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The job of a Save the Children's UK Communications and Marketing Specialist is creative and fulfilling.

• Are you a communications and marketing generalist, with experience of developing and executing communications and marketing strategies across traditional and digital channels?
• Do you have experience of working with the media, generating coverage and raising organisational profile?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

We stand side by side with children in the toughest places to be a child. We do whatever it takes to make sure they survive, get protection when they're in danger, and have the chance to learn. 

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) as part of SCUK’s humanitarian department provides high-quality humanitarian capacity strengthening for the movement, as well as the wider sector, as part of our shifting the power agenda.

The HLA’s mission, as a team within the humanitarian department, is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities. The HLA’s approach spans from focused needs-based learning in countries hit by crises to the huge international reach of our learning platform, Kaya. They are a global team that has a full suite of in-house skills to provide and develop the offer; technical and learning experts, platform specialists, a digital and design studio, communications support and more. 

The HLA enables SCUK to offer the most effective and impactful humanitarian capacity strengthening resource for both the Save the Children movement, the wider humanitarian sector and beyond. 

Job Purpose

The HLA has set out an ambitious strategy to transform and lead the humanitarian sector in its approach to localisation, learning and leadership. To achieve its strategic goals, the HLA needs to raise its profile through greater brand recognition, expand its audiences and build an active, engaged and thriving global community of learners, customers, and strategic partners.

In this role you will support the development, implementation and evaluation of an effective multi-channel, multi-audience communications and marketing strategy which ensures the learning solutions, platforms, products and services the HLA can offer are globally recognised and accepted across Save the Children, the humanitarian sector and beyond. 

Reporting to the Head of Communications & Marketing, the Communications and Marketing Specialist will implement the right digital and non-digital approaches to maximise the promotion of the work of HLA, raise the organisation’s profile through greater brand recognition, expand its audiences, and build an active and engaged global community of learners, customers, and partners.

Key Accountabilities: 

The Communications and Marketing Specialist key duties will include:

• Support the development of communications and marketing strategies to promote the HLA’s products and services to existing and new audiences, and achieve sales targets.
• Manage the HLA’s digital communications ecosystem including the website, digital newsletter/campaign emails and 8 social media accounts
• Monitor and report content performance, engagement, and community growth to guide future targeting and planning.
• Manage and report on the digital marketing and communications budget (Google Ads, paid social media advertising).
• Develop and maintain communications collateral including print and multi-media for the marketing of the HLA’s offer.
• Support on planning and managing communications to raise HLA’s profile at major events and conferences (online/offline).
• Research global and local media opportunities to promote the HLA’s impact and get stronger brand recognition.
• Manage relationships with external vendors to ensure deliverables are met, on time and on budget.
• Ensure to innovate and create new techniques and approaches to engage and grow our global online audience.
• Support on development of organisation tone of voice and brand roll out internally and externally.

Person Profile

You will be a communications and marketing generalist, with experience developing and executing communications and marketing strategies across traditional and digital channels.  You will have a willingness to work on market research, content creation, new product launches, social media, and sales enablement. You will be an integral part of the team’s ability to increase brand awareness, user engagement and customer satisfaction.

• Strong experience of working in a marketing and/or communications role for an NGO, social enterprise or a start-up business.
• Proven experience in using websites and social media platforms to meet strategic aims.
• Proven experience of developing quality digital marketing and communication campaigns, including earned, owned and paid.
• Proven background of developing effective digital and multi-media content suitable for use across a range of digital channels and for a range of audiences.
• Experience of understanding barriers to communication and information management across different contexts.
• Experience of working with the media, generating coverage and raising organisational profile.

Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail, accuracy and consistent quality. Excellent ability to summarise complex information in clear, non-specialist language.
• Ability to demonstrate creativity and innovation to produce communications that stand out in crowded markets.
• Strong customer service skills with the ability to work quickly and flexibly in changing circumstances.
• Ability to quickly build key relationships with internal and external stakeholders, contractors and consultants
• An organised and thorough approach to planning and managing projects, external agencies and budgets, with the ability to use own initiative to meet deadlines on competing priorities and drive results.

Aptitude 

• A working knowledge of the development/aid sector, humanitarian journalists and media, networks and organisations and accessing hard to reach audiences on a global scale.

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK's aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

Right to Succeed is a fast-growing national charity, working to deliver place-based and educational change in the most disadvantaged communities. Together, alongside their local and national partners, Right to Succeed delivers coordinated, impactful programmes aimed at improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people, their families and wider communities. 

We are looking for an Impact Communications Manager to improve how Right to Succeed monitors and communicates the impact our programmes achieve and the value we bring to communities. This is an unusual role, which sits in the External Communications team and works closely with the Data and Insights team.

The ideal candidate will be able to understand complex concepts and communicate them clearly to a variety of specialist and non-specialist audiences.  They will have a passion for communicating positive stories. This is a fixed-term role to deliver a two-part project: reviewing our existing programmes to identify and evidence impact, and developing processes that enable us to build this into future programmes.

To apply for this position, please send a CV and supporting statement to apply via our advert on CharityJob latest by midnight on Thursday 4th August 2022. Please note, that we are scheduling interviews as applications are received, therefore an early application is recommended.

Your supporting statement must not exceed 2 pages and should cover your motivation for applying for the role and how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification. 

Who we are

The British Society for Rheumatology is a membership organisation which brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession, harnessing a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we are supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability.

Our mission is to support members to deliver the best care at all stages of the rheumatology care pathway, focusing on communication, transparency and collaboration.

