; international writing and translation projects; our young writers’ programmes; community-based programmes; writing for wellbeing activities, and the commissioning of new writing. 

In autumn 2022 we are launching a new Writing and Publishing Skills Hub and we are now recruiting a team of three staff to deliver this programme.

The Programme Manager (Skills & Engagement) will manage the marketing and delivery of a new creative skills offer for New Writing North. Reporting to the Senior Programme Manager (Skills & Engagement) and working with the Programme Assistant (Skills & Engagement), the Programme Manager (Skills & Engagement) will ensure a high quality creative skills programme is delivered in collaboration with partners, supporting strategies for income generation and audience development across the programme. The postholder will manage partnerships with publishers, FE/HE providers, and cultural sector partners and will support the achievement of NWN’s strategy.

The skills programme has been designed to include a wide range of activities including training and learning, artist investment and development, small business support for practitioners and the development of online and in-person writing courses. Led by the Senior Manager, we expect that the postholder will contribute to further shaping and developing the programmes and to developing new resources and partnerships to advance work in this area. The work will be delivered across the North of Tyne area (Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside). 

The new skills team is supported by the North of Tyne Combined Authority’s Skills for Growth Fund.

We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for jobs with us. We particularly welcome Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled, and LGBTQI applicants and those from lower socio-economic and working-class backgrounds.

For a full picture of our work please visit our website.

Closing date: 9am, Thursday 15 September 2022

Campaigner (Quadrature Programme)

Job ref: REQ000468

Application closing date: 24/08/2022

Hours: Full time – 35hrs per week, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £32,937pa

Location: Cardiff / Hybrid working

Job description:

(Welsh version available below)

Are you passionate about campaigning for nature and climate? Do you have in-depth knowledge of Wales and its cultural, political and media landscapes? WWF Cymru are looking for a Campaigner who will support and lead delivery of our mass engagement campaigns on land use and food systems in Wales. Does this sound like you?

You will focus on digital campaigning, using your creativity to engage new audiences to mobilise our supporters and the wider public in support of our vital work. You will develop creative ideas and content and be involved in planning and executing content strategies across social, web and email. You will interpret audience research to provide insight to shape future activity too. Importantly, you will build links with community groups, potential partners and external organisations in Wales to maximise our effectiveness.

For this role you must have experience of media and mass campaigning and been involved in developing and delivering public campaigns. This will have included producing content across the digital spectrum. Proficient in planning, briefing and scheduling, you will be good at developing campaign messaging and also possess excellent project management, relationship building and communication skills.

Ideally you will have excellent written and verbal communications skills in Welsh.

If you are passionate about making our world a better place through your work, we would love to hear from you. Please click on the link and apply via our website by submitting a copy of your up-to-date CV and the Supporting Statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us.

Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you.  Here at WWF, we are committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose.  We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.

Ydych chi’n teimlo’n angerddol ynghylch ymgyrchu dros natur a’r hinsawdd? Oes gyda chi wybodaeth fanwl am Gymru a’i diwylliant, ei gwleidyddiaeth a’i chyfryngau? Mae WWF Cymru yn chwilio am Ymgyrchydd a fydd yn cefnogi ac yn arwain y gwaith o gyflawni ein hymgyrchoedd ymgysylltu torfol ym meysydd defnydd tir a systemau bwyd yng Nghymru. Ai chi yw hwn?

Byddwch yn canolbwyntio ar ymgyrchu digidol, gan ddefnyddio eich creadigrwydd i ymgysylltu â chynulleidfaoedd newydd i ysgogi ein cefnogwyr a’r cyhoedd yn ehangach er mwyn cefnogi ein gwaith hollbwysig. Byddwch yn datblygu syniadau a chynnwys creadigol ac yn cymryd rhan yn y gwaith o gynllunio strategaethau cynnwys a’u rhoi ar waith ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol, y we a thrwy e-bost. Byddwch yn dehongli ymchwil cynulleidfa er mwyn creu cipolwg a fydd yn llywio gweithgarwch yn y dyfodol hefyd. Yn bwysig, byddwch yn adeiladu cysylltiadau â grwpiau cymunedol, partneriaid posibl a sefydliadau allanol yng Nghymru er mwyn inni fod mor effeithiol â phosibl.

