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Here at Crohn’s & Colitis UK we’re looking for a dynamic and innovative Digital Marketing & Content Manager who can help us cut through the noise and reach the people who need us most.
We’re looking for a digital leader and strategic thinker who can help drive the rollout of our Social Media and Content Strategy. We need someone who can take responsibility for the delivery of the charity’s Digital Strategy, and who really understands what it is work with a Hub and Spoke approach. You’ll need a good head for safeguarding too – as the safety and wellbeing of those who use our social channels is paramount.
Our digital marketing content and social media channels are the first point of contact many people have with Crohn’s & Colitis UK. We need someone who can amplify our voice and lead the way with excellence as we continue to make our presence known.
Full details of the Job Description and Person Specification are found in our Recruitment Pack,
Benefits of working for Crohn’s & Colitis UK
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing one day per year up to 30 days
- Pension scheme
- Flexible working options
- Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Wellbeing programme
- Interest free loan for season tickets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking and secure bike locks
- Training and development financial support and/or study leave
- Performance review and development scheme
About Us
We're the UK's leading charity for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.
A diagnosis of Crohn’s or Colitis is life-changing. Over 500,000 people in the UK are living with a lifelong disease many people have never heard of, and for which there is no known cure.
Crohn’s & Colitis UK funds research, provides award winning information and support and raises vital awareness by increasing the public’s understanding of the conditions, and what it means to live with debilitating symptoms. But we need to do more. We need to be a louder voice in the marketplace. Our ambitious plans for 2024, will help to make a real difference to every supporter’s journey with us. If this excites you - join us!
How to apply
Please submit a CV and supporting statement outlining why you’d like to apply, how you fulfil the person specification, and what you feel you will bring to the role, so you’ll need to refer to the Recruitment Pack.
Closing Date: Monday 8th April 9.00am
Please note, applications will be assessed as and when they are received, and interviews arranged, so we may close the position before the closing date if a suitable candidate is found.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We are not a licensed sponsor at this time. Any offer of employment will be made subject to valid right to work in the UK being provided.
We will not be accepting any contact from Recruitment Agencies or Media Sales
Only applicants submitting a CV with a supporting statement detailing how you fulfil the person specification, and what you feel you will bring to the role and the charity.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This key role presents an excellent opportunity to see projects through from conception to completion and to play a part in shaping how we work and what we do. You will have responsibility for day-to-day operation of UCISA, including technical Infrastructure and systems used to deliver UCISA’s services to our members. You will deputise on operational matters for the CEO and represent and advocate for UCISA alongside other management team colleagues.
You will be reporting directly to and working closely with UCISA’s CEO and have opportunities to develop your own skills in running an organisation in an innovative and agile way. Ultimately, you’ll ensure our operations run smoothly and that people are productive.
The role sits within the Management Team and the post holder will deputise for the CEO alongside management colleagues.
Summary of key Terms and Conditions
Contract: Permanent Full time, Oxford based, hybrid
Hours per week: 37.5, Monday-Friday with some flexibility to support UCISA events and participate in team days
Salary: £55,000-£65,000 per year (depending on candidate experience and skill set)
Leave: 30 days annual leave & 8 Bank Holidays
Pension: Defined Contribution scheme (6.7% employer contribution, voluntary employee contribution 0-6.7%)
Reporting to: CEO
To apply for this role please follow the instructions provided. The closing date for this role is 10:00 (10am) 26 April 2024. Interviews will take place on Friday 31 May 2024 at the UCISA office in Oxford and will include relevant skills tests.
Please ensure that your CV addresses the personal specification criteria in the job description document. Your supporting statement must be no longer than 2 x A4 pages
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Context and Background
The innovative services that we develop are a critical part of the NSPCC’s fight for every childhood. We transform lives by working directly with some of the most vulnerable children and families. This role will help develop our service offer in respect of preventing and tackling child sexual abuse, with a focus on the ongoing development, coordination and implementation of our secondary education service. This aims to support secondary education settings to be places that foster healthy relationships and keep, young people safe from abuse.
Job purpose
• Scoping, leading and project managing programmes, services and products within the Development and Implementation Team within set timescales and budgets.
• Managing a matrix approach to service development and design, bringing together people, resources, skills and talent from across the organisation to conceptualize, design and create new programmes, services and products
• Working with a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure that all new developments are informed and underpinned by evidence, have a theory of change and support the NSPCC in delivering its strategy
• Working with research colleagues to plan how outcomes and impact will be measured for each new development.
Key relationships - Internal
Reporting to the Associate Head of Development with close links to the Head of Development and Implementation, the post holder will work closely with an internal project team, managing workstream leads from digital, comms, content development, schools service, income generation and subject matter experts and have frequent interaction at Director level and other senior stakeholders. They will be in frequent contact with multiple teams and directorates as they operate a matrix style of project development.
Key relationships - External
This role will develop relationships at Director level and other senior stakeholders across a range of external partners including from Education, Children Services, Police, Health Partners and the third sector for the purpose of influencing, learning, collaboration and engagement. They will also work closely with participation and people with lived experience who support service development.
