The RPS opened its new premises in Bristol’s Paintworks in February 2019, with high quality facilities including a 100-seat auditorium, 200m2 gallery, and a training room.

Events at the Bristol premises include exhibitions, talks, screenings, symposia and workshops, whilst further afield the RPS delivers touring exhibitions and workshops, in addition to hundreds of activities managed by our member volunteers.

This is a great opportunity to make a significant difference and to support the diverse range of RPS activities with marketing and communications that continue to widen our reach and increase take up for our events.

The post holder will need to have excellent hands on, practical experience of managing all communication channels and suppliers, be able to prioritise activities based upon a good evidence base, and also be adept at working with colleagues in order to understand their needs and ensure they, in turn, support the communications function effectively.

We are extremely lucky to have a beautiful environment in which to work and would love you to join us in sharing it with as wide an audience as possible.

To apply, please provide us with your CV and covering letter, explaining why you are applying and how you think you can meet the requirments of the job description.

We are looking for an exceptional communicator with demonstrable and proven digital skills who has experience in managing websites and social media, developing digital campaigns and supporting a wider team in their digital needs.

The successful candidate will have experience working across a range of digital channels, including email marketing platforms such as Mailchimp, website CMS (Wordpress) and social media. You will be proactive, flexible, able to work under pressure and manage a busy and sometimes competing workload. You will be able to write and edit engaging copy, plans and implement effective online campaigns and be confident using a range of tools for reporting and evaluation.

We are a small team at Operation Smile UK, but we are ambitious and embarking on an exciting 3-year strategy to significantly grow our income by 2022. You will play an integral part in the implementation of this strategy for Digital and Communications and in doing so, will help us achieve our goal of supporting more children born with a cleft lip and cleft palate.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role. Please note, we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and this role will close at 11.30pm on 27th February. We may appoint before the closing date. 

The Role

This is an exciting and challenging role for a professional with strong marketing experience in both strategy and implementation. Joining this small and growing charity, you will apply your skills to helping expand its local impact in a varied role, leading on all internal & external communications to its wide-ranging and diverse stakeholders. The ideal candidate must have the ability to creatively develop and deliver innovative and effective marketing strategies. A team player, you are comfortable working a social media account or writing copy alongside contributing to strategic discussions and developing campaigns. You need to be organised, able to work under pressure, pro-active, a self-starter, with a track record of achievement within a similar role. This role is new and part of the SMT (Senior Management Team).

This role would suit someone looking to move from corporate communications and marketing into the charity sector or someone already working in the sector and seeking a new challenge.

Interview Date: 19th February 2020

Job outline: Communications and Fundraising Officer

Salary: Scale £26,000 - £28,750 annum
Hours: 35 hours (9-5 Monday-Friday) regular weekend and evenings as required (see Time Off in Lieu policy)
Term: Permanent
Probationary period: 3 months
Based: Chiltern Society Offices in Chesham and across the wider Chilterns
Reports to: Chief Officer
Key relationships: Other staff, Key Volunteers, General Public, External Stakeholders (Prospective Donors, Partner Organisations)
Budget responsibilities: To meet income and awareness targets within agreed annual budgets and 5-year rolling business plans.

Job purpose: 

As part of the Senior Management Team the Fundraising and Communications Officer will support the Chief Officer to deliver all aspects of fundraising, membership and income growth, and to increase the awareness of the Chiltern Society's work both internally and externally.

Our Mission: 

Campaigning - to cut overbearing development, pollution, biodiversity loss, protect our chalk streams and fight climate change. 

Conserving - Chiltern landscapes, nature recovery networks, tranquillity, heritage, footpaths and all rights of way.

Promoting - enjoyment and environmental understanding of the Chilterns and encouraging health and wellbeing.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who loves working within a small dedicated staff and volunteer teams, with strategic partners, local businesses and the general public. The role will provide an opportunity for you to further develop your existing skills in communications,     membership growth and/or charity fundraising. The successful candidate will need to be a self-starter with excellent communication and project management abilities who is confident and flexible. You will be experienced in some or all aspects of the role, loves showing initiative,     and wants to develop within a small, growing, impactful organisation which has big ambitions.

Most importantly we’re looking for someone who will fit well within our small charity staff team, who will not only be able to help grow income and membership, but will be able to work with our volunteers, and raise the profile of the organisation.

We know we’re asking a lot, and we’re probably looking for someone who shows great potential, who has some experience and who would like a stepping stone for a much larger role in the next 3-5 years.