Ar gyfer y rôl hon, rhaid bod gennych brofiad o’r cyfryngau ac ymgyrchu torfol ac wedi cymryd rhan yn y gwaith o ddatblygu a chyflawni ymgyrchoedd cyhoeddus. Bydd hyn wedi cynnwys cynhyrchu cynnwys ar draws y sbectrwm digidol. Yn hyfedrus mewn cynllunio, briffio ac amserlennu, byddwch yn dda am ddatblygu negeseuon ymgyrch a hefyd yn meddu ar sgiliau rhagorol o ran rheoli prosiectau, adeiladau perthnasoedd a chyfathrebu.

Yn ddelfrydol, bydd gennych sgiliau cyfathrebu ysgrifenedig a llafar rhagorol yn y Gymraeg.

Os yw’r cyfle i wneud ein byd yn lle gwell trwy eich gwaith yn eich cyffroi, byddem wrth ein bodd i glywed gennych chi. Cliciwch ar y ddolen a gwneud cais trwy ein gwefan gan gyflwyno copi o’ch CV cyfredol a’r Datganiad Ategol i nodi beth sy’n golygu y byddwch yn cyd-asio’n dda gyda ni.

Mae pob rôl yn WWF yn agored i geisiadau gan bob rhan o’r gymdeithas. Credwn ym mhotensial pawb heb ystyried; rhyw, hil, crefydd neu gred, tarddiad ethnig, gallu corfforol gwahanol, strwythur teuluol, ffactorau economaidd-gymdeithasol, oed, cenedligrwydd neu ddinasyddiaeth, partneriaeth briodasol, ddomestig neu sifil, cyfeiriadedd rhywiol, hunaniaeth o ran rhywedd, neu unrhyw agwedd arall sy’n golygu mai chi yw chi.  Yma yn WWF, rydym wedi ymrwymo i gynhwysiant ymwybodol sy’n helpu i feithrin ethos o berthyn, cysylltiad a nod cyffredin.  Yn ein barn ni, po fwyaf amrywiol ydym ni, gorau y byddwn ni; mae hyn yn ein dwyn ynghyd ac yn ein grymuso i ddatblygu, ymgysylltu ac ysbrydoli; ac yn hollbwysig, i helpu i greu dyfodol lle gall pobl fyw mewn cytgord â natur. 

Mae ein polisïau a’n buddion yn adlewyrchu’r ffaith ei bod yn bwysig i bobl allu cael cydbwysedd da rhwng bywyd a gwaith a gallu dod â’u ‘hunan llawn’ i’r gwaith.

Mae ar ein byd eich angen chi mwy nag erioed o’r blaen. Ni yw’r genhedlaeth gyntaf sy’n gwybod ein bod ni’n dinistrio’r byd ac mae’n bosibl mai ni yw’r genhedlaeth olaf a all wneud unrhyw beth yn ei gylch. Rydyn ni’n chwilio am bobl sy’n teimlo’n angerddol ynghylch ei gwneud yn annerbyniol yn wleidyddol, yn gymdeithasol ac yn economaidd dinistrio adnoddau naturiol ein planed. Mae arnom angen ichi ymuno yn y frwydr dros ein byd.

Who are we?

Recently named one of the Third Sector's ‘Best Charities to Work For’, we're committed to moving further, faster to accelerate change for everyone affected by a brain tumour. Brain tumours kill more children and adults under 40 in the UK than any other cancer. We know that a cure can’t wait. By recruiting a team that ‘can’, we can and will find one sooner.

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Our exciting job role!

