This is an exciting opportunity to cover maternity leave from around mid April 2021. We are looking for an experienced all rounder to lead the communications function and form part of the Senior Leadership Team. 

Leading a team of 5, the successful candidate will be able to take a strategic oversight of the communications and external affairs functions and an active role in delivery. You will manage the communications strategy adapting it as needed to meet team targets and organisational goals.

Working across the organisation you will plan and deliver our annual awareness campaign Safer Sleep Week and work with a core group of charities on Baby Loss Awareness Week. You will also provide comms support for our 50th Anniversary Campaign. 

A knowledge of digital communications is essential as you will be responsible for managing the website, overseeing our social media strategy and managing Little Lullaby our project for young parents. You will act as brand guardian for The Lullaby Trust and lead our press function, identifying proactive and reactive opportunities to raise the profile of The Lullaby Trust and increase awareness of SIDS and safer sleep.

The role involves leading our newly developed External Affairs function to grow The Lullaby Trust’s external influence achieving higher prominence of SIDS awareness and prevention and care for bereaved parents on the political and healthcare agenda. 

This is an interesting and varied role which would suit someone who enjoys working across several comms disciplines and taking a hands-on approach. We are looking for a creative and strategic thinker with proven experience in a comms management role and an enthusiasm for working with a diverse audience of parents and health practitioners.

The post is currently remote working though some travel to London may be required.

Please note that this post is subject to DBS and reference checks. 

About The Lullaby Trust 

The Lullaby Trust provides emotional support for bereaved families, promotes expert advice on safer baby sleep and raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). 
 
We are committed to supporting research to understand why babies die suddenly and unexpectedly and to find out more about how to reduce the risk of these tragic deaths. 
 

Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation that aims to tackle poverty and inequality in London. We do this by funding voluntary and charity groups, currently make grants totalling around £10 million a year. We also fund independent research and provide knowledge and expertise on London’s social issues to policymakers and journalists.

About the role

The Trust is recruiting a Head of Communications to help raise the profile of poverty and inequality in the city and show what can be done to tackle it. This is a unique opportunity for someone with ambition and commitment to shape our approach to external communications and make a real difference to the lives of low-income Londoners.

The role has responsibility for both our digital communications and our media relations. This includes managing our website and social channels, as well as contact with journalists, newspapers, radio and television. The role will be responsible for the proactive identification of opportunities for further coverage related to poverty and inequality in London, ensuring that the organisations the Trust supports are placed front and centre.

What we are looking for

You are likely to be someone who has a track record of delivering relevant and powerful communications strategies or campaigns, working with both digital and traditional media. You could already be leading a communications function, or looking to make the step up into a leadership role. What is important is that you have a strong commitment to social justice and the ability to drive our external communications forward.

If you would like to apply, please complete our online application form by 10am, Monday 15 March 2021.

Please note: this role will be home-based whilst COVID-19 restrictions apply.

About YBI

Youth Business International (YBI) is the global network of expert organisations in over 50 countries supporting underserved young entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into successful businesses, creating jobs and strengthening communities.

Young people are a critical resource. However, with 66 million unemployed youth worldwide this potential is not being realised. Furthermore, of those that are working, many do not earn enough to lift themselves out of poverty. Addressing the youth employment crisis is imperative, not only for the well-being of young people but to ensure sustainable, inclusive growth and social cohesion globally.

Since 2014 we have supported over 350,000 young people to start or grow a business by delivering a range of practical entrepreneurship support services, from guiding a young person to register a new business and improving their bookkeeping skills to helping them write a business plan or grow their fledgling business through facilitating access to finance.

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Communications to cover a maternity leave from May 2021. We are looking for an organised, all-rounder with a strategic mind and a willingness to roll up their sleeves and get involved in delivery.  

This senior role leads a small communications team to drive YBI’s ambitious communications strategy forward and closely monitor results, adapting plans as needed to hit key milestone deliverables over this crucial time for our partnerships.  A digital expert you will work with the team to lead an evaluation of our website and social media accounts to develop individual channel strategies.  

You will act as brand guardian for the organisation and promote the important work our network is doing around the world to our members, current/prospective funders, and the wider sector. A natural storyteller, you will be motivated by human-led stories and have an instinct for what resonates with audiences.

Working closely with YBI’s senior management, the wider Network Team, and our partners and members you will plan and deliver campaigns (including our two flagship campaigns of the year) to celebrate programme success, promote results and learning and publish reports and findings.

To thrive in this role, you will need to be a confident and hands-on communications expert, ready to quickly execute and run several multi-channel external communications campaigns to reach new audiences.

Some of benefits of becoming our Interim Head of Communications include:

- Group Life insurance

- Health Cash Plan

- We are Equal Opportunities Employer and happy to talk Flexible Working

Further Details and How to Apply

For a full Job Description and information on how to apply, please see the attachments in this job post or send your CV, EOM form and cover letter when you click Apply.

