Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK with a nationwide network of rehoming centres and charity shops. Last year, Dogs Trust centres cared for over 14,000 dogs; we never put a healthy dog down. 

The Digital Experience department creates a seamless and integrated digital experience for our customers. The team includes experts in digital product, digital marketing and social media as well as ensuring we are providing a first-rate end-to-end experience for dog lovers, dog owners and supporters. 

The Digital Experience team sits within the Communications and Digital directorate. Communications and Digital plays a central role at Dogs Trust. We help people know, love and understand the charity and take action to support the charity’s work. We use our understanding of Dogs Trust and audience need to produce impactful and creative on-brand communications, liaising with the media and celebrities, and engaging directly with our supporters. We also play a crucial role in evolving the digital supporter experience and use our internal communications expertise to communicate key messages to employees across Dogs Trust.

The Digital Marketing Officer supports the implementation of the marketing activity of Dogs Trust through digital channels to key audiences – encouraging engagement and action, and helping people know and love the charity and support our work. Working with the Digital Marketing Manager, this role will lead on day-to-day email marketing, search marketing and digital advertising with an additional focus on digital fundraising.

To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter via our online application form. 

Digital Learning Specialist

Location: White City, West London

Salary details: £40,000 FTE (£32,000 pro-rata) dependent on qualifications and experience + 11% pension contribution

Contract: 2 year fixed-term contract in the first instance (0.8 FTE)

Hours: 30 hours worked over 4 days (to be discussed at interview)

Closing date: 27 July 2020

Start date: September 2020

About the role:

We recently launched a new Learning Management System with the goal of transforming the way we deliver training across the organization. We are now looking for an experienced Digital Learning Specialist, who is an expert in all aspects of digital learning design and will share all their knowledge and experience with a network of Learning Champions across the organization.

The role will draw on the content expertise of multiple stakeholders across the organisation and apply digital learning best practice to produce high quality and engaging eLearning courses as well as seek ways to improve how we use our LMS and also engage and support others within the organisation to create learning solutions.

About you:

• have significant experience in instructional design theory and practice
• be proficient in using HTML and CSS within an LMS to build custom eLearning modules
• be proficient in course development/authoring software (Articulate, Vyond, Camtasia and others)
• have excellent visual design skills (Adobe Creative Cloud)
• have experience working with subject matter experts and senior stakeholders to co-create engaging learning content
• the ability to quickly understand a wide range of topics in order to structure and sequence content in a storyboard
• have experience in designing and creating blended learning journeys
• have proven strong project management skills
• have strong written communication skills including the ability to write effective copy, instructional text, audio scripts/video scripts
• be an effective team worker with the ability to also work independently under their own initiative
• be a self-starter who sets a high standard of work quality for themselves and others
• build relationships very quickly
• be able to manage tight deadlines and changing priorities

About us:

Ark is an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we are a network of 37 schools, educating around 27,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference. We also incubate start-up programmes that improve the education system.

We offer:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• We are committed to providing high-quality professional learning throughout your career with us and offer a variety of training sessions and experiences designed to meet your needs
• Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers, interest-free loans available for season tickets or a bicycle and gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym

How to apply:

Apply with a CV and cover letter on our online recruitment portal.

Interviews:

Depending on outcomes from the first round of interviews we may wish to take selected candidates to a second round of interviews.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; all successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Ark Schools are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce, with a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

The International Longevity Centre UK is recruiting for a Communications and Engagement Officer to join our small and passionate team.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication and organisational skills who will be excited about working on one of the most important public policy issues facing society.

• Should the pensions triple lock be removed and what should Government do to fund social care?
• Should older people be forced to shield from COVID-19 to protect their health – or is this plain ageism?
• How can employers support older people to work longer and how can retailers better engage with older consumers?

As our Communications and Engagement Officer you will have an answer to these questions and know how to best communicate it.

We want you to help us use our expertise in demographic change to highlight the impact of ageing on society, working with experts, policy makers and practitioners to provoke conversations and pioneer solutions for a society where everyone can thrive, regardless of age.