Main duties and responsibilities
1. Project delivery
· Accountable for end to end delivery of the development and delivery of projects within the D&I team, with a focus on education
· Ensure projects are well managed and desired outcomes are achieved and benefits realised
· Lead a matrix approach to service development and design bringing together a multifaceted team from inside and outside of the NSPCC
2. Governance
· Establish and maintain an effective governance and project framework for any development
· Ensure the correct oversight and controls are in place
· Ensure project paperwork is complete including risks and issues logs
· Produce up to date high quality reports and data in relation to the project
3. Quality
· Work with quality assurance processes to ensure all services developed are to a high standard and regularly reviewed for accuracy
· Review, scrutinise, challenge and apply evidence from a wide variety of sources to inform development
· Work with research and evidence colleagues to test and learn and improve services
4. Relationships
· Actively seek input from a range of subject matter experts and those with lived experience as part of any development
· Work closely with colleagues from across multiple teams and departments during all stages of development
Responsibilities for all Staff within the Strategy and Knowledge
A commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
• A sound understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Commitment to living our values and guiding principles, as set out in our strategy.
Person specification
1. Knowledge relevant to NSPCC strategic objectives, specifically the education sector, relationships and sex education
2. Experienced in managing complex, fast paced, multi-agency/client relationships and cross organisational teams to deliver multiple projects
3. Significant experience in the successful design and development of innovative, evidence based services, ideally within the education sector
4. Application of structured project management techniques to plan, monitor and deliver projects involving many stakeholders and teams in their delivery
5. Understanding of implementing evidence-based programmes, within public services
6. Evidence of excellent interpersonal, influencing and networking skills and an ability to establish credibility with external professionals and stakeholders
7. Highly developed communication and presentation skills, able to explain complex technical information clearly and confidently, to a range of technical and non-technical audiences
8. Financial acumen and experience of financial modelling and developing and managing budgets
9. A personal commitment to ending cruelty to children, and to making safeguarding everyone’s responsibility.
This role is homebased/flexible but does require some travel within the UK.
Safer Recruitment
As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk.
Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.
The recruitment and selection of our people will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.
Our principles:
• Always seek to recruit the best candidate for the role based on merit including their skills, experience, motivation and competencies. Our robust recruitment and selection process should ensure the identification of the person best suited to the role and the organisation.
• Committed to diversity and equality of opportunity and will interview all applicants (internal and external) who self-declare at application as having a disability and who meet the minimum requirements in the person specification of the vacancy they are applying for.
• We will make reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process in order to enable successful candidates who declare disabilities to start working or volunteering their time with us.
• Any current member of staff or volunteer who wishes to apply for vacancies and is suitably qualified will be considered and addressed fairly and objectively based on their merit.
• As an organisation committed to safeguarding, we will ensure all under 18’s joining the organisation will have ongoing risk assessments to ensure their role and activities are safe and appropriate.
• All documentation relating to candidates will be treated confidentially in accordance with the GDPR legislation.
Head of Communications Maternity cover
Job Type: Fixed Term (9-12 months)
Location: Vauxhall
Salary: £50,000 per annum.
The Role
Join The Forward Trust, a leading addiction and criminal justice charity at a crucial time of development. As a senior leader you will work with us to develop cut through marketing, campaigns and communication strategies to promote our charitable mission to help people break free from cycles of addiction and crime to reach their potential. We campaign to end stigma associated with addiction and past offending so that more people seek help for an addiction and to inspire people that a better life is possible.
This role is an exciting opportunity to change public, media and political mindsets and help The Forward Trust on its journey to transform its communications and marketing to become a leading voice in the sector, alongside creative marketing that engages existing and new audiences to support and promote our work.
We are passionate about our equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. This role will be vital in supporting the organisation to develop its internal communications so that all Forward staff, volunteers and clients feel connected to the mission. It will also work to improve our reach to clients past, present and future in their own space to help build our Forward Connect community.
This is a fixed term contract for 9-12 months.
Skills and Qualifications
· You will have the experience of leading communications
· Developing and implementing marketing strategies and understand the power of creative and digital content.
· You will be driven to change lives through creative communications and to inspire your team to work together to deliver results.
· You will consistently use evidence to test results and will be willing to test ideas whilst delivering against an ambitious communications plan.
Benefits
· Training opportunities and career development
· Flexible working
· Season Ticket Loan Scheme
· Electric Vehicle Scheme
· Simply Health Cash Plan
· Cycle to work scheme
· 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
· Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
· Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
· Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for The Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website where you can complete your application.
Do you have a passion for ending poverty, building partnerships, and growing the Kingdom of God? Then join our energetic, visionary and creative team.
We’re looking for an experienced and driven fundraising and communications professional to help us achieve God’s vision of human flourishing.
In this varied and versatile position, you’ll lead our fundraising and communications team and play a key role in resourcing and promoting CUF’s work to follow Jesus in serving the most disadvantaged people in our communities. You will help us communicate and celebrate the positive impact that churches have in the places in which we live.
As a key member of our management team, you’ll develop and implement comprehensive fundraising and communication strategies to help us deliver impactful work with the Church of England and other Christian denominations.
With a broad range of responsibilities across fundraising, communications, marketing and public relations, you’ll play a leading role in celebrating the CUFs achievements through powerful story-telling, impact reporting and effective media relations. You’ll also develop our digital strategy, with overall responsibility for our website, social media channels and email marketing.
How to apply
For an informal conversation about this role and for more information, please contact our Deputy CEO, The Rev’d Adam Edwards
To apply, please send/email an up-to-date CV and covering letter outlining your relevant skills and experience, relating to the listed responsibilities and person specification
Closing date: Midday Monday 15th April, with interviews Tuesday 30th April (in London)
Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with Black Equity Organisation (BEO), in the recruitment of their new Head of Communications & External Affairs. Black Equity Organisation is an independent, national Black civil rights organisation created to dismantle systemic racism in Britain, drive generational change and deliver better lived experiences for Black people across the country. This is an exciting and newly created role, in which you will be leading on all BEO’s communications channels. This position is offered as a permanent, full-time role and will report to the CEO.