Closing date: Monday, 15th March 2021 at 9:30am

R1 Interviews: w/c 22nd March 2021

R2 Interviews: w/c 29th March 2021

YBI is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to ensuring representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, age, ethnic or national origin, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if you require any adjustments, we can make to ensure that our recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

At YBI, your right to privacy is important to us. By applying for this job, your information will be entered into our recruitment system for YBI’s employment purposes only and stored for no longer than one year after the post has been filled; then personal data will be disposed of in GDPR compliant manner. We store all data securely and will not disclose it to any third parties without your consent. Please feel free to contact us to find out more.

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

Head of ALNAP Communications

Contract: Fixed-term 2 years, possibility of extension

Salary: £51,467 – £64,888 per annum

Location: London

Ref: ALNAP/10/20

An independent, global think tank, working for a sustainable

and peaceful world in which every person thrives.

About us

ODI aims to inspire and inform policy and practice to reduce poverty by locking together high-quality applied research and practical policy advice.

We are seeking to appoint a Head of Communications to join ALNAP. The Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) is a system-wide network organisation dedicated to improving the accountability and performance of humanitarian action by strengthening the humanitarian evidence base through sharing lessons, identifying key issues and, where appropriate, providing leadership to find collective approaches and solutions. Candidates are advised to familiarise themselves with the ALNAP network.

About you

The Head of Communications will play a key role in the network.  They will lead the strategic development and delivery of a Communications Strategy targeting diverse audiences across the sector to enable the systematic uptake and utilisation of knowledge and learning, ultimately leading to improved humanitarian performance. 

The successful candidate will be someone with significant strategic communications experience, ideally within the humanitarian or development sector and with research teams.  They will have a clear track record in achieving research uptake and impact across diverse audiences.  They will be a confident leader with high levels of creativity and the ability to bring new and innovative approaches to ALNAP’s work.  Their strategic leadership will enable a step change in ALNAP’s communications, building on our current work to further enhance the connectedness of our network as well as expand our reach and uptake across the humanitarian sector.

Closing date:  Sunday 7th March 2021

Interview date: Week Commencing 15th March 2021

For more information, please download an application pack from our website.

ODI is an equal opportunities employer                                                    Charity Reg. No.228248

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it.  The Head of Policy and Communications will be a key members of the Senior Leadership Team, and responsible for leading on all aspects of SEA’s policy, public affairs, media relations, digital and marketing communications, including increasing the charity’s profile and brand awareness 

We work in partnership to ensure women have access to and control over their own economic resources. We focus on four strategic priorities: public education and awareness-raising; transforming professional responses; ensuring systems do not inadvertently facilitate economic abuse; and influencing policy.

Our work is led by victim-survivors of economic abuse (Experts by Experience). Their lived experience and knowledge shapes everything we do. We are always learning, and we share our expertise via a national working group and an international network of practitioners, researchers and policymakers.

The Hospice is looking to recruit a professional and enthusiastic Marketing & Communications Manager.

Job Summary
• The post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of the marketing and communications strategy for St. Rocco’s Hospice.
• Implementing the effective development of internal and external communications to key audiences and stakeholders.
• Providing leadership to the Marketing & Communications Team (MCT) in order to achieve agreed targets.
• Maintaining the high reputation of the Hospice in all areas of work.
Please see our website and job description for further details.

Normal hours of work will be 30 hours per week worked between Monday to Sunday at days and times notified by your line manager. These hours do not include a 30 mins unpaid meal break which you will be entitled to take if you work a shift lasting longer than 6 hours. You may be required to work additional hours to those published.

Salary: £21,600.00 per annum

An attractive package of benefits for employed staff T&C's apply:

Contributory Company Group Pension Plan, (If you are a member of the NHS Pension Scheme, you have the option of continuing in this scheme), Life Assurance and a Medical Cash Plan - T&C’s apply, free onsite parking, annual holiday entitlement in any holiday year is 7 working weeks, inclusive of all public holiday entitlement. Part-time employees’ annual holiday entitlement accrues on a pro-rata basis.

(Benefits may be different for Bank / Contract for Services Workers T&C's apply).

The posts are not salary incremental posts and pay reviews are at the discretion of the Hospice.

St Rocco’s Hospice is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory receipt of DBS if applicable, 2 references and documentary proof of right to work in the UK. 

A referral to Occupational Health in relation to Health and Safety aspects of the role may be made prior to employment, however the offer of employment will not be conditional upon this.

Please note: St. Rocco's Hospice is not part of the NHS and is not licensed to sponsor foreign nationals. All offers of employment are subject to / conditional upon satisfactory documentary proof of right to work in the UK.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

As the Hospice meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all applicants (staff and volunteers) who are offered employment based at the Hospice or in patient facing roles will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed. This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings, as well as convictions.

Closing Date: 31-3-2021, with interviews being held on an on-going basis so apply today!
Please note: This role may be removed before the original end date or extended without prior notice.

As Head of Marketing, you will drive future success by bringing solid strategic, brand building and leadership experience to our marketing function, including delivering the marketing strategy.

This is a brand-new opportunity for an experienced marketing professional to employ your skills and experience in a charity that is at the beginning of its digital transformation.

About HACT

HACT partners with organisations across the housing sector to drive value for residents and communities through insight-led products and services encouraging innovation and fostering collaboration.

Our work around social value, community investment and the use of data drive better understanding of the communities they serve and the social impact they have.

