The job of a Save the Children's Head of Creative Content and Stories is busy and varied.

• Do you have significant experience of leading strategic content initiatives in an international environment?

• Are you able to influence and negotiate across cultural differences?
• 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.

Job Purpose

The Head of Creative Content and Stories plays a fundamental role in how we tell our stories as an organisation. You will lead and inspire a team that delivers photo, film and story content to ensure the content we gather and produce is creative, compelling and adheres to our ethical and child safeguarding considerations. You will oversee all external commissioning of new content by providing expertise and contacts to the content producing teams.

As Head of Creative Content and Stories, you will work with teams across the organisation to find creative ways to tell stories and will provide creative quality oversight and creative support to our Partnership and Philanthropy teams.  You will also play a key role in the Brand and Creative SLT, provide creative direction to the organisation and ensure the content we produce is to the highest standards. You will work alongside the Head of Creative Studio and Operations to ensure we hold and manage a roster of excellent external individual shooting and producing talent.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will visibly lead our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

 Main Accountabilities

• Lead and be responsible for the development, creation and sharing of strong stories against a planned yearly calendar that docks into the single yearly organisational plan
• Lead a high performing team that delivers world-class photo, film and story content, that draws on knowledge of creative, innovative and compelling storytelling techniques that inspire and engage our audiences across print and digital platforms.
• Steer and support the Creative Development Manager roles within squads with creative quality oversight, ethical and child safeguarding considerations and best practice around the portrayal of the children we help.
• Support and socialise overall creative vision as set by the Director of Brand and Creative
• Provide expert creative guidance to content producing teams outside of squads, reviewing and approving content to ensure brand consistency and creative quality.
• Oversee all external commissioning of new content by providing expertise and contacts to the content producing teams
• Hold and manage roster of external individual shooting and producing talent
• Support the teams who produce content (e.g. Media, Studio and supporter engagement squads) by providing them with the raw and finished content and story packages they need to produce their communications materials and facilitating the docking of the team into ‘squads’ as expert advisors

• Act as key liaison with Heads of Global content creating teams, aligning and consolidating content requirements across the global Save The Children movement
• Act as point of contact and lead on ethical storytelling, image guidelines, best practice in global content gathering and overseeing final production risk assessments

Person Profile

Essential Technical Skills:

• Significant experience of leading strategic content initiatives in an international environment
• Knowledge of and experience in knowing what makes a ‘good’ story, and then seeking and delivering that story
• Proven track record of leading multimedia (film and photography) content producers and managing delivery of high quality content
• Proven track record of working on a wide variety of complex briefs from a variety of clients
• Experience of staff management including ability to motivate a team, set priorities, achievable work plans, and evaluate progress
• Experience of leading and overseeing large scale, multi-platform, multimedia creative projects
• Excellent contacts within the photographic and film industries.

Personal Skills:

• Ability to influence and negotiate across cultural differences
• Ability to prioritise effectively and to meet deadlines
• Good negotiation skills combining toughness with tact
• Excellent communication and team-work skills
• Ability to prioritise competing demands on your time while under pressure.

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.

‘I’m glad I volunteered. My industry has suffered during lockdown and I may be financially poorer, but I've been richer for getting involved.’

Engage and inspire Hackney residents to continue supporting their communities.

The Head of Volunteering develops and co-ordinates all aspects of the volunteering service run by Volunteer Centre Hackney (VCH) in particular the brokerage service and best practice guidance offer to charities. This is a key role in enabling VCH to expand volunteering and foster vibrant communities across Hackney. 2020 saw us support over 1400 people to share their skills and time, and we want to sustain and even increase this level of interest during 2021-22.

We provide a volunteering infrastructure service to over 600 local volunteer involving organisations through a team of dedicated staff, partners and volunteers. The Head of Volunteering spearheads the delivery of these services with a view to attracting more people to volunteer in new and challenging ways.

The role involves a wide range of duties including strategic planning, people management, partnership building, impact management, alongside project management and delivery of services.

