Digital Communications & Events Manager – 21 hours a week
Reporting to the Head of Communications and External Affairs in this exciting, newly created role, you will be central to positioning Reall as thought leaders and the ‘go to’ organisation for affordable housing in Africa and Asia to increase income, influence and impact.
We’re looking for a strategically minded, technically able, dynamic person to significantly raise our profile and showcase our pioneering work to key investors, decision makers and sector thought leaders.
We are poised to make a huge breakthrough in our sector - we need your passion, skills and drive to really deliver on our potential as disrupters and innovators on our external platforms including social, our website and prominent participation at key events.
We need a skilled manager that will drive a social media programme with sector thought leaders, investors, partners and media partners to create and share relevant content and test innovative approaches that allow us to stand out in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
The manager will put together robust processes that allow us to horizon scan strategically important events to get our experts and brand in front of important decision makers and formalise and embed a process and manage our participation from initiation to completion.
Reall are poised to make a huge step change in our external profile. This is an exciting role. It will suit someone who is hungry to make their mark and make a difference.
This role will be based in Coventry, with the possibility of occasional international travel. You will be working 21 hours per week and we are open to flexible working patterns which may suit freelancers or parents, subject to the objectives of the role being met. We are a small team of 35 who achieve big things, in a fast paced, very friendly and fun office.
Key Responsibilities:
Digital
- Manage the development and implementation of Reall’s digital strategy to position us as an innovative and attractive organisation to potential funders and investors
- Lead and grow Reall’s social media operation, using insight and expertise to devise a programme of compelling content that draws in strategic audiences, creates engagement and presents Reall positively for funding
- Take responsibility for the development and management of the Reall website, making improvements to its functionality, maximising its potential and monitoring its performance
- Lead our digital copy writing, including SEO and proactively sourcing digital outlets for our stories
Event
- Identify and shape Reall’s presence and high-level participation in strategically important sector events, conferences and awards. Ensuring Reall is front of mind for event organisers in terms of inviting Reall to speak, or participate in panels
- Project managing our participation in key sector and investor events and contribute to the development and implementation of Reall’s overall event and awards plans, ensuring the programme of events is meeting awareness and fundraising needs
- Project manage a portfolio of events and lead project teams to ensure that all participants are clear in their roles while driving the project forwards. Aspects included dealing with suppliers, planning and logistics, processing invoices, ensuring staff attendees are well briefed
Person Specification
Experience: At least three years' experience in a digital communications role with experience of creating content and managing websites, SEO and the organisational skills to run events.
Key Competencies
Essential
- Strong copywriting and verbal communication skills
- A strategic mindset with excellent execution
- Best practise understanding of the digital landscape
- Good working knowledge of web analytics, SEO, Wordpress and Adwords
- Strong organisation and project management skills to manage events
Desirable
- Experience using Photoshop, in-design and Adobe Creative Cloud to help create content for the website and social platforms
Personal Qualities:
- Great communicator
- Works well under pressure and enjoys a fast-moving environment
- Innovative and entrepreneurial
- Able to work with minimal supervision, use initiative and drive results
- Able to prioritise own workload and to see a task through from start to finish
- Culturally sensitive
Our Values:
Reall is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and clients with whom Reall engages. Reall expects all staff to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which will include criminal records for all roles and finance checks for Exec appointments.
How to apply: Click on apply and please send a CV and a detailed cover letter
Closing date for this role is Friday 21st of February , 2020.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We’re the charity helping millions of people feel happier and healthier by spending more time on and along our canals and rivers. Our rich and tranquil spaces provide places to pause, relax, get fit and escape. It takes an extraordinary team to bring our waterways to life and that’s where you come in.
We are now looking for a passionate and experienced direct marketer to join our growing Strategy, Impact & Engagement Team. As our Individual Giving Acquisition Officer, you will support the Fundraising Development Manager to grow supporter and donor numbers through new and existing acquisition programmes.
The role
You will be managing and analysing a wide range of campaigns at an exciting time of opportunity and change for the Trust. Key areas of responsibility will include our F2F programme, our annual programme of events attendance, and a test plan that involves recruiting new supporters at sites such as shopping malls, train stations and garden centres. You will also help adapt our membership proposition for a wider audience and will develop and deliver digital campaigns to promote individual giving membership.
What you need
This role calls for a fundraising and direct marketing expert with both a proven track record of supporting and developing fundraising opportunities and a good understanding of direct marketing channels including digital and F2F. You’ll be responsible for delivering a wide range of complex campaigns, so it’s important that you have extensive project management skills. To be able to monitor and review your activities effectively, you will also need a love of numbers and a highly analytical mind. Ideally, we’d like you to have a Certificate of Fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising on top of a degree-level qualification (or equivalent professional experience). Other key qualities we’re looking for include persistence, reliability and a can-do attitude.
The impact you’ll have
The waterways we look after contribute to the health and wellbeing of local communities and economies, creating attractive and connected places to live, work, volunteer and spend leisure time. These historic, natural and cultural assets form part of the strategic and local green-blue infrastructure network, linking urban and rural communities as well as habitats. Our waterways are on the doorstep of 8 million people and reach some of the most deprived communities within the UK. By caring for our waterways and promoting their use we believe we can improve the wellbeing of our nation. Come and be part of it.
