Development Officer Jobs
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) delivers world-class research, learning and teaching that transforms the knowledge, action and leadership needed for more equitable and sustainable development globally.
This role is within the IDS Communications and Engagement Team (CET) which exists to build awareness, consideration and engagement with the institute, its research, publications, and partnerships.
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Digital Marketing Support Officer to support the development, implementation and evaluation of multichannel marketing campaigns, which include PPC and paid LinkedIn advertising, to promote IDS’s professional development learning offer.
Applicants will take an analytical and evidence-based approach to their work, being well versed in tools such as GA4, Google Data Studio and Google Tag Manager. Experience in using content management systems and creating engaging, search engine optimised content is essential.
At IDS, we understand and appreciate the value of a flexible work environment, and we support a hybrid working arrangement of 40-60%, allowing you to balance work and personal commitments effectively.
Although IDS is a sponsoring organisation unfortunately we would not be able to obtain a certificate of sponsor for this particular post as the role does not meet the requirements (qualifications, skills, salary threshold) as outlined in the Skilled Worker guidelines.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the role
Are you looking to develop your fundraising skills in the international development sector? Are you proactive, highly organised, a good communicator and a friendly team player?
If you are seeking a dynamic and engaging role which offers a wide range of fundraising experience, then this could be the job for you. This position would suit someone with administrative experience and a passion for fundraising. All we ask is that you are willing to learn and willing jump into the role and organisational culture feet first!
The Senior Programme Funding Officer role sits within the External Engagement Department and will be responsible for the majority of the team administration. The role will be working closely with the Senior Fundraising Manger and Head of Programme Fundraising to identify and approach new donors, coordinate cross team proposals and support on the development of trips and events. A critical part of the role is also managing the Foundation’s CRM (Raisers’ Edge) system across the organisation.
You will be line managed and supported day-to-day by the Senior Fundraising Manager, who will work with you to upskill and develop you in the charity sector. This is a pivotal role in supporting the smooth running of the team. It can offer you the opportunity to develop your fundraising skills and gain experience in international development, as well as the opportunity to meet a diverse range of interesting stakeholders.
What can the Foundation offer you
- You will be part of an organisation that values you. As a smaller organisation, we value everyone’s individual perspective and voice and seek all staffs input into strategy, annual plans, and organisational values.
- A positive and collaborative culture – we are proud of our leadership and management style that encourages teamwork, open and honest communication, while maintaining a friendly and relaxed atmosphere where everyone can thrive.
- One-on-one regular meetings with your line manager or director to focus on career and professional development while also taking an interest in your personal wellbeing. We have a dedicated staff training budget and we are dedicated to spending it!
Guidance and how to apply
To apply, please download the job description and send us the following:
- Covering letter addressing relevant experience for the role (one A4 page max).
- We will not accept or consider applications submitted without a cover letter.
- When writing your cover letter, please refer to the job description, focussing on the essential and desirable criteria.
- Current CV (two A4 pages max).
All applicants should have the legal right to work in the UK prior to applying.
Please send your application in by 9am GMT on 8th April 2024.
Interviews will be held the following week.
The Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this position. Please let us know if you have any access requirements that you would like us to be aware of during this process.
For information purposes, we request that you complete the Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) monitoring form when you submit your application. This is not mandatory but supports the Foundation with its EDI goals and objectives. All information is private, and we abide by stringent GDPR and data processing management systems. The link is available via our website.
Due to the large number of applications we receive, please note that you will only be contacted should we wish to invite you to interview.
Thank you for your interest in the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. We look forward to receiving your application.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and creative digital communications professional to join International Alert’s global Communications team.
The role will shape and guide Alert’s digital strategy, building our online profile and reaching our target audiences through engaging and accessible content across our global social media channels, website and newsletter.
They will lead on identifying, setting and monitoring the digital priorities for the global Communications team, in support of the communications strategy. And they will collaborate with our country, regional and policy teams to help them communicate about peacebuilding in the places we work and on key topics such as the climate crisis, women’s and LGBTIQ+ inclusion, and ensuring peaceful economies.
The role will have a particular focus on managing our global social media channels and engagement, managing our global website and leading on our digital marketing, including our newsletter and social media advertising.
The successful candidate will be a creative and experienced content creator, with a talent for engaging audiences online and presenting complex ideas in an engaging and accessible way. They will be organised, with experience of digital project management and planning and managing multiple digital platforms, including social media channels and email newsletters.
They will also be someone who would relish the opportunity to work with people based across the globe, with the ability to build relationships with colleagues from a range of backgrounds.
Role duties and responsibilities:
Oversee our digital strategy
- Lead on identifying, setting and monitoring the digital priorities for the global Communications team, in support of the communications strategy.
- Advise programme teams and global staff on how to use digital communications to meet their objectives and reach their target audiences.
- Take the lead on communications plans for specific projects.
- Monitor and share key metrics to help inform our approach to digital communications.
- Stay abreast of the latest digital trends and approaches.
Manage our social media channels
- Manage our global social media channels and engagement.
