Are you passionate about how brands interact with their audiences? Do you want to engage with one of the largest student populations in the country? Would you like to work to position the University of Manchester Students' Union right at the centre of city life in Greater Manchester? We're looking for a new Marketing & Communications Manager to help us develop into one of the sector's leading Marketing & Communications functions.

You will be at the heart of one of the largest Students' Union's in the country, working with colleagues from our charitable services such as our Advice centre, to our Volunteering & Fundraising team right through to our commercial services such as 532 Bar & Kitchen and much much more.

You may already have experience leading a team or this might be your first 'Manager' role but the willingness to partner with and lead key stakeholders including internal Students' Union departments, University colleagues, research & insight, design & digital and student media teams is a must.

We want you to bring innovation and creativity to the role and to the rest of the organisation. 

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.

Purpose of Position

Located in London’s Mayfair, overlooking Green Park, the Royal Air Force Club offers first class surroundings and a ‘home from home' to its 24,000 members, predominantly serving and former officers of the RAF and Allied Air Forces and their families. Founded in 1918 and opening its doors in 1922, the Club’s charitable aim is to continue to support the Royal Air Force by preserving and fostering the esprit de corps and traditions of the RAF.

The Royal Air Force Club is a registered charity and over the past 6 months, in response to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Club has launched and executed a successful £500,000 appeal.

We are seeking a specialist fundraiser who will be instrumental in setting up an infrastructure, scoping the tools and developing the income generation strategy for corporate sponsorship, major donors and high net-worth individual givers for the short, mid and long term.  

You will have a strong track record of cultivating relationships with a wide range of supporters and stakeholders and will take ownership of the Club’s income generation strategy for corporate sponsorship and major donors, to develop and deliver a costed annual plan to meet an annual income target. 

The role would suit a highly experienced, self-motivated fundraiser with specialist knowledge and experience in the high/exclusive end of corporate income generation and major donors.   

As a specialist fundraising resource, you will be ‘hands on’ and adept at working under your own initiative, however, you will work closely with the Chief Executive and Club Manager. In addition, the Club also has a Trustee-led Fundraising and Legacies Sub-Committee in place and this individual would work alongside the Committee to help support and guide activity.

You will be joining an organisation committed to delivering outstanding provision for its members, and a staff team committed to the ethos of the Club. 

Your passion and commitment to the cause will be critical to your success in the role, as will your ability to articulate with great confidence, the huge impact that the RAF Club has on its membership, past, present and future. This is a new post, which will be reviewed after one year.

Job Description

The Head of High Value Income Generation will be expected to:

• Develop long term income generation from appropriate local, national and international corporates
• Support Club leadership in developing an income stream from High-Net-Worth Individuals
• Be an ambassador for the Club embodying and communicating our values at all times 
• Lead on development of an income generation plan, alongside the General fundraising plan, to provide a pipeline of income that will grow the existing programme and ensure the Club’s future financial resilience
• Prepare timely follow-up reports, working to demonstrate evidence of impact, outcomes reached, measure value for money and evaluate success and learning
• Utilise the Club’s existing membership and hospitality database to full effect, ensuring GDPR is adhered to at all times
• Accountability for Gift Aid compliance and claims alongside the Director of Finance
• Accountability for compliance and control of the Fundraising Code and GDPR pertaining to fundraising activity

Person Specification

To be appointed the candidate must be able to evidence and demonstrate the following:

Essential:

• At least 3 years’ relevant experience, including the development and co-ordination of corporate and major donor fundraising, to help support successful capital project appeals
• Sustained and demonstrable success in raising substantial income for similar sized charities from a mix of sources including major gift, community and corporate activities.
• Ability to operate effectively at the highest/senior levels of corporate and major donors
• An excellent knowledge of the corporate world and how best to match appropriate potential sponsors with the Club 
• Expertise in strategic planning and working to and achieving set KPIs
• Ability to manage information and record the profile and fundraising activity of donors on a database
• Ability to multi-task to overlapping deadlines and a good eye for detail
• Ability to make risk analyses and time-cost ratios to focus effort on the fundraising activities that are most appropriate and will have the highest chance of success
• Ability to budget manage to ensure targets are met
• Excellent interrelationship, communication (written and verbal), presentational and arithmetical skills, leading to income generation
• Up to date knowledge of GDPR and fundraising legislation.

Preferred:

• Relevant knowledge or experience of the Royal Air Force, RAF Charities or military heritage
• Certificate or Diploma in Fundraising/Member of Institute of Fundraising

Benefits:

The Royal Air Force Club is a wonderful working environment and we are proud to offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a generous pension scheme, an extensive employee discount programme, learning and development programmes and regular engagement activities.

• Sunday Times Top 100 Not for Profit Employer
• Caterer Top 30 Best Places to Work

As an equal opportunities employer, the Royal Air Force Club is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Royal Air Force Club.

