Digital Communications Manager Jobs in Islington, Greater London
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Role: Communications and Engagement Manager
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Homebased within the UK with a requirement to travel to occasional meetings, mostly held in London
Reporting to: Director of Brand and Digital
Benefits: Flexible working arrangements, 28 days of annual leave + 1 day for your birthday, pension scheme.
Key relationships: Digital Marketing Manager. External relationships with key agencies and partners.
Salary: £30,000-£32,000 per annum.
Are you a talented copywriter who can work at pace to create compelling digital content and engage vibrant online communities? Do you make the most of emerging social media and digital trends? If so, there’s an exciting and vital role waiting for you where you can make a difference in our global community.
About Overcoming MS
Are you looking to make an impact at the world’s leading multiple sclerosis healthy lifestyle charity?
At Overcoming MS, we are here for everyone with MS who wants to take control of their health and wellbeing. We provide clear, practical actions for people to take and a supportive community to help people living with MS. The Overcoming MS Program uses substantial scientific evidence to show how lifestyle choices alongside medication benefit physical and mental health.
Knowing people with MS can reduce their risk of disease progression through lifestyle choices gives hope to us all. Our vision is a world in which living a full and healthy life with MS is possible for everyone.
Once people with MS know about the potential impact of a healthy lifestyle, they need to feel that the information comes from a reliable source so they believe in it and adopt the changes. The Overcoming MS Program is based on broad-based, high-quality scientific evidence, and lifestyle is an area that has growing interest and development.
Job Description
The role holder will create effective communications and engagement to support the charity’s work. You will drive positive two-way engagement through our digital channels. Your work will support organisational priorities, driving reach, community engagement and donations.
You will join a fast-paced and highly capable team where you’ll have the support to make an impact. The role will showcase the organisation’s work and impact on our community while driving positive online interactions with our diverse and vibrant community. To join us, you will be a talented copywriter and content creator, passionate about engagement, and digital and social media trends.
Key responsibilities include:
Communication and campaign creation
- Drafting digital communication and engagement plans to deliver results.
- Crafting exciting, creative, energetic, simple communications which drive action.
- Working to support colleagues and audiences. Working with stakeholders to ensure communications are planned and delivered at the right time to meet their needs.
Using results to drive change
- Using insight to inform new plans.
- Monitoring and evaluating impact by using analytics to maximise effectiveness.
Copy creation
- Using your strong written and verbal skills to curate and manage high-quality, consistent content across all our delivery platforms: social, Live Well Hub, web, email and PR.
- Interviewing members of the community and creating engaging content from their stories.
- Generating press releases to drive coverage and awareness and raise the profile of campaigns.
Social media
- Leading on building our impact and engagement on social media with our audiences, in line with our objectives, including supporting engagement campaigns and fundraising.
- Ensuring that we are using the best tools and techniques by staying up-to-date with trends.
- Monitoring social media, ensuring prompt and accurate responses to enquiries.
- Using analytics to constantly optimise our social media impact.
- Developing content for email marketing, including for fundraising and events campaigns.
- Optimising email by A/B testing content to maximise performance through design and content improvements and creating triggered email sequences to build our message.
- Using audience segmentation and personalisation to support campaigns.
- Using analytics to identify ways to constantly optimise our email impact.
Website content plus content SEO
- Overseeing content development for the website and checking existing content so our website is kept up-to-date, engaging, and on brand.
- Ensuring web content is optimised for SEO and usability, training staff on best practice.
- Leading team efforts to enhance the website as an engagement tool.
- Using analytics to identify potential content changes.
Engagement
- Acting as the digital community lead for engagement of our online communities on social media and the Live Well Hub, including guiding team members to follow best practice.
- Supporting online events and driving positive engagement opportunities.
- Responding proactively and appropriately to online messages and comments.
- Engaging and participating in online community groups and discussions beyond our channels.
Brand communication
- Ensuring all activity aligns with brand priorities.
