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The role
You will be responsible for the development and delivery of our Community Services; ensuring they
deliver against our strategic ambitions. Working with our Head of Home and Hospital and Head of
Information and Advice you will also ensure effective integration between service areas, and that our
people are consistently led and managed.
Background to the role
The post has been vacant since October, since then we’ve undertaken a review of our community team
and our current community delivery – it’s important we get these things right if we are to deliver our
ambitious strategy. By the time you begin in role there will be a clear plan for development which you will
lead on delivering.
This is a challenging and rewarding role; you’ll have expertise in the needs of older people as well as
experience of change management and of leading operations. You will be resilient and will have values
which align with ours: Kind, Accountable, Collaborative, Flexible and Inclusive. You’ll be an active
member of the senior leadership team, collaborating with colleagues on organisational development, and
culture. You'll be a confident networker, initiating and developing external relationships and networks
which will support and enhance our community services offer.
There will be a lot of opportunity to make your mark, deliver change and support a very willing and
enthusiastic team to develop together. We’ll expect a great deal of you but in return you’ll be well
supported, invested-in and given lots of opportunity to learn and grow as an organisational leader.
We are looking for people who understand the community we serve and are
therefore specifically looking for applicants who live in and/or have strong connections with
Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Newham. Additionally, we are determined to increase the diversity of
our senior team in line with our organisational EDI Objectives. For this reason, we are actively
seeking candidates from the Global Majority (all non-white ethnic groups, including Black, Asian,
and other groups previously labelled as "ethnic minorities" or ‘BAME’)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Reports toDirector of External Relations
Hours37.5 hours per week
Salary£56,959.05 - £63,886.54
ContractFixed Term Contract - 12 Months
LocationRemote (with occasional travel across UK)
BenefitsA generous package including 25 days holiday per year plus public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme
About SafeLives
We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone, for good.
We work with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse. We want what you would want for your best friend. We listen to survivors, putting their voices at the heart of our thinking. We look at the whole picture for each individual and family to get the right help at the right time to make families everywhere safe and well. And we challenge perpetrators to change, asking ‘why doesn’t he stop?’ rather than ‘why doesn’t she leave?’ This applies whatever the gender of the victim or perpetrator and whatever the nature of their relationship.
Last year alone, we delivered more than 700 sessions to over 15,000 learners across the UK in policing, health, housing, justice, education and the specialist sector. And we have reached 90,000 adult and 100,000 child survivors through programmes designed and delivered with partners.
In the last 9 years, close to 7,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change through flagship interventions developed by our Drive Partnership and the programme continues to expand year on year.
Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.
Description
You will provide strong and steady leadership for SafeLives’ communications, marketing and public affairs work over the next year, communicating our Whole Picture Strategy, finding what works and helping it happen to end domestic abuse for everyone for good.
You will shape and deliver strategic communications and influencing work to reach decision-makers, strengthen public trust, and support our mission to drive real change in the UK’s domestic abuse response.
You will be able bring to together robust data, the voice of survivors, and the view of practice experts to position SafeLives at the centre of the conversation with professionals, key policy and decision makers and influencers as a credible and trusted voice.
You’ll lead a cross-functional team of comms, marketing and public affairs colleagues to:
You will connect reactive work with long-term strategic priorities, ensuring our external engagement supports our strategic priorities, policy goals, and income generation ambitions. And you will lead high-quality responses to breaking news and emerging issues, providing clear strategic advice to the Senior Leadership Team and acting as a trusted lead on reputational risk.
You will ensure SafeLives is visible, authoritative and survivor-centred in public and policy conversations, with timely responses, briefings and support, ensuring our communications and influencing are clear, consistent and drive impact.
You will work with our training, practice, and fundraising teams to drive our business development and income generation, as well as helping us to understand all our audiences and better meet their needs.
And as part of the Operational Management Team (OMT), you’ll work closely with colleagues to ensure an inclusive and supportive organisational culture, role modelling our values.
Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required.