We have an opportunity for a new team member to join us as a Community Fundraising, Marketing and Communications Officer; the successful applicant will have a background in marketing and strong IT skills, experience of community fundraising would also be desirable. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining Yellow Submarine’s public presence and brand – this will include, but is not limited to, management of the charity’s digital content, print media and merchandise. You will be the first point of contact for new and existing fundraisers, building strong relationships across a variety of networks, helping to promote the charity and its aims.

The role involves frequent evening and weekend working to support community fundraising activities and events, and working hours are flexible to reflect this.

To act as an enthusiastic ambassador for the charity; building strong relationships across a variety of networks to support and develop the public presence ‘brand’ of the charity and community fundraising income.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS check.

Application deadline: Monday, 24th May 2021
Start date:  ASAP
Interviews are scheduled to take place the W/C 7th June 2021; format TBC.

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.

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.

Norwood is looking for an experienced, creative and highly motivated Head of Marketing & Communications to join our senior management team. You will lead and develop the marketing and communications strategy at a pivotal time in Norwood’s 225-year history, building on our 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.

You will be responsible for driving stakeholder engagement and well as supporting income generation on which our 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 our service users, care staff and Trustees to journalists, donors and our volunteers.  Working closely with our Director of Transformation, you’ll implement and establish a range of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of our communications activity in a challenging and competitive market.

Some of the Main Responsibilities

1. Develop and oversee the implementation of Norwood’s Marketing and Communications Strategy, in order to strengthen Norwood’s position as a leading Jewish charity across all our stakeholder groups, internal and external. In addition to the charity’s general marketing activity, this includes public and media relations, press statements and crisis management

2. Together with the Senior Marketing Manager, set and monitor the annual marketing budget. To hold overall responsibility for the department’s budget and leveraging it to its fullest potential

3. Develop an excellent knowledge of Norwood services to

• benchmark the organisation in the marketplace

• identify Norwood’s USP and differentiators

• effectively position Norwood as a ‘go to’ organisation for children and families facing challenges in their lives and for anyone of any age with a learning disability or autism

4. Oversee Norwood’s website and intranet to ensure clear, engaging and succinct messaging for all those who use our digital platforms.

5. Set strategic direction and assist the Senior Marketing Manager in developing creative briefs for the editorial, design, production and distribution of Norwood’s internal and external communications.

Essential Requirements:

• 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

• Experience overseeing the design and production of campaigns and content from brief, implementation and review

• Ability to manage multiple projects with responsiveness to emerging priorities

Incentives:

• The opportunity to work for a leading UK charity

• Competitive salary & benefits package

• Generous annual leave entitlement

• 1pm finish on a Friday

• A challenging and varied role

• A supportive team

• Additional leave during Jewish festivals

Norwood is committed to offering high quality, continuous professional development for our staff.

Please note: We reserve the right to close the advert, once we receive sufficient applications, so recommend an early application. For a full Job Description please contact us.

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure.

Patron: Her Majesty The Queen.

Registered Charity No: 1059050.

Mind in Harrow is a leading mental health charity based in NW London, just three minutes from Harrow Metropolitan line station. We have an excellent reputation and our dynamic and creative team of 30 full/part-time staff and 100 volunteers are driven by a strong user empowerment ethos. We offer family-friendly working practices including home-working and flexible working days, enabling staff to have a fulfilling career alongside caring responsibilities.

Do you have significant experience of working with young people and of marketing and engagement of a project?  Do you enjoy collaborating with diverse communities, stakeholders, parents, teachers and young people?  This key post offers an exciting 12-month maternity cover opportunity, as a member of our established HeadsUp partnership service, to expand the service through our Comic Relief grant.

The postholder will be responsible for delivering a HeadsUp partnership service marketing strategy to increase the profile of the service and build referral relationships with key stakeholders and organisations. You will also be responsible for building relationships and contribute engagement with key partners to support the systemic change in the relationship between schools and voluntary sector CYP providers.

We are seeking a self-motivated team member with experience of marketing and engagement of health and social care projects with young people. You will have an excellent knowledge of mental health practice and a track record of service user empowerment.  You will have an ability to work in partnership and across public/voluntary/private sectors.

You will have a background in working with young people, and have experience of training and education. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure & Barring service application (DBS).  

Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 5th May at midday (12 noon)

Interviews:
1st stage Thursday, 13th May 2021
2nd Stage Friday, 14th May 2021

To view the Job Description and Person Specification and application guidance, and to apply for this role, visit the Work With Us page on Mind in Harrow's website.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced and highly skilled individual who is ready to help us take the next step in our organisational journey! In our attempt to make an even bigger difference in the lives of young people and their families, we recognise the importance of being visible to those who need our services the most. We want to ensure that the nature and impact of our work is captured well and authentically.As the Head of Marketing & Communications, you will oversee our ambitious plans to grow the organisation’s reach and strengthen its brand position within the youth sector in a meaningful and intentional way.

Please download the job specification for more information about this position. If you would like to apply for this role, you MUST complete our application form and send it in no later than 6pm on Thursday 29th April 2021. Good luck!

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.

Our charity is on an incredible journey and this is a hugely exciting time to join our team.