The role

The Head of Marketing will develop, manage, and lead all the digital and e-commerce marketing campaigns with the help of one person in the team. The Head of Marketing will provide concrete deliverables and work alongside the EMT regularly.

We are looking for an all-rounder with solid operational skills, a specific focus on digital / e-commerce marketing with a passion for charity work.

 Marketing responsibilities

• Drive sales by planning and executing all marketing campaigns, including SEO, email, social media, affiliates, and advertising campaigns.
• Ensure all marketing campaigns promote and enhance the HACT brand, including brand guidelines and tone of voice
• Provide editorial sign-off for all marketing and communications, including media releases
• Continuously analyse and measure the reporting metrics and ROI of spend/activity
• Identify trends and insights, and optimise spend and performance based on the insights
• Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
• Planning a wide-ranging learning and events programme at a national level for diverse stakeholders

Leadership responsibilities

• Manage the marketing budget
• Manage a team of one
• Work with HACT product owners to define their marketing/communications goals and objectives, using these plans to feed into the overall marketing strategy

Strategic responsibilities

• Develop the marketing and sales strategy and contribute to the wider business strategy
• Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies with the wider senior team
• Evaluate emerging technologies, providing thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate

Requirements

The ideal applicant will have a thorough knowledge of digital marketing and the opportunities that e-commerce presents, as well as hands on experience of delivering digital marketing campaigns. Ideally, we are looking for candidates who have a working understanding of charities and how they operate but we still want to hear from those with strong experience working in a highly regulated industry. 

The ideal candidate will have a minimum three years’ experience as a digital marketer, preferably in the charity or housing sector as well as;

• Good understanding and knowledge of SEO & paid ads
• Strong desire to learn and willing to use your own initiative
• Experience with email and affiliate marketing
• Editorial, writing and design skills
• Solid understanding of the different social networks, particularly LinkedIn and Twitter
• Ability to build, lead and inspire a team working mainly remotely
• An ambitious individual who is driven to achieve successful results
• Ability to make efficient use of resources
• Hands on mentality and get the job done mindset
• Passionate problem solver, keen to push a continual improvement agenda
• Excellent people skills to be able to adapt to all types of requests, as well as the ability to build strong relationships with key people and stakeholders
• Pays close attention to detail
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills
• A creative mind with good critical thinking skills, as well as an analytical problem-solver
• Flexibility to work on a variety of projects and multi-task effectively.

Location: UK - Remote, or Head office London N1

Salary: up to £45,000 depending on experience

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Remote working or office based – London N1
• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays!

To be considered for the position you must

- submit a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role

- have the right to work in the UK

Position: Research Communications Manager
Type: Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent
Location: Flexible but will require regular travel to London (currently home-based)
Salary: £46,364 - £50,909 per annum plus excellent benefits
Salary Band: Band G, Level 3
Department: Research

At the MS Society, we make sure people living with MS are at the centre of everything we do. And it’s this commitment that unites us across the UK.

Our work is based on the hopes and aspirations of our MS community. Together we campaign at all levels, fund ground-breaking research and provide award winning support and information.

Our people are our greatest asset and the key to our success. We offer a vibrant, progressive environment where you will make a difference.

About this job

We’re looking for a communications professional with an excellent grasp of biomedical science to oversee our ambitious research communications programme. You will lead the day to day operational work of the research communications team, line managing two members of staff.

This role involves leading on a broad and varied range of projects, often working collaboratively with other departments across the organisation. You’ll oversee the development of engaging research related content for digital and print, as well as managing an annual programme of research talks and events. You’ll also represent the Society at regional and national events and through print and broadcast media.

As a key member of the Research management team, you’ll contribute to the leadership, planning and policy formulation of the department as a whole.

You’ll be joining the research team at an exciting time as we prepare to launch a multi-million pound clinical trials platform. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and friendly team.

We offer 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), travel loan and various other benefits such as supported developmental opportunities.

The MS Society is in the midst of an exciting, transformational, period which builds on our great history and will drive us towards achieving our mission and vision as we embark on our new 5 year strategy.

As part of this exciting transformation, we’ll be moving from our current National Centre based in Cricklewood, London to Finsbury Park, London later this year. We’re expecting to be moving into our new office from August 2021.

Closing date: 9am on Thursday 25 March
Interview date: 7 April

PLEASE PRESS THE 'HOW TO APPLY' BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity. 

No agencies please.

Policy and Communications Manager
c£30-35,000 per annum
Full-time and Permanent
Office base Southwark, London SE1 – currently Covid required home based working with some longer-term flexible work from home options available.

Commonweal is an independent charity working to investigate, pilot and champion housing based solutions to social injustice.  Using our charitable resources we provide experts and partner organisations with the opportunity to trial and test new approaches designed to enhance housing equality and justice. Independently evaluating each of our projects we share our experiences, using this learning to inspire new thinking. Through the replication of what works and the lessons from what doesn’t, we influence changes in policy and practice.

As Policy and Communications Manager, working as part of and alongside our project leads, you will formulate our policy messages.  You will help lead on stakeholder engagement and growing the understanding across our sector of who Commonweal are and what we can offer.  You will shape, then develop and deliver the strategy for effectively communicating our growing range of positive project findings and aligning our PR to public policy research initiatives. In short your role will be to put comms in to action!