To apply email your CV and cover letter no later than 9.00am on Friday Feb 14th

First round interviews will be on 1 Monday Feb 24th, and second round on Monday March 2nd

JOB DESCRIPTION: Communications and Fundraising Officer

Reports to: Chief Officer (CO) 
Location: Office Based, with regional travel 
Hours: 35 hours (9-5 Monday-Friday) regular weekend and evenings as required (see Time Off in Lieu policy)

It is expected that regular Saturday work will be required, with TOIL provided

Direct Reports: Events and Marketing Coordinator, Office and Events Volunteers 

Purpose: 
1. Delivery of fundraising, membership and income growth 
2. Delivery of increase awareness of the Chiltern Society work both internally and externally to all those living and working in and around the Chilterns

Budget responsibilities:

To meet income and awareness targets within agreed annual budgets and 5-year rolling business plans.

Key Responsibilities:

Income Generation

1. Working with the Chief Officer to develop and deliver a funding and earned income strategy, setting and agreeing priorities to deliver annual income targets. Review, refine and develop existing activities and seek further income sources from new programmes and partners.
2. Supporting the Chief Officer in the planning, implementation and management of income generating activities.
3. Fundraising: Planning and promotion of fundraising campaigns: Plan engaging fundraising appeals that resonate with our supporters. Promoting campaigns effectively across a multitude of communication channels to ensure maximum awareness.
4. Fundraising: Corporate Sponsorship and Giving: Help develop a strategy to generate significant and sustainable additional income streams. Helping maintain long-term relationships with key partners and businesses and help manage those relationships to help ensure future support.
5. CS Sales: Create and deliver a plan for products, managing the offer to fit with our charitable objectives.

Membership Growth

1. Create, lead, and deliver recruitment campaigns, to grow membership income above budgeted levels. Develop relationships with members to increase income, via online giving, donations, retail and legacies
2. Through community engagement and our roadshow ensure significant membership growth at events. It is envisaged the post holder will lead on our weekly roadshow and/or membership recruitment events which aim to recruit upwards of 5 members per week.

1. Chiltern Magazine and Advertising: Working with the Chief Officer, conservation team, support groups and Editor to develop the impact of the magazine and ensure brand reputation is being upheld. With the assistance of a freelance sales agent drive magazine advertising sales.

Awareness Raising & Marketing

1. Brand positioning: Working with the Chief Officer to manage all aspects of the brand management across all touch points, online, in print and across all CS sites and activities. Deliver account management of design agencies, website developer, magazine production and all other external marketing support.
2. Deliver and manage all digital marketing channels: Managing and delivery of all aspects of the website and social media, ensuring they assists awareness, membership and fundraising delivery targets.
3. Events management oversight and delivery of events programme and major flagship events to ensure that they are run and promoted successfully to delivery and support the charities awareness and income targets.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Skills

• Customer-focused (internal and external), communications and fundraising professional - Essential
• Competent with office IT, web content management systems and all forms of social media - Essential
• Excellent written skills, with knowledge of management reporting and report writing skills - Essential
• Ability to deliver face to face membership sales and commercial sponsorship packages. - Essential
• Current UK valid driving licence and with their own car (for weekly business use) - Essential

Experience

• Demonstrable appreciation and general understanding of the CS work across conservation, planning, community and campaigning and with an affinity for the work of the Trust - Desirable
• Strong written and oral communication skills; able to present information in an effective way to different audiences - Essential
• Track record of developing new initiatives with at least three years successful track record in communications, sales and/or fundraising development - Desirable
• Experience of project management and budget processes - Desirable
• Ability to achieve significant income through securing new business - Essential
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills - Essential
• Proactive, innovative and highly organised - Essential
• Experience of working and leading volunteers - Desirable
• Experience of working with external clients or stakeholders within a business or charity environment - Desirable

Abilities and Personal Attributes

• Willing to work weekends and occasionally evenings - Essential
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines - Essential
•  Ability to deal with the public, CS members and volunteers in a friendly and professional manner in a variety of situations - Essential
• Team player, with the ability to work co-operatively with others as part of a team - Essential

We seek a talented, technical and creative individual who can help to maintain our digital products with an emphasis on our company website and associated microsites, ensuring they meet our organisational needs and have our customer and supporter needs at heart.

The successful candidate will help to create new site pages via installing copy, images and video and help to identify and implement changes needed to boost the site’s performance.

They'll also help to maintain and update existing pages as required to aid improvement of our user experience and support our efforts in the realm of search engine optimisation.

