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Are you passionate about music, inclusion and making a real difference? The OHMI Trust is looking for someone to lead our Instrument Development programmes. The heart of our mission is to make music truly inclusive for people with physical impairments and in this role you will be driving forward the development and delivery of adapted musical instruments. It is creative, purposeful work and we are looking for someone who cares deeply about the impact that music can have.
Our team is looking for someone who lives and breathes our passion as much as we do and will put the work (and the miles) into bringing our mission to life. You will do this through:
- Developing a strategic approach in how we can increase the range of instruments and supportive apparatus available, working with instrument makers and technologists where necessary.
- Identifying potential entrants for our OHMI Competition, which is where we challenge developers and instrument makers to adapt or create instruments that can be played without the use of one hand and arm.
- Supporting our OHMI Music-makers, a project that works with partner organisations to bring music lessons to individual students or a whole class by providing adapted instruments.
- Making sure we are communicating with our funders and Board of Trustees about our progress and impact.
And as a key member of the team, you will support us in promoting our great work at various key conferences and workshops.
No two days look the same here at the OHMI Trust, but a week could look like this:
· Arranging meetings with student groups working on instrument related engineering projects.
· Joining an online meeting to develop the strategy for overcoming a specific instrument production challenge.
· Writing an application for funding towards the next instrument/piece of equipment that is needed.
Hours: 18.75 per week, but flexible. Some weekend and evening work will be expected, as circumstances and opportunities require. This post is subject to a 6-month probation period.
Location: flexible within the UK – this is a home/remote working role but there will be travel throughout the UK and there is an advantage in being located within easy commuting distance of the West Midlands, where the rest of the staff are currently based.
Deadline for application: 5pm 4th July. Interview date: 23rd July in person.
Accountable to: OHMI's General Manager and, through her, the Board of Trustees
What we are looking for:
Essential
- A passion for improving inclusion in music-making, including an understanding of the barriers to participation for those with physical disabilities
- Strong organisational skills, including an ability to prioritise workloads effectively, manage multiple tasks and work flexibly as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to adapt style and content to a range of different audiences and contexts
- Familiarity with standard office software (e.g. Microsoft Word and Excel) and an ability to build knowledge of new systems effectively
- Willingness and ability to travel throughout the UK as required for the job (travel expenses covered)
Desirable
- Technical skills - experience of working with instrument makers, designers or manufacturers
- Disability confident - experience of working with people with physical disabilities
If this role sounds like a great fit for you, we would love to hear all about it! Tell us why you are interested and what skills you can bring to this position by sending a written statement along with your CV to Rachel Wolffsohn. We will be holding in person interviews on 23rd July in Birmingham so please hold that date in your diary.
You can find out more about us and our work on our website and if you have any questions about the position, please get in touch with Rachel.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and as such commit to offer an interview to all disabled candidates who meet the Essential criteria.
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This role sits within their wider marketing team. Its specific focus is to develop and deliver marketing campaigns that promote their commercial activities to both business and customer stakeholders with the ultimate objective of boosting revenue and engagement.
Our client is a dynamic contemporary arts centre and independent charity based in Birmingham. Its mission is to make art an important part of people's lives.
They deliver
- extensive venue hire business, including conferences and meetings
- catering offer, including venue hire hospitality
- Shop and retail offer
This role will work closely with all of the individual commercial teams and the wider marketing team to support the delivery of sales targets and positive profile that ultimately benefit the charity.
Principal Purpose of Post
You’ll deliver dynamic, multi-channel marketing campaigns that shine a spotlight on their commercial offer – captivating both corporate clients and everyday visitors. Your work will directly boost engagement, revenue, and, ultimately support their wider charitable mission.
This role sits at the heart of their Marketing Team, with strong ties to their commercial teams across catering, retail and venue hire.