You will need to have a good understanding of the voluntary and community sector as well public policy, the political environment and its current and potential implications for the charity.  You will be regularly presenting to Trustee Board meetings, ensuring Trustees and colleagues are involved and updated on external affairs activities to embed support for communications activities.  You will be supported in this role by a Communications Officer therefore experience of staff management would be desirable but not necessarily essential.

You will possess experience of working in a communications or PR environment, with strong written skills and design skills along with demonstrable knowledge of a range of communication channels (including print, broadcast and online media). Experience of liaison with the press and media securing the take up of press releases, opinion pieces or other outputs would be helpful.

Ideally you will have experience in the field of housing, homelessness or the wider charitable sector, but certainly a demonstrable interest in the positive role for housing whether professionally, personally or through lived experience.  However, more important is demonstrable experience of policy research and stakeholder engagement, along with an understanding of the parliamentary, voluntary sector and public service environment.  A track record of building successful working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, strong organisational skills and the ability to work on your own initiative are all a must.

Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd March 2021
Proposed interview date: Wednesday 7th April 2021 – via Zoom or Microsoft Teams video platforms

If you feel excited by the challenges posed by this role and would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our HR Partner's website, where you complete the application process.

Commonweal Housing is committed to equal opportunities and values diversity in its workforce. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and people with a disability are currently under-represented at Commonweal Housing.

You may have experience of the following: Policy & Communications Manager, Internal Communications Manager, External Communications, Policy Officer, Public Affairs, Senior Policy Officer, Housing, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Policy Officer, Policy Planning, Researcher, Not for Profit, Public Affairs, Communications Manager, Marketing Communications Manager, Marketing Manager, Senior Communications Executive, Press Officer, PR, Public Relations, etc.

No agencies please. 

Cool Earth is looking for a Digital Communications Officer to work on the launch of The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC)

• Are you an experienced Digital Communications Officer? 
• Do you want to work in a high profile role celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee?

The Queen's Green Canopy (QGC) is a unique tree planting campaign across the United Kingdom which is being created to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. The initiative is being hosted by Cool Earth but has its own dedicated team.

The QGC will be officially launched in May 2021. This role will support the Head of Communications to deliver the overall QGC communications strategy and digital plan, helping to drive an engaging and effective digital presence throughout the course of the 18-month campaign.

The Digital Communications Officer will support the design and build of the QGC website and help to ensure the campaign is an effective celebration of the Jubilee in every corner of the country and that it creates a legacy of a greener UK.

This is a full-time role which can be conducted remotely but you will need to attend location (predominantly London but also UK nationwide) for meetings and filming, from time to time.

• Full-time hours with the potential to work flexibly from home
• Closing date: Monday 15 March 2021
• Interviews will take place on Thursday 18 March 2021

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Support communications activities for the QGC launch, with a focus on developing the plan and content for digital channels
• Project coordinate the design, build, and testing of the QGC website, liaising with digital agencies on a daily basis
• Develop and support our digital presence across the QGC website, social media platforms and email marketing channels
• Manage social media channels on a day to day basis, creating content and responding to queries as necessary
• Develop optimised written, visual, and audio content to reach wide-ranging target audiences, including collaborating with external organisations to maximise campaign engagement
• Increase the organisation’s visibility among potential supporters
• Advise on social media best practice, latest trends and technologies

For more details, please visit our website

Job Description

Job Title: Communications and Campaigns Manager – Inspiring Governance

Reports to: Director of Governance Programmes

Location: Flexible with occasional travel to London office - Quantum House, 22 – 24 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, EC4A 3EB

Purpose: The UK based Education and Employers charity aims to ensure that all young people have the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential. One of the ways it achieves this aim is via the Inspiring Governance recruitment service. Funded by the Department for Education, this is a free governor recruitment service which gets highly skilled volunteers to serve as governors in some of the most disadvantaged schools in England and in so doing, helping to raise educational achievement.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference by taking on a leading role in driving our communications and campaigns activities, both with volunteers and employers looking to support governance, and with recruiters looking to appoint governors in their school and local academy boards.

The postholder will primarily be responsible for developing and personally delivering a suite of communications and campaigns activity. They will work as part of a close and supportive team with other colleagues in Inspiring Governance and the wider charity.

Remuneration: circa £28-30k - depending upon experience

Additional Terms: 30 days paid holiday, exclusive of Statutory Holiday plus competitive pension scheme and a volunteering allowance of up to 5 days – pro rata in accordance with the length of contract. Additional family friendly benefits including enhancements to Statutory Payments.

Appointment Terms: Fixed term contract – initially until March 31st, 2022

Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of communications and campaigns that contribute to driving volunteer sign ups, supporting our employer engagement, and successfully engaging recruiters with our governance recruitment services:

• Inspiring Governance: This is a free (at point of use) England wide online recruitment service that connects schools with skilled volunteers interested in being governors and trustees. The service is currently funded by the Department for Education (DfE) The programme has specific, and demanding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to meet around numbers of volunteers sourced and placed, the diversity of volunteers and the number of vacancies registered by schools.
• Inspiring FE Governance: This is a free (at point of use) England wide online recruitment service dedicated to finding individuals with the right skills to serve on Further Education (FE Boards) in England, including chairs of finance committees. Board members are committed volunteers and the role is like a company non-executive director. The Inspiring FE Governance service is funded by the Education and Training Foundation and run solely by Education and Employers. The programme has specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to meet, around numbers of volunteers sourced and placed for example.