As the Head of Comms & External Affairs, you will lead on the implementation of the organisations communications strategy, including developing their brand and narrative. You will be responsible for overseeing BEO’s political engagement strategy and will ensure that BEO builds and maintains an influential network of political stakeholders, including parliamentarians and relevant senior government officials. You will support BEO to fulfil its purpose by deepening its understanding and clarifying its positioning in the current landscape. You will develop and execute marketing and communications activities that build BEO as a distinctive national brand.
To be successful in this role, you will have experience in marketing and/or communications roles, ideally within the third sector. You will have experience of developing and implementing impactful external affairs strategies, together with experience of developing digital comms strategies and successfully using digital channels to promote a brand or campaign. You should have a solid track record with building and leading the delivery of an integrated brand, marketing and communications strategy at a national level. You will need to have comprehensive knowledge and experience of the UK political landscape and legislative process, experience of influencing the legislative processes across the nations and regions and experience of working and building relationships across political parties. You will have experience of crisis comms management and risk mitigation, together with experience of running a busy press office function. You will be ambitious, with strong situational judgement skills and the ability to act diplomatically to influence effectively. Above all, you will have a commitment to Anti-Racism and a commitment to the mission of BEO.
In order to apply please submit your CV and Supporting Statement explaining how you meet the requirements of the position. BEO will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy. If you are eligible for this guaranteed interview scheme, please let us know as part of your application.
Following your application, you may be contacted by Prospectus for an informal discussion and be asked to provide further information to assist with this recruitment process. Prospectus are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community, including those with lived experience. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.
The Senior Marketing Coordinator will create, manage, and optimise new and existing media campaigns for Paid Search (including Google Ads Grant), Paid Social (Meta, X, and LinkedIn), Display Advertising and play a key role in supporting the Individual Giving Team to deliver digital fundraising activity.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Working as a key member of the Marketing, Communications and Individual Giving Team (MC&IG), you will help amplify the vision and mission of Trees for Cities, and work with internal teams to target, engage and convert specific audiences in line with our annual business plans and three-year organisational strategy, The Turn of Trees.
You will be responsible for providing comprehensive paid digital marketing support to the Marketing, Communications and Individual Giving Team and lead various cross-organisational programmers and initiatives - helping to strengthen the execution of our integrated marketing, individual giving & communications plans.
In addition to applying your experience in planning, delivering, and evaluating digital campaigns, this is an exciting opportunity to use your creative flair, creativity and copywriting skills to have a significant impact as we implement and coordinate a new digital direction for the charity’s external paid for communication efforts.
ABOUT TREES FOR CITIES
Trees for Cities is an ambitious, far-reaching organisation. We are the only charity that focuses on planting, protecting and promoting urban trees across the UK and overseas. We are a rapidly growing and developing organisation that suits ambitious, dedicated and passionate staff.
We seek a highly motivated creative and analytical team player with exceptional copywriting and communication skills. We are a friendly, supportive, high-performing team and will provide support and training opportunities for personal and professional development. The organisation has an experienced Senior Leadership Team from a variety of commercial, charity and environmental backgrounds.
The role is based in our office in Kennington, London SE11. Hybrid working arrangements combining office and home working with a minimum of two office based days.
Trees for Cities is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. We value diversity and are committed to promoting diversity within the workplace. We aim to ensure that our employees achieve their full potential and that all employment decisions, including recruitment, are taken without reference to irrelevant or discriminatory criteria. A full copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy can be provided on request.
HOW TO APPLY
Please visit our website to view the full job description. To apply, please send your CV and supporting statement (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining why you are interested in the role and your fit with the Person Specification to the email adress listed on our website, with the subject heading ‘Senior Digital Marketing Coordinator’.
The deadline to apply is: 9am BST Wednesday 3rd April
Interviews are scheduled for: W.C. 8th April
If you are shortlisted for interview, you will normally be contacted within two weeks after applying. If you do not hear from us within this period then you should assume that on this occasion you have not been selected for interview.
Trees for Cities is an equal opportunities employer.
Registered Charity No: 1032154.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Westway Trust - a community-guided organisation, with an ambitious and exciting vision, in the heart of Portobello, West London - as an Adult Learning Tutor - Digital Skills.
Westway Trust is a charity located in North Kensington which runs an adult learning programme of accredited and non-accredited provision across a range of subjects. We aim to enable people to progress in work, in learning and in life. Our learners come from a variety of backgrounds and have different prior experiences of learning.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced tutor who will be able to design and deliver high quality learner-centred teaching, and learning and assessment experiences. The role will encompass both the development and delivery of Essential Digital Skills, ICT User Skills and Digital Skills for the Workplace qualifications at Entry level to level 1 to our employed and unemployed adult learners. You will be committed to working for a charity supporting and enhancing the lives of people in the local community.
The hours are negotiable and flexible and will be discussed and agreed at interview stage.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
Teaching
- Plan, prepare and deliver high-quality teaching and learning sessions, workshops, and tutorials in line with the curriculum requirements and the needs of individual learners, ensuring learning objectives are met.
- Assess learners’ abilities and identify areas for improvement, tailoring teaching and learning methods and resources accordingly.
- Develop and deliver consistently engaging and interactive sessions, utilising a variety of teaching techniques and materials to enhance learners’ understanding and engagement with the subject/topic.
- Rigorously monitor and track learners’ progress, providing regular feedback and implementing strategies to address areas of weakness or underperformance.
- Set and mark assignments, tests, and examinations, providing constructive feedback to learners to support their learning and improvement.
- Establish and maintain a positive and inclusive learning environment, actively promoting learner participation, motivation, and confidence in professional development.