In addition, a requirement of the role is to provide general support as needed to the Digital Product Lead and Senior Digital Product Officer.

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 15,000 dogs; we never put a healthy dog down.

The Digital Experience Team creates a seamless and integrated digital experience for our customers and supporters. The team includes experts in digital product, digital marketing, social media, analysis and tracking, and work to ensure we’re providing a first-rate end-to-end user 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 our important work.

We use our understanding of Dogs Trust and audience needs 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.

JOB TITLE: Digital Marketing Officer

SALARY: £26,000-£30,000

CONTRACT: Permanent Full Time

LOCATION: London (Office based with some home working)

REPORTING TO: Digital Marketing Manager

DIRECT REPORTS: No Direct Reports

Main purpose of position

The Digital Marketing Officer plays a key role in the central Communications and Marketing team at Children with Cancer UK. The role is responsible for planning and delivering digital communications campaigns to raise awareness of Children with Cancer UK’s lifesaving research programmes, welfare projects and highlight the need for support. The Digital Marketing Officer will manage the charity’s social media channel and email marketing programme. They also will contribute to the creation and implementation of a digital strategy and demonstrate best practice digital skills across the organisation.  

Our Vision

Our vision is of a world where no child dies of cancer.

Since we were inaugurated in 1988, we have been dedicated to fighting the injustice of cancer in children. We raise and invest money for vital specialist research to save the life of every child with cancer and keep their family together.

By liberating visionary researchers and accelerating breakthroughs we have helped to drive childhood cancer survival rates up from 63.7% in 1990 to a predicted 84%* in 2017.

We also support families whose lives have been turned upside down by:

• helping to fund the building of free patient and family homes near hospitals around the UK;
• supporting charities offering financial assistance to families during treatment;
• giving children and families unforgettable days out – creating memories that can never be lost.

* Survival rates are based on 5 year survival. The 84% figure for 2017 is an estimated figure by the Office of National Statistics, exact figures will be known in 2023

Children with Cancer UK is the leading national children’s charity dedicated to the fight against childhood cancer. Our aims are to determine the causes, find cures, improve treatments and provide care for children with cancer.

Key priorities and relationships

• To manage the charity’s social media pages, with a focus on growing engagement year on year.
• To provide engaging and on brand content to connect with Children with Cancer UK’s digital audiences
• To grow Children with Cancer UK’s digital audience

Duties and Key relationships

Social Media

• Manage all organic social activity, and oversee paid activity, on all the charity’s social media pages.  Ensure all activity is in line with the social media strategy.
• Devise, implement and manage effective social media plans to communicate Children with Cancer UK’s work and engage with our supporters
• Develop and grow Children with Cancer UK’s presence and following on all social media channels
• Create and deliver effective social media campaigns including through paid activities
• Monitor and analyse the success of social media activities using relevant platforms such as Sprout Social, Facebook Insights and Twitter Analytics etc and produce monthly analytics

Email

• Develop and maintain an integrated e-newsletter programme. Work with teams across the organisation to ensure all activity is planned in advance.
• Manage the monthly charity-wide e-newsletter – including collating and creating content.
• Implement email marketing best practice for all emails sent across Children with Cancer UK

Website

• Support the Senior Website Coordinator to maintain and update the website on a regular basis.
• Support the Digital Marketing Manager in working with digital agencies to ensure we are driving traffic to our website through paid activities and SEO content including techniques to improve user experiences

Other

• Carry out any other duties commensurate with the general level of responsibility of the post
• Work closely with the Content Officer to plan and produce digital content
• Link closely with our patient families to tell their stories across our digital channels

The Innovation Project Manager is an exciting role that sits within the Supporter Innovation and Insight team. Working collaboratively across the organisation, this role will lead in designing, testing, developing and managing the delivery of innovative new product offerings which meet and exceed supporters’ expectations – to attract new supporters and grow the lifetime value of our loyal supporter base. It will also be responsible for project management of Samaritans’ overall income innovation portfolio.

The role will work closely with teams across the organisation to facilitate the creation of new propositions in order to grow and evolve our innovation portfolio. To be successful in this role you will have excellent market knowledge to help you identify and anticipate commercially viable opportunities.

We're looking for a strong Project Manager with considerable product management experience who can confidently manage the innovation portfolio using our ‘test and learn’ methodology. A good verbal and written communicator who can flex their approach to suit different audiences and who has a proven track record in creating and presenting compelling business cases to key stakeholders.