One day you might be focussed on talking to journalists or politicians about the economic opportunities of population ageing. The next day you might be developing a plan to engage employers with the importance of preventing ill health or maximising the productivity of their ageing workforce.

For the full job description and details of how to apply for this post, download the Communications and Engagement Officer recruitment pack from the ILC website.

About INQUEST

Founded in 1981, INQUEST is the only charity in England and Wales providing expertise on contentious deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, other advice and support agencies, media, parliamentarians and the general public. Our range of cases includes custody and detention, multi-agency failings or where wider issues of state and corporate accountability are in question, such as with Hillsborough and Grenfell. You can find more information on our website, particularly in our Impact Report, and on our Campaigns, and Media Releases webpages.

About the role

We are looking for a communications professional with solid media, social media and communications experience. This is an important time to join INQUEST, which is at the forefront of the current movement against state violence and systemic racism in the United Kingdom. The successful candidate will possess strong professional and personal qualities, and their values will align with INQUEST’s.

Line managed by the Head of Policy, the successful candidate will play a key role in INQUEST’s public facing work, leading on fast paced strategic and reactive media and social media, developing and maintaining the website and external communications from leaflets to publications; and managing the organisational brand and its consistency across various platforms. The post-holder will bring new ideas and strategic thinking to develop a proactive strategy to our media and communications work. The overall aim of the role is to promote the strategic priorities of INQUEST, support bereaved people in sharing their experiences, and be a key part of INQUEST’s systemic change work.

This role is ideal for an efficient and effective communicator who is organised, works well in fast paced environments and in small teams, and is a proactive self-starter skilled at balancing competing priorities. On the eve of INQUEST’s 40th anniversary, this role will also play a crucial part in creative projects and upcoming events looking back over the organisation’s history.

Location: Initially working from home, then based at the INQUEST Office, Finsbury Park, London N4.

INQUEST is an equal opportunities employer. We actively promote diversity and strongly encourage applications from within Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, other under-represented groups, and from those who have overcome significant adversity in their lives and are now able to inspire others positively through their journey and progress.

This is a new position within YES, for an enthusiastic professional to develop marketing and communications via modern media.  You will be responsible for promoting our services, values, objectives; encouraging engagement with stakeholders and supporting our fundraising campaigns. 

The post is 21 hours, 3 days per week, and is initially fixed term for 3 months with possibility of extension subject to funding.

This is an exciting role, with a broad remit, and the opportunity to develop your skills.

Download the job information from our website and apply with CV and cover letter by 9am on Monday 13 July. Interviews will be on Thursday 16 July via Zoom.

Voluntary Income in The Church of England is over £800M a year, and funds most of the church's mission and ministry. The Church of England has adopted a National Giving Strategy for 2020-2025 that will invest in different ways to encourage giving within its churches.

With the reduction in the use of cash within wider society, churches need to be equipped to take contactless donations so that people can continue to give in ways they like. More importantly, churches need to be trained in how to use contactless solutions effectively, learning and applying good practice so that as many churches as possible benefit from this investment.

As National Digital Giving Manager, you will manage the implementation of our plan to enable 50% of churches to have and use effectively contactless equipment. Currently approximately 10% of churches have some capacity for people to give contactlessly. In addition, you will be responsible for promoting and facilitating other forms of digital giving such as online, QR code, text etc. This post involves close liaison with Diocesan Giving Advisors who will deliver training at Deanery level to any church that receives the contactless equipment and play a critical role in promoting good practice in all forms of giving with parishes and benefices.

To be successful, you will need experience of delivering training and complex projects successfully and of encouraging giving in a paid or voluntary capacity. With strong analytical and data management skills and confident in the use of digital media for training and guidance, you will be comfortable communicating to all audiences with a high degree of sensitivity and discretion.

Due to the specialist nature of the roles within the Giving team, training will be provided to successful candidates to enable them to carry out their role confidently.