- To measurably increase profile, awareness and engagement relating to their commercial activities (Business to Business, B2B) and Business to Consumer, B2C)
- To initiate and deliver comprehensive digital and offline marketing campaigns and tactics in line with their Business Plan and strategic priorities
Key Responsibilities
GENERAL MARKETING
To work closely with the Head of Marketing and Head of Trading and relevant teams to:
- Contribute to the development and delivery of their commercial marketing plans, aligning with their wider marketing activities and brand guidelines
- Define and segment target audiences – both business and customers – and reach them through the most effective marketing channels
- Work proactively with their artistic team to identify opportunities for commercial activities that add value to customer experience, flagging these for consideration by the commercial teams and devising/delivering related B2C campaigns to drive return on investment (ROI)
- Develop their commercial Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and leverage customer behaviour insights to drive loyalty, repeat visits, and meaningful engagement.
- Analysing CRM data, particularly in relation to booking behaviours, to capitalise on opportunities to support client loyalty, retention and repeat bookings (including memberships)
- Develop high quality digital/offline assets to support the full client/booking journey
- Monitor key metrics – socials engagement, footfall, new leads, repeat bookings and conversion - and adapt strategies to maximise impact.
- To work with external suppliers e.g. printers, mailing houses, designers and advertisers to secure and fulfil high quality opportunities at competitive rates (small-scale design work may be required)
- To assist in the smooth running of the department, adhering to agreed financial and administrative systems and budgets.
PROMOTING THEIR VENUE HIRE OFFER
- Champion them as a premium venue for conferences, meetings and creative event hires.
- Create compelling content for B2B promotion of their venue hire offer, prioritising meetings and conferencing. These may include activities such as
- Developing regular targeted B2B marketing campaigns via email marketing, LinkedIn content, case studies and print in close liaison with the commercial hires team and measuring effectiveness through ROI and related analytics
- Keeping their venue hire web content fresh, engaging and up to date, including putting hire events live and keeping food menus and venue hire packages up to date.
- Maintain their presence across relevant venue hire listings, directories and event platforms
CATERING AND RETAIL
- Devise and deliver comprehensive and compelling on-site and digital marketing campaigns to support targeted B2C promotion of their catering and retail offer, driving engagement and sales to support key operational periods (such as school holidays) and measuring effectiveness through ROI and related analytics. These activities may include
- Sourcing and producing high quality signage/point of sale display, seasonal menu designs, promotional print, direct mail in line with their brand guidelines
- Tailoring marketing assets to enhance customer experience of their catering and retail offer, recognising the different motivations of each customer segment
- Ensure the Food & Drink and Retail sections of their website are always looking their best and showcasing what’s new in an appealing way.
- Engaging with local influencers, community groups and potential promotional partners to enhance reach and credibility
Person Specification
Essential
- A creative, organised and data-savvy marketer with experience running integrated campaigns
- Understanding of both B2B and B2C marketing landscapes and can pivot between them with ease.
- Experience of B2B marketing, particularly in promoting services to corporate or professional audiences
- Experience of developing and delivering B2C marketing campaigns, ideally within hospitality, retail, or cultural sectors
- Knowledge and experience of CRM systems
- Knowledge and experience of design packages, ideally Adobe Creative Suite and Canva
- Knowledge and experience of Google Analytics and social media analytics
- Knowledge and experience of search engine and website optimisation techniques
- Strong copywriting and content creation skills.
- A collaborative and proactive approach, who thrives on cross-functional working and clear communication.
- Passionate about arts, culture, and community – and excited by the idea of contributing to a charitable cause through commercial success.
Desirable
- Strong up-to-date knowledge of cultural and hospitality sectors in Birmingham and the region, including key influencers, drivers, challenges, opportunities
- Good knowledge of LinkedIn
- Knowledge and experience of bulk email software
Equal Opportunities & Diversity
All staff are expected to further, promote, and ensure the implementation of, the equal opportunities and diversity policies of their organisation.
They are committed to creating an inclusive environment where individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their best work. They are also committed to ensuring their people are a reflection of the communities they serve. They ensure that their recruitment and promotion processes are fair and open to all.
Note
This job description outlines the principal responsibilities and duties of the post holder. It is not meant to be, nor is it, an exhaustive list of specific responsibilities and duties. The post holder will be expected to undertake any other duties which could reasonably be expected as being within the remit of the post and which arise out of changes in legislation, regulations, orders, rules and working practices, methods and procedures and reviews, as directed from time to time.