- Produce high-quality and engaging social media posts about our work.
- Create images and video content for our social channels, and branded templates for country teams to use.
- Champion the use of social media among colleagues to help further their objectives.
- Advise and support our country and regional teams on using and setting up national social media channels.
- Use analytics to inform our use of social media.
- Manage the social media content schedule.
Manage our website
- Manage our global website using the WordPress CMS.
- Project manage ad hoc and longer-term development changes to the website.
- Manage the relationship with our external web support agency.
- Ensure the top-level webpages are engaging and kept up-to-date.
- Liaise with external translators to ensure consistency across our language sites.
- Ensure the website is optimised for SEO and that content editors follow good practices.
Lead on digital marketing
- Lead on the production of our newsletter via Mailchimp.
- Lead on and deliver social media advertising across our social media channels.
- Support country teams with their use of digital advertising via their social channels when needed, for example by providing trainings or support with in-country digital agencies.
- Maintain the Google Ads grant to ensure it is used effectively and efficiently.
Support on content creation
- Write and edit stories, blogs and videos about our work when needed.
- Support programme teams with the production of video and other multimedia content about their work.
Contribute to the effective working of the team and Alert generally
- Lead on the delivery of periodic webinars, including setup, promotion and running.
- Provide occasional training to staff on key subjects relating to your role.
- Collaborate with peer networks and coalitions.
- Maintain relationships with programme teams to ensure regular collaboration.
- Contribute to team-wide communications and knowledge management.
- Participate in organisation-wide events and discussions on related topics/projects.
- Any other tasks as may be reasonably required.
Please note that the above are just some of the role requirements. For the full role requirements, please view the job description.
All applicants must have existing and permanent right to work in the United Kingdom.
International Alert prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented people including women, people from the Global South, BIPOC, LGBTIQ+ people, disabled people, and other historically marginalised people.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior communications and media professional to lead International Alert’s global Communications team.
We are hiring this role at a pivotal time for Alert, as we implement our new organisational strategy. The postholder will have a unique opportunity to lead delivery of our global communications strategy, supporting the delivery of our organisational objectives and ensuring we maximise our peacebuilding impact.
The role will work in close collaboration with our country, regional and policy teams to deliver high-quality, impactful communications about peacebuilding in the places we work and on key topics such as the climate crisis, women’s and LGBT+ inclusion, and conflict-sensitive investment, centering the voices of the people and partners with whom we work.
You’ll be an excellent communicator and strategic thinker, with experience of delivery of communications across a range of channels and media. You will be responsible for driving up Alert’s visibility and profile and maintaining relationships with journalists, bringing with you good knowledge of the media landscape and excellent contacts.
You’ll have great interpersonal skills, able to work with people inside and outside the organisation across a range of geographies and backgrounds. You’ll be comfortable advising senior leadership within Alert and adept at identifying opportunities to raise Alert’s profile. You’ll be a good people manager, able to lead and motivate a team, and have experience of managing budgets.
Role duties and responsibilities:
Strategy and planning
- Develop and implement a three year communications strategy for Alert, in line with the organisational strategy, ensuring consultation and collaboration with Alert’s global and country teams
- Work closely with country teams to support the development of in-country communications strategies, ensuring regular co-ordination with country level communications colleagues
- Set clear objectives and KPIs for Alert’s communications work, developing robust frameworks for monitoring and reporting, and linking these to delivery of the communications strategy
Media relations
- Develop and deliver a media strategy, in line with Alert’s programme priorities, influencing and funding strategies;
- Lead on cultivating new and foster existing relations with key contacts in the media, building Alert’s credibility and ensuring effective working relationships with journalists;
- Lead on delivery of media strategy for discrete projects, developing plans, drafting key messages and press releases, identifying and working with target journalists and setting parameters for success.
- Lead on Alert’s response to breaking news stories and events, working with senior staff to develop appropriate responses
- Lead on crisis communications for Alert, drafting and holding the crisis communications protocol, representing the communications team on the Crisis Management Group, supporting and advising senior staff, and ensuring regular media training for relevant staff
- Proactively identify opportunities for coverage of Alert’s work in UK, European and international media, as well as by national/regional media in countries/regions where Alert works, and maximise profile opportunities for Alert’s spokespeople and experts;
- Manage and monitor the media email account and media phone, including out-of-hours media calls.
Content, branding and profile
- Ensure robust sign-off processes, comprehensive policies and quality systems to facilitate the work of programme and/or country teams and to ensure that all Alert’s communications are consistent with Alert’s brand, coherent in tone and messages, and high in quality;
- Lead a brand review for Alert in line with the new organisational strategy, including robust audience testing
- Oversee the maintenance and implementation of Alert’s brand guidelines, supporting the marketing and publications officer to ensure brand consistency across all of Alert’s work
- Work collaboratively with other organisations and deepen relationships with donors and funders to increase the profile and visibility of Alert and the peacebuilding sector.