2020 saw the UK come together in an outpouring of love and support for the NHS. As the NHS’ national charity and membership organisation for the NHS’ official charities throughout the UK, NHS Charities Together is the central charity receiving additional funding and support for our National Health Service where and when it needs it most. Thanks to phenomenal public support, our national Covid-19 Appeal has raised more than £150 million to help NHS staff, volunteers and patients through the immediate and long-term effects of coronavirus. 

We are now recruiting a new Head of Marketing and Brand to build upon our high-profile success of our 2020 Appeal.

The Head of Marketing and Brand will be joining NHS Charities Together at an exciting stage of growth and development as we expand our marketing and communications team.

This role will lead on the development and delivery of marketing strategies and build awareness of our evolving brand. They will play a pivotal role in driving engagement with member charities and supporters, all the while protecting the NHS Charities Together brand.

Working closely with other members of the marketing and communications team, this role will lead on identifying and developing campaigns, taking a data led approach to reach targets around brand awareness and to support digital fundraising. The new Head of Marketing and Brand will also provide marketing and communications support for national fundraising campaigns and appeals, such as the NHS Big Tea in July.

Line managing a team of two, this role will oversee all our digital channels, ensuring that they are fully optimised. They will also oversee the development and delivery of content strategies, making use of variety of content including copy, video and audio.

The successful candidate will be an experienced marketing and brand professional with experience across the marketing mix. You will have experience in leading on the development of brand strategies and managing high-profile brands, as well as leading on the development of national campaigns. You will have up to date digital marketing knowledge and have experience in overseeing content strategies. You will also have line management experience and have a data driven approach to marketing.

If you are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our nation and believe that through supporting NHS charities we can significantly increase the vital support given to our hospitals, community, mental health and ambulance services, we would love to hear from you.

Please click ‘Apply on website’ to be directed to the website of Peridot Partners, our recruitment consultants, and make contact with them to discuss this role in more detail.

Closing date: 9am Tuesday 11th May

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.

• Are you a mover and shaker, bursting with creativity?
• Do you thrive when inspiring others to be agile and take risks?

We’re looking for a Head of Communications to raise the profile of our work to end material and spiritual poverty. This is an opportunity for someone to shape our approach to external communications, conceiving and executing powerful and strategic campaigns and products which inspire and engage existing and new audiences.

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated person to lead our friendly, tight-knit team of talented creatives, including writers, editors, designers and web specialists. Working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, you’ll oversee the creation of a range of high-quality print and digital outputs, and you’ll use your own proven skills to help produce compelling, integrated campaigns which help our supporters to be a part of our global story. As the lead creative in the team, you’ll use your skill and experience to deliver powerful, story-based content that demonstrates how God is at work through BMS projects worldwide.

You’ll be the top authority on BMS’ brand, shaping how BMS compellingly presents itself through its tone of voice and visual integrity. You’ll be essential to ensuring that BMS’ new five-year strategy is brilliantly communicated. And when events take place, you’ll be the one to decide on messaging and design, getting the tone and materials just right.

This varied, challenging and rewarding role needs someone with superb instincts for putting the right thing in front of different audiences. You’ll be approachable, dedicated, decisive and driven, building rapport with colleagues with values of servant leadership, integrity and a commitment to excellence.  Above all, you’ll share our vision for a world made better through knowing Christ.

The successful applicant will be a committed Christian. The nature of this role means that this is a specific occupational requirement.

Location : Didcot, Oxfordshire, possibility of some home work (currently remote)  

Hours : 35 hrs per week / full time

Salary range : £35,812 to £40,199

Closing date : 5pm on Monday 26 April

 Interview date :              Thursday 6 May 2021

If you would like to discuss this role in detail with the BMS Communications Director, please contact Sarah Anthony and/or Ben Drabble at BMS World Mission.

Alternatively, you can contact Hayley McDonald of Action Planning’s Recruitment Team, who are managing the recruitment process at Action Planning website. 

The Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT) is a champion of biodiversity, restoring farming landscapes and woodlands for wildlife. Through education and engagement, we inspire the wider countryside community to understand and appreciate the importance of wildlife to farming, food, the natural environment and wellbeing.

This brand new role has been designed to coordinate all marketing administration, supporting the entire Fundraising and Marketing department as required, answering incoming phone calls and providing impeccable donor care. An important task will be liaising with everyone at the CRT to ensure that they have the required marketing resources and managing the marketing resources library, ensuring all leaflets, flyers, brochures etc., contain up to date information.

The ideal candidate will be excellent at administration and be exceedingly well organised. This warm and welcoming person will be the first person our Friends and supporters are in contact with at the CRT. The candidate must be an excellent communicator and highly personable, prepared to talk to Friends on the phone regularly, some who just need to chat, having not spoken to anyone for days. We call our supporters Friends because they are important to us; therefore, they must be treated in a friendly manner.

Interested candidates should send a CV and a cover letter of approximately two pages, outlining how your background, skills, qualifications and experience make you the perfect candidate for this position.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an online interview and should be expected to do an exercise first to prove their abilities.

Closing date for applications is: 7 May 2021, 12 noon.