- Maintain accurate records of learners' attendance, progress, and assessment outcomes, ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
- Stay abreast of the latest developments in sector specialism, curriculum changes, and teaching methodologies, continuously updating own knowledge and skills.
- To undertake regular and appropriate CPD as agreed with Line Manager, some of which will be mandatory such as Safeguarding and Prevent Training.
Administration
- To identify materials and equipment/resource needs to assist the provision of teaching and learning by students.
- Maintaining up to date course files and submitting accurate data on attendance and achievement within agreed deadlines.
- To monitor student attendance and punctuality and take appropriate action as required.
- Preparing groups of learners for accredited assessment (exam or portfolio) & non-accredited assessment (RARPA), marking assessments and taking part in internal moderation and/or consultation meetings with appropriate Trust staff.
- Providing feedback on appropriate documentation for example observation, IQA reports etc.
- Running end of course evaluations and writing tutor end of course reviews.
Knowledge and Experience:
Essential
- Practical work experience in the ICT/digital sector, demonstrating hands-on knowledge and skills applicable to real-world scenarios.
- Experience of teaching adult learners and an understanding of appropriate teaching strategies in a similar role.
- Experience of devising course outlines and schemes of work.
- Awareness of differentiation and a commitment to inclusivity in your teaching and professional conduct.
- Experience of managing mixed groups of learners.
- Experience of assessing and recording progress, both in accredited and non-accredited learning and supporting learners.
- Knowledge and experience of working with a variety of exam boards.
- Basic understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices to impart essential knowledge to students.
Desirable
- Ability to provide sound support in offering information, advice and guidance to learners.
- Understanding of the RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement in non-accredited learning) system.
- Experience in handling sensitive issues in relation to learner well-being.
- Experience of working/teaching refugees and or asylum seekers.
Personal Skills
Essential
- The ability to plan programmes of work and develop creative, relevant activities that will facilitate learning.
- The ability to motivate and encourage learners with a variety of learning experiences and from diverse backgrounds.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and the ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team.
- An understanding of equality and diversity, safeguarding policies, health and safety and a commitment to putting them into practice.
- A flexible approach and a willingness to teach in a variety of community venues and to teach cover as required.
- The ability to take own initiative and find creative solutions to challenges faced.
Desirable
- The ability to speak another language
Qualifications:
Essential
- Level 3 or above subject specialism qualification, such as IT User Skills.
- A full teaching qualification for working in adult learning (DTLLS, PGCE or DET)
To view the full job description click on 'job description' under 'Key Info' on the left hand side.
Benefits of working with us:
- Great location in the heart of Portobello, North Kensington
- Free gym membership at health club one minute walk from the office
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Free eye test voucher
- Investor in People (IiP) employer
The application deadline is Sunday 31 March 2024 when applications will be reviewed and shortlisted for interview. However, we reserve the right to close the application early (an early application is strongly recommended)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust (RGHT) manages the important historic buildings and community assets for the Royal Borough of Greenwich. These include Charlton House and Gardens, the Archive and Museum Collections, Tudor Barn, and various memorials across the Borough. Our mission is to help people discover and enjoy the history and heritage stories of the Royal Borough of Greenwich; to conserve these heritage assets and ensure that they are shared with as many people as possible. Our regular activities include tours, events, venue hire, weddings, education programmes, exhibitions, and an archive service, working with partners and volunteers to manage the assets in our care.
The Head of Marketing & Commercial has overall responsibility for the Trust’s marketing, room and site hire, and events. They ensure a continual public programme, commercial events and marketing efforts for year-round activities are in line with the vision and strategic plan, and that income targets are met, working in collaboration with the Finance and Programming Committee of the Board.
You will be responsible for:
1) The effective marketing and communication of all activities at the Trust.
2) Managing the hire of our rooms and grounds for events, weddings, celebrations and corporate use.
3) Overseeing the production and delivery of projects and programmes to highlight the assets in our care, leading to audience growth on site and meaningful engagement primarily across the Royal Borough.
4) Seeking potential funding for activities.
As part of our Leadership Team you will drive strategic change; identifying programme opportunities and growing our audiences using your understanding of audience data collection and evaluation. Experience leading a team and working with external suppliers and a diverse stakeholder community is essential as well as your ability to deliver events that generate commercial and philanthropic income. You will understand audiences commercially as well as from a cultural sector perspective.
We try to make our job descriptions as straightforward and accessible as possible. They’re not intended to set out every duty in detail, but to explain the key responsibilities so that you understand the nature of the job. How you go about doing it will be discussed and agreed between you and your manager on an ongoing basis.
All our team members are additionally expected to work to our Competency Framework. (Level 3)
Leadership and Management
1. Work as a key member of the Leadership Team, collaborating with and alongside colleagues to provide the strategic leadership required to ensure the Trust’s long-term commercial and public engagement programme.
2. To manage the Venue Sales Team to maximise income through sales of the rooms and grounds and development of events.
3. Provide guidance to the CEO and the Trustees, to ensure the Trust is delivering through its programme, public benefit via access, learning and conservation.
4. Contribute to, and support, the conception and development of new projects that will drive business development and income generation opportunities to deliver the Trust’s objectives.
5. To seek funding opportunities for projects.
6. Attend the Finance and Programming Committee of the Board.
7. Work closely with the Finance Manager to create and implement an annual budget.
8. To be responsible for the Marketing plan and its delivery across all aspects of the Trust’s activity.
Marketing and Communications
8. To oversee the management of the brand and act as brand guardian
9. To generate marketing and communications strategy
10. To deliver the marketing strategy: design, print, digital, research, communications
11. To create Marketing Assets: newsletters, social media posts, website content
12. To ensure RGHT is promoted effectively and efficiently, including monitoring impact of campaigns to ensure Return on Investment.