Our diversity
We aim to represent the diverse communities we are part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do.
Apply
To find out more and apply, visit our website.
Please quote reference number 2020-6109 when applying.
Closing date for applications: 20th February 2020.
CEO – Air Ambulances UK
Would you like the opportunity to lead the national Charity supporting, representing and advocating the lifesaving work of the nation’s air ambulance charities and the wider air ambulance sector?
Background
Air Ambulances UK is a national charity, originally founded in 2015, to support the 21 air ambulance charities across the UK. Its activities have been focussed on raising funds from the types of national fundraising partnerships for which the individual ‘local’ charities are not eligible. The funds raised are then distributed amongst the ‘local’ charities.
In January 2020, the Association of Air Ambulances Ltd (AAA), the long-standing professional trade body of the UK’s air ambulance sector, was merged into Air Ambulances UK, the national charity. This has formed one single nationwide organisation for the UK’s air ambulance charities, as well as for the wider air ambulance services community which brings huge benefits and opportunities to the sector. Not only does it provide a more streamlined and effective way to achieve the joint overall aim of improving pre-hospital care for patients, it also creates just one single national entity with which other organisations and the public can more easily engage and support.
The new organisation will retain its charitable status and continue its fundraising work while taking on the important remit and activities of the AAA. Our unified aim is to bring together global-leading clinical and aviation expertise and world-class businesses and organisations to drive innovation, development and funding of pre-hospital emergency care, enabling air ambulance charities to save even more lives every day across the UK.
Appointment of a Chief Executive
For the first time the charity intends to appoint a CEO. The CEO will provide leadership and management to the new organisation and will work closely with the Chair and the Board of Trustees to set the strategic direction. As well as being responsible for the effective day to day management of the charity, the CEO will act as an ambassador, developing and brokering strategic partnerships and collaborations with other stakeholders and working to ensure that AAUK offers an invaluable service to its Members and the wider air ambulance community.
The CEO will have strong strategic leadership and operational management ability, excellent communication skills and a ‘can-do’ attitude. Experience of and the ability to transform strategy into delivery with clarity and accuracy, and a demonstrable capacity to develop relationships with a variety of stakeholders, will be key attributes for this post.
We are incredibly excited about the opportunities that the unification of AAA and AAUK brings to the lifesaving work of the nation’s air ambulance charities and the wider air ambulance sector and the potential for this role.
If you want to play a leading part in shaping the future of our services across the UK, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
The location of the role is flexible – there will need to be a decision about whether/where any office is located and the role is likely to be home based with travel required initially (AAA office is currently in Henley in Arden and the lease expires in July, AAUK staff are currently home based)
Eastside Primetimers is supporting us in recruiting for this role. Please download the candidate information pack for further information before you apply. Application is by CV and a covering letter which should indicate why you are interested in applying for the role and how you meet the role requirements. If you would like a call to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Paul Venning on +44 (0) 77 71 99 71 24.
The closing date for applications is Monday 24th Feb with shortlisting interviews taking place that week and the week after. Interviews with Air Ambulance UK will take place week commencing 16th March.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 35 hours a week
Closing Date: 23:59 on Monday 10th February
In The Prince's Trust, this role is known as Prince's Trust Executive.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth worker to join our dynamic team and is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace. The successful candidate has to be as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.
As an Executive, you will work with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 11-30 year olds. Working as part of a team within Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands you will work with clear objectives to 'connect', 'progress' and help 'transform' the lives of young people who need us most. You will be working to support the Ambition Coventry Youth Employment Initiative project.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.
- Delivery of Prince's Trust programmes (Mainly Fairbridge, Get Started and Get Into however could be asked to support on any programme if required. Achieve, Team, Enterprise, Mosaic and Awards)
- Supporting young people into positive outcomes including education, training and employment.
- Planning, organising and budgeting.
Requirements:
To support our delivery requirements across Coventry and Warwickshire, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who have some of the following qualities:
- Are able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience
- Can be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation
- Are experienced in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums.
- Is a natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people
- Have experience of facilitating skills development in at least one of the following settings; Informal learning provision (sports/arts/outdoors), Education sector, Employment/Enterprise training, Digital learning provision, Volunteer training/management.
- Has a strong understanding of the challenges young people within The Trust's target groups face.
- A minibus driving licence - D1 is desirable but not essential.
For more information and to apply, please go to our website. If you haven't already got a log in with us, you will be prompted to create one first.
Why we need Execs:
This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome.
We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million young people transform their lives over the next ten years. Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper.
We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world. We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.
This role will mainly work in Coventry and Warwickshire because of the funded contract you will be working on. The office base is Birmingham but we are a very nomadic and remote team, mostly working agile out in our patch. You will be in the office no more than twice a week.
The Prince's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to equality and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders.
A NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES:
We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a preferred supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!
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