Job Summary

This role raises the profile and visibility of BSR’s work through the development and implementation of impactful communications strategies. The post-holder will develop and lead communications plans for a wide range of BSR projects across our three directorates as well leading on BSR’s corporate communications. Managed by the Head of Marketing and Communications the postholder will become a subject specialist so they can develop key messages and advise project managers how to get the best results for their communications. The postholder will be responsible for planning communications, commissioning content, developing content across a range of formats including long form web content, webinars, podcasts and video. This role works closely with the Marketing Manager, line manages the Communications Officer and gives advice and guidance to a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.

Is this you?

• Experience managing communication campaigns in healthcare, the charity or association sector
• Experience of managing website content
• Experience of platform management including websites, eMarketing and Social
• Experience of using analytic tools and dashboards
• Can lead impactful communications campaigns, setting and meeting targets
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate impact and deliver continuous improvement
• Can engage with audience groups that cut across professions and roles and are based on common needs

We can offer: 

• A great place to work, we are Investors In People accredited and committed to Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
• Performance related pay and incentive schemes that include colleague nominated awards 
• Group pension scheme 
• 25 days holiday 
• A heap of benefits, such as BUPA health insurance, cycle to work schemes, buy/sell leave etc.
• Regular staff social events
• Year round learning and development programmes 

To apply:

• Download the job description and person specification. Submit a CV and a detailed cover letter to our recruitment inbox
• Complete our equality, diversity and inclusion monitoring form which can be found on our website
• Closing date to submit applications: Midnight 24 July 2022
• Shortlisting and interviewing will happen throughout the application window

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation by complying with the Equality Act 2010. 

We want a working environment free of all the above, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued. To do this, we will proactively tackle discrimination and disadvantage and ensure that no individual or group is directly or indirectly discriminated against for any reason. We expect all BSR employees to champion and live our values through their work at every opportunity. 

Charity People is delighted to be working exclusively with National Numeracy to recruit for a Head of Communications to join their talented communications team and work to promote the charity's work, drive public engagement with their services, and bring their mission and vision to life for external audiences.

Post Head of Communications
Location The charity offers a very flexible approach to working and this role can be undertaken on a hybrid working from home and office basis, with at least one day per quarter in the East Sussex office
Working Hours Full time or part time (four days per week) considered; flexible working is fully supported
Salary £41,000 per annum
Reporting To Director of External Relations

A new role, you will play a lead role in delivering creative and results-driven strategies with engaging content across National Numeracy's award-winning campaigns, media, content and marketing. With a broad remit, the Head of Communications will report to the Director of External Relations and will undertake the following core duties:

* Devise and deliver strategic communication plans covering complex issues
* Ensure the delivery of consistent, effective messaging to promote the charity across a variety of platforms, using storytelling to present complex issues in a simple, compelling way that appeals to broad audiences
* Support the Director of External Relations with managing the team, its work and its budgets
* Build and maintain effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders including policymakers, the public, the media, funders and partners
* Work with internal teams to ensure that key activities and messages are aligned to the charity's strategy, evaluating these to ensure they perform well
* Create and deliver a media strategy, as well as manage and cultivate relationships with broadcast, digital and print journalists
* Work with the Campaigns Manager on the strategic and delivery of National Numeracy Day, as well as other campaigns through the year
* Lead and deliver events, content, celebrity activity, case studies, media and marketing, to support campaigns throughout the year
* Work closely with colleagues to develop digital marketing activities across web, email and social media; analysing results and providing insight for evidence based improvement
* Create and manage a strong, audience-led web strategy as well as content that provides an engaging and inspiring user experience

We would love to see applications from individuals with previous experience of devising and delivering strategic communication plans. Additionally, we're keen for you to have experience of working with the media including the ability to promote the work of the charity and key campaigns, as well as of spotting opportunities for media coverage. You'll also have the ability and passion to really understand the work of the charity, why their role is so important, and the impact they have, as well as the ability to create messaging translated their mission into communications with audiences that increase engagement.

The charity is very open in terms of background - this role would suit someone stepping into their first Head of Communications role within a supportive team, or a more seasoned communications specialist who is keen to work within a role with a mix of strategic work as well as hands on communications tasks.

Key Dates

* Closing date for applications: Monday 4th July
* First interviews: week commencing 11th July
* Second interviews: week commencing 18th July

If you're keen to be part of the team that works tirelessly to drive up numeracy rates across the UK, having a huge impact on the lives of their beneficiaries, then this could be the role for you!

If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to [email protected] or call on 07563 030587 to have an initial chat about the position.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Interim Head of Communications

Full Time (part time / job share options available)

Fixed Term: Up to 12 months contract starting in September / October 2022

Closing Date: 21st July 2022

Location: Remote (timezone: GMT-1 to GMT+6). 

Working Day: Flexible working hours throughout the week. Daily core hours are 11:00-16:00 GMT. Our Full Time work week is approximately 40 hours.

Team: Communications

Travel:  Remote working, location flexible - some international travel may be required

Benefits: Working at Peek has many benefits. Please find more information about those benefits here.

To Apply:  Submit your full application through our recruitment site by the closing date noted above.

Millions of people worldwide are losing their sight unnecessarily.Join a mission driven award winning team who are intent on changing this.

The Role

Peek Vision is a social enterprise developing innovative tools to bring better vision and health to people in low- and middle-income countries.  We are looking for somebody to lead our communications activity during an exciting period of growth for our organisation.

The successful candidate will enjoy a broad role with oversight of our communications, branding, website, social media and PR activities.  You will focus on using Peek’s communications activities to engage NGO, civil society and academic partners, while working with team members and potentially contractors to develop our marketing, product and fundraising communications activities.