We’re seeking someone passionate about supporting people to get involved in their community, with previous experience of planning, developing, delivering and evaluating volunteer projects and services.

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation that stands up for children? Then join us as Head of UK Impact and Investment, driving Save the Children’s Partnerships & Philanthropy and our cross organisational innovation strategy, across a variety of markets, including the UK.

About the Role

As Head of UK Impact Investment, Partnerships and Philanthropy you will be responsible for identifying and executing a £10million + portfolio of investment for new products in addition to delivering £10million per annum from more traditional forms of philanthropy.

You will also play a key leadership role in delivering our future innovation and impact investment strategy across a variety of markets, including the UK; helping Save the Children in facing 3 key strategic challenges: raising new unrestricted income; attracting new funding for our programmes (restricted income) and finding new impact for children through new partnerships and collaboration.

Key accountabilities

In addition to the above, you will:

• Lead all parts of the cycle from development of the innovation model to taking a new product to market and securing philanthropic capital, with an active pipeline of £10million in development for 2021
• Be a lead member in our Innovation cross organisational working group, with accountability to drive forward and pilot at least one new business model in 2021
• Be integral to the delivery of our strategy to build long lasting, highly engaged relationships with philanthropists leading, cultivating & stewarding, with on focus on 7 figure gifts & relationships
• Proactively set up external networks to enable best practice sharing with other INGOs, social enterprise, B-Corps, academia and others working in this space
• Work with the CEO’s office, trustees, and senior volunteers, to seek new opportunities and to help enhance or recognise our donor relationships.

Person profile

To be successful you will have direct experience of working in both the private and philanthropy sectors as well as experience of working within a company to drive innovation approaches. You will also have excellent strategic thinking capability and highly developed influencing skills. In addition you will have:

• Extensive understanding of new financing models to drive impact, including outcome funds, results based financing, social finance
• Excellent knowledge of private sector approaches in developing countries and fragile states (e.g., shared value, philanthropy, and corporate responsibility)
• Experience of developing, networking & enhancing philanthropic relationships, at £5m+ giving levels, and demonstrable experience of high level stewardship
• Excellent written skills, including development of compelling communications for donors.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

A crucial leadership role within Crisis, we are recruiting someone who is highly skilled and motivated to help us achieve big things over the next 12 months. 

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
Crisis has grown in terms of income, brand health, staff numbers, and impact in recent years, as we have responded to the growth in homelessness. The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the unacceptable realities of those living without a home during lockdown, but also a renewed effort to end homelessness in many parts of the UK. 
 

About the role
We are looking for a marketing and communications specialist who can lead important change programmes across a variety of fields. With the right person in this role we can seize opportunities to help more people in our front-line services, achieve more social change externally, and build more rewarding relationships with our amazing supporters. 

About you
The role demands someone who is experienced and comfortable leading change programmes in digital transformation, in the use data for insight and decision-making, in becoming sector leaders in supporter engagement, and in much else besides. We also insist that the post-holder is an active advocate for helping us become a more representative, diverse organisation. 

If this is you, please apply for the role, and for further information, including a chance to discuss the job, please get in touch, contact details can be found on our website.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
•  Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
•  Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5% 
•  25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.

Closing date: Wednesday 5th May 2021

Interviews will take place week commencing 17th May with the candidate ideally starting on Monday 21st June 2021. 

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds.  We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Flexible working available. We are open to a wide range of locations and working patterns, please ask.  We have a Central London office where we’ll need you to be at least once a month.

About the Centre

We are the UK’s national body for wellbeing evidence and practice aiming to improve wellbeing in the UK through the use of evidence. The Centre is an independent collaborative organisation working to understand what governments, business, communities and people can do to improve wellbeing using research, data, professional experience and trying things out. 

• Our vision is of a future where the wellbeing of people and communities improves year on year and wellbeing inequalities are reduced. We believe that improving wellbeing is the ultimate objective of policy and community action.
• Our mission is to develop and share robust, accessible and useful evidence that governments, businesses, communities and people use to improve wellbeing across the UK.