We are a dispersed team and have a very flexible approach when it comes to working locations. In light of Covid-19, all team members are currently based at home. As a National Team we work throughout the dioceses and predominantly use online platforms to meet and train colleagues and parishes. However the willingness for some travel throughout England and Wales and work occasional weekends may be required from 2021 onwards.

Salary £38,331 p.a.- £41,216 p.a. (London based), £35,730 p.a.- £38,419 p.a. (Outer London).

This is a fixed term contact expected to last for 3 years.

Interviews are expected to be held w/c 10^th August 2020 remotely using Zoom.

In return we offer a unique environment with opportunities for continuous learning, generous annual leave for work life balance, season ticket loans and a range of benefits including discounted entry to attractions and what we feel is a market leading package when it comes to our scheme.

Main Responsibilities

Develop training materials

Creating training materials, and training diocesan giving advisors in how to use them, so they can deliver training to all churches that are given contactless equipment and other means of digital giving.

This includes:

• Build on the recently successful national online giving campaign and use of short animation films to communicate good giving practice.
• Identifying dioceses with good practice, and work with them to develop training materials that can be delivered effectively at a deanery level or equivalent.
• Work closely with the Generous Giving Training Manager to ensure all online training sits within the training programme developed for clergy and laity.
• Work closely with the Marketing Manager to develop high quality materials for dioceses to use for contactless training.
• Develop with the Marketing Manager online resources to support the localised training programme.
• Create means for evaluating impact of training in short, medium and long term on use of contactless giving within the churches who participate in the training, and regularly report on this evaluation to the national team.
• Develop with the Marketing Manager training materials for other forms of digital giving, including online, QR code, ACNY, text giving etc.

Project Management of the roll out of Priority 2 for contactless giving

Manage relationship with suppliers and service providers, promote scheme through diocesan giving advisors with the assistance of the Marketing Manager.

This includes:

• Work with the suppliers to ensure effective and timely supply of the equipment to churches, and regular monitoring processes to ensure equipment is working effectively.
• Identify dioceses with the potential to be early adopters of Priority 2, and work closely with them to support the roll out, and incorporate what has been learned through this process into the wider national roll out.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with the diocesan giving advisors, working with them to create a roll out of Priority 2 that reflects their particular context.
• Work closely with the Marketing Manager to create a communications strategy to promote Priority 2 within dioceses and parishes, and to showcase good practice and case studies that show impact.

You will be ambitious, creative and results driven, passionate about the capacity of digital engagement to influence behaviour and inspire action, and able to persuade and influence others, including those without specialist marketing skills or digital understanding. You will have exemplary experience in digital content and marketing in a high profile or charitable context and excellent project management skills.

Reporting to the Director of Marketing and Communications, this role is pivotal in the future development of the Charity as a nationally recognised brand. With a new website due to be launched this summer, the role will ensure the effectiveness of our online content to inspire and engage our target audiences, and the ability of our digital marketing activity to build trust and affinity with our supporters, thereby increasing donations. With a major brand campaign planned for 2020/21 this role has a vital part to play in realising the ambitions of our corporate strategy.

Prospectus are delighted to be working with Versus Arthritis to recruit their new Digital Fundraising Officer. Versus Arthritis exist want to create a world that no longer tolerates arthritis - no longer dismissing it as inevitable, untreatable and unimportant. This role will be integral to their ambition of sustainably scaling up income so they can reach everybody living with the condition.

The Digital Fundraising Officer will take responsibility for a number of digital fundraising projects across the division and will both lead independently on them and collaborate with team members on projects too. The Officer will work on retention projects and build a broad skillset across the spectrum of mass fundraising. You will work closely with fundraising colleagues as well as digital and marketing colleagues to align all organisational activity with your supporter-led activities and communications.