This is a demanding but rewarding role for somebody with the experience and confidence to manage multiple priorities and use their expert judgement to deliver effective communications.  If you have relevant and proven experience of managing communications in the charity, health, academic or technology sector and are keen for a new challenge in a diverse, dynamic team, we would love to hear from you.

The role will be contracted for a period of up to 12 months providing coverage during a maternity leave.  While the overall role is a full time position, we welcome applicants who wish to work part time as a job share (with agencies or another contractor providing the remaining capacity) as well as applicants who wish to apply as a secondment from an existing role, provided their current employer supports this.  Peek offers a flexible working environment in terms of hours and location.  Candidates will need to have proof of eligibility to work in their location.   Candidates’ working hours will need to be able to practically accommodate teams working in the GMT timezone.  

Responsibilities and Attributes

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• Maintain oversight of Peek’s Communications & brand strategy to ensure coherent and consistent communications across all external channels.

• Maintain Peek’s Partner communications strategy and support partnerships communications activities, including writing news stories, case studies developing social media campaigns and supporting partners to use Peek’s brand correctly.

• Implement Peek’s new messaging platform and marcomms plan; develop internal communications tools & resources to help team members deliver consistent messaging & branding for Peek.

• Deliver Public Relations activities (e.g. media relations, events) and contribute to other areas of communications as needed.

• Own and maintain strategic oversight of Peek’s website, social media channels, corporate brochures and other print / digital assets; plan and work with team members to produce new content for these channels in line with our strategy and activities.

• Manage Peek’s thought leadership strategy (including working with Peek CEO and other team members to support events, public speaking and other relevant opportunities).

• Manage relationships with freelancers / contractors and be accountable for the Interim Digital Communications Manager.

The desirable attributes for the role are:

• A strong communicator who is skilled at working with diverse audiences across different cultures, locations and sectors.

• Able to maintain strategic oversight of a complex and rapidly changing communications environment.

• Collaborative and empathetic, with the confidence to make judgement calls when they are needed.

• Experienced managing concurrent projects in multiple countries and contexts.

• Highly organised but comfortable with constant change and unknowns.

• An enthusiastic team player who can work with minimal supervision and use minimal resources effectively.

• Creative and proactive in devising communications strategies and solutions to support our mission-driven organisation. 

About Peek

Over a billion people worldwide have vision loss but don’t need to and numbers are rising.  Simple, cost- effective treatments exist but specialists are in short supply and resources are limited.  Many people who need access to eye health remain invisible to services.

Peek Vision is an award-winning social enterprise that powers eye health providers in low- and middle-income countries to optimise their services and strengthen health systems.  Our software, programme design and data intelligence platform help eye health programmes become more efficient, more equitable and more effective. Users can screen for eye health conditions using just a smartphone, follow the patient journey from screening to treatment and view real-time data dashboards to identify where patients are being left behind.  People who would have been invisible to health workers are made visible, so that nobody is left behind.

Peek works in partnership with eye health providers, governments and NGOs. Together, we aim to make large-scale, sustainable improvements to health systems, bringing better vision and eye health to everyone.

Our tools include:

• Software for community and school eye health programmes that powers screening, data capture and analysis, plus the RAAB7 eye health survey platform

• Programme Design to set up eye health programmes for success

• Data Analysis based on insights from our software to enable services to continuously improve and ensure nobody is left behind.

Peek is an equal opportunity employer. Peek will not discriminate and will take measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of age, disability, gender, marital status, parenthood, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other factor which may be deemed discriminatory. Further the diversity of our team is important and crucial to our impact and we seek to ensure our team has affinities or links to the communities where we are most active.  

Head of Communications - Remote

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Location: Remote working, with travel to head office (Vauxhall London)

Working Hours : 35 Hours per week, Monday - Friday

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Who are we?

We are Forward, the social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle of crime or addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been helping people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends, and a sense of community

What will we offer you?

We value the dedication and commitment of our employees by rewarding them with market-leading pay, and benefits which include:

* Flexible working
* A friendly working environment
* 25 days annual leave (30 days depending on length or service) plus bank holidays
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Exciting career development and training opportunities
* Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched up to 6%, rising to 9% after 2 years
* Critical illness insurance
* Death in service payment, and more
* Corporate Headspace App
* Training & career Development opportunities
* Simply Health Cash back Scheme

The Role - Head of Communications :

As Head of Communications, you will be providing effective management of the Communications team and external providers, helping to drive awareness and support for The Forward Trust. Reporting to the Executive Director of Fundraising & Communications, working together to develop and facilitate a network of supporters who contribute to the organisations profile, fundraising income and ability to influence policy.

To manage, deliver and develop ambitious external communications and public affairs, managing the positioning and brand, overseeing press handling and marketing of services.

You must be an experienced professional, with deep knowledge of all matters concerning Internal and External Communications.