- Championing on-brand messaging. Acting as a trusted expert on brand tone of voice.
- Ensuring all media and communications guidelines/policies are followed and kept updated.
- Sharing best practice with the wider organisation and continuing professional development.
Creative skills
- Generating and developing creative and innovative ideas with a good eye for brand, design, film and photography.
- Creating engaging collateral through software such as Canva, Photoshop or Indesign.
- Editing small amounts of audio or video (desirable).
Essential skills:
- High energy, with the ability to work at a fast pace, with a proactive, creative and flexible approach.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively and autonomously from home while working collaboratively and building relationships as part of a tight-knit team.
- A keen eye for detail with a consistently high quality of work output.
- Highly organised, able to manage a content schedule, and plan and deliver digital campaigns. Able to prioritise work across multiple projects to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrable experience in developing, leading and executing high-quality, effective communications and engagement strategies that achieve desired results.
- Excellent writing, editing and communication skills for social media, web, email and PR.
- An understanding of how communications affect and engage audiences.
- An ability to communicate in an inclusive way with diverse audiences.
- Experience in managing and optimising website content, with strong on-page SEO skills.
- Confident using tools like Dot Digital (email) and Loomly (social scheduling).
- Able to flex hours and work outside normal hours where needed to cover events (time off in lieu will be provided).
- Familiarity with Google Analytics, and digital monitoring tools.
Desirable skills:
- Interest in wellbeing (desirable).
- Experience working in a charity (desirable) and partnering with other charities (desirable).
- Skills in creative content development, such as audio, video and photo editing, ideally using Adobe Creative Suite (desirable)
- Ability with Search Console (desirable)
Working location
You are comfortable working remotely as part of a small team and happy to travel occasionally to London or other central locations for meetings.
What can we offer you?
Our staff benefits include:
• 28 days annual leave plus a day off for your birthday and bank holidays
• Flexible working
• Remote working
• Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
How to apply
Please send your CV and a covering letter detailing how you meet the essential skills.
Please respond ASAP, as we will start screening candidates as soon as we receive applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We make hiring decisions based on merit. If you fill most or all of the requirements, please apply.
No agency contact, please.
The package also includes:
• 8% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and additional leave during the Christmas week pro rata
• Season Ticket Loan
About USPG
USPG is the Anglican mission agency that partners churches and communities worldwide in God’s mission to enliven faith, strengthen relationships, unlock potential and champion justice. You can find out more about our work by visiting our website.
About the Role
Reporting to the Senior Communications & Engagement Manager as part of a highly functioning and creative team, this vital role will work across all media and channels to raise the profile of USPG and its partners and their work:
• Oversee the day-to-day running of our website and social media channels.
• Liaise with colleagues and partners to gather information and use it to create engaging collateral which informs, inspires, and sometimes challenges.
• Support the digital growth of USPG through SEO and Analytics
• Monthly digital and media reporting
About You
You are an organised and digitally aware communications professional. You can take complex subjects and communicate about them in simple and effective ways that speak to specific audiences. You understand the importance of reporting on website and social media performance to understand USPG’s audience and to adjust and improve. You are comfortable working in a small and creative team and are confident speaking to the wider organisation. You can juggle numerous projects and deadlines at one time.
You will demonstrate considerable cross-cultural awareness and an ability to communicate in a way that is sensitive and appropriate. You demonstrate an aptitude for collaborative teamwork and the ability to work independently on your initiative. It is expected that the postholder will be inspired by the work of USPG and in agreement with its Christian ethos and that they will be comfortable writing in a way which reflects this.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking for a second role within charity communications or a communications/marketing professional who wants to move into the charity sector. However, if you don’t necessarily fall into these categories, but have the right skills for this role, please get in touch.
How to apply:
Please visit the Current Vacancies section on our website and complete the application form and equal opportunities form. Please send both completed forms to Renata Rust.