The selected candidate will have demonstrable experience in delivering digitally led fundraising campaigns and will ideally be able to point to experience of developing and delivering successful campaigns for across different channels. You will be able to interpret support data and be comfortable working to ambitious team targets and objectives. Reporting to the Mass Acquisition Manager, you will enjoy working in a fast-paced and committed fundraising team dedicated to creating a world that no longer tolerates arthritis.

If this sounds of interest, get in touch with Ryan at Prospectus today for a confidential discussion.

At Prospectus we invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application. In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance and begin to prepare your supporting statement. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call and/or meeting to brief you on the role. You'll then have all the information you need to formally apply. We are looking forward to speaking with you soon.

We are looking for someone who can ensure the voices of people with lived experience of immigration detention are front and centre of all of our communications and online activities.

If you are interested in using your communications, digital and fundraising skills to help us have a genuine impact on the lives of people in immigration detention, then we would love to hear from you!

We’re looking for an ambitious, creative and motivated individual to join our small staff team as Communications Officer. This is a brand new role for the organisation and you will have the chance to shape it and make it your own. 

AVID is an equal opportunities organisation, committed to increasing diversity. Applications from people with lived experience of detention or the immigration system are encouraged. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled people regardless of background. 

Communications Officer

£28,000 per annum, full time (37.5 hours)

Initially fixed term for six months, funding is sought to extend this to a permanent role 

The Communications Officer will lead on all aspects of our external communications and digital work, ensuring that AVID can extend its reach, accessibility and influence on behalf of people in immigration detention. Putting the voices and experience of people in detention front and centre of our communications work, this is a unique opportunity to apply your communications and digital skills to raise the profile of a small charity which regularly punches above its weight in policy and influencing. Working closely with the Director, and AVID members, you will develop and deliver strong content across a range of online platforms, amplifying the voices of people in detention and the volunteers who support them. You will also apply your digital skills to creating new and innovative ways of servicing our membership and stakeholders, as well as building successful individual giving campaigns. 

The role includes coordinating AVID’s online presence to ensure we reach as many people as possible and help them to access timely, informative and accurate content on the challenges facing people subject to the hostile environment and in immigration detention. You will optimise digital tools to help build our engagement through our website, newsletter, social media and other online formats. The role will lead on taking a creative approach to expanding our communications portfolio, including through video and audio. As well as creating engaging content to meet these aims, you will help to build our membership base and contribute to our sustainability by raising funds online. This is the perfect opportunity for someone seeking to use their skills flexibly, creating powerful communications content that seeks to empower, strengthen and inform. 

CLOSING MIDDAY 10th JULY 

As a key member of the IRC's Global Communications Team, the Senior Officer, Global Communications will develop and execute communications strategies related to the IRC’s work in Africa and/or other portfolio priority geographies / issues. In turn, s/he will help to position the IRC as a global thought and practice leader.

The Senior Officer will lead and collaborate on IRC communications efforts within a set portfolio and surge into crisis projects as needed, convening and leading multiple departments and stakeholders to deliver breakthrough communications results. The Senior Officer will act as a spokesperson as needed.

Major Responsibilities:

• Convene, collaborate with, and lead a dynamic range of IRC teams across Africa Regions/other IRC portfolios as needed, to develop and implement communications strategies that drive awareness of the IRC’s impact and advocacy, enhancing the IRC's reputation, supporting fundraising objectives, and influencing target policy makers.
• Work with (and persuade) internal stakeholders, including communications team-members, field teams, advocates, fundraisers, and technical experts to facilitate and support dynamic communications tactics, including innovative media outreach, top tier op-eds, creative digital content and dynamic, audience-driven social media output.
• Deliver strategic proactive and reactive media relations, leveraging global insights and expertise in both international and humanitarian media to increase the IRC’s media share of voice and digital engagement.
• Deploy excellent writing skills to deliver pitches that land IRC-led features, high-level IRC messages for cross-organizational use, top tier landing op-eds, and talking points for spokespeople.
• Represent the IRC as a spokesperson to external and internal audiences, both via media interviews and contributing to digital content. Provide media training to field spokespeople as needed.
• Partner with in house and external experts to produce Digital Content and Communications outputs that are integrated with strategic external relations objectives, aligned to clear distribution, and measurement, working closely with the Marketing Communications department.
• Gather content through multiple digital mediums -- photo, video, audio etc. -- using industry standard practices and equipment.
• Contribute to quarterly reports on media coverage and content results using industry standard metrics and bench-marking.
• Strengthen and develop internal systems and processes to deliver on communications objectives.
• Coordinate and lead crisis and emergency communications, including high profile field visits and high-speed content gathering.
• Deliver and lead executive communications for IRC leaders, including the CEO, as needed.
• Expand and nurture IRC’s communications network.