We are looking for a strategic thinking, motivated individual who can evolve existing campaigns, develop new ones, and deliver a range of communications activity across multiple channels to promote the Inspiring Governance Service. The post-holder will understand governance and is passionate about supporting young people to realise their potential. Education and Employers is a small charity working at a rapid pace to bring about change and the ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills, able to absorb key information quickly and work well with a small team in a dynamic working environment.

Key Accountabilities:

Review, evolve and deliver our current communications strategy

• To review, critique and develop the current Inspiring Governance communications strategy
• Put in place plans to resource and deliver this strategy at minimum cost for maximum gain
• Undertake metrics tracking to secure management information on all our communications channels, helping to inform and revise our ongoing strategy

Managing our website and social media channels

• Manage the Inspiring Governance website, overseeing and generating all content and liaising with our website hosts to ensure the website is engaging, informative and accessible
• Generating and posting content (including video) for the Inspiring Governance social media channels (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) that is designed to maximise benefit and reach for the service itself
• Works with the website provider and other external agencies as appropriate (film companies/ designers) to develop briefs for and delivery of key communications and marketing assets
• Through well planned social media campaigns and activity, grow our followership in terms of reach and by securing influential followers that can magnify our communications reach
• Develop the ongoing content schedule for the Inspiring Governance news stories pages. Commission, author and edit articles for these pages, promoting them appropriately to secure the widest readership
• Developing a wider library of photos/ images that are engaging, support our written comms and are tailored appropriately at our governance audiences

Curate, maintain, update, and develop our resources for volunteers and recruiters

• Review our current resources and revise any branding in line with a change in our delivery partnership, which will involve re-branding some material and maintaining branding/ attributed IPR of others
• Update our resources in line with DfE issued advice and guidance on school and academy governance
• Refine and further develop Inspiring Governance’s existing offer to volunteers thus helping ensure volunteers are ready to take up their role on a governing board
• Signpost ongoing support in the market that volunteers can access during their first years in governance

Developing our existing and new campaigns

• Work with partners to develop the Everyone on Board campaign (to diversify schools governing boards) that to date has been jointly developed with the National Governance Association
• Work with partners to develop the Educators on Board campaign (to encourage more educators on to governing boards) that to date has been jointly developed with the National Governance Association
• Develop and expand the School Governor Champions campaign that encourages employers and organisations to become a corporate supporter of school governance
• Support the Head of Employer and Volunteer Engagement to develop employer and sector led campaigns like Take a Closer Look (engineers) and Health Ambassadors (NHS staff)
• Conceptualise and deliver new campaigns that help us achieve our objectives and contract KPIs

Review and update all our existing communications with volunteers and recruiters

• Review the range of automated e-mail and personal communication that goes to users of the service (both volunteers and recruiters). Ensure that these comms best support the user/ customer journey and reflect the friendly, helpful and straightforward approach the service currently takes to its users
• Draft content for and distribute regular communications that go to IG volunteers and recruiters such as the volunteer and recruiter newsletters and annual surveys
• Work with Inspiring the Future colleagues in the charity to put in place a communications approach that encourages ITF volunteers to deepen their volunteering commitment and register for Inspiring Governance

Partnership communications and wider PR/ press coverage

• Secure wider PR/Press coverage for the Inspiring Governance service and its campaigns in trade, regional and possibly national channels
• Work with educational stakeholders to support the wider promotion of the IG service and our messages. This will include the National Governance Association as a previous delivery partner but also professional associations and membership bodies
• Further develop our employer social media toolkit and ensure that employers and professional associations we work with have the copy and tools to promote the Inspiring Governance service within their internal and external communications networks
• Ensure Inspiring Governance maximises its exposure through linking to national campaigns such as volunteer’s week and National Careers Development Month.

Wider charity contribution

• When required provide support to the wider charity’s communications activities and priorities. For example, this could be supporting the release of our research reports like the recent Value of Volunteering report.

Other

• Represent the charity’s governance programmes and the Director at external events and conferences as appropriate
•  Proactively contribute ideas and thoughts into the governance programmes team and into the wider Charity; both on Inspiring Governance Comms and the charity’s wider work; 
• Other ad hoc duties as required.