We’re looking for someone with great copywriting skills to join us for an initial 6 month period to ensure that each of our web pages is fully optimised for SEO, under the direction of the Website Manager, taking and implementing insight and strategy from the Marketing Insight Manager, and working closely with the wider team to help optimise the content they write, this is a truly collaborative role where your expertise will be appreciated and your impact completely measurable. 

This role is full time - 37.5 hours, with some out of hours working. While contracted to our office in Fleet, Hampshire, our team supports a blend of office and home working provided you have adequate broadband and IT capability, with an average of 2-3 days in the office each week.

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Key accountabilities

• Write high-quality digital content, optimised for search, predominantly for our main website, working closely with the Website Manager, the Marketing Insights Manager and the content owners
• Take insight and strategy from the Marketing Insights Manager on keyword strategy, content gaps and other opportunities, and implement on page 
• Use tools such as SEMrush to identify keyword and on-page content gaps and implement on page
• Work with the Marketing Insights Manager to provide regular reporting against SEO performance, tracking improvement and feeding into our test and learn strategy
• Check, test and improve the meta details of webpages across the site
• Work with content owners to identify gaps and opportunities for optimisation with images and videos
• Work with content owners to build quality back-links across the site
• Research and encourage SEO and content best practices for The Charity to adopt. Support in the communication of these best practices, creating materials and delivering training as required
• Ad-hoc SEO related tasks
  
   

What we'd like from you:

We’d like you to use your excellent copywriting skills to fully optimise our website for SEO, ensuring it reaches, engages and supports as many people as it can, which is vitally important to us and the community we serve.

​It’s simple – we’re looking for the people who ‘can’. We want the talented, the energetic and the ambitious. We need the inspired and the inspirational – the people who completely embrace our values, who add to our culture and who are determined to make real and lasting change for our community.

If this is for you, we’d love to hear from you!

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What we'd like to give you:

You’ll be joining a pioneering, passionate, collaborative and smart team of individuals connected by a passion to make a real difference.  While we face tough challenges along the way, we nurture an inspiring, fun and positive team environment where you feel valued for being you – the real you.

- Benchmarked salary c.£30,000 per annum (dependent on level)

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays  (pro-rated for part-timers)

- Generous pension contribution*

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Opportunities to volunteer at our internal events and activities and work with our amazing community

- Plus a brilliant culture to work in, a great team and lots of fun (and cake!)

*subject to qualifying criteria

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How to apply to join our amazing team:

Please apply by clicking the green ‘apply for this job’ button above, attaching your CV and a supporting statement explaining why you want the role, what you would bring to the team and how your skillset and experience will enable us to make a real impact for those affected by brain tumours.

The Brain Tumour Charity particularly encourages applications from minority ethnic groups and underrepresented communities.​

Advert close date: 2 September 2022

First interview date and location: TBC over Zoom

Second interview date and location: TBC at our office in Fleet

Please note, early applications are encouraged and interviews will commence before the closing date if and when suitable candidates are identified.

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More about us:

Visit our website careers pages to find out more about our culture and what it’s like to be part of our amazing team.You should also check out our YouTube channel too.

Did you know that we were ranked 11th Best Charity to Work For 2020 by Third Sector? Oh yes, and crowned Third Sector’s Charity of the Year in 2018? Not to mention we have won a variety of other awards and have been ranked a top global organisation by renowned management consultants McKinsey! While we’re not boasting, we are particularly proud that our HeadSmart campaign scooped the NHS Innovation Award, a Third Sector Excellence Award, a Charity Times Award we've also won Best Charity Partnership Award (well, maybe we’re boasting a little bit!).​

We process your data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation. For full details, please read our privacy policy for job applicants.

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We are seeking an experienced Head of Marketing to join Prince’s Trust International at an exciting growth stage and are looking for a candidate already operating at this level who is looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to build a department and develop new strategy.