What will you be doing - Head of Communications:

Key Responsibilities

Duties to include but not limited to:

* To input into the external affairs aspects of the strategic plan
* Delivering and developing the organisation's communications and marketing plan
* Develop external positioning, profile, and brand of the organisation and its sub brands
* Provide professional, timely and well-planned support and advice to the EDFC and relevant colleagues, in relation to communications activity
* To maintain and develop the organisation's CRM database, ensuring all key contacts are captured
* To plan and implement regular internal and external communications through developing great content, and engaging social media
* Lead the delivery of digital marketing and development of marketing strategy to promote Forward services to key audiences
* Recruit and manage staff and external suppliers as appropriate
* Ensure that the CEO, executive team, spokespeople, and clients are fully supported in media appearances
* Working with the CEO and EDFC, to plan and execute general and targeted campaigns - in the first instance including 'More Than My Past' and Taking Action on Addiction Campaign

Specific Requirements:

* Work with colleagues to achieve effective performance management
* Regular performance reporting and monthly reviews
* To manage complaints relevant to the function
* Identify new areas of communications and marketing opportunities
* Line management of staff and departmental leadership
* To uphold the Organisations commitment to the safety of our staff, volunteers, and clients through the promotion of Health & Safety at Work
* Attend meetings, including strategic, advisory, planning and implementation including multi-agency forums and partnership team meetings
* To attend meetings on behalf of the Executive Director as required

Requirements for Head of Communications :

* At least 2 years' experience working at a senior level in communications
* Experience of dealing with issues relating to brand & marketing
* Proven track record of success in driving public awareness of an organisation, influencing & increasing engagement
* Excellent digital marketing & media experience
* Preferably have experience or understanding of the drug & alcohol field
* An in-depth knowledge of a range of communication techniques and ability to apply them
* Be able to work collaboratively at all levels
* Personal resilience and willingness to deal robustly but tactfully with opposition
* A good working knowledge of Word Press, Microsoft Office, design and database skills
* Able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines

The Parent-Infant Foundation is seeking an experienced communications, campaigning and public affairs professional to help us make a difference for babies across the UK. Our vision is that all babies have a sensitive, nurturing relationship to lay the foundation for lifelong mental and physical health.

As our Head of Policy and Communications, you will be responsible for developing and implementing our strategy to embed infant mental health and parent-infant relationships into policy and services in the UK. You will lead all aspects of our external communications.

In Parliament, you will work with the Chair of of the APPG for Conception to Age Two to develop and deliver their programme of work.  In the wider community, you will spearhead the First 1001 Days Movement, a campaigning alliance of over 200 charities and professional bodies who work together to inspire, support and challenge national and local decision makers to value and invest in babies’ emotional wellbeing and development.

The Parent-Infant Foundation may be a small charity but we are influential. Part of your role will be to continue to produce and disseminate high quality reports and briefings which will be noticed at all levels of government across the four nations of the UK. 

You will also lead on our flagship Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, which brings together professionals and other stakeholders in the field to widen and deepen understanding of infant mental health and the importance of early relationships.

You will have line management responsibility for the Communications Manager, Scottish Policy Officer  the Campaigns and Communications Officer. 

You will be joining a small but friendly team who are all deeply committed to improving and supporting the emotional and social development and wellbeing of babies.  The team understands the importance of communications to support their work with parent-infant teams so you will work across the whole team to ensure our communications are always high quality and evidence based.  The team largely works part-time and remotely with flexibility embedded in our way of working.Please note this role will require frequent travel to London.

For a full description of the responsibilities please see the job description and person specification.

To Apply

To apply for this role please submit a CV and a Supporting Statement via CharityJob. In your supporting statement, please describe why you want this role and demonstrate, with examples, how you meet elements 1-10 of the experience and skills.  Please ensure that your CV and Supporting Statement are each no more than two pages long.

Interviews will be taking place in Central London.  The Parent-Infant Foundation is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we actively encourage applications from a broad range of experiences and backgrounds. Please tell us if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you in your application or attendance at interview.

Who we are

The British Society for Rheumatology is a membership organisation which brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession, harnessing a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we are supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability. 

Our mission is to support members to deliver the best care at all stages of the rheumatology care pathway, focusing on communication, transparency and collaboration.

We are looking for a Head of External Affairs to strategically plan and operationalise the Society’s external affairs function, increasing BSRs influence on the policy and public affairs impacting the practice and quality of rheumatology. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to drive our external influence to ensure that people with rheumatology conditions receive the highest quality care.

Job purpose

The Head of External Affairs will lead campaigning on the major issues affecting BSR members. Working with the Society’s leadership team, the postholder will focus on the matters where the Society can best use its voice and have impact. The Head of External Affairs will take a coaching approach to line management, supporting the public affairs and policy managers to create strategic work plans that come together under a well-defined external affairs strategy for the Society.  The role also forms a key part of our Head of Department team, which has responsibility for the operational delivery of many of our key activities.

We can offer

• A great place to work, we are Investors In People accredited and committed to Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
• Performance related pay and incentive schemes that include colleague nominated awards
• Group pension scheme
• 25 days holiday
• A heap of benefits, such as BUPA health insurance, cycle to work schemes, buy/sell leave etc.
• Regular staff social events
• Year round learning and development programmes

The deadline to receive applications is on Monday 18 July 2022 (9.00am).

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 27 July 2022 and will be held virtually.   

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation by complying with the Equality Act 2010. 

We want a working environment free of all the above, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued. To do this, we will proactively tackle discrimination and disadvantage and ensure that no individual or group is directly or indirectly discriminated against for any reason. We expect all BSR employees to champion and live our values through their work at every opportunity

Every 90 seconds, someone in the UK is admitted to hospital with a brain injury. It can affect anyone at any time. When it does, Headway is here to help.

Headway is the UK’s leading charity working to improve life after brain injury. We are passionate about helping people to rebuild their lives, relearn lost skills and regain a degree of independence.

We know that with the right help, at the right time, there can be life after brain injury.

We’re seeking a creative, inspiring communicator with the ability to think strategically and the passion to influence change.