You’ll be based at our friendly head office on a beautiful millpond in Ewell, Surrey. Just a 30-minute train journey from Waterloo and 15 minutes from Wimbledon. Please note, some out of hours working and travel may be required.

If you're interested in finding out more about the role please read the attached job description as set out below..

About Samaritans

At Samaritans, our vision is that fewer people die by suicide. We believe it is preventable and that by working together we can give people the support they need before they reach crisis point. We are one of the most trusted charities in the UK and ROI, and we answer a call for help every six seconds. We have around 175 staff and more than 20,000 volunteers based across 201 branches giving emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We don’t just hear you, we listen.

Our Location

Our Central Office is located in a converted mill in Ewell, Surrey which is just over 30-minutes by train from Waterloo and 15 minutes from Wimbledon. As an employer, we offer a good range of benefits, including 25 days’ holiday, free parking, Health Cash Plan, Pension and interest-free season ticket loans.

To apply

Closing date for the role is 9am on Tuesday 11th February.

Details on how to apply are set out in the attached job description. *Please note that applications without a covering letter will not be accepted. *  

This is an exciting role for a professional with strong and comprehensive fundraising experience in both strategy and implementation. This small but growing charity wants to expand its local impact and if you would like a role with variety and enjoy the challenge of exceeding fundraising targets then First Love Foundation would be ideally suited for you.

The ideal candidate must have the ability to creatively develop and deliver innovative and effective fundraising activities: events, trusts & foundations, corporate (payroll giving, match-funding). You need to be organised, able to work under pressure, pro-active, a self-starter, with a track record of achievement within a similar role. This role is new and part of the SMT (Senior Management Team).

How to Apply:

Please send a CV and an accompanying letter detailing how your experience fulfils the requirements of the post as detailed in the job descrption.

Interview date: 11th February 2020

We are medium sized charity with a high profile and fast-moving media narrative.  We need an experienced and dynamic communications manager to help promote and build our presence who has an awareness of how to handle sensitive topics.

We are looking for a comms manager with significant experience of digital to join our team.  We want to build our presence to increase donations and promote pro-migration messaging and create more structured campaigns across all social media channels. We’re active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and want to grow our audience to encourage more people to support us.

We work in a high-pressured environment, so a calm resilience is important. You’ll value collaboration and will be a natural communicator as well as a digital expert. If you appreciate audience insight, the importance of value-based messaging, why story telling matters and have a strong understanding of the role of digital in changing attitudes we’d love to hear from you.

Job Description

Develop and implement a digital comms strategy for Care4Calais including social media, website, online engagement and email marketing, all geared towards achieving greater visibility and engagement.

Responsibilities will include:

• Day to day management of social media channels including growth of Instagram and twitter audiences
• Implement and develop a digital engagement strategy, including search engine optimisation, across all our on-line content
• Generate awareness of Care4Calais and refugee protection issues.  Keep up to date with sector developments and news  
• Continually improve website to provide trusted, interesting, informative and personalised online content which is up to date
• Evaluate and communicate statistics and results on our digital offer
• Keep abreast of development in the digital arena, identify new digital opportunities
• Liaising with volunteers and partners on the ground and translating this into interesting, bitesize pieces of content for social media.

Personal Specification

Knowledge

• Understanding of or empathy with the refugee and migration sector
• Up-to-date knowledge of and genuine interest in content strategy, user experience principles/design techniques and emerging digital trends

Skills

• Excellent, professional knowledge of how to produce engaging social media content
• Excellent copywriter with an ability to translate complex and sensitive narratives into easily accessible online stories
• Ability to respond creatively to a challenging media narrative
• Ability to maintain and develop a brand, working within messaging guidelines and using the appropriate tone of voice
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with ability to negotiate and manage multiple priorities - practical, pragmatic and effective
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, influencing and problem-solving skills
• Excellent coaching skills
• Ability to maintain positive relationships

Experience 

• Producing and publishing optimised, accessible social media and website content for a range of audiences
• Using content management systems and data analytics packages
• Using data and research to shape decisions and improve outcomes
• Working on digital projects using an agile methodology
• Experience of working on sensitive issues and/or politically controversial topics

Please provide a covering letter that explains why you are suitable for this role and why you want to work with Care4Calais - we will ONLY consider applications that are accompanied by a covering letter.

Fantastic opportunity for a Digital Engagement Officer to join this cultural institute on a 12 month FTC! Interested?