Closing Date: Wednesday 12th June 2024 at 12 noon
Interview Date: Wednesday 19th June 2024
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Back Up are looking for an outstanding Head of Communications and Marketing to join us during an exciting period of growth and change.
In April 2021, Back Up launched an ambitious strategy to be there for every single person affected by spinal cord injury – ensuring no one is left behind. We have delivered against many of our goals and are now looking to the future.
Who should apply?
Our ideal candidate is an ambitious and experienced communications and marketing professional who possesses highly effective leadership skills and has a proven track record of leading highly successful communications and marketing teams. You will be a proactive self-starter with an energetic approach and a passion for high quality, high impact communications and marketing.
What does the role involve?
This is an exciting time for the Charity during a period of sustained growth. Working with our CEO and the leadership team, you will play a key role in developing Back Up’s 2025-30 strategy.
You will ensure that the charity has the communications and marketing structures, systems and processes in place in order to help us reach even more people affected by spinal cord injury and increase our supporter base.
This is a truly fantastic opportunity to transform the capability of a vital national charity.
To apply, please send us a CV together with a supporting statement that addresses the person specification (maximum two pages of A4). You should give the names, positions, organisations and telephone contact numbers of two referees, relevant to this role.
References will only be taken once your express permission has been granted. Finally, please ensure that you have included mobile, work and home telephone numbers, as well as any times when you will not be available for interviews.
Applications should be made via email at recruitment @ backuptrust . org . uk
Everyone will be contacted by email or phone with regards to the success of your application at this stage. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview at our offices
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This exciting role will work closely with the Director of Fundraising, Individual Giving Manager and Digital Marketing Manager to develop a strategy, plan and key performance metrics for digital donor acquisition and fundraising. Already expert and excited by digital fundraising campaign development, you’ll have a unique combination of creative and business skills. These will enable you to create engaging digital content and through your expertise in paid search, google grants and paid social, optimise the ROI for Starlight in terms of donor engagement, acquisition, and income. You’ll be curious and take time to understand how we’re supporting children in healthcare settings which will enable you to create content that resonates with our key audiences. Finally, alongside strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, you will be proactive and results-driven with a ‘can do’ attitude to work.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Anna Freud is a world-leading mental health charity for children, young people and their families. Our mission is to close the gap in wellbeing and mental health by advancing, translating, delivering, and sharing the best science and practice with everyone who impacts the lives of children, young people and their families. More information about Anna Freud is available on our website.
We value diversity and aim to have diverse workforce that reflects the community and our service users, in line with our vision, values and inclusion commitments. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.
The Digital Content Manager role sits in the Knowledge Dissemination Department of the Schools Division. A key ambition of the department is to build and deepen engagement with education staff and their communities, supporting them on a journey to access and connect to all that the division and wider Anna Freud offer.
The Digital Content Manager will play a key role in supporting this ambition by developing a new digital content strategy and planning and overseeing its implementation, working with colleagues across the division and wider charity. The post-holder will oversee and develop website content, resources, toolkits, e-learnings and support departments with their content needs, ensuring consistency.
The successful candidate will be skilled at writing and editing engaging digital content and have experience of using analytics to inform strategy development. They will be able to inform our digital marketing planning, and identify opportunities to create or utilize existing content for PR, marketing and communications.
Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week): usual working hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00. A minimum of 28 hours will be considered. Flexible working is possible.
Salary: £45,000 per annum FTE, plus 6% contributory pension scheme. Please note that successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their Right to Work in the UK post-job offer – we do not hold a sponsor licence therefore we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.
Location
Hybrid working (a mixture of onsite and home/remote working). Staff are working onsite for at least 20% of their working hours, either at our London site (4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH) or our Northern Hub (Huckletree, The Express Building, 9 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester M4 5AD).
Contract duration
Permanent.
Closing date for applications
Midday (12pm), Tuesday 11 June 2024.