You will lead our talented communications team in securing high-profile media coverage, creating engaging, emotive multi-media content, strengthening our award-winning range of information resources, and driving change on a political level.

You will have experience of working with traditional and digital media, have devised and run successful awareness campaigns, and be able to demonstrate a proven track record of providing the media with statements on demand.

You will also have excellent writing, editing and presentation skills.

This is a hands-on role in which you will be responsible for a small but highly-talented team who are passionate about raising awareness of brain injury.

If you are looking to challenge yourself in an exciting role within an organisation that is making a difference to the lives of thousands of people across the UK, we’d love to hear from you.

• Home working or office based (Nottingham)
• Closing date for applications: 15 July 2022
• Interviews: w/c 18 July 2022
• Salary: c.£60,000

Headway is an equal opportunities employer.
Registered Charity No 1025852.
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Age International is Age UK's international charity, supporting older people and fighting ageism around the world. Our work makes a real, tangible difference to the lives of older people living in the world's poorest places, helping them access better health and care, delivering life-saving aid in emergencies and working to ensure older people have a secure income.

With ambitious plans ahead, this is an exciting time to be joining the small but mighty communications team at Age International as our Communications Officer.

This role will be a great fit for someone who wants to develop an advanced understanding of what drives success for effective digital communications and campaigns. There will be opportunities to showcase your creative skills internally and to external digital audiences globally through the creation and distribution of highly engaging online content and optimisation of our social media channels.

As Communications Officer, the successful person will play an integral role in the Age International comms team by leading on the development and growth of Age International's social media, digital and internal communications to promote Age International programmes and work, ensuring that people in the UK and globally are hearing about the inequalities, emergencies and global realities of poverty facing older people, as well as about the ways that Age International and our supporters are urgently working to address these.

You will be given the support and freedom to produce highly engaging content and the tools and time required to plan digital content for social media and evaluate strategically; and have access to creative and digital tools like Canva, Creative Cloud, Shorthand and Sprout social.

You will have the chance to work across a broad range of digital practices including content production, social media advertising and data analysis alongside supporting the production of donor communications.

There is ample room for development opportunities within the role, including secondment during a Disaster Emergency Committee appeal, and you will be supported to be a digital communications expert in the technology and platforms we use at Age International.

Please note that due to the Hybrid nature of this role, the successful applicant may be required to commute to the central London co-working hub on a regular basis, for example around four times per month.

All applications for this role will be anonymised, we won't know your name, address or gender until after shortlisting for interview has taken place. We want to select the best candidate for this key role based on lived experience and passion, rather than qualifications.

You will have:

• Solid copywriting and editing skills with a know-how of using a CMS
• A flair for creating creative digital content including video and a whizz at using Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Canva
• An aptitude for analysis and ability to use analytics tools
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to turn data into actionable content insights
• The ability to work independently and in collaboration with others to deliver successful tasks, projects, and campaigns.
• Some content collection experience, conducting interviews and capturing photography
• Familiarity with using website analytics such Google analytics, and understanding Tags Manager

What we offer in return:

* Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme.
* Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP.
* Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan.
* Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
* Heka Fitness & Wellbeing Benefit.
* You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

• There is a requirement in this role to carry out a content-gathering trip overseas (to source stories, photos and videos) once a year, disseminating information across various channels.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We welcome requests for flexible working.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Do you want to help shape the future of a prestigious, growing charity which exists to pioneer change and improvements in health and care, continuing to deliver the legacy of the most famous nurse of all time?

If the answer is ‘yes’, then this is an incredible opportunity to lead the delivery of the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s communications strategy, and to join a supportive, passionate and talented team.

POSITON: Communications and Marketing Manager

REPORTS TO: Director of Engagement

Salary: £ 28,509 – 38,571 depending on experience

Location: All employee contracts are based at the offices in London; however, we operate a flexible, hybrid model including home working.

Pension: National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

Term: Permanent after satisfactory 6-month probation period

Overview of the role:

• Develop, implement and evaluate a multi-platform communications and marketing strategy in order to grow awareness, engagement, membership and income.
• Working with the Executive Team, shape a new narrative which demonstrates compellingly the impact of the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
• Manage internal and external communications and provide communications and media advice and marketing support across the team.

Strategy

• In conjunction with the Director of Engagement, take responsibility for the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s communications and marketing strategy, objective setting and budget planning.
• Continue to develop clear measures of success for communications activities and continually monitor, evaluate and report on progress.
• Further develop the new brand (launched in May 2022) – focussing on defining tone of voice, ensuring consistency across all communications and helping to cement the Foundation as the ‘go to’ organisation for the nursing and midwifery professions.
• Develop digital and other innovative forms of communication to build the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s profile and ability to influence the narrative on the nursing and midwifery workforce in the UK and globally. 
• Be pro-active in identifying and cultivating partnerships that fit with the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s vision. 
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested.