Digital Engagement Officer - Up to £22,000 - 12 month FTC - Part Time - 28 hours per week - London

THE COMPANY
Our client is a cultural institute located in the heart of London. Established in 1895, it offers a cultural events programme, education courses for adults, historic library and archive collection, and community programme.

THE ROLE
As Digital Engagement Officer you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the Campaigns Manager to produce and deliver the content plan for all digital campaign content.
- Running paid social media advertising.
- Managing social media communities to achieve campaign objectives.
- Managing, scheduling and delivering agreed campaigns content across all digital platforms.
- Producing reports on the effectiveness of the website.

YOU
In order to be successful in the role of Digital Engagement officer you must have:
- Proven experience in developing, delivering and evaluating imaginative, innovative and strategically effective digital campaigns.
- Demonstrably skills in digital marketing and communications.
- Experience in developing, implementing and evaluating an content plan for an organisation website.
- Solid skills and experience in CMS and CRM.

If this sounds like the Digital Engagement Officer role for you then apply now!

Digital Engagement Officer - Up to £22,000 - 12 month FTC - Part Time - 28 hours per week - London

Job Title - Communications and Outreach Manager

Salary - £30-34K (negotiable) plus bonus package plus Veolia benefits *listed below

Location - Southwark

Hours - Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Please attach a covering letter along with your CV, applications without a covering letter will not be considered. Deadline: 23 January 2020. 

Are you a driven, creative Communications and Outreach professional? Do you enjoy working on projects and engaging with the community to inspire change?

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the London communications team, leading a team of three Officers, based at Veolia’s flagship recycling facility in Southwark, a significant site for media opportunities and corporate clients. This is an excellent first-line manager opportunity for someone who can demonstrate great project-based people and budget management skills, alongside a passion for the environment and sustainability, and a real desire to improve recycling in the borough.

What you’ll do  

The Communications and Outreach Manager for Southwark will manage and develop the Education, Communication and Outreach (ECO) function for the contract and ensure strategic project plans are delivered to meet objectives. You will work closely with the Area ECO Manager and the Officers to develop community engagement projects to change resident behaviours and improve recycling rates, and will be responsible for the budget, timeline and quality of their delivery. You will also be the day to day point of contact for the client and contract manager and have responsibility for the business as usual outputs of the team.

The Communications and Outreach Manager will identify good news stories and feed them to the regional digital and PR team, as well as working closely with this team to achieve regional and contract objectives. You will keep abreast of industry developments and build strong relationships with your client and colleagues at all levels across the contract. 

You will drive the performance of the ECO officers, coaching and mentoring them to improve their project planning, community engagement approach, and support them in achieving their personal goals. If you love working with the community and leading on projects, this is the role for you.

The experience you will need

Essential:

• Project development and management - contributing to and executing ECO strategies and plan 

• Experience delivering behaviour change and/or community engagement techniques and analysing results

• Superb written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills

• Experience of building strong stakeholder relationships

Desirable:

• Industry knowledge

• Understanding or experience of working with local authorities

• People and budget management - can be project-based rather than as a direct line manager

• Experience of content production across multiple formats

• Advanced understanding of data management and analysis 

• Understanding of PR, social media, social advertising and digital communications

Benefits you will receive within this role are

• Eligible for an annual performance bonus.

• The option to join the Veolia Pension Scheme.

• Access to Veolia Rewards, benefits and discounts.

• 25 days annual leave + statutory bank holidays.

Where you’ll work 

You will be based in our flagship Integrated Waste Management Facility in Southwark, an innovative site which treats over 200,000 tonnes of recycling and waste every year, providing green products and energy, and saving precious natural resources. The site supports one of our key local authority recycling and waste contracts in South London and due to its location is a significant site for corporate clients and publicity opportunities. 

The recruitment process

• All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter stating why they are interested in the position, and why they feel they are suitable for the role.

• Candidates selected for an interview will be asked to prepare a short presentation to be presented during the interview.

*Internal applicants only* our employees are employed under standard terms and conditions and in order to promote fairness, any changes to roles/grades as part of an employment offer we make to existing staff-graded employees will be subject to the acceptance of the standardised terms and conditions.  Therefore, please be advised that any new terms and conditions may differ from your current contract if you are staff-graded.

Who is Veolia?

We are the UK leader in Environmental Solutions. We offer services and expertise in waste, water and energy management helping to build a more sustainable future. As a global organisation, our work focuses on delivering simple but innovative solutions to preserving natural resources, reducing pollution and protecting our environment.

