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Charity People partnering with Voice 21 and is delighted to be recruiting for an interim Communications and Campaigns Manager to join the team.

Joining the organisation to cover a period of maternity leave, the postholder will be responsible for building national support for oracy through strategic campaigns and communications work; creating impactful content and developing cross-team collaboration to champion an audience first approach and drive positioning to new brand territory.

About Voice 21
Voice 21 is the UK's national oracy education charity, working to ensure that every child can use their voice to succeed in school and in life. Through a growing network of schools, expert support for educators, and influential campaigning, the charity is driving a national movement to make high-quality oracy education an ordinary part of every child's education. Its work is helping to improve educational outcomes, tackle disadvantage and create a society in which every voice is valued and heard.

Interim Communications and Campaigns Manager
Contract: interim 12 month contract position
Salary: £36,409 - £39,191 per annum
Location: All Voice 21 staff work remotely, and this is a home-based role, with some travel expected to the London office (by Victoria station) and elsewhere for meetings. Occasional overnight stays may be required depending on where you are based. Voice 21 pays all travel and accommodation expenses.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Friday 20th November

Interviews: Interviews will be held remotely on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd December

The postholder will lead Voice 21's communications and campaigns activity during a pivotal period for the organisation, helping to build national awareness of oracy and strengthen support for its mission that every child should have access to a high-quality oracy education.

You will lead the rollout of a major new campaign, create compelling content and storytelling, manage external communications channels, and work across the organisation to ensure clear, consistent and audience-focused engagement with funders, policymakers, schools and other key stakeholders

Core responsibilities within your role will be to:

• Lead the delivery and ongoing development of Voice 21's flagship national awareness campaign, driving engagement with funders, schools and policymakers.
• Manage communications activity for the organisation's brand refresh, ensuring clear, consistent and engaging communications to key audiences.
• Create and oversee high-impact content across multiple channels, including campaign materials, case studies, news stories and website content.
• Act as a guardian of the Voice 21 brand, ensuring all external communications are aligned, audience-focused and strategically effective.

Establish communications and campaign metrics, monitor performance and provide insight-driven evaluation and reporting.

• Line manage and support the Communications Officer, fostering collaboration, development and high-quality delivery across the communications function.

Lead cross-organisational communications planning, aligning messaging, identifying opportunities and maximising impact.

• Champion an audience-first approach across communications, campaigns and stakeholder engagement activity.
• Provide strategic communications support and deliver additional projects that contribute to organisational priorities.

Key experience and skills we're looking for is as follows:

• Proven track record of high-quality writing for external audiences (e.g. case studies, website and social media copy, blogs) and experience using storytelling and video content as part of multi-channel digital campaigns
• Experience developing key messages and bringing these to life for different audiences across different channels
• Experience planning and delivering communications projects and campaigns from initial concept through to rollout and evaluation
• Experience setting targets, tracking comms metrics, and using analytics or user feedback to deliver insights that shape future activity
• Experience managing, mentoring or supporting the development of junior team members
• Someone who likes to roll up their sleeves, take ownership of a project, and get things done independently in a remote environment.
• Able to form excellent working relationships with internal team members and external stakeholders
• A supportive team player who is happy to pitch in across the comms team where needed.
• Professional curiosity about the team's work and the organisation, and strong attention to detail.

Familiarity with oracy, education policy, or educational inequality agendas is desirable but not essential.

If you're interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance. Alice can be reached at .

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability, and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so we can help make the application process work for you.

Charity People is a forward thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.

We want to encourage applicants with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. In particular, those with lived experience of racial inequity, disability, or poverty.

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