Person specification:

Skills/ Knowledge/ Expertise

Essential

• Degree or equivalent experience e.g. CMI/CAM Cert/Dip
• Management level experience of developing and delivering communication strategies and executing them via effective programme and project management;
• Demonstrable supplier, client, and stakeholder engagement experience (including working with designers, printers, schools and wider educational stakeholders and their representatives);
• Management level experience of managing and delivering across a communications function (experience of engaging employers/ volunteers and schools/academies would be ideal) including scoping and delivering a programme of activity to achieve demanding Key Performance Metrics;
• Excellent IT skills and demonstrable experience of effectively using a content management system – we use Word Press;
• Excellent drafting and copy writing skills and the ability to structure and produce compelling and grammatically correct written content for a range of audiences;
• Demonstrable experience of conceptualising, planning and executing national comms campaigns to achieve demonstrable target group behaviours, such as encouraging volunteer and recruiter sign up to a service;
• Demonstrable experience of engaging and working effectively and collaboratively with colleagues and external partners across multiple geographical locations;
• Excellent people skills, the ability to influence (including with senior representatives) and the manner to professionally represent both the governance programmes and the Charity as a whole with schools, academy trusts and educational/ employer stakeholders;

Desirable

• A passion for supporting young people in realising their potential through placing skilled volunteers as governors in schools; 
• A successful track record in delivering tangible outcomes through engagement with schools, volunteers, employers and educational stakeholders;
• Experience of producing video and photography content to a standard that can be used on public facing websites;
• Specialist knowledge of the education and employment sectors and the policy environment underpinning these in order to tailor effective messaging;
• Experience and/or knowledge of governance within an education context; willingness to become a governor desirable
• Experience of working to deliver significant national Key Performance Metrics using resources (human and financial) efficiently and effectively; 
  • Understanding of risk management and data protection.

Personal Attributes

• Good level of education, demonstrating strong client facing aptitude and communication skills both written and verbal. Comfort and confidence in working with a variety of senior external stakeholders
• Self-motivated and relentless in pursuing goals, having an entrepreneurial and enterprising approach to their work;
• Good working knowledge and practical application of Microsoft office tools and the ability to understand and work with customer relationship management software – we currently operate our services on a Salesforce platform;
• A solutions orientated “doer”- ability to pro-actively anticipate requirements and act to provide workable solutions to these;
• Influencer - demonstrates personal ‘presence’ and gains the confidence of others through temperament, capability and calibre;
• Demonstrates sensitivity and possesses the ability to effectively manage the organisational tensions that sometimes develop between internal and external stakeholders involved in the organisation and delivery of communications. 
• Team Player: working collaboratively and flexibly with other colleagues to achieve outcomes and is keen to add value to the Charity’s culture and ethos;
• Able to undertake some occasional work in the evenings and at weekends;
• Able to travel in the UK (England primarily).

Application process 

The Education and Employers Charity values having its current diverse workforce.  We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all individuals from all backgrounds.

The closing date for applications is midday on the 15th March 2021. Successfully shortlisted candidates will be notified no later than close of play on Friday 19th March. Online interviews will take place via Zoom or MS Teams on either the 24th or 25th March.

Applications will only be accepted from those with the right to work in the UK with a valid passport/visa

Please note we will only consider applications with both a CV and covering letter.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered under any circumstances.

About the wider Education and Employers Charity

Education and Employers is an independent UK based charity launched in 2009 with the vision of “providing children and young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential”. It aims to achieve this by working with schools, employers, the national bodies that represent them and a wide range of other partners including the government and third sector organisations. The charity also works with partners internationally – more details here.

The charity runs Inspiring the Future, a free service which uses innovative match-making technology to connect volunteers with state schools and colleges, quickly, simply and at scale. Schools can very easily search a massive database of willing volunteers, filter against a wide range of criteria – e.g. subject, sector, career route and send them a message. It enables young people, wherever they live, whichever school they attend, the opportunity to meet people from a wide range of backgrounds doing jobs from across the whole world of work.

Over 55,000 people have already volunteered in the UK - people from all levels: apprentices to CEOs and all sectors: apps designers to zoologists and over 80% of English secondary schools have registered. People can volunteer from an hour a year in a local primary or secondary school to chat informally about their job and career route, take part in career speed networking session, give careers insights, provide mock interviews or feedback on CVs through to serving as a governor or trustee.  There is also the opportunity to link up with schools for workplace visits, job shadowing and mentoring.

Inspiring the Future operates on a technology platform kindly developed in partnership with Deloitte, Salesforce and Ordnance Survey. It allows the charity to run national campaigns such as Inspiring Women and others focused on specific geographic areas or economic sectors such as engineering, science, health and arts and culture. The campaigns have secured high profile support across government, business and teacher associations and ongoing corporate partnerships including our lead corporate partner Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

In partnership with the National Association of Head Teachers the charity has developed a version for primary schools called Primary Futures and over 4,500 primaries have already signed up. To see a short clip on how it works please click here.  All campaigns run through Inspiring the Future share a common objective: to broaden young people’s horizons, raise their aspirations and show them the range of opportunities and careers routes e.g. apprenticeships and university open to them. Over 1.8 million interactions between young people and volunteers from the world of work have already taken place.

In partnership with the National Governance Association the charity currently runs Inspiring Governance the free governor recruitment and support service. This Department for Education funded service aims to get highly skilled volunteers to serve as governors in some of the most disadvantaged schools in England and in so doing help raise educational achievement. From April 1st, 2021, this will be delivered solely by Education and Employers and will focus only on governor recruitment.

Since the Charity’s launch it has sought to understand what difference employer engagement in education makes to young people and the economy. It works with academics and researchers from around the world and its own research is regularly cited by government and international organisations like the OECD. The research, which has informed and influenced a range of government policies, shows that employer engagement helps improve social mobility, reduces the likelihood of young people becoming NEET (not in education, employment of training), increases the amount they earn in adult life, helps them make better informed career choices and leads to improvements in educational attainment.