I'm keen to speak to an established Communications Officer eager to make a difference in the charity sector. You will be excited to drive internal and external communications forward, developing the existing framework to grow the charity's voice and ensure it reaches its maximum potential.

You will be a creative writer, who enjoys writing engaging content, and have a wide range of communications disciplines - including strategy, public relations, brand marketing, digital and social media, and the production of content and materials - and will work well to develop existing relationships with external PR and marketing companies to progress these goals. This isn't an entry level role, so previous experience in these areas is needed.

The charity helps to combat isolation and loneliness, and you will join a team of brilliant professionals, eager to meet their new communications expert, who will report directly to the Chief Executive. You will have the opportunity to get involved in high-profile events that the charity is involved in too. The team are small but mighty, and you'll join a collaborative and supportive environment.

Salary £28,000-£30,000

35 hour week, 5 days a week. Flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

Location, Victoria, London.

To apply: Please get in touch ASAP, as the charity will consider applications on a rolling basis. Please e-mail your CV to [email protected] so I can tell you more about this great opportunity!

We are looking for a part-time (4 days per week) Marketing and Communications Officer to join our busy Marketing and Communications Team, supporting a range of activities with a particular focus on digital communication, promotion and engagement in support and growth of Making Music membership.

Making Music is the UK organisation for leisure-time music groups, with over 3,700 groups in membership, home to around 200,000 hobby musicians. We support members with practical services and artistic opportunities; we celebrate their achievements and speak on their behalf to partners and policy makers.

Are you experienced in digital content, marketing and social media? Creative, with initiative, and as comfortable with day-to-day processing of website edits and emails, as generating visuals and finding and writing up stories for multi-platform use? If you’re also a team-player, have great attention to detail, can juggle several tasks at the same time, and would like to find a job where your ideas are appreciated, then we want to hear from you!

We are looking for someone for 4 days (30 hours) a week, which can be worked flexibly. Salary £23,500 pro rata (£18,800 a year for 4dpw).

We warmly welcome applications from all sectors of the community and all kinds of individuals. Please let us know if you need this job information - or would like to apply for the job - in a different format.

Download the job information from our website and apply with CV and letter by 9am on Monday 13 July. Interviews will be on Friday 17 July via Zoom.

The Role

The successful applicant will join the established digital and communications team as the digital manager for the delivery of our digital transformation programme. The role of digital manager will be responsible for driving digital delivery across Contact, and involves developing and managing our digital portfolio and roadmap, setting out plans, timescales and reporting for the digital programme.

The role will also be pivotal in helping us embed our digital principles across all Contact teams, supporting staff to see digital development opportunities in their work and helping them to make well-informed decisions about digital projects.

What we are looking for

The role requires an individual with significant experience of delivering digital strategy, including working with online communities, content planning, designing production workflows. Experience of project managing new website builds is also important.

Alongside this, the role requires knowledge of information architecture, online user behaviour, user personas and experience journeys. The digital manager will also need experience of using website CMS and google analytics tools. A knowledge of social media platforms is also desirable.

How to apply

Apply by pressing APPLY NOW and download and follow the instructions in the Job Pack.

- You think British criminal justice is broken

- You want to raise the profile of miscarriages of justice

- You love campaigning and persuasively changing minds

- You have a passion for using stories to engage decision-makers and influence better policy

- You understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the criminal justice system

Sound like you?