13. To generate audiences for Trust’s activities and widen the demographics.
Commercial: Hire and events programming
14. Manage the Venue Sales Manager and Bookings Co-ordinator to develop and deliver the Trust’s activities programme to generate maximum profit from hire of the estate for functions, filming, community use.
15. Trial and deliver new approaches to income generating activity and events.
16. Develop a paid for programme of activity that provides access to the heritage in our care to new audiences, including the development, implementation, monitoring, impact and overall success of the programme.
17. Ensure all programming delivers significant Return on Investment where external grant funding is not available, supporting the income generation targets of the Trust.
General
In addition to the specific duties above, all RGHT employees should be aware of their responsibilities towards the following:
1. To work as part of a small team and contribute to the overall aims and objectives of the Trust.
2. To champion and promote the values and behaviours set out in the Competency Framework and act as an ambassador for the Trust.
3. Demonstrate a commitment to on-going learning and development and to participate in any training relevant to the role and to improve performance against the Competency Framework.
4. To work flexibly in response to changing organisational needs and be willing to undertake any other duty in line with the level of the job as may be required the Trust.
5. To operate in accordance with RGHT’s values, policies and procedures, including but not limited to, Health and Safety, Data Protection, Equality and Diversity and Child Protection.
Interviews will be held W.C 8th April
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are hiring for a Digital Communications Manager role at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The role is based out of our London office, on a hybrid basis. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for this position.
Join a dynamic Communications team working across a unique organisation that combines the power of journalism and the law to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights. We do this through:
Journalism
Reporting from the ground in more than 70 countries, our global news team covers the new frontier of human rights. From investigating slavery in supply chains, to the human impact of climate change, to how data-driven technology and AI are impacting people, we report on challenges affecting fundamental human rights and freedoms. We adhere to the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles of integrity, independence and freedom from bias. All our news is distributed on the Reuters newswire.
Media Development
For 40 years, we have promoted the highest standards in journalism by training reporters around the world to cover issues relevant to their local context, accurately and impartially. Today, we work to strengthen local and national journalism, improve media ethics, standards and regulation, combat misinformation, and explore and shape the future of the profession. We do this through newsroom consultancy, journalism training and mentoring, capacity-building, and via our funding of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.
Free Legal Assistance (TrustLaw)
We run the world’s largest pro bono legal network, TrustLaw. Working with leading law firms, we facilitate free legal support, groundbreaking research and resources for NGOs and social enterprises in 175 countries. By spreading the practice of pro bono worldwide we strengthen civil society and drive social change. Our network has grown to 6,500 members, including more than 1,000 law firms and in-house legal teams.
Convening Initiatives
We convene experts to build global awareness of critical issues linked to our areas of work, to inspire collective leadership and to help shape a prosperous world where no one is left behind. Our annual flagship event, Trust Conference, brings together frontline activists, thought leaders and top decision-makers in the areas of media freedom, inclusive economies, and human rights. Other initiatives include thematic working groups convened around the world to share expertise, drive new partnerships, facilitate media coverage and produce legal research.
We are seeking a Digital Communications Manager to join our busy Communications team and contribute towards the organisation’s internal and external communications efforts with an emphasis on digital best practice. Reporting to the Head of Communications, this is an incredible opportunity to land a specialist role in a fast-growing corporate Foundation working on some of the world’s most pressing issues.
About the Role
As Digital Communications Manager at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, you will:
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Write and edit communications material for both internal and external audiences across our digital platforms, understanding complex information and tailoring it for relevant audiences with SEO-friendly structure and messaging.
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Work with the Foundation’s Audience and Product and Tech teams to act as the main point of contact for corporate digital communications activities, including content creation and positioning for Foundation websites, app development for Trust Conference and the creation of digital communications materials.
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Manage the production of regular Foundation outputs such as the external newsletter while providing general communications support.
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Implement and promote digital best practice as the digital comms lead within the team.
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Use your deep understanding of analytics to report on key campaigns and the impact of ongoing communications efforts.
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Liaise with the Foundation’s services and thought leadership teams in developing campaign plans to support their integrated communications needs, devising creative approaches and measuring impact.
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Work with the Foundation’s social team to contribute to the messaging of social media marketing campaigns for major Foundation initiatives and relevant international days.
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Please note that the role does not involve management of the Foundation’s social media channels. However, you will work very closely with the social team to ensure consistent content creation tailored to our communications objectives.
About You
To be our Digital Communications Manager, you will likely have:
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Proven experience in digital communications, ideally for an international organisation, the development sector or within a fast-paced environment. Additional experience in integrated communications would be an asset.
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Strong writing skills, with expert SEO knowledge, and a good understanding of user experience best practice and content management systems.
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A can-do attitude, willing to support across the full suite of communications activities.
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Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and interpersonal).
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An ability to understand and prioritise complex information.
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Strong knowledge of digital reporting methods and tools.
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Rigorous attention to detail and a strong focus on accuracy, with exceptional research and analytical skills.
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As a highly motivated self-starter, an ability to work independently and take initiative, and a desire to implement digital best practice across the communications team.
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Excellent organisational skills – must be able to juggle simultaneous projects led by multiple team members.
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A strong team ethic, keen to learn new skills and share expertise.
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The ability to work creatively, speedily and accurately under pressure and to prioritise accordingly.
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Fluent English is essential and additional languages, an advantage.