Responsibilities
1. Leadership
·Provide calm, structured and values-led leadership across the Comms, Marketing and Public Affairs team.
·Ensure reliable systems, processes and workflows for communications, marketing and public affairs.
·Set expectations, priorities and working rhythms that bring stability and clarity to the team.
·Promote a supportive, inclusive and collaborative culture with clear communication channels.
2. Core Narrative, Messaging and Evidence Sharing
·Lead the development of SafeLives’ core messages, ensuring they are used consistently across all teams, and the development of our influencing asks.
·Translate SafeLives’ research, data and evidence into accessible, impactful content for external audiences, including practitioners, policy and decision makers.
·Ensure all outputs are survivor‑centred, values‑aligned and evidence‑led
·Develop our brand to reflect our approach to equity, equality, diversity and inclusion and in line with our values - human, rigorous, brave and inclusive.
·Oversee production of communications, marketing and policy materials that help to amplify our Whole Picture strategy and our related priorities.
3. Communications and Media Leadership
·Lead SafeLives’ overall communications strategy and activity.
·Oversee media relations, with strong focus on clear messaging and reputational resilience.
·Implement rapid-response and crisis‑comms protocols with clear escalation to Directors.
·Lead the development and management of our website, digital channels and content strategy.
·Ensure SafeLives is timely, authoritative and survivor‑centred in its external interventions.
4. Marketing and Audience Engagement
·Lead marketing strategy to support:
·Statutory and voluntary income generation
·Training uptake
·Consultancy and practice development
·Fundraising and supporter engagement
·Strengthen audience insight, segmentation and targeting.
·Oversee campaigns that bring SafeLives’ strategy and evidence to life and drive measurable action.
·Ensure that communication and marketing resources are used effectively to support business development.
5. Public Affairs and Policy
·Provide strategic alignment between SafeLives’ core messaging and evidence sharing and our influencing work
·Ensure public affairs activities and outputs (briefings, consultations, correspondence) are clear, accurate and consistent with SafeLives’ communications approach.
·Maintain awareness of political and policy developments relevant to SafeLives’ mission, advising Directors on risks and opportunities for influencing, working with colleagues across the organisation to develop policy.
·Senior level engagement will be led by Directors, as needed, with this role and the public affairs team leading stakeholder engagement and supporting preparation, messaging and follow‑up.
6. Planning, Governance and Performance
·Lead forward planning for all communications, marketing and public affairs activity.
·Set realistic, measurable KPIs that support the delivery of our comms and influencing strategy and our income generation.
·Embed continuous improvement processes and ensure compliance with GDPR and data protection.
·Oversee budgets for communications, marketing and public affairs, ensuring value for money and resource prioritisation.
7. Authentic Voice
·Ensure that the voices, experiences and priorities of survivors remain at the heart of all external communications.
·Support colleagues and Pioneers who use lived experience in SafeLives’ work in a trauma‑informed and respectful way.