Communications

• Develop and oversee multi-channel digital marketing and stakeholder engagement campaigns and projects, working closely with the Director of Engagement and the Executive Team.
• Lead the strategic development of communications activities to support service and programme delivery, fundraising and policy objectives and enhance key stakeholder partnerships.
• In conjunction with the Director of Engagement, lead and manage a clear communications channels strategy ensuring that all audiences are defined and that channels are maximised for the optimal outcome.
• Create and deliver a strong communications presence, using powerful case studies and statistics which demonstrate and enhance the Foundation’s profile as a trailblazer in leadership development and workforce issues. 
• Continually improve content gathering and build the storytelling skills and capacity across the organisation, using an innovative and diverse approach that reflects the charity’s values.
• Write and deliver promotional materials and publications for our scholars, alumni and membership and wider needs of the Charity. This will include leading on the design and content of the monthly e-newsletter which is sent to all key stakeholders.
• Lead on externally related communications including digital and press, proactively seeking new PR opportunities; supporting the CEO with good gatekeeping of press and PR opportunities; assessing whether good alignment exists with our cause; sharing ideas as to how that fit could support our position; and securing new media opportunities. 
• On behalf of the CEO and with the support of the Director of Engagement, prepare press releases.
• Lead on all key stakeholder communications, including sponsors and donors, referral partners, corporate partners and supporters and other stakeholder groups, ensuring they are kept aware of our work, our programmes and the impact we achieve. 
• Monitor the external environment across social media, online and in the press and develop a good understanding of the political landscape, emerging trends in health and social care and the ambitions of other nursing and midwifery charities. 
• Support the CEO with the most up-to-date insights to showcase our work while ensuring consistent alignment with key messages. 
• Support the Director of Engagement and Executive Team with the delivery of timely, relevant and impactful communications at Foundation events. Attend external sector-specific events when required, using social media as appropriate to raise the profile of the Florence Nightingale Foundation. 
• Maintain a continuous record of Florence Nightingale Foundation media and social media activity and coordinate press, information packs or PowerPoint presentations for CEO press interviews, Board meetings, corporate presentations and new business development meetings. 

Marketing

• Support the Executive and Engagement Teams in the development of a marketing strategy.
• In conjunction with the Director of Engagement, create and execute marketing materials that will help to drive engagement across our key audiences – prospective scholars and programme participants, our alumni, our members and our sponsors and supporters.
• Use insights from our CRM Salesforce, plus digital media analysis from our platforms, to manage digital marketing activity strategically, leveraging the potential to expand the reach of the Florence Nightingale Foundation. 

Management

• In conjunction with the Director of Engagement, negotiate and manage partnership agreements.
• Direct line management of the Communications and Marketing Officer, plus consultants and freelancers as required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The person will demonstrate the following core values which relate specifically to this post: 

• Integrity
• Flexibility
• Quality focus
• A supportive style 

Professional Knowledge and Experience 

• Degree level qualification in a communications and marketing related topic or equivalent relevant work experience (Essential).
• Experience of working in a health/social care and/or educational or charity setting (Desirable).
• Evidence of achievement in this field (CV and interview).

Skills & personal attributes

• Excellent communication skills, able to develop engaging stories using a range of communications channels.
• Experience of applying and advising on brand identity.
• Copywriting and editing skills, desirably within communications or marketing in a charity, health or an educational context.
• Experience using email, web content, CMS, CRM tools and creative software to produce engaging multimedia and visual content.
• Experience of, or demonstrable evidence of the capacity to, manage a small team.
• Experience of managing senior level internal and external relationships.
• Excellent networker.
• Team player, willing to support wider Foundation operational requirements.
• Committed to the work of the Foundation and driven to support service development.
• Excellent numerate and analytical skills.
• Able to be creative and identify development opportunities.
• Full driving licence and access to own vehicle for work
• Highly organised with ability to prioritise effectively and complete work on time.

This job description is intended as an outline of the areas of activity only and can be amended in the light of the changing needs of the Foundation and will be reviewed as necessary in conjunction with the post-holder. It merely outlines the direct areas of responsibility and will be supplemented each year with agreed objectives and a professional and personal development plan. 

Please see the attached Job Information Pack for further details about this exciting role within the Foundation.

Summary

As Regional Communications Manager for south west and south central you will join us at an exciting time as we expand our regional team and the scope of our regional work to more effectively reach out to, engage and support more people to live well with all types of diabetes, to prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes and ultimately to achieve our vision of a world where diabetes can do no harm.

We are looking for a talented and experienced communications manager with a track record of delivering high impact communications that inspire people to take notice, take action and take diabetes seriously.

You will play a key role in developing and delivering communications that raise awareness and understanding of all types of diabetes across diverse audiences spanning all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds across the south west and south central region. You will work closely with our Regional Head, Health Systems Engagement Lead and Engaging Communities and Volunteering Manager as part of the region's senior management team. You will play a vital role in celebrating and promoting the work of the team which includes our network of local and community groups, our volunteers, our community fundraising and our work to connect with and support people affected by diabetes with our services and influence for improvements in local services where needed.

Interview Date: Friday 5 August 2022

We would consider flexibility on where this role could be based within the south west and south central region.

Please note that all job offers are subject to you providing acceptable evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

Package

What we can offer you:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,500 towards a range of out of pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and flexible working as part of our approach to activity based working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Annual season ticket loan* (on completion of your probation period and if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• Cycle to work scheme* (eligible for scheme if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)

*Some benefits aren't available until you've passed your probation period and are dependent on the length of contract.

Main Responsibilities

As Regional Communications Manager you will lead, develop and deliver an effective communications plan that helps us achieve our strategic outcomes, increasing our reach, profile, reputation and influence across the region. You will use your extensive knowledge of communications strategy to proactively promote the work of Diabetes UK, raise awareness of diabetes among the public and providers of healthcare services, and to influence improvements in services for people with diabetes across south west and south central. You will adapt your messaging and approach, making use of a broad range of channels including all relevant regional and local broadcast, print, online, social media and other outlets to reach out and engage diverse audiences across our region with our work. You will understand the value and importance of ensuring the voice of people affected by diabetes is amplified within our communications. You will work closely with the regional team and wider organisation to help ensure communications is woven into all they do in order to maximise the impact of our work.