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Project management experience or a personal interest in social, humanitarian and/or environmental issues (we are particularly interested to hear more about these throughout the process).
What’s in it For You
At the Thomson Reuters Foundation, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
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Global Perspective and Impact: Interested in working for a dynamic global organisation with a focus on social impact? With hubs all over the world from Bangkok to Madrid to Rio de Janeiro, join a truly international team with a shared goal of helping to build societies around the world that are free, fair and informed.
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A Unique Approach: Our expertise in media and the law is world class; we combine the power of both to address the critical issues faced by humanity.
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Hybrid working: We recognise the value of a flexible working environment that encourages the creativity and dynamism arising from interacting with colleagues in person, as well as the ability to work remotely.
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Our Relevance: With a focus on advancing media freedom, fostering more inclusive economies and promoting human rights, our work has never been more needed than right now.
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Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market-leading benefits.
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Learning & Development: We are dedicated to the continual professional development of our employees and offer access to both in-house and external training opportunities.
About the Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information services company. As an independent charity, registered in the UK and the USA, we work to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights. Through news, media development, free legal assistance and convening initiatives, we combine our unique media and legal services to drive systemic change
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive individual to help us grow and strengthen our social media, digital marketing, communications and content, with a minimum of three years professional working experience.
Making The Leap is an innovative societal change charity that aims to make a big difference. From direct delivery, to advocacy and leadership, we refuse to stay in our lane and believe passionately that those we exist to serve have the right to be anything they want to be. To say that this is an exciting time for the organisation would be an understatement, as our incredible funders, donors, partners and supporters have given us the chance to move to the next level, and have further influence and delivery nationally.
The shared soul of the organisation is to be passionate about helping young people from less-advantaged backgrounds; build up other charities and community groups and want to partner with them or support them; want to work with businesses and organisations to get things done; and care deeply about addressing racial inequity.
The organisation has a number of strands: core Making The Leap; the UK Social Mobility Awards; the Social Mobility Podcast and Black Charity Leaders.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Sightsavers is looking for a highly organised and collaborative Digital Asset Manager to manage our vast library of content
Salary: £35,000
Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required
Contract: Permanent
Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked (a minimum of four days) and lots of home working
About the role
Sightsavers' content and stories team has responsibility for developing creative concepts and content in response to communications briefs, as well as supporting the organisation with video and editorial services, and sourcing photography, video, audio and written stories from projects across Africa and South Asia. This work generates a huge volume of multimedia digital assets which need to be easily searchable by everyone in the organisation. We've recently moved to a new digital asset management system which requires an ongoing process of training and development.
We are looking for a Digital Asset Manager to be responsible for embedding and maintaining our new digital asset management system (Asset Bank), offering training and support to teams using and uploading assets. You'll work closely with content producers and story collectors to develop workflows preparing and uploading new content and you'll lead their implementation. As digital asset manager you'll inspire staff with available content, finding creative ways to make the organisation aware of the assets the team is producing. You'll need to make strategic decisions and plans for optimising and promoting the system and its contents, but you won't shy away from getting stuck into the day to day of preparing and uploading content.
Key duties will include:
* Ownership of digital asset storage systems with strategic decision making about process, structure and content
* Asset preparation, upload and categorisation - maintaining consistency and quality across systems
* Asset promotion
* System development and maintenance, with a focus on user experience and searchability
* System support and training
* Cross team collaboration and learning
We're looking for an organised individual with great communication skills. You'll need to be able to make strategic decisions and plans for optimising and promoting the system and its contents, but you won't shy away from getting stuck into the day to day of preparing and managing content.
To succeed in this role, you will need:
* Experience of developing and managing processes and systems
* Experience of working with digital asset management systems, preferably in an NGO
* Knowledge of Asset Bank highly desirable
* Proven experience of organising a wide array of assets and associated information at a high level, with accuracy and attention to detail and using a structured approach
* Proven understanding of digital image asset workflow and processes
* Proven experience of gathering and implementing user feedback
* Good analytics and reporting skills
* Excellent understanding of consent processes for image use
* Solid knowledge of GDPR
* Good understanding of user experience principles
* Proven experience of delivering training
* Knowledge and understanding of digital file formats (image, video, etc) and media usage rights terminology
* Ability to identify the qualities of good images and stories, and the detail needed to make a complete story
* Awareness of content ethics, in the context of international development
* Experience of Microsoft SharePoint highly desirable
Please see the job description for further details.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
Benefits
Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London. This role can be worked part time (a minimum of four days with a pro rata salary) or full time within the UK.
Please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying. There will be an expectation that you can attend at least quarterly meetings at our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW) or Brighton. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place in early/ mid-April and the evaluation process will include a role-specific task to be completed at the second stage of the interview process.
As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.
Digital Membership Manager
Are you looking for a role where you can make your mark? Do you have experience in membership recruitment and retention activity?
We are looking for a Digital Membership Manager to be responsible for building membership for our newly created Institute of Early Years Education due to be officially launched in August 2024. This is a pivotal role in an exciting new venture, and a career-making opportunity.
Position: Digital Membership Manager
Location: Homebased (hybrid working in Huddersfield also available)
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Salary: £35,000-£37,000 per annum
Duration: Permanent
Interview Date: Week commencing 15th April 2024
The Role
As Digital Membership Manager, you will coordinate and drive membership growth for the Institute of Early Years Education (IoEYE) by leading recruitment and retention activities and working with the core team to reach new audiences and continuously attract new members. You will increase the diversity of overall membership in terms of job roles within the early years sector.
In due time, the Digital Membership Manager will also lead on the Institute’s partnership strategy and ensure contracts with corporate partners, commercial activity and delivery of projects protect the IoEYE, meet our legal obligations and maximise financial and non-financial return.