Whilst they recognise the development of AI in the modern workplace, they would encourage you to take the time to complete your application without the use of AI; no generative AI tool can create the personal touch that you can inject into your own application.
Online Information Session
If you’d like to find out more, they invite you to join members of their marketing team for an online information session Wednesday 2 July at 6pm. They will talk about the role, what a work week may entail and other events and duties the role will engage with. At the end of the session, there will be an opportunity for questions.
Deadline
All applications must be received no later than 9am Monday 7 July 2025.
Late applications will not be considered.
Short-listing
Shortlisted candidates will be informed at the latest by Thursday 10 July 2025
Interviews
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview on Tuesday 15 July 2025
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NACCOM is recruiting a new permanent External Affairs Manager to lead the work of our small but highly impactful External Affairs team.
About the role:
NACCOM is a national network of over 135 frontline organisations and charities across the UK, working together to end destitution amongst people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants who aren’t able to access public funds because of their immigration status.
We do this by campaigning collectively for a fairer, more humane immigration system that doesn’t leave people destitute, and by sharing our learning, innovation, and resources across our membership to increase the level of accommodation provision and support the network is able to provide.
Join our charity at a pivotal moment. As our External Affairs Manager, you’ll sit at the heart of a high-performing, fully remote team, ensuring that migrant homelessness and destitution is high on the agenda. You will lead and mentor a talented External Affairs team, amplifying NACCOM’s voice as the UK’s expert voice on how the asylum and immigration system drives homelessness and destitution.
With our 20th-anniversary milestone and a bold new organisational strategy on the horizon, you’ll seize fresh opportunities to deepen our influence. Working hand-in-hand with frontline members, people with lived experience, and high-profile partners, you will deliver sharp, evidence-led campaigns and projects that put migrant homelessness at the top of policy and media agendas.
A strong aptitude for communications and campaigns, and an understanding of how that works alongside policy and research to underpin the external affairs function, is vital.
This role is for a dynamic, collaborative advocate who is passionate about social justice. If you’re ready to turn insight into impact — shaping narratives, forging alliances, and driving systemic change—we’d love to welcome you to NACCOM.
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Key role information:
Hours: Full-Time (35 hours) or Part-Time (28 hours) per week
Salary: Starting salary £43,000 annual FTE (plus £4,000 London Weighting if applicable)
Leave: 25 days per annum plus Bank Holidays (England and Wales) pro rata plus additional concessionary days off between Christmas and New Year
Pension:NACCOM will contribute 6% of your gross salary
Additional benefits: flexible working hours, wellbeing time, wellbeing practice and Calm App
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home-based plus travel - all in the UK (approx 5 days per month). Opportunity to work part-time in a members’ office or a co-working space.
Responsible to: Director
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Job purpose:
The External Affairs Manager will work closely with the Director and provide vital support to NACCOM and its members by:
- Ensuring the strategic planning, management and alignment of communications, policy, research, campaigns, and advocacy as part of the External Affairs function at NACCOM.
- Ensuring NACCOM’s external affairs functions feed from and into our network development work and our Community Ambassador / Research programme
- Growing and safeguarding NACCOM’s brand identity, integrity and strategic positioning across all our external channels, networks and audiences.
- Line-managing and supporting the Policy and Research Co-ordinator, Community Research Facilitator and part-time Communications Co-ordinator (currently covered by a freelancer) as well as managing any external consultants NACCOM works with across the External Affairs function.
- Along with the Director, acting as spokesperson for NACCOM.
- Overseeing the spend against budget for External Affairs-related work.
- Representing NACCOM at key, high-level meetings and coalitions, including with journalists, decision-makers and partners.
- Actively supporting a culture of collaboration, support and mutual respect at NACCOM and across the membership network.
For more information about the role, including person specification, please download the Job Description.
Recruitment timescales:
- Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 23.59: Deadline for applications
- Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 July 2025: Stage one interviews held online as a Zoom call.
- Wednesday 30 July 2025: Stage two interviews with team, ideally in person but possibly online.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.