Ideal Candidate

As Regional Communications Manager you will have knowledge and experience of developing and delivering strategic communications projects across all disciplines including marketing, digital, print and events. You will understand how communications have evolved over the years and be confident working with a broad range of media to reach a varied and diverse audience. Your excellent relationship building and communication skills will enable you to develop, maintain and influence relationships with journalists, stakeholders and staff at all levels. You will have an excellent understanding of what makes a great story and experience of supporting and enabling people affected by health conditions to have their experiences heard. You will have management experience and be confident in setting objectives and supporting others to develop and thrive.

Unifrog’s mission

We’re on a mission to level the playing field when it comes to young people finding and applying for their next step after school. We're achieving this by bringing all the available information into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications. We also empower teachers and counselors to manage the progression process effectively.

Our outlook is global: we work with schools and universities all over the world, from the US to New Zealand, Somaliland to Burkina Faso, Italy to Hong Kong. We want to make it so that young people can compare every opportunity taught in English, wherever it is in the world, and have all the support they need to make successful applications.

We have a clear social purpose, and we’re hugely ambitious. We already work with nearly half of UK secondary schools, and hundreds of international schools. We are growing rapidly in terms of the number of our customers, in terms of how much they use our platform, and in terms of the breadth of products we offer.

Our team is at the heart of our business and is integral to our success. We work hard to foster a culture of happiness, openness, and innovation, and we commit to helping every individual learn and grow so that they can reach their full potential. We want to hire talented people, whatever their background. If you are excited by our mission and are ready to work hard, please don’t hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you! We believe in the power of diversity. If you are from an ethnic minority background, we strongly encourage you to apply. In advance of applying if you have any questions about working at Unifrog, please contact one of our Diversity Champions, Hannah or Farhana (visit our website for details).

Content at Unifrog



Whether we are communicating through image, video, animation or text, we always try to be straightforward, honest, and to show respect for the people with whom we are communicating. Clear communication is particularly important for us because our mission is to level the playing field when it comes to access to opportunities, and a big part of this effort is fair and straightforward access to information. It’s also important for us to be fun, while not talking down to young people.

Over the last few years, with only a small team, we have created more than 1,000 guides for students on topics to do with careers and PSHE, more than 250 plug-and-play teaching resources, and dozens of high quality short videos and animations. We have extremely high standards for content – everything has to be actually useful, and enjoyable.

Marketing at Unifrog

Our approach is to promote Unifrog through materials and events that offer something genuinely useful, not marketing for marketing’s sake. For example:

• We run popular webinars and virtual fairs for students and teachers, normally in partnership with universities and employers.
• We publish Insight Reports and a monthly newsletter, both of which use data analysis on Unifrog user behaviour to create actionable insights for teachers.

What you’ll lead on

You’ll have overall responsibility for ensuring that our content and marketing help us to reach our commercial and social impact objectives. This will include:

• Optimising how the content and marketing teams work, in particular:

o How content and marketing integrate with each other.

o How we come up with new ideas, get feedback, launch things, and assess their success.

o How we use data to understand how to develop our work.

• Refining our messages to different audiences, which has become increasingly important as our audiences have grown and diversified.
• Tackling some ambitious content projects we already have in the pipeline, which will involve expanding our partnership offering for universities and employers.
• Positioning Unifrog as a thought leader in the careers and destinations space, with a particular focus on:

o UK post-18 destinations (from widening participation in HE, to student engagement with apprenticeship opportunities).

o International HE recruitment.

o Young people’s priorities and concerns regarding their education and careers.

Working together

In the content and marketing teams we commonly brainstorm new ideas as a group, provide feedback on each other’s work, and get feedback from teachers and students at our partner schools. We promote good ideas regardless of where they come from.

You’ll manage our content team, which consists of experienced writers, teaching resource creators, video creators, and a graphic and motion designer.

You’ll also manage our marketing team, three people who focus mainly on our marketing collateral, the events we run and attend, and on our central communications to partners.

You’ll directly line-manage our Marketing Manager, Head of Student Content, and Head of Teacher Content. This will include conducting their 6-month performance reviews and supporting with their development goals.

In addition, you’ll work closely with people on our data insights, sales, account management, and strategy teams.

Your line manager will be Unifrog’s CEO, and some of your projects will be managed by one of Unifrog’s two Directors.

Key skills and characteristics

• Writing and editing skills

It’s essential that you are a skilled writer, easily able to create guides like this and this. You also need to be able to edit other people’s writing so that it meets the standard we need. We want someone who will put care and effort into making sure every piece of content we produce is high quality.

• Adept at feeding back on designs, images and videos

You won’t need to create designs, images or videos, but you need to be able to have an excellent eye for what looks good and what’s effective, and you need to be able to give helpful and insightful feedback.

• Creativity

We have lots of ideas for how we want content and marketing at Unifrog to develop, but you also need to come up with ideas.

• Making stuff happen

You need to be able to take an idea, run with it, and make it a reality, working with other people and overcoming any challenges along the way.

• Managing people

You need to be able to get the best out of the people you manage. Because of your high level of seniority, this will involve a fair amount of leadership – for example you’ll need to enthuse the people you manage to get behind a new project you are running.

• Project management

You’ll be creating and leading brand new, long-term, complex projects, involving multiple people, some of whom work externally to Unifrog.

• Data analysis

You won’t have to analyse data yourself, but you’ll need to be able to work with our data analysis team to make decisions about our content and marketing. You’ll need to think about what questions we need to answer, how they can be answered through data analysis, and then make decisions based on the analysis.