We live in a world that needs to take care of its resources, and our mission is to 'Resource the World'. Improving communities and protecting the environment are right at the heart of our business.

It takes more than just words and ambition to achieve this, it takes the daily efforts of thousands of people across the UK to bring it to life. Together our employees make our communities better. They are the resourcers, behind the resources.

Veolia is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the role will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender or gender expression, disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Digital Manager - 3 month contract - January start

Your new company
A global environmental charity.

Your new role
Our Digital Manager will have an essential role in helping us to improve our digital engagement with our key audiences. Currently our global website supports 15 languages and has recently been relaunched with a new Content Management System. We are also growing our presence rapidly on social media platforms - Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The Digital Manager will help identify and support the next phase of our web and digital development, as well as working closely with digital colleagues across the globe to ensure best practice and standards.

What you'll need to succeed
Besides sharing our enthusiasm for our oceans, our ideal candidate will also have the following key skills / experience:

• Experience of improving the digital user experience for key audiences.
• Experience with trouble shooting with HTML
• Knowledge of latest best practise in analytics and user-experience approaches.
• Use of website tracking analysis to measure and improve digital activities.
• A clear understanding of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) best practise.
• Extensive experience of publishing using a Content Management System.
• Experience in training colleagues on CMS - including those working in different regions/geographies.
• Experience of managing a multi-media content system (photo and video library) is desirable.

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary and the opportunity to work with a prestigious organisation

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated digital content expert to join our digital team in London and to oversee the content strategy for My Stroke Guide. This is our ground-breaking self-management and community website, designed to support stroke survivors and their friends along the stroke recovery journey. 

Position: Digital Content Manager 

Location: London (office based)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £32,000 per annum (including £3,299 inner London weighting)

Contract: Fixed term for 12 months 

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, season ticket loan, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Cycle2Work scheme, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 9 February 2020

Interview Date: Week commencing 17 February 2020

The Role

Working with colleagues in Digital, Stroke Support and Insight, the Digital Content Manager will identify and help produce new content (including copy and various types of media) and identify new aspects of functionality based on our users’ needs.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Delivery of the content and content strategy for My Stroke Guide.
• Production of content schedules.
• Copy writing to agree web and editorial standards.
• Leading and championing digital engagement at all levels across the organisation.
• Working with internal stakeholders at all levels in an advisory capacity to ensure new content is defined and implemented under our best practice standards.

About You

As Digital Content Manager you’ll have demonstrable experience of sourcing and writing copy in different styles for a variety of audiences, and using insight into user behaviour/needs to decide what content to produce. You’ll be great at communicating complex matters of a technological nature clearly and concisely, and comfortable working with web developers.

You will have a proven record of:

• Broad-reaching experience of digital development, ideally from a voluntary sector perspective.
• Experience and understanding of digital content management. 
• Experience managing external agency relationships.
• Experience overseeing digital projects with multiple stakeholders.

In return…

This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke and to raise stroke awareness in the local population. We offer a host of amazing benefits and flexible working options, with opportunities to progress your career.

About the Organisation

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke. 

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there. We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team. 

You may also have experience in areas such as Digital Manager, Content Manager, Digital and Content, Copy Writing, Communications, Marketing, Content, Digital Development 

CWR is an international charity which seeks to assist people in applying God’s word to everyday life and relationships.

We are looking for a new addition to our busy Marketing and Fundraising team who play a key role supporting the development and promotion of our publishing, higher-education, training and conferencing/events activities.

The priorities for this job are varied: from developing and implementing engaging digital communications, to delivering online solutions for both brand campaigns and tactical promotional marketing activity. The role will also contribute to proposing and delivering new interactive projects, bringing an awareness of emerging ideas and relevant technologies and how they might benefit CWR’s ministry. You would serve as the organisation’s SEO, social media, WordPress and WooCommerce champion (as well as for any emerging platforms which CWR may adopt), providing support and training to colleagues for content management as necessary.

You must be able to demonstrate your successful management of web projects and how you have worked effectively through the entire lifecycle of digital development. It is anticipated that you will have a degree in Marketing and Communications or similar discipline and you will be familiar with Web development technologies, including content management systems, HTML, JavaScript, and Flash as well as digital deployment platforms such as Mailchimp and Hootsuite. To complement your knowledge and technical skills, you need to be highly organised and a good team player.

We offer first-class working conditions, including Pension and Life Assurance, in magnificent surroundings.

As the jobholder will have an important role in communicating CWR’s ethos, this role carries an occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a committed Christian.