The Head of Marketing will oversee the brand and digital strategy for Prince’s Trust International. Building on the foundations of a historic and renowned brand in the UK, the role will further develop the Prince’s Trust International brand on the global stage. The role will also support key projects with The Prince’s Trust group of charities, working with the Deputy Director of Communications and External Affairs to co-ordinate work between Prince’s Trust UK, Prince’s Trust International, Prince’s Trust Australia, Prince’s Trust Canada, Prince’s Trust New Zealand and Prince’s Trust USA

The post holder will be responsible for the strategic oversight and planning of marketing activity including overseeing a diversified and engaging digital strategy to reach, engage and grow a range of audiences. The post-holder will act as the brand guardian, working with the team to develop and produce marketing materials and digital content, as well as provide marketing services to the wider organisation and key stakeholders. The post-holder will support and develop external events providing strategic oversight and guidance, seeking opportunities to showcase Prince’s Trust International’s work to external audiences.

This is a diverse and fast-paced role and will suit a candidate already operating at this level who wishes a new challenge in a growing and high-profile organisation. The role requires a first-class copy writer and editorial steward with the highest standards of editorial quality assurance and will suit a creative thinker who wishes to be part of building a global brand. This new role starts at an exciting time for the organisation as we launch a number of high-profile events, campaigns and initiatives in 2022 to showcase the work of Prince’s Trust International, our partners and the young people we support.

Pop Up Projects are a non-profit, London-based national children’s literature development agency and Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, established 2011. With a recent grant from the Rothschild Foundation we are recruiting an experienced and enterprising new Digital Manager to join our team. The Digital Manager will play a pivotal role in achieving the organisation’s aim of developing a more commercial approach to areas of our work, by supporting the marketing and selling of our exciting new courses (for illustrators and writers) and publishing products (existing and forthcoming titles). They will lead on building and enhancing our digital strategy, content and profile, and e-commerce capacity and potential, as well as provide support to projects teams as we launch, trial and develop a new LearnWorlds LMS platform to host and facilitate our courses. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with commercial experience - within or outside of the cultural sector - to contribute to our acclaimed work in increasing diversity, inclusion and representation in children’s literature and publishing.

The right candidate will have:

• Track record in developing and executing website (including SEO) and social media strategy;

• Strong understanding of website A/B testing and continuous improvement of product features;

• Experience of e-commerce implementation and optimisation, and CRM strategy and management;

• Excellent communication skills and an ability to work both collaboratively with other as well as independently and with initiative;

• A passion for equality in children’s literature and publishing.

Previous experience in a similar role is preferable.

As a key part of an ambitious SME they will be working alongside 10 staff members, collaboratively focussed on delivering a planned programme of work in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and (occasionally) internationally. Additional strategic support from Pop Up’s Board has been allocated to this role.

Please read the full job description attached.

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and organised person to join our growing charity and support our mission to transform kids’ health, through school food and food education. 

Who we are

Chefs in Schools is a young, ambitious charity that has grown rapidly. Launched in 2018, our mission is to improve kids’ health through improving food & food education in schools. We are now working with 65 schools nationwide, reaching 23,000 school children with better food and food education. Our work is concentrated in areas of high socio-economic deprivation, where more than a third of children are entitled to free school meals. Our passion is for educating and equipping the next generation equally with the skills and knowledge to feed themselves well.

About you and the role

This role will initially oversee the roll-out of an ambitious programme to train up the country’s school kitchen workforce, the School Chef Educator training programme. We are just completing the pilot development phase of this programme, and are now looking for the right person to help us roll the training out nationwide over the next three years.

Your role will be to grow this project from a pilot to a scaled model. You will identify and work with partners who can deliver the training programme, work with our Executive Chef to embed the course in Chefs in Schools DNA, manage the development of new content to strengthen the programme, and oversee roll-out nationwide.

Our ultimate goal is that every school in the country has a person leading their kitchen who is recognised and invested in for their crucial role in shaping kids’ eating habits for life. As our Head of Training, you will work with the rest of the Chefs in Schools team to ensure that training and development opportunities are available to this brilliant workforce – starting with our School Chef Educator programme and growing from there.