• Educationally and commercially minded

Our mission and our main goal, in everything we do (content and marketing included), is to create things that are helpful and useful for students. At the same time, you will also lead on developing revenue streams from our content - so you need to have an eye for what will work well commercially, and be able to balance those two objectives in the right way.

Key benefits

• Join one of ‘the best organisations to escape to in 2022’ and help transform careers and destinations in schools.
• Play a role in democratising access to learning: Unifrog makes a difference in young people’s lives. Every week you’ll have your work in front of hundreds of thousands of students, and tens of thousands of teachers.
• You’ll enjoy a significant degree of autonomy to run with your own ideas.
• Become part of a dynamic, and growing company. We want to build our team for the long term: if you do well, we will do our best to make sure you want to stay at the company for a long time. Professional development is important at Unifrog:

○ You will define your 6-month objectives and will be supported by your line manager and the rest of the team to achieve them.

○ You will have an annual training allowance to spend on what you need to grow and progress. As long as you are doing well in the role, and your line manager thinks the training makes sense for both you and the company, we’ll expect to fund whatever training you want.

• Influence the company’s direction: we love to promote great ideas, wherever they come from.
• We encourage good mental health and work life balance.
• For details of further benefits, please see the jobs page of our website.

Key details

• £60,000 per year (Grade E).
• Full-time.
• Work remotely, or flexibly in our London office.
• 28 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays).
• Working hours: 8:30am to 5:30pm or 9:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Thursday, and 9am to 4:30pm on Friday.
• Start date: as soon as possible, though we can be flexible for the right candidate.
• To discuss any details about the role before applying please contact Stephen (visit our website for details). Application process
• Deadline: 23:00 (UK) on Sunday 17th July 2022.
• To apply, please visit our website to:
• Submit one example of your best writing. It can be on any subject and for any purpose. Max 300 words.
• Write answers to the questions (250 words max each):

1. Why do you want to work at Unifrog?
2. What have you done that shows you have the skills you need for this role?

• Upload your CV.
• The next round of the application will include a content feedback and marketing task.
• Interviews will be held by Zoom, w/c 25th July 2022.

Head of Education and Training

Dated: June 2022

Contract: Full time, permanent

Salary: £48,000-50,000 per annum 

Start date: Immediate

Location: Home based with potential access to desk space in central London, if required; travel across the UK may be required from time to time as part of role (subject to covid guidance) 

Reporting to: Director of Strategy and Learning

Direct reports: None at this time

Annual leave: 25 days per year plus bank holidays

About the role

The Head of Education and Training is a new and critical role, created as part of our merger with YMCA George Williams College. By bringing together the College’s teaching legacy (including extensive course materials and associated learning platform) with the Centre’s research and insight, we hope to re-establish an education and training function that supports quality relational practice within the YMCA movement and beyond. As such, we have created a dedicated post to lead, design and develop our education and training offer and approach, including the partnerships and relationships that will support it. 

Training and capacity building has long been part of the Centre for Youth Impact’s work, but this has historically focused more on skills for evaluation and learning rather than quality practice in informal and non-formal learning. Our merger with the College creates an exciting opportunity to broaden our education and training activity in response to our learning about quality and impact over the past eight years. It also creates new potential for international learning partnerships to advance and extend our collective understanding. 

The Head of Education and Training will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing a new education strategy, working closely with the Director of Strategy and Learning. This strategy will include the education and training ‘offer’, the partnerships and relationships that support it, a solid understanding of the context/need/demand, and a robust approach to quality assurance.

 We want our education and training offer to encompass a range of modalities, including training courses, programmes of study, modules (that could stand alone or be incorporated into partners’ training offers), workshops, webinars and self-study resources. We would like to explore the role of and potential for accreditation, and for our offer to reflect our range of expertise. This includes:

• The ‘impact to improvement journey’: the design, delivery, and improvement of informal and non-formal provision to ensure that evaluation informs organisational learning;
• A ‘leading for impact’ programme: leadership, team development, collaborative working and shared learning across organisations to facilitate impact; 
• A continuous quality improvement offer focused on the core ‘mechanisms of change’ that evidence suggest support positive outcomes for young people; and 
• Our socio-emotional learning framework that supports practitioners and volunteers to create safe and supportive environments, role model socio-emotional skills, and offer engaging opportunities for young people. 

The Head of Education and Training will play a strong role in supporting income generation, and will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to embed insights from our research and evaluation activity into our education and training offer, alongside communicating with and reaching out to our networks.

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for an outstanding candidate with a deep understanding of relational practice, and how adults and young people learn and develop, social and emotionally. You will need to be imaginative and proactive, with strong interest and high-level skills in building alliances and collaborations. You will need well-developed skills in designing learning content and associated resources, alongside being an exceptional facilitator, trainer and coach. You will need to understand the world of further and higher education, and continuing professional development for youth workers in particular. You will also need to be comfortable bringing those skills into a fast-paced charity setting. An interest in and solid understanding of evaluation would be a distinct plus, as would an awareness of youth-focused public policy and system dynamics. 

You will have the ability to engage with humility and authenticity with a wide range of people and organisations working to support young people and their communities. You will be able to spot and make connections between relationships and areas of work and be alive to changes and patterns in the external policy and practice context and the opportunities they present for our charity. 

Finally, you will also need to be a strong and confident project manager and a compelling and confident writer and presenter who can communicate the breadth of our work. You will be comfortable representing us externally, and acting as a ‘thought leader’: openly reflecting the evolution of your ideas and thinking, and generously sharing your learning with others. 

Please follow the link to our website for the full job description and person spec.