Person Specification
Experience
·Strategic communications, including influencing, brand/profile raising, media relations and reputation management in complex, high profile environments (E)
·Media relations, including securing high quality coverage and rapid-response experience (E)
·Developing and delivering effective communications and marketing cmapaigns, including support for fundraising and income generation (E)
·Digital communications across owned, earned and paid media (E)
·Experience using data, research and evidence to inform communications, influencing and storytelling (E)
·Understanding of public affairs or policy environments within the social sector (D/E)
·Leadership and people development, ideally across multi-disciplinary teams (E)
·Influencing professional and policy audiences through clear, impactful communications, information and guidance (E)
·Working with people affected by domestic abuse to support storytelling and influence change (D)
Skills
·Confident in providing strategic communications advice aligned with organisational strategy and policy priorities (E)
·Exceptional written, oral and influencing skills, including excellent writing and editing ability (E)
·Strong political and media awareness
·Excellent judgement under pressure, making sound, values‑led decisions at pace (E)
·Ability to turn complex and fast‑moving information into clear messaging for different audiences, particularly professional and policy maker audiences (E)
·Strong issue and risk management in sensitive public contexts (E)
·Excellent digital and social media skills (E)
·Strong analytical skills to design and deliver campaigns (E)
·Numerate, with experience preparing and managing budgets (E)
·Strong planning, prioritisation and ability to meet multiple deadlines (E)
·Able to identify problems early and propose solutions (E)
·Commitment to equity, equality, diversity and inclusion (E)
·Commitment to ending domestic abuse (E)
Competencies
Leadership, organisational and strategic awareness
·Inspires trust and confidence in others
·Commitment to SafeLives’ values – Human, Rigorous, Inclusive and Brave - underpins all actions and decisions
·Remains calm, decisive and collaborative in fast-moving situations, while maintaining message clarity, survivor focus and organisational credibility
·Demonstrates an understanding of how your own role contributes to achieving SafeLives’ goals
·Is responsive to change which helps achieve goals
·Pursues tasks/goals with energy, drive and need for completion
Teamwork & collaboration
·Fosters an inclusive working environment so that others can contribute effectively
·Supports colleagues in demanding situations, recognises the importance of well-being in self and others, accepts help and support from other team members
·Listens to the views of others and shows flexibility in working with collective decisions
People management and decision making
·Ability to lead and manage effective teams and create an inventive, responsible and generous team culture
·Strong focus on quality, performance and impact
·Coaches staff to reach their full potential
·Makes effective decisions on a timely basis
·Judgement and problem solving is based on identifying outcomes and victim focus
Communications and relationship management
·Communicate with energy and direction
·Ability to build strong and effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
·Promote and contribute to cross team working
·Speaks and writes clearly and effectively and in a timely manner, tailoring communication to suit the audience
·Maintains confidentiality
Delivering quality
·Self-starter with the ability to use initiative and judgement to identify problems and propose solutions
·Excellent organisational skills including the ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines
·Takes responsibility for own workload, acts on own initiative, seeks feedback from others, evaluates own performance and then acts upon it
·Tries out new ideas and ways of working and identifies and shares learning
Influence
·Inspires confidence and trust– demonstrating high standards of integrity, honesty and fairness
·Actively engages the knowledge, ideas and contributions of others
·Uses appropriate techniques to influence others
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
London Landmarks Half Marathon Communications & Engagement Officer
The London Landmarks Half Marathon is looking for a creative, highly organised Communications & Engagement Officer to help shape how we connect with participants, communities and partners. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we look ahead to our 10th anniversary in 2027.
This role is ideal for a strong storyteller who enjoys creating clear, compelling content across multiple channels. You’ll turn ideas into high-quality communications, manage multiple workstreams at pace, and ensure everything is accurate, consistent and on brand. You’ll be confident working with stakeholders, managing approvals and keeping projects moving in a fast-paced environment.
Storytelling is central. You’ll bring participant and charity stories to life with authenticity and care, capturing the real impact of mass participation events on individuals and communities.
Working across social media, email and web, you’ll use insight to continually improve communications.
This is a great opportunity for someone collaborative, detail-focused and purpose-driven, who wants to help deliver a high-profile event that raises vital funds for charity.
To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter (max. 2 pages) outlining your suitability for the role and how your experience matches the job description and role profile. Applications close at 9am on 25 May.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Do you have good knowledge of best practice in relation to rent management? Are you interested in financial empowerment?
This role has been created to support the successful implementation, embedding, and ongoing optimisation of our new Housing Management IT System.
The post holder will ensure that income related processes—such as rent charging, arrears management, service charges, and financial workflows—are accurately embedded across all refuge services. This will include ongoing configuration and testing of the new system to ensure it meets our needs.
Alongside system implementation responsibilities, the post holder will lead on the effective management and reduction of rent arrears, including recovery of historic arrears. Operating within a performance driven framework, they will ensure income KPIs, compliance requirements, and data quality standards are consistently achieved.