The responsibilities, skills and experience listed below are intended to give you an idea of what we need for this role. If you don’t meet every requirement but feel you would be able to work with us to deliver the majority of them, we urge you to apply anyway. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and for us, the most important ‘experience’ is a passion for our mission. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Key responsibilities:

• Identifying and working with partners who share our ambitions for scaling this project and future training courses we develop
• Overseeing project planning and execution for the roll-out of the training programme - this will involve being organised and keeping the project on track, working with internal and external parties
• Working with a business manager to develop market research and deliver a sales plan for our training courses
• Working with the business manager to develop, agree and then manage budget & financial modelling to ensure viability and sustainability
• Making sure that our strategy for developing school kitchen training aligns with our wider organisational strategy 
• Working with our funders to keep them up to date with the latest progress
• Keeping in touch with the work of the wider portfolio of our funder support, plus external partners, to understand the wider efforts of the movement to improve child health through food in schools
• Keeping across current developments to ensure that we remain at the cutting edge of developments in the wider training industry
• Working with the Executive Chef, Chef Trainers and wider Chefs in Schools network to Identify current and future skills requirements for the school kitchen workforce, developing and commissioning content that will meet these needs, in line with the agreed plan
• Developing and/or commissioning relevant training materials to keep our programme up to date and develop new programmes that complement our organisational strategy

Skills & experience:

• You have interest and belief in our mission to improve kids’ health through improving food and food education in schools
• You have a background or significant experience in training
• You have delivered, developed and/or been involved in the roll-out of programmes at scale
• You are organised, methodical, strong on detail, and able to map out deadlines and plan ahead
• You are an excellent writer and communicator with strong presentation and facilitation skills
• You have experience in delivering in-person and online training sessions
• You are skilled in building rapport with people and strike a balance between being supportive and challenging 
• You have good digital skills to maintain our resources on an online platform and innovate the learning experience

Benefits

You would be joining a friendly, supportive team who works hard but believe in a healthy work/life balance. We seek a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge. Joining a small, collaborative team means you’ll be able to contribute to and draw on various projects and strategic insights.

We offer 33 days of holiday per year, including bank holidays, a Cycle to Work scheme, hybrid working, free access to the CODE app for discounted restaurants & hospitality venues, enhanced maternity leave and a free weekly online yoga class. We are committed to developing our team and will support you with relevant training opportunities.

Application process

In line with our commitment to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process, we will invite candidates to interview based on their answers to a series of questions related to their day-to-day job. Please follow this link https://forms.gle/A8cKhJ5HramVL45g6 to answer the questions. and submit your application.

We recommend that you develop your answers offline and copy them in when you’re ready to ensure you don’t lose your work if interrupted.

Your answers will go through our sifting process: all responses will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which involves an interview - we will ask you for a copy of your CV at this stage.

At interview, we will also ask you to complete a short task: training us in a subject or a skill, and then assess whether your training has been successful. You have 15 mins to complete this task. The interview overall will take a maximum of one hour.

Expected duration of this application process: 4-6 weeks

Questions:

1) Our mission is focused on improving kids health through school food and food education. Is there a story that’s been in the news in the last year that helps illustrate your own interest in these issues? What was the story about and why do you care about it?

2) We’ve successfully piloted the ‘School Chef Educator’ training programme with 34 schools in different London boroughs from Sep 2021 – May 2022 and plan to expand the programme to other schools. Describe a project where you’ve tested a programme before rolling it out to a wider audience. What lessons did you take away from the experience, considering what worked, and what didn’t?

3) We believe a key factor to successfully scaling the School Chef Educator programme lies in collaboration with the right partners. Could you tell us about a partnership you have managed effectively? How did you ensure quality was assured?

4) As a trainer, it is important you are a lifelong learner. Give examples of recent professional development you have completed. What did you learn about yourself?