Our approach is independent, evidence based, collaborative, practical, open and iterative.

About the role

We are looking for a values-driven communications leader and expert with a track record of developing and delivering communications strategies that make an impact. You’ll be motivated to join the Centre's mission to protect and improve wellbeing through better, evidence-informed policy and practice. 

You’ll be managing a communications officer, and a number of freelancers who we work closely with to create awesome publications, digital products, and drive digital and media dissemination.The communications team is closely integrated with our evidence, implementation, and governance teams.

Top priorities

1. Help us get louder about our impact. To enhance the impact of our major campaigns and social change projects through securing national and regional broadcast and print coverage, integrating digital mobilisation and social media into campaign strategy.
2. Delivering high quality publications and products. To drive a step change in engagement through our weekly blog, research findings, social media, online learning, videos, digital hub, and so on to target audiences across public, private, and voluntary sectors.

Main responsibilities

Leadership and strategy

• Contribute to the development and delivery of strategy and priorities as a member of the senior leadership team.
• Lead the design and delivery of a communications strategy for internal and external audiences that delivers on mission and priorities.
• Strong understanding of collaboration and stakeholder engagement. 

Identity and message

• Manage a compelling organisation identity and narrative, driven by an understanding of audience needs.
• Embed this identity and related messages and voices into communication with all partners including through press, website, and internal communications.
• Collaborate across the Centre on design and delivery of a high-quality communication strategy to engage target audiences for effective knowledge use.

Impact

• Support the evidence and implementation teams from start to finish to lead on communications planning, product management, and dissemination of a range of outputs for different Centre audiences.
• Enable, through the team, the delivery of high-quality communications support for dissemination and engagement activities including press, social media, creative content and digital mobilisation.
• Lead on the Centre’s learning, testing, and adapting communication processes, products, and channels in response to user analytics.

Project, finance, people management and teamwork 

• Confident product and project management skills across a shifting portfolio of activities. 
• Manage the communications budget and contribute to Centre business planning and monitoring.
• Line management and management of freelancers.
• Ability to work as part of a team and as a senior leader within it.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of communications areas including press and media, internal engagement, campaign and influencing, digital, public affairs, brand and reputation management.
• At least five years in a senior communications position developing and delivering communications strategy with impact and demonstrable results.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, juggling competing demands.
• It is desirable that you have experience leading a communications function or team, especially in a small team with big impact.

Skills and knowledge

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing a website, ideally on a WordPress platform.
• Experience using digital analytics to understand and improve experience for users, e.g. Google analytics.
• Excellent time and project management skills.
• Ability to develop impactful and accurate messaging and narratives from different types of research.
• Knowledge of digital platforms and how they relate to engagement and outreach.
• At least a basic understanding of creative tools, such as Adobe CC.

Values

• A strong desire for evidence-informed change to value wellbeing as a policy and practice outcome.
• Appetite for both strategic leadership and some hands-on delivery.
• Respect for a wide diversity of people, approaches, and perspectives.
• A strong team leader, adaptable and flexible in approach.
• Self-motivated and accountable.

Eden Brown is working with a fantastic charity in London who is looking for an experienced, creative and highly motivated Head of Marketing & Communications to join their senior management team. You will lead and develop the marketing and communications strategy at a pivotal time in the charity's history, building on their reputation as an innovative and high-quality service provider as we work to transform the lives of children and families facing social, emotional or mental health challenges and children and adults with learning disabilities or autism into the future.

The Head of Marketing & Communications will be responsible for driving stakeholder engagement as well as supporting income generation on which their vital work depends. The right person will enjoy working as part of a team and be adept at juggling competing priorities. You'll feel comfortable dealing with a wide range of stakeholders, from the charity's service users, care staff and Trustees to journalists, donors and our volunteers. Working closely with their Director of Transformation, you'll implement and establish a range of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of their communications activity in a challenging and competitive market.