Internal Communications Manager
Ref: ICM(21)/CN
Location: WWT HQ, Slimbridge, Glos with opportunity for home working
Hours: 30 hours per week, 4 days a week
Salary: £23,480 per annum (£29,351 FTE)

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is the UK’s leading wetland conservation charity. We are pioneers in saving threatened wetland wildlife and experts in wetland management and creation. Around a million visitors a year engage with wetland nature at our ten sites around the UK, and we work nationally and internationally to balance conservation with sustainable livelihoods for local communities. We have recently completed a review of our strategic priorities which includes ambitious targets for developing bigger and better wetlands, encouraging more people to take direct action for these unique places, and ensuring key decision makers around the world realise the essential role wetlands play in restoring nature, combating climate change and enhancing health and wellbeing.

As part of this review we are investing in internal communications.  The Internal Communications Manager will be responsible for developing and delivering our strategy to inform, engage and inspire our 400 employees and 1000 volunteers to support the delivery of the charity’s ambitions.  Reporting to the Head of Communications and Campaigns, this newly created position will work with colleagues across the communications, brand and people teams and the wider organisation to develop and deliver our internal communications strategy.

We are seeking an experienced individual who is passionate about creating engaging and effective communications that deliver results.  With a background in delivering internal communications in complex, multi-site organisations, you will be used to working across different departments to create and deliver a plan of action.  You will have a track record of communicating clearly and creatively using a wide range of channels and evaluating the impact of your activities.  You will be developing strategy and creating the content that brings it to life, working on issues ranging from organisational change to health and wellbeing to celebrating extraordinary achievements in nature conservation and public engagement.

This role is an exciting opportunity to shape our new internal communications function working with colleagues across the charity.  You will be part of an ambitious organisation focused on restoring and developing wetlands and wetland species at a critical moment for the natural world.  You will also be joining us as we celebrate our 75th anniversary and seek to celebrate the charity’s incredible history with its employees and volunteers around the world. The successful candidate will have a passion for, but not necessarily a background in, environmental issues.

We are based in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire but are happy to discuss the options for home working. The role is part time (30 hours per week).

In return for your hard work and dedication you’ll enjoy a wide range of benefits including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service pro rata
• Contributory pension scheme (conditions apply)
• Life assurance
• Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free entry to all our centres

Closing date: Sunday 14 March 2021
Interview dates: Wednesday 24 March (1st round) and Wednesday 31 March 2021 (2nd round).

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply button to be directed to our website where you can download the Job Description and complete your application.

WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit. ​

Registered Charity Number England & Wales, no 1030884 and Scotland, no SC039410.

No agencies please.

ASN has a solid income stream of individual giving, with both one-off and more than 1,100 regular donors. We want to both retain and grow this income base and work with our individual supporters in the widest way possible, encouraging them to also fundraise and network on our behalf. This will build on our robust pre-pandemic community fundraising and which we are keen to reboot/pivot online. We have the beginnings of a small major donor income stream, which we believe has potential to grow. Our trusts and foundations programme is also small, but as we develop more work within Europe, we believe this could grow through targeted approaches to funders of European work.

Reporting to ASN’s Founder & Director, you will help to develop and implement Abortion Support Network’s Fundraising and Communications programme. You will work with a network of volunteers with varying levels of experience to grow and diversify ASN’s income through individual giving, major gifts, community fundraising and trusts and foundations. You will develop and implement ASN’s communications strategy, ensuring our messaging and brand is consistent across online (incl. website, social media) and offline channels, ensuring that our fundraising and communications are linked up. You will also work with the Director and our Bookkeeper to ensure that our income projections and budgeting are in line with fundraising activities and goals and support ASN’s wider financial management processes.

We’re looking for someone with high attention to detail, who is both self-motivated and a team player, someone with social justice values who wants to be part of a dynamic and growing organisation to provide critical support to people who want abortions. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Developing, reviewing and implementing ASN’s fundraising and communications strategy 
• Working with ASN’s team of fundraising and communications volunteers to achieve income targets and associated communications KPIs 
• Managing the recruitment, induction and ongoing support of all ASN fundraising and communications volunteers 
• Developing and implementing innovative individual giving campaigns to grow monthly and one-off gifts 
• Developing bespoke ‘Case for Support’ for prospective and current major donors to ensure retention and year-on-year growth 
• Conducting due diligence and prospect research on prospective major donors to ensure high-quality relationships 
• Ensuring regular communications with individual donors, keeping them up to date with our work and the impact their donations have had, ensuring retention remains at or above industry standard 
• Developing and implementing a strategy to ensure database growth through acquisition
• Supporting Trusts & Foundations volunteers to develop a robust prospect pipeline 
• Working with the Community Fundraising and communications volunteers to develop and implement community fundraising events and support groups who would like to fundraise for ASN, both online and when possible in person 
• Working with Social Media Volunteers to ensure interesting, relevant and consistent content across platforms (incl. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) 
• Working with ASN’s Director and Bookkeeper to develop and monitor budgets and income forecasts based on existing and planned fundraising activities 
• Assisting with forecasting, management accounts and reporting across financial KPIs to the Director and the Board of Trustees
• Updating and maintaining the database in line with the General Data Protection Regulations 
• Implementing the Equal Opportunities Policy into daily activities 
• Undertaking any other duties as may reasonably be required in this post 
• Keeping abreast of key fundraising and communications trends and issues and the regulatory environment. Ensuring that standards are set, procedures followed, and issues acted upon or communicated to relevant staff 