A key purpose of the role is to promote financial inclusion, ensuring survivors understand their financial responsibilities, maximise income through benefits and entitlements, and build long term financial resilience.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies
Closing Date: 09:00am on 18 May 2026
Interview Date: 26 and 27 May 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join our Marketing & Communications team and help churches reveal Jesus to the next generation. We’re growing, and looking to build on the progress already under way and take our impact up a gear. This role sits right at the heart of how Scripture Union communicates: sharing stories of impact, creating connection and helping more people engage, pray and take their next step with us. If you enjoy producing great work and making it matter, you’ll love the mix – strengthening the relationships we already have, while helping us connect with new audiences across England and Wales.
About Scripture Union
Scripture Union is a national mission-movement, helping churches reveal Jesus to the next generation. We equip churches to reach children and young people – especially those outside the church – wherever they are, and in ways that truly connect. Because every young person should have the opportunity to discover Jesus, and too many never will. Through Bible-based resources, practical training and our Revealing Jesus mission framework, we help churches build relationships that lead to faith. Our team of Mission Enablers supports a growing network of Faith Guides – local people, rooted in their communities, revealing Jesus in everyday life.
About the role
This role is all about helping Scripture Union communicate with clarity, creativity and purpose. Bringing our story to life through events and communications that help people connect with what God is doing through SU. If you like work that’s practical, people-focused and makes a real difference, you’ll feel right at home.
Events and Communications Officer
(Salary £21,460 - £22,700 - Part Time 25 Hours a week)
- What you’ll do:
· Coordinate and deliver Scripture Union’s presence at key exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the year.
· Plan logistics, budgets, materials and timelines –and recruit, support and encourage staff and volunteers involved in events.
· Gather, shape and share people-focused stories of mission and impact across website, email, social media, audio and print.
· Support the planning and delivery of the Mission Sparks podcast, helping audiences connect with what God is doing through Scripture Union.
· Monitor, evaluate and report on event effectiveness, using insight to improve future activity and engagement.
Why Scripture Union
· Hybrid working (minimum 1 day/week in Milton Keynes HQ)
· Flexible hours
· Generous benefits: 23 days holiday + bank holidays + 5 volunteering days, up to 12% pension contribution, life insurance, and enhanced family leave
· Free Bible Reading Guides
· A supportive, faith-filled environment where your work has eternal impact
Important things to note before you apply
Who We're Looking For: Our Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for strong a candidate who can blend creativity with strategy – a confident specialist who brings experience, initiative and craft. But just as importantly, we want a team-player: the sort who will happily roll up their sleeves, jump in where needed, and strengthen others, so we move further, faster, together – across the Marketing & Communications team and the wider SU movement. If you love using your skills to build something that matters, you’ll thrive here: helping us sharpen our story, widen our reach with churches across England and Wales, and ultimately create more opportunities for children and young people to discover Jesus.
Events and Communications Officer
· Experience planning, coordinating and delivering events or exhibitions with clear objectives and measurable outcomes.
· Proven ability to identify, gather and develop authentic, people-focused stories.
· Strong writing skills and experience creating content across web, social media and email (and ideally audio/print too).
· Highly organised, proactive and relational — able to balance long-term planning with responsive storytelling.
· A committed Christian in sympathy with Scripture Union’s aims and ethos, actively involved in the mission of a local church.
Scripture Union is a Christian charity that exists to see a new generation with a vibrant faith in Jesus.



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We’re looking for a Communications Officer with experience in marketing and communications who will be part of a high-paced communications team working to engage with Christians and churches in London and beyond.
The successful candidate will:
Oversee the full production cycle of the quarterly Together prayer guide
Plan and oversee the weekly LCM online prayer meetings
Support missionaries in engaging their supporters more effectively
Create fresh content for LCM’s communications channels
Lead occasional cross team communications projects
Contribute creative ideas to shape communications and marketing content
The successful candidate will be a committed, prayerful evangelical Christian, with:
Desirable
This is a part-time role (0.4 FTE) with an expectation to work 2 days per week (16 hours per week), and a minimum of 1-day in the office per week. The position is a maternity cover position and will be offered on the basis of a 12-month fixed-tern contract.