For this role we are looking for someone with the following experience:

* Demonstrable extensive skills, knowledge and experience in the design and execution of marketing campaigns, communications and public relations activities in busy environment with multiple stakeholders
* Strong creative, strategic, analytical, organisational and sales skills
* Experience of developing and managing budgets, training, developing, supervising and appraising marketing teams
* Experience of developing and implementing an External and Internal Communications strategy
* Demonstrable successful experience of developing compelling external content

This is an exciting opportunity and the charity will be holding interviews on a rolling basis so email your CV to Eden Brown immediately.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

The job of a Save the Children's UK Head of Brand is busy and varied.

• Are you a highly experienced brand marketeer with track record of leading and delivering successful brand campaigns?
• Do you have strong leadership skills?
• Do you have a real passion for translating brand positioning into action?
• 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.

Job Purpose

The role of Head of Brand plays a critical role in our journey of becoming a more brand inspired organisation and help us to meet our objective of becoming a loved brand. We've made great progress in the last few years to develop a compelling new positioning with a distilled articulation to help everyone understand the role they can play in building our brand, and have seen some really positive shifts. We've also used our brand articulation to develop a new three-year integrated campaign platform, to ensure that everything we do is consistently and distinctively building our brand. This role comes at the critical delivery stage of our new direction.

As Head of Brand, you will lead and develop an outstanding team of brand specialists who are focused on successfully building the Save the Children brand in the UK. You will be expected to apply deep expertise on brands and branding to help shape the overall brand strategy and ensure successful implementation across the organisation. You will head up a team of 2 Senior Brand Managers and 1 Brand Manager and play an essential leadership role on the Brand and Creative SLT and F&M extended SLT (ESLT), making sure teams have knowledge and skills to become more brand inspired and helping them to achieve our brand objectives. You will also play an active role in the Global brand team, providing expert insight and helping to shape the direction for the Save the Children movement.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will visibly lead our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

 Main Accountabilities

• Lead the implementation of our brand proposition and strategy within the team and by internal stakeholders
• Prioritise and define brand-building activity to feed into the annual and quarterly planning process, working closely with the Head of Strategic Marketing Planning, and lead on the scoping and development of brand-led initiatives.
• Work closely with ESLT to ensure brand remains a key priority within their business areas and clear brand KPIs are set and monitored so that all activity is brand-inspired.
• Identify opportunities for our brand through trends, data, insight and market analysis, to scope and define new ways to achieve our objectives and provide a clear pipeline to feed into our planning process and refine our brand strategy.
• Lead and develop a team of highly skilled brand specialists, providing clear direction and all-round branding expertise. Ensure the team have a clear vision and manage their training and development programme, working with Squad leads to identify areas for development.

Person Profile

Essential Technical Skills:

• Deep expert knowledge of brands and branding with a strong track record of in working on brand development and a real passion for shaping brands. 
• Highly experienced brand marketeer with track record of leading and delivering successful brand campaigns.
• A strategic thinker with experience of successfully influencing and directing strategic brand development in a complex stakeholder environment. Ability to provide expert advice and shape strategies.
• Strong creative credentials with a real understanding of the importance of creative excellence, and the components of the brand’s visual and verbal identity.
• Ability to set clear direction, prioritize ruthlessly and manage expectations of multiple stakeholders.

• Strong leadership skills with experience in leading a high performing communications team.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills including the ability to build rapport and credibility across multiple stakeholders, internally and externally at all levels.
• Energy, drive and initiative; will push self and others to achieve; a positive and proactive team player.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s mission, values, and brand behaviours.

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.

Your new company
One of the largest housing association, part of the G15. They are one of the most supportive housing association across the UK in terms on Mental Health, Adult Social Care and Resident Welfare.