Key responsibilities include:
- Driving uptake of membership numbers
- Achieving annual income generation targets through presenting a broad range of multichannel marketing opportunities to commercial suppliers
- Supporting the Interim Director of the Institute of Early Years Education to develop management information and analysis to track and monitor progress,
- Building relationships with external partners and stakeholders
- Planning and executing member communications
- Managing and overseeing the Institute’s online forum
- Tracking and analysing feedback and posts on other practitioner forums.
- Developing and implementing a strategy for competitor analysis.
- Leading on sourcing and engaging new corporate partners and advertisers
About You
You will have experience in membership recruitment and retention activity and of working in a professional organisation.
You will also have experience of:
- Working in a B2C sales environment
- Delivering against targets
- Building strong relationships
- Retaining and growing existing customer accounts
- All aspects of membership sales
About the Organisation
Join an award-winning charity and membership association that supports nurseries, early year’s settings and their workforce to deliver the best possible early education and care to our youngest children.
A charity that believes in quality and sustainability and puts members’ businesses at the very heart of what it does. This innovative thinking gives members the edge and an advantage that makes their nursery the best it can be.
Benefits include:
- 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 days with service increments) plus 8 bank holidays.
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff Awards Scheme
- Head office based staff enjoy free car parking at a pleasant out-of-town offices and free tea, coffee and fruit
You may have experience in areas such as Membership, Digital Membership, Membership Manager, Digital Membership Manager, Member Engagement, Membership Engagement.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior communications and media professional to lead International Alert’s global Communications team.
We are hiring this role at a pivotal time for Alert, as we implement our new organisational strategy. The postholder will have a unique opportunity to lead delivery of our global communications strategy, supporting the delivery of our organisational objectives and ensuring we maximise our peacebuilding impact.
The role will work in close collaboration with our country, regional and policy teams to deliver high-quality, impactful communications about peacebuilding in the places we work and on key topics such as the climate crisis, women’s and LGBT+ inclusion, and conflict-sensitive investment, centering the voices of the people and partners with whom we work.
You’ll be an excellent communicator and strategic thinker, with experience of delivery of communications across a range of channels and media. You will be responsible for driving up Alert’s visibility and profile and maintaining relationships with journalists, bringing with you good knowledge of the media landscape and excellent contacts.
You’ll have great interpersonal skills, able to work with people inside and outside the organisation across a range of geographies and backgrounds. You’ll be comfortable advising senior leadership within Alert and adept at identifying opportunities to raise Alert’s profile. You’ll be a good people manager, able to lead and motivate a team, and have experience of managing budgets.
Role duties and responsibilities:
Strategy and planning
- Develop and implement a three year communications strategy for Alert, in line with the organisational strategy, ensuring consultation and collaboration with Alert’s global and country teams
- Work closely with country teams to support the development of in-country communications strategies, ensuring regular co-ordination with country level communications colleagues
- Set clear objectives and KPIs for Alert’s communications work, developing robust frameworks for monitoring and reporting, and linking these to delivery of the communications strategy
Media relations
- Develop and deliver a media strategy, in line with Alert’s programme priorities, influencing and funding strategies;
- Lead on cultivating new and foster existing relations with key contacts in the media, building Alert’s credibility and ensuring effective working relationships with journalists;
- Lead on delivery of media strategy for discrete projects, developing plans, drafting key messages and press releases, identifying and working with target journalists and setting parameters for success.
- Lead on Alert’s response to breaking news stories and events, working with senior staff to develop appropriate responses
- Lead on crisis communications for Alert, drafting and holding the crisis communications protocol, representing the communications team on the Crisis Management Group, supporting and advising senior staff, and ensuring regular media training for relevant staff
- Proactively identify opportunities for coverage of Alert’s work in UK, European and international media, as well as by national/regional media in countries/regions where Alert works, and maximise profile opportunities for Alert’s spokespeople and experts;
- Manage and monitor the media email account and media phone, including out-of-hours media calls.
Content, branding and profile
- Ensure robust sign-off processes, comprehensive policies and quality systems to facilitate the work of programme and/or country teams and to ensure that all Alert’s communications are consistent with Alert’s brand, coherent in tone and messages, and high in quality;
- Lead a brand review for Alert in line with the new organisational strategy, including robust audience testing
- Oversee the maintenance and implementation of Alert’s brand guidelines, supporting the marketing and publications officer to ensure brand consistency across all of Alert’s work
- Work collaboratively with other organisations and deepen relationships with donors and funders to increase the profile and visibility of Alert and the peacebuilding sector.
Events and outreach
- Ensure excellent profiling and positioning of Alert’s brand, image and impact throughout Alert’s external communications and events;
- Oversee the design, planning and implementation of specific activities or events and campaigns using a variety of media, and ensure that opportunities for contributing to Alert’s funding, media and influencing strategies and building/maintaining excellent relations with potential supporters and contacts are optimised for each event;
- Ensure that all Alert outputs are disseminated successfully, using different media and messages to reach out to and engage different target audiences, and that dissemination strategies and budgets are set for each output.