If you possess this gifting and skills mix and have a strong desire to contribute to the London City Mission’s gospel outreach to those who are least likely to hear about Jesus in London, then we encourage you to apply.
There is an occupational requirement that the person appointed be an evangelical Christian.
To apply
Download and complete the application form (MS Word and then click enable editing). Please see recruitment pack for more information on the role and details of where to send your application form.
The application deadline is Monday 4th May 2026. Suitable candidates will be interviewed as they apply.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Refuge Worker
Location: Derby
Salary: £26,701.36 per annum
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours
We want kind and empathic people to work at Refuge, who believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion, are experts in their area of knowledge, want to make a positive difference and improve the lives of the women and children we support.
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Refuge Worker. The post holder will provide high quality support and safety planning to women and children in crisis. This includes enabling women to access housing, welfare, benefits and legal advice. A key requirement is to provide personal welfare support and to ensure that women are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles.
As part of this role, you will be required to participate in an out-of-hours on call rota.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 5 May 2026
Iterview Dates: 14 and 15 May 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Multiple Disadvantaged Worker
Location: Derby City
Salary: £26,701.36 per annum
Contract type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Multiple Disadvantaged Worker to provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children living in Derby City.
The Multiple Disadvantaged outreach Worker will provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic abuse, with additional complex support needs, in accordance with Refuge’s philosophical principles. The post holder will inform the survivor on the options and support available, empowering the survivor to make decisions and achieve their goals to increase their safety, confidence and independence. The role involves working with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies to advocate on behalf of survivors and promote access to services to meet their needs. The Multiple Disadvantaged Outreach worker will work within Derby City.
Please note that this post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 5 May 2026
Interview Date: 20 and 21 May 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Join us at the forefront of public health advocacy as the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance Scotland Lead. This is a unique opportunity to shape the direction of our efforts to combat non-communicable diseases in Scotland. You will work closely with NCD Alliance Scotland members as well as government bodies, politicians, academics and third sector partners to drive impactful policy changes.
If you are passionate about making a difference in public health, this role offers a platform to create lasting change and improve the health of communities across Scotland.
As our NCD Alliance Scotland Lead, you’ll support all joint activity for the alliance, working with the chair, advisory board and members, building consensus within the alliance. Work will span policy development, public affairs and communications to ensure effective evidence-based policy around commercial determinants of health is at the forefront of the political agenda.
About you
With a deep understanding of the policy-making and the political process in Scotland, ideally with some knowledge of health policy and public health policy, you’ll have an extensive understanding of parliamentary procedure and government in Scotland, as well as an understanding of public policy and how it’s developed.
You’ll have a proven track record of building and nurturing excellent relationships and exerting influence over external stakeholder’s agendas. You’ll also have previous
experience of having run or managed successful policy and/or public affairs work at a senior level, ensuring expectations, responsibilities and the purpose and vision for the team are clear and delivered.
With experience of leading stakeholder relations in a high profile and/or complex organisation. You’ll also have the following skills and experience:
Working arrangements
Please note this is a fixed term contract for 18 months.
This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our Edinburgh Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
The work will require some evening and weekend work as well as travel that may require overnight stays. There will also be an opportunity to visit BHF offices in Belfast, Cardiff and London.
Belonging at BHF
By embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment, we strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of saving and improving lives, ensuring our work reflects and serves the needs of every community across the UK.
To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.
Benefits
We offer a competitive range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, and opportunities for personal and professional growth and continuous learning.
To find out more about our benefits you can download the Benefits document at the bottom of this page or check out our Benefits and Development pages.
Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.
Interview process
Interviews will be held in person at our Edinburgh offices on Wednesday 13th May. A presentation element will be included in the interview process.
How to apply
To apply for this role please use the apply button below. Our process involves submitting your CV and a supporting statement, which should outline your interest and explain how you meet the role’s criteria.
Our recruitment processes are fair, accessible, and inclusive. BHF use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.