Your new role
As Head of Corporate Communications you will be leading a team of five and report into the CEO, the communications team supports the organisation to achieve its corporate objectives. The next year will be a particularly challenging one, so your role will be to strategically lead and advise the team on how to best approach sensitive communications challenges and act as a senior leader for briefings, media training and combating negative attention . In this role you won't be redesigning the communications strategy or reorganising the team, but more leading and advising the team, during a trying time. Aside from that the organisation are also looking to grow, expand and develop their public affairs campaigns over the next year and are really looking to focus their attention on Adult Social Care and Homelessness. This role has some budget responsibility, the budget is small and mainly for staffing and software. The organisation are very collaborative, you will be liaising with a number of internal teams from HR, Marketing and Policy, in making sure all messaging is consistent and on brand.

What you'll need to succeed
We are looking for a strong senior media professional that has lead broad teams, focused on Media, Crisis Communications, Public Affairs and External Communications. You will likely come from the public sector with a good understanding of the housing sector, ideally you will have previous experience within a large housing association or local government with a good understanding of social housing and social care. The main channels you are using as a team are traditional and social media, website content, public affairs, brand, online and offline publications. To be able to lead the team, you must have a good understanding of all of these channels.

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary, the opportunity to work with an organisation the strives to give back to the community and the opportunity to manage some high-profile campaigns.

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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As part of a small, ambitious team you will be both proactive and reactive, producing engaging content that will help raise the profile of Good Law Project and its work with key audiences. You will be creative, deliver new insights and draw relevant conclusions that will help us influence the debate and turn up the dial on scrutiny. This role will report to our Head of Communications.

Key responsibilities:

• Draft copy to feature on our website and social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

• Manage the Good Law Project Twitter account, with support from Head of Communications.

• Help triage the press inbox and press line. 

• Help draft press releases and comments for media stories.

• Help maintain and build relationships with relevant contacts in media, politics and the third sector.

• Provide briefing materials for key audiences on top lines and angles that emerge out of the information and documents uncovered in the course of our litigation. 

• Weekly and daily monitoring of parliamentary affairs and ad hoc research tasks.

• Provide planning and event management support for Good Law Project public facing and supporter events e.g. panel discussions, workshops and roundtables.

• Be flexible and carry out other associated duties as may arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the role.

We are looking for a new Head of Analysis to direct and deliver ECIU’s analysis work on the UK’s transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions, with a primary focus on power, heat, and buildings sectors.

This is a senior role within the organisation, reporting directly to the Director. The job holder will oversee all aspects of ECIU’s domestic work, including analysis of the key parts of the UK’s net zero transition and the effective communication of that analysis to a broad range of stakeholders including journalists, parliamentarians, business and civil society organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic oversight and day-to-day management of ECIU’s UK work programme;
• Analysis and report writing using quantitative and qualitative data;
• Writing blogs, articles, briefing notes and commentary on all aspects of the UK’s net zero transition;
• Being a trusted and objective source to explain developments and analysis on UK decarbonisation to the media;
• Maintaining a regular programme of oral and written media briefings on topical issues;
• Keeping abreast of and responding appropriately to developments in the UK’s decarbonisation agenda;
• Management of analysts, contractors and consultants;
• Developing and maintaining an extensive network of stakeholders, including in government and in the media, and close collaboration with other actors in the net zero landscape including business groups, academics and NGOs;
• Acting as one of ECIU’s primary spokespeople, including writing articles, blogs and speaking with media and parliamentarians.

 Required Skills and Experience

 Essential

 Knowledge and Context

• A comprehensive understanding of the key challenges and opportunities associated with the UK’s transition to net zero;
• An excellent appreciation of the wider political and economic context within which net zero sits;
• Significant experience working in UK energy and climate policy and political landscape;

Analysis

• An analytical background, with an appreciation of analytical rigour and high standards in work;
• High levels of familiarity with government and other data sets;
• Numerically minded, able to quickly analyse data and summarise in an accessible way; an ability to use data to tell a story;
• Experience conducting quantitative economic and policy analysis in the relevant sectors and communicating the findings to a range of stakeholders.

