Copywriter jobs in greenwich, greater london
About The Role
Are you a great creative communicator who knows how to inspire a team to create their best work? Are you ready to lead in-house creative copywriting at the UK’s leading dementia charity?
We are recruiting for a Senior Creative Copywriter to join on a full-time basis, working 35 hours per week on a permanent contract.
Right now, in an era of new breakthroughs in treatments and research, it’s more important than ever that we raise awareness of the devastation of dementia and our mission to create a future where dementia no longer devastates lives. This is a pivotal moment in the fight against dementia. Developing our organisational and brand strategy over the last few years has played a key part in raising the profile of our cause. Now we’re building on that momentum - and successful, strategic creative development and execution of our brand is essential to maintain our reputation and credibility as a leading dementia charity.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the senior in-house creative team, inspiring colleagues to produce consistently excellent creative work and nurturing our brand. As Senior Creative Copywriter you will work collaboratively with our design, video, brand, fundraising, marketing and communications teams across the charity, to support income generation and extend our audience reach. You’ll line manage our Fundraising Communications Manager, work in creative partnership with our Senior Creative Designer and collaborate with marketing and communications teams.
Interviews for this role have been provisionally scheduled to take place (via MS Teams) on Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th November.
About you
Joining us, you’ll be someone who understands the power of great creative and exceptional leadership to inspire action and create a real and lasting change for everyone affected by dementia. You’ll be an expert, hands-on, conceptually and audience-focused Creative Copywriter with the drive to consistently deliver strategic creative work that captivates our audiences.
Crucially, you’ll be a great communicator, with line management experience, who’s keen to build good collaborative relationships. You’ll have experience of delivering bespoke brand workshops and training sessions to a wide range of audiences and you’ll understand the importance of promoting creative excellence and brand messaging consistency across an organisation.
What you’ll focus on:
- Leading on all creative copy concepts for in-house creative projects and composing and crafting engaging copy for campaigns and other comms, across all touchpoints.
- Generating ideas and concepts collaboratively with our designers and videographers to create consistently outstanding creative work across all our creative disciplines.
- Line managing the Fundraising Communications Manager, ensuring workflows, workload and tools facilitate excellence in working practices and delivery.
- Gaining a deep understanding of the Society’s strategies and objectives, key audiences, brand challenges, and project priorities.
- Working with Brand Integration to embed our messaging, proof points and tone of voice to communicate these to the wider organisation, ensuring they are kept up to date and expanded according to the organisation’s strategic needs.
- Develop and delivering training to introduce and embed tone of voice and messaging, running regular specialist writing and creative workshops for marketing colleagues and others across the organisation who create comms materials for our audiences.
About Alzheimer's Society - who are we and what’s our mission?
Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.
At Alzheimer’s Society, we’re the UK’s leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding ground-breaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.
Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.
Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.
Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as part of a minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.
Our hiring process
We want you to bring your whole self to the process. Applications are anonymised until interview stage, and we’re happy to support any adjustments. Share your feedback via our candidate survey when applying to help us improve. We may close early if we receive high interest (with 48 hours’ notice). Some roles may require a DBS check as part of our safer recruitment commitment. Thinking about using AI during the recruitment process? we know this can be helpful in many ways but remember to include your personal and authentic self too. Your voice and experience are what really set you apart.
Giving back to you
At Alzheimer’s Society, we value our people and take a total reward approach to pay and benefits. You’ll enjoy a generous double-matched pension scheme, 27 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays and wellbeing days), and access to a free Bupa Cash Plan, 24/7 EAP, Thrive mental wellbeing support, and virtual GP services. Our Society Plus platform offers exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources, and recognition schemes, while our flexible working, family-friendly policies, and life assurance provide peace of mind and work/life balance. We also offer a free Will-writing service and long service awards to recognise your ongoing commitment.
Are you a bold, strategic thinker with a flair for big ideas and a portfolio that proves your creative impact? If you're ready for an exciting new challenge, join Shelter as our interim Copy Lead and you could soon be shaping powerful campaigns and content that support our mission to end the housing emergency.
About the role
You’ll need to be an exceptional ideas person, with a strong portfolio to prove it. You will take on a variety of briefs from across the organisation. One day, you may be working on an experiential event or an out-of-home fundraising campaign. The next, you could be brainstorming ideas for a social media campaign or editing our annual report. You’ll be taking briefs from concept through to completion; working with a group of talented writers and designers. You’ll be responsible for ensuring everything is on-brand, compelling, accessible, cost-effective and produces results. You will part of a highly skilled team who aim to consistently create outstanding and sector-leading work.
Role specifics
As our Copy Lead, you’ll produce outstanding work across print, digital and out-of-home channels, delivering compelling, accessible copy that motivates people to support Shelter or seek our help. You’ll collaborate closely with the Head of Creative and Creative Leads to develop impactful concepts, while also line-managing and mentoring two copywriters. A trusted expert in tone of voice, grammar and messaging, you’ll write, edit and proof engaging content for a range of audiences and platforms. You’ll help shape creative pitches, respond pragmatically to feedback, and ensure all written communications meet high standards and best practice—all while managing a busy workload in a fast-paced, idea-driven environment.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
As our Copy Lead, you’ll be joining a friendly, talented and dedicated team that consists of a Head of Creative and Production, 2 Creative Leads, Copy lead, Senior Copywriter, 2 Senior Designers, 2 Mid-weight Designers and an Artworker. You will work closely with Digital, Social, and Marketing teams to deliver creativity to highest standard across all areas of our communication.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.