We’re looking for an exceptional and highly motivated communications and policy professional. If you want to have a direct impact on raising the profile of miscarriages of justice and fixing our broken criminal justice system, then we want to hear from you. In this role you’ll manage strategic communications projects, engaging key audiences and seeking platforms for our staff, our prisoner clients and their families.

We’re looking for someone who’s led impactful communications campaigns aimed at a broad range of audiences. You’ll have proven experience of delivering timely and effective communications and engagement strategies that have enabled organisations to achieve their aims. You’ll have a passion for storytelling and an ability to work alongside those with lived experience of the cirminal justice system. You’ll understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the justice system, and with experiences of trauma or poverty. You’ll have worked in a complex organisation and understand how to deliver excellent content against audience needs. You’ll also demonstrate exceptional judgement and excellent stakeholder management.

Who are we?

APPEAL is a law charity that fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform. Our small team of lawyers, advocates and investigators take on criminal appeals on behalf of prisoners who cannot afford legal representation.

1. We investigate: battling for access to records and exhibits, arranging new forensic testing, conducting street-level investigation, and systematically analysing case documentation, digging deep to find the fresh evidence that proves a conviction is unsafe or a sentence is unfair.
2. We litigate: bringing cases to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal.
3. We advocate: working with former prisoners, campaigners, students, legal professionals, policy makers and other stakeholders to ensure our justice system learns from its mistakes.

We are committed to winning justice for individuals and their families, but also usingcases as impact litigation to push for systemic change to make our criminal justice system more accurate, fair and accountable. This involves not just legal work, but also implementation of a robust communications and policy strategy, as the reforms needed must come from parliamentary and policy interventions as well as from judicial precedent.

Work Specification

• You will lead APPEAL’s justice policy reform efforts and manage the day to day operation of our communications strategy.
• You will leverage APPEAL’s casework, research and campaigning around our Initiative to end the use of imprisonment for debt, that falls under the work of the Women’s Justice Initiative (WJI). The WJI primarily aims to use criminal appeals as impact litigation for imprisoned women who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage.
• You will lead on policy reform efforts around APPEAL’s Open Justice goals, including advocating for better access to police and prosecution material, reform of the disclosure system, access to trial transcripts and improving the effectiveness of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
• You will manage APPEAL’s external communications, including drafting press releases, liaising with journalists, managing the website and APPEAL’s social media accounts and writing our annual impact report.
• You will also support our Bound by Injustice group, working with the family members of our imprisoned clients and clients themselves to empower them as advocates for reform.
• The job may expand to include managing the day-to-day operation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice for which APPEAL is currently the secretariat.

Important information

LENGTH OF CONTRACT AND WORKING PATTERNS

Please note that we have 3 years of funding for this project but are only able to guarantee the post holder a 1-year full time role. We are seeking additional funding and, if secured, the contract length may be expanded.

We will also consider candidates who are interested in a part time role, though we require a minimum of 3 days a week commitment (if you prefer to be considered part time, please indicate this on your cover letter).

SALARY

£32,000pa. Additionally, we are Living Wage employers with a very flat salary scheme where all team members are paid within 20% of each other and all salaries are reviewed annually.

ANNUAL LEAVE

Annual leave is 25 days pro rata per annum from 1st January to 31st December, plus public holidays and the days between Christmas and New year. Additionally, staff accrue one additional day of leave per year of service.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

We have a small training budget and encourage staff to commit to their own personal development. We allow flexible working so if staff want to take on additional training or qualifications,they can discuss this with their manager.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

APPEAL particularly encourages applications from people with a BAME background, with disabilities, who identify as LGBTQ+, or who were the first generation to attend university, who are currently underrepresented in leadership in the legal sector. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to promoting principles of inclusion and diversity in our work. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements, particularly to support parents with childcare or those with caring responsibilities. APPEAL's offices in The Green House are wheelchair accessible.