Programme & Team Management

• Experience leading programmes and teams, while having the ability to work independently at an advanced level;
• Experience devising and delivering strategies and workplans, setting clear direction for a team, motivating and line managing team members, proactively developing and project managing the work of a team;
• Be a team player.

Communication and Networks

• Strong communication skills – written and oral. Excellent command of the English language;
• Ability to develop and maintain networks, and to pick up and run engagement with media figures, including reporters, commentators and producers;
• An understanding of the workings – and experience of working with – the British media;
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment with multiple partners and shifting contexts.

Desirable

 An established reputation in the UK media;

• Experience of writing to deadline or in quick-turnaround situations;
• Experience chairing events and briefing senior stakeholders.

Terms and Conditions

This full-time position is offered as a permanent contract with 3-month probationary period.

This is advertised as a full-time position. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements. The ECIU team have been mainly working from home over the past few months and we envisage that may continue for some time to come. Notionally, the post-holder work from ECIU’s central London office. Some degree of flexibility is necessary, with occasional out-of-hours work needed and setting ‘getting the job done’ as a priority – but this flexibility works both ways.

Travel within the UK may be necessary from time to time. Holiday entitlement is 30 days per year, plus statutory holidays. ECIU also provides an auto-enrolment pension scheme.

How to apply

Please send a CV and a one-page cover letter, together with an article or other piece of work you have written on a relevant topic before midnight on Monday 10th May 2021. Interviews will be held in the weeks commencing 17th and 24th May 2021, with the aim of the successful applicant starting as soon as possible.

For a request to discuss the role as part of your application please state this in your covering letter.

All applications will be treated confidentially. We will store your information in our internal database unless you specifically request otherwise.

Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Harris Hill is delighted to be working with a fantastic National Charity in their search for a Head of Digital & Engagement. In this truly exciting new role, you will head up a team of five strong high performing Digital and Engagement colleagues, overseeing all digital, brand, PR and marketing activities.

Working closely with the Director of Income & Engagement you will determine the digital strategy to support the charities strategic aims. Key to leading digital change, you will be responsible for all digital marketing functions, driving digital brand growth, supporter development, growing income through digital channels and developing key digital support services. You will be committed to delivering a high-quality digital experience for everyone who accesses the charities services for support, their partners and of course supporters across all channels, including social media, websites, e-comms, digital fundraising platforms and mobile.

This role will also lead on integrated campaigns that inform, inspire, commemorate and mobilise, and will be at the forefront of creating innovative digital campaigns that expand both reach and support.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a true team player with a highly collaborative and egalitarian approach.

Please note, this role is home-based.

If you're interested in hearing, please send an up-to-date CV to

[email protected] Successful candidates will be contacted with further information.

Fixed term contract for 12 months

Do you want to play a key role in an organisation which stands up for children? Join us as our Head of Child Poverty (maternity cover) and help us to change outcomes for children experiencing the injustice of poverty in the UK.

Every child has the right to have their basic needs met, and to receive the support to ensure they can reach their full potential. The greatest barrier to this in the UK is poverty and inequality. 

Our UK mission is to make a sustainable reduction in the number of children growing up in poverty, and to narrow the learning gap between those children and their better-off peers.

We believe this future is possible. It requires more money to be put back into the pockets of parents and carers, decent jobs, more opportunities for young children to play and learn, and policies and services which centre children and families' needs, reduce discrimination, and that are designed to help children to flourish by preventing difficulties at the earliest possible stage: in pregnancy, at birth, in the crucial first 1,001 days of life and throughout childhood.

We work closely with the communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

This role is situated in the UK Impact Department within our Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns Division. We integrate lobbying government, research, policy, media and campaigning and organising into one agile, powerful engine for change. It's fundamental to how we do things that we alongside families who know what poverty feels like.