Events and outreach
- Ensure excellent profiling and positioning of Alert’s brand, image and impact throughout Alert’s external communications and events;
- Oversee the design, planning and implementation of specific activities or events and campaigns using a variety of media, and ensure that opportunities for contributing to Alert’s funding, media and influencing strategies and building/maintaining excellent relations with potential supporters and contacts are optimised for each event;
- Ensure that all Alert outputs are disseminated successfully, using different media and messages to reach out to and engage different target audiences, and that dissemination strategies and budgets are set for each output.
Digital communications
- Support the Senior Digital Engagement Officer to develop an annual content plan that reflects the requirements of the strategy and delivers against its objectives
- Maintain understanding of and engagement with the latest digital trends and approaches, ensuring Alert is compliant with relevant regulations
- Oversee the development of a digital plan and ensure it contributes to Alert’s programme priorities, influencing and funding strategies;
- Ensure the furthering of Alert’s reach and profile through more effective and targeted use of the website, digital marketing and social media channels
Programmatic communications
- Support programme and country teams in strengthening their communications and outreach, and facilitate the development of their own communications and influencing strategies;
- Identify deficiencies and gaps in programmes’ communications capacity, skills and materials and make plans to remedy them as appropriate;
- Ensure that quality trainings are provided for programmes, country teams and partner organisations on relevant aspects of communications;
- Provide quality technical assistance and advice to programme and country teams for project planning, proposals and reporting, ensuring communications is incorporated into programme design and budgets.
Line management, budget management and organisational leadership
- Line manage the Communications team staff, and interns, volunteers and consultants where appropriate, setting clear and manageable workplans, ensuring structured, regular support and supervision, and tailored personal development plans;
- Ensure strong team co-ordination and support, with regular team meetings and awaydays
- Accompany, mentor and functionally supervise communications staff in programmes teams;
- Set, manage and monitor the Advocacy and Communications budget, ensuring robust oversight of spend and adherence to finance and procurement policies;
- Work closely with the Director of Policy, Advocacy and Communications to review and strengthen communications strategy and delivery, developing strong relationships with the Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer and the GPU Director to ensure advocacy and communications objectives are co-ordinated and complementary;
- Ensure efficient team-wide communications and knowledge management, and contribute to organisation-wide communications, knowledge management, events and discussions on related topics/projects;
- Deputise for the Director of Policy, Advocacy and Communications where appropriate.
Please note that the above are just some of the role requirements. For the full role requirements, view the job description.
All applicants must have existing and permanent right to work in the United Kingdom.
International Alert prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented people including women, people from the Global South, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and other historically marginalised people.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources.Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you an experienced corporate fundraiser with an interest in working in the international development sector? Are you creative, strategic, highly organised, a confident and effective communicator and strong team player?
We are looking for an experienced Senior Fundraising Manager to work closely with the Head of Programme Funding to drive new donor engagement and secure sustainable, multi-year funding. If you are seeking a dynamic and engaging role which offers you the chance to play a pivotal role within a small but ambitious organisation, then this could be the job for you.
You will be an exemplary relationship builder and have experience in developing multi-faceted corporate partnerships (ideally with experience and success in employee engagement, corporate sponsorship, and/or operational partnerships).
The role also line manages the Senior Programme Funding Officer, a position that provides administrative and fundraising support across the whole fundraising team. Please note that we are a small team and so you’ll need to be comfortable rolling up your sleeves to help out team members and to support new business across other restricted income streams.
If you think you have the skills, qualities and drive to fulfil this role, but don’t meet all of the specifications, or perhaps you’ve gained your experience in (for example) commercial sales or within relationships management and are looking to move into development work, we would still welcome hearing from you. We’re always interested to hear from talented individuals who can help drive the success of the team.
What can the Foundation offer you:
- You will be part of an organisation that values you. As a smaller organisation, we value everyone’s individual perspective and voice and seek all staffs input into strategy, annual plans, and organisational values.
- A positive and collaborative culture – we are proud of our leadership and management style that encourages teamwork, open and honest communication, while maintaining a friendly and relaxed atmosphere where everyone can thrive
- One-on-one regular meetings with your line manager or director to focus on career and professional development while also taking an interest in your personal wellbeing
How to apply
To apply, please download the job description and send us the following:
- Covering letter addressing relevant experience for the role (one A4 page max)
- We will not accept or consider applications submitted without a cover letter.
- When writing your cover letter, please refer to the job description, focussing on the essential and desirable criteria
- Current CV (two A4 pages max)
All applicants should have the legal right to work in the UK prior to applying.
Please complete your application 9am GMT on 8th April 2024. Further details can be found on our website.
Interviews will be held the following week.
The Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this position.. Please let us know if you have any access requirements that you would like us to be aware of during this process.
For information purposes, we request that you complete the Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) monitoring form when you submit your application. This is not mandatory but supports the Foundation with its EDI goals and objectives. All information is private, and we abide by stringent GDPR and data processing management systems. The link is available on our website.
Due to the large number of applications we receive, please note that you will only be contacted should we wish to invite you to interview.
Thank you for your interest in the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. We look forward to receiving your application.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.