PERSON SPECIFICATION 

Essential: 

• Four years of experience in fundraising and/or communications 
• Demonstrable experience in developing and running successful online individual giving campaigns 
• Proven experience in running acquisition campaigns, with a detailed understanding of retention rates, lifetime value etc. 
• Demonstrable understanding of how varying fundraising income streams can intersect i.e. regular gift into a major gift 
• Demonstrable experience in working across a range of communications channels
• Proven experience in recruiting and managing volunteers 
• Proven experience of forecasting income and creating budgets
• Ability to plan strategically and implement those plans 
• Exceptional organisational skills with experience of managing multiple tasks and prioritising effectively 
• Excellent communication skills including a high level of attention to detail, both written and oral
• Ability and willingness to work as a team and to use own initiative
• Excellent presentation skills, confidence in making personal approaches and representing ASN externally 
• Computer literate and confident in using all MS Office software 
• Financially literate with ability to analyse and contribute to budgets, management accounts, financial reporting and forecasts. 
• Knowledge of a fundraising database 
• Ability to travel internationally on an occasional basis 
• Willingness to work, if required, on evenings/weekends 

Desirable: 

• Experience in fundraising in other territories (i.e. Poland and other countries in Europe) 
• Experience in other forms of fundraising such as Major Giving, Trusts & Foundations and/or community fundraising 
• Experience of financial management within a small charity 
• Experience of using platforms including or similar to Donorfy, MailChimp and various payment platforms (Fundraise Up, Stripe, Apple Pay, PayPal, etc) 
• Experience working with the press and fielding press enquiries

Personal Attributes/Qualities: 

• Post-holder must be pro-choice. This will be evaluated at interview 
• Trustworthy, patient, flexible and a good relationship builder 
• Ambitious, innovative, target-driven and self-motivated
• Enjoy working as part of a team 
• Open to new ways of working, learning new tasks and skills as required 
• Committed to building meaningful, personal relationships with our supporters 
• Strongly motivated by success and passionate about seizing opportunities as they present themselves 
• Driven by the desire to give our supporters an excellent experience 

Inclusion 

Abortion Support Network especially encourages applications from People of Colour, LGBTQ+ people (we are a trans-inclusive organisation), people with disabilities, and people who have experienced other exclusion or marginalisation. We have tried to make this recruitment process as accessible as possible, but if you have particular needs please get in touch and we can think together about how to make this process more accessible for you. 

INTERVIEW PROCESS 

Please submit CV and cover letter of no more than two pages detailing why you would suit the role and any other information you believe to be relevant. Deadline for applying is Wed 17 March by 9 pm.  

Successful applicants will be invited to take part in a two stage interview process, both conducted over Zoom or Skype. The first interview will include skills testing. The first round of interviews will be scheduled to take place Monday 29 March and the morning of Wednesday 31 March.

Head of Advocacy and Communications

UK-based, flexible location, some overseas travel

Join a Nobel Peace Prize laureate that is saving and changing lives every single day.

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) finds and destroys landmines and unexploded bombs to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people stay safe and rebuild their lives after war. We also campaign for a landmine-free world, work to remove small arms from fragile communities and deliver innovative risk education lessons to those forced to live with the deadly contamination of conflict. We employ some 5,000 committed and highly skilled people in 26 countries and are regarded as a global leader in disarmament practice and policy.

Our mission is to get to every landmine before a child does. And to save lives and build futures for those whose communities have been shattered by war.

We are now seeking a Head of Advocacy and Communications to develop and execute an integrated advocacy, public affairs and communications strategy which will deliver purposeful influence with a wide range of high value UK and international stakeholders.

As the Head of Advocacy and Communications you will:

• Ensure the effective provision of strategic public affairs and engagement activity, chiefly in support of MAG’s relationships with institutional donors and its disarmament policy leadership, working closely with colleagues in global programmes, our UK hub in Manchester and our office in Washington DC.
• Provide leadership to the communications and advocacy team and ensure that MAG’s communications at a national, regional and international level are coherent and directly support advocacy, policy, programming and public engagement plans.

The successful candidate will have an innate understanding of how to use strategic advocacy and public affairs to drive change. They will have an in-depth knowledge of the UK political environment and with a track record of developing relationships with politicians, special advisers and other key Westminster figures. They will be persuasive and with the ability to operate in a multi-faceted, fast-paced and complex environment.

The starting salary for this position is £50,340 per annum, plus contributory pension.

This is a UK-based role with the potential for remote working. There will be the requirement for occasional overseas travel, including to conflict-affected states

For further information, the application form and details of how to apply, please visit the MAG website and follow the application instructions.

Closing date for applications: Sunday March 7 2021.