As Head of Child Poverty, you will lead Save the Children's child poverty work to influence the UK government. You will work with minimal supervision, leading a multi-disciplinary team to drive change for children in poverty, alongside families on low incomes and other organisations. You'll also line manage the child poverty policy team, consisting of a senior policy adviser and adviser. You'll be able to hit the ground running quickly, spot how we can respond quickly to new opportunities in a fast moving environment, while keeping focused on how we can maximise impact for the long term.  You'll have significant experience of leading teams and enabling staff to be their best, developing high impact partnerships and collaborations, and applying your strategic thinking to develop campaign approaches that build public and political support. Understanding of the child poverty policy landscape is also desirable.

You will:

• Further develop and drive Save the Children's UK child poverty strategy 2021 - 2024, reporting to the Director of UK Impact and working with colleagues across the 4 nations
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team of policy, campaigns, media and public affairs specialists, including two direct line reports and matrix management of the rest of the team
• Oversee the development our stakeholder engagement and management strategy for our child poverty work, and for leading on relationships with key external stakeholders in line with this strategy, ensuring that we always keep a focus on how our work can support and amplify that of others for greatest impact
• Accountable for the delivery of our UK child poverty strategy and using learning to continue to develop and refine it
• Contribute to the strategic leadership of all of our work to help children and families in the UK as a member of our UK Leadership team

To be successful you will have / be:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the child poverty policy context, or expertise in a similar field
• Demonstrable strategic thinking skills and political nous, which enables you to develop effective plans for change, working with others
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve significant public policy changes and engage the public, as well as some line management experience
• Experience of ensuring that children and families from low incomes are meaningfully involved in policy and strategy development, and in advocacy and campaigning
• Experience of working with external stakeholders from a variety of sectors to maximise impact, based on establishing a shared vision and values
• Experience of creating a learning culture to develop and improve strategies and campaigns, and to enable all members of the team to learn and develop their skills and knowledge
• Solutions-focused with a creative problem-solving approach
• Comfortable taking risks, in order to learn, grow and develop
• A strong team player with an empowering and collaborative working style, and excellent interpersonal skills
• Positive, resilient, and committed to improving the lives of families on low incomes across the UK, demonstrating positive leadership behaviours to others

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.

At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

If you share our belief in the power of children, join the fight. It takes relentless determination, creativity, and a commitment to real change. Because every child should be able to make their mark on their world and help to build a better future. We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 25th April

Interviews will take place w/c 3rd May

For more information and to apply please visit our website. 

Please note - whilst this role is advertised as office based, Save The Children UK will remain a remote-working organisation until at least 30 June 2021.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as these are underrepresented at Save the Children UK.

This UK cancer charity works tirelessly to transform the future for women in the UK who are living with ovarian cancer. Since its creation in 2008 the charity has become the authority on ovarian cancer, working to raise awareness, fund research, and save lives.

Working closely with the women the charity supports, this organisation has ambitious plans for the future and is focused on doubling survival rates, which are currently amongst the worst in Europe, by 2050.

A brand new role, the Head of Marketing will lead the growth of charity's external profile and work to engage more people affected by ovarian cancer. This is a key role within the organisation, and main responsibilities will be:

- Building the organisations profile to help ensure that everyone affected by ovarian cancer knows the charity can help theM

- Developing and implementing a comprehensive marketing strategy to ensure that a greater share of the organisations key audiences is engaged

- Developing and implementing a comprehensive brand proposition

- Ensure that women with ovarian cancer are seen and heard in all our marketing and brand activities

- Leading strategic marketing initiatives including integrated campaigns, from strategy, planning, implementation and evaluation to deliver the charity's organisational objectives including fundraising, campaigning and service provision

- Working across the organisation to lead coordinated marketing activities, and developing relationships to coach marketing skill set

-Developing and delivering digital marketing content to engage all audiences, and working with content producers across the organisation

- Effectively managing external suppliers, and leading the charity's external advertising programme

- Recruitment and line management of the Marketing & Communications Officer

This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of exciting growth within a hugely passionate, dedicated, organisation that undertakes ground-breaking work. The charity is keen to hear from candidates with the following skills and experience:

- Demonstrable experience of significant marketing achievements, particularly across digital channels

- Demonstrable experience of leading integrated campaigns with measurable impact

- Expertise in creating innovative marketing campaigns

- Strong experience of managing, developing and evaluating brands, and delivering brand strategy

- A solid understanding of digital audiences and channels including social media and digital advertising

- Excellent writing skills with the ability to write compelling, accurate copy for a range of audiences both off and online

- Excellent project management and planning skills

- Track record of successfully leading a team

If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to or call on 020 7939 7448 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.

Please note, due to the number of applications we receive we aren't always able to respond to unsuccessful candidates.

About MHFA England

MHFA England is a social enterprise and the leading provider of mental health skills and awareness training courses in England. Our vision is to improve the health of the nation, through normalising society’s attitudes and behaviours around mental health, by developing the skills we need to look after our own and others’ wellbeing. Learn about our social mission and our history by reading our 'what we do section' on our website.

We are a friendly, dynamic, fast-paced organisation and we strive to be an exemplary health and wellbeing employer.  We are launching an ambitious Digital Transformation Programme to seamlessly connect and engage Customers, Clients, Members and Staff and support our mission to train 1:10 of the population in mental health knowledge and skills.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an individual who can plan, develop and deliver a membership and staff communications plan that is aligned with MHFA England’s membership engagement plan and people plan and support external communications activity. The role has a focus on Instructor Member, supporter and staff communications. It is also responsible for supporting wider communications and campaign initiatives. All activity will be delivered in line with MHFA England’s vision, mission and commercial and brand strategy.

You will be able to:

• Manage the development and delivery of a communications plan for MHFA England’s membership, to support commercial revenue targets and impact goals.
• Manage the development and delivery of an internal communications plan and calendar for MHFA England’s staff to support the organisation’s people plan.
• Work with the Head of Communications and Campaigns to translate communications and campaigns insight to inform and shape strategic planning.
• Day to day management of assigned budget to ensure that activity is in line with agreed plans. 
• Provide regular, insight driven and outcome focused reporting for the directorate.
• Track, analyse and optimise campaigns and activity to inform decision making and ensure maximum return on investment.

You will have:

• Communications and campaigns management experience 
• Experience of membership and internal communications 

Essential skills:

• Exceptional copywriting, editing and proofreading skills 
• Speech and brief writing skills
• Relationship management and networking skills 
• Ability to manage workload independently
• Analytical skills in data management, research and reporting
• Experience of working with CRM and CMS to deliver campaign activity 

Looking after you

Wellbeing is at the heart of all that we do and say, we are friendly and supportive organisation. We are committed to rewarding our employees with competitive pay, a flexible and supportive workplace, opportunities to grow and develop, and our promise that we will put your wellbeing first.

What we offer:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Two wellbeing breaks, in summer and winter
• Free Mental Health First Aid training
• Employee Assistance Programme with a 24-hour helpline from Health Assured, occupational health and counselling
• Free flu jab to protect your health in winter

Employee benefits after probation period:

• Investing in your professional development, including qualifications and mentoring
• Death-in-service and critical illness cover
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Free eye test and £55 towards glasses
• Cycle to work scheme with an interest free loan to buy a bicycle
• Matched pension scheme (up to 5%)
• Flexible working hours and access to flexible ways of working
• Commitment to volunteering
• Fun Club, festive events and celebration
• Team lunches and events
• 'Bonusly' employee recognition and reward scheme

Interested? How to apply

For the full job description and person specification please see the attached documents./ Go to our website for further information.

To apply please submit a covering letter and CV demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role. The closing date for applications is Sunday 25th April 2021.

Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd May 2021.

Mental Health First Aid England is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or those who are pregnant or on maternity leave. We are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented within the organisation, these include but are not limited to those from the LGBT+ community, people with disabilities, and those from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background.

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