Digital communications
- Support the Senior Digital Engagement Officer to develop an annual content plan that reflects the requirements of the strategy and delivers against its objectives
- Maintain understanding of and engagement with the latest digital trends and approaches, ensuring Alert is compliant with relevant regulations
- Oversee the development of a digital plan and ensure it contributes to Alert’s programme priorities, influencing and funding strategies;
- Ensure the furthering of Alert’s reach and profile through more effective and targeted use of the website, digital marketing and social media channels
Programmatic communications
- Support programme and country teams in strengthening their communications and outreach, and facilitate the development of their own communications and influencing strategies;
- Identify deficiencies and gaps in programmes’ communications capacity, skills and materials and make plans to remedy them as appropriate;
- Ensure that quality trainings are provided for programmes, country teams and partner organisations on relevant aspects of communications;
- Provide quality technical assistance and advice to programme and country teams for project planning, proposals and reporting, ensuring communications is incorporated into programme design and budgets.
Line management, budget management and organisational leadership
- Line manage the Communications team staff, and interns, volunteers and consultants where appropriate, setting clear and manageable workplans, ensuring structured, regular support and supervision, and tailored personal development plans;
- Ensure strong team co-ordination and support, with regular team meetings and awaydays
- Accompany, mentor and functionally supervise communications staff in programmes teams;
- Set, manage and monitor the Advocacy and Communications budget, ensuring robust oversight of spend and adherence to finance and procurement policies;
- Work closely with the Director of Policy, Advocacy and Communications to review and strengthen communications strategy and delivery, developing strong relationships with the Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer and the GPU Director to ensure advocacy and communications objectives are co-ordinated and complementary;
- Ensure efficient team-wide communications and knowledge management, and contribute to organisation-wide communications, knowledge management, events and discussions on related topics/projects;
- Deputise for the Director of Policy, Advocacy and Communications where appropriate.
Please note that the above are just some of the role requirements. For the full role requirements, view the job description.
All applicants must have existing and permanent right to work in the United Kingdom.
International Alert prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented people including women, people from the Global South, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and other historically marginalised people.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources.Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
PLEASE DO NOT UPLOAD A CV OR A COVER LETTER AS THESE ARE NOT ACCEPTED. Please upload the application form via Breathe HR. Your application will be rejected without a completed application form.
At Bookmark Reading Charity, we exist to change children’s life stories through the joy of reading.
We’re recruiting a Digital Marketing Manager to join the Marketing and Communications team. We're looking for an individual who can support our Head of Marketing & Communications to lead brand and attraction campaigns to grow our volunteer community and showcase the work we're doing to provide vital literacy support through our partner schools.
Job Description
· Be responsible for the execution of campaigns, content excellence, and activities to attract volunteers to Bookmark and to engage existing members of Bookmark’s community.
· Lead and oversee the strategic delivery of digital marketing campaigns to meet our goals and develop towards our growth targets.
· Work with the Head of Marketing to explore and develop marketing campaigns, using data to inform decisions.
· Be comfortable using a range of channels, including external agencies, to meet targets, ensuring good value for money and ROI.
· Actively engage with stakeholder groups and support functions to assuage delivery of our goals.
· Lead on brand partnerships to maximise potential opportunities and manage execution.
· Lead on the organisation and delivery of termly photography and videography campaign development.
· Deliver cross-functional marketing support, utilising and managing team resources; collateral, assets and event support when required.
· Manage a team of two, including a part-time graphic designer, to deliver marketing activities according to the charity’s marketing calendar.
· Report on and evaluate digital marketing efforts, sharing insights with the Senior Leadership Team and wider organisation.
· Build and maintain good relationships with agencies, partners, and key stakeholders, including PR, digital and web.
· Bring Bookmark’s mission to life through content excellence and quality planning and delivery.
Person Specification
Essential:
· A degree in Marketing or relevant equivalent subject and 3 years minimum of experience in a similar role
· Significant demonstrable capability and experience building, analysing and optimising digital campaigns for performance; either directly or indirectly through an agency.
· Data-driven with strong analytical skills
· Excellent project management skills; must be able to work across multiple projects and works streams, both autonomously and in collaboration.
· A confident and engaging communicator, with excellent interpersonal communications skills
· Proven technical experience working in ad management platforms (particularly Meta and Google) and utilising data to drive strategy and decisions.
· CRM management experience; making data-led decisions to deliver marketing strategies, operating through personalisation, optimisation and appropriate segmentations to engage with audiences
· A collaborative team player, with proven people management and leadership qualities.
· Proven experience in building internal relationships and fostering collaboration across teams and departments.
· Superb time-management and excellent attention to detail.
· A true passion for Bookmark’s mission, to give every child the opportunity to discover the joy of reading, and the ability to creatively communicate it across various channels.
Desirable
· History of working within a range of CMS’s.
· Salesforce experience and knowledge.
· Experience working closely with internal or external PR support and management.
· Skills within Adobe suite.
· Experience managing and developing influencer, creator and publisher campaigns.
· Experience in a similar role within the charity sector.
Deadline: Rolling
Benefits
• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Half day for employee’s birthday
• 3 years of service – 1 extra day (total of 26 days)
• 5 years of service – 2 extra days (total of 27 days)
• Buy/sell holiday (5 days)
• Hybrid working - Minimum of two days per week in our office
• Employee Assistance Helpline
• Matched pension scheme up to 5%
• £150 per employee per year for company events, such as Christmas party, team days and lunches.
• Free tea/coffee
• Charity Worker Discounts
• Tickets For Good
• Sabbatical Leave Policy
• Free yoga sessions
• Training and career development opportunities
Notes
Bookmark is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and opportunity for flexible working arrangements to support team members from different backgrounds.
Bookmark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the well-being and welfare of children and requires everyone associated with the charity, including all trustees, employees, and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the role, including references from past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
At Bookmark, we are a small but growing team of hard-working people, who care about what we do. We love to roll up our sleeves, try new ways of doing things, and support each other so that we can achieve our goals. If that sounds like you and you share our vision and values, we'd love to hear from you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.