Notification of interview
Shortlisted applicants will be notified no later than Monday 17 June 2024. During shortlisting, applicants are anonymously assessed using the criteria visible in the Job Profile. Please note: due to the high volume of applications received, we will not be able to provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.
Interviews
Interviews will be held on Monday 24 June 2024.
Please visit our Careers page to register and apply online. We are unable to accept CVs and kindly request no contact from agencies.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Do you want to be part of making a difference to, and supporting, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector across Hampshire?
We are seeking an enthusiastic, flexible and organised Communications Lead to join our existing Communications team and support our communications and engagement.
The Communications Lead will provide leadership and guidance with the planning, delivery and monitoring of Action Hampshire’s communication activities. This role will act as a key member of our communications team, providing coaching support to the Communications Officer and Communications Administrator. This is a multi-faceted role, with opportunity to grow and develop. You’ll work across the organisation, involved in many different projects and collaborating with colleagues across the team.
We are looking for someone with a creative eye, good interpersonal skills and excellent attention to detail who can communicate effectively. A key part of the role will involve implementing our Comms strategy and efficiently monitoring and making steps to improve our audience reach through our comms channels (including social media, email marketing, website and media contacts).
Key tasks include:
- To maintain and implement a communications strategy which supports Action Hampshire’s strategic plan and continue identifying opportunities to strengthen Action Hampshire’s brand awareness, reach and presence
- To provide support to the team enabling the delivery of high quality, engaging and informative content for the Action Hampshire website, newsletter and social media platforms
- To provide senior communications advice and coaching support to the Communications Officer and Communications Administrator
- Track, monitor and report on digital activity to measure impact and maximise effectiveness of Action Hampshire's reach and engagement
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation and build relationships with our members and users
We work collaboratively in support of strong, connected and equitable communities.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our friendly Healthwatch Redbridge team as we advance to the next phase of our work.
The post holder will be highly organised and motivated with strong administrative and social media experience to support the team’s daily activities.
You will be part of a team that has a real say in developing health and social care services and liaises with senior professionals and clinicians to help deliver change for local people.
Main aims of the role:
• Work collaboratively with the Chief Executive Officer, HWR Board, Staff and Volunteers to develop print and digital communications and printed materials to support the work of Healthwatch and its outreach and engagement activities.
• Develop relationships with sector, national and local media
• Ensure a consistent brand and identity is maintained and support colleagues to ensure quality communications across all products and initiatives.
• Manage the HWR digital and print communications channels, such as enewsletters, social media and print newsletters. • Ensure and maintain the online/ Web presence of Healthwatch including Twitter and LinkedIn
• Secure local, regional and national press coverage of HWR work in a variety of publications.
• Support and sustain information, advice, and signposting services to ensure individuals are directed to appropriate health and social care services.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion by ensuring that communications are accessible to all segments of society.
• Publicise volunteer opportunities and their role in improving the delivery of health and social care services.
• Ensure compliance with Healthwatch England brand guidelines and protocols.
• Co-ordinate the design and production of press releases, information and promotional materials required by the team.
• Assist the CEO and the team with the production of reports as required.
• Review and monitor materials produced by other organisations and feedback areas of potential interest to the team.
• Provide general admin cover for the Healthwatch Redbridge office – answering telephones, dealing with general enquiries and visitors to the office.
Main activities of the role:
• Collate copy, edit content, design, and launch print reports on the work of Healthwatch.
• Collaborate with staff across Healthwatch to develop outstanding digital and print content for all HWR channels.
• Collate, develop, and manage content for the HWR website and ensure the website is kept up to date.
• Collate, develop, and manage content for Healthwatch email marketing.
• Manage the HWR social media presence with engaging content.
• Support the delivery of Healthwatch events and engagement programme.
• Monitor effectiveness and impact of all communications activities, making recommendations for change.
Please see attached PDF for full details.
Please note: We will not progress your application unless we receive both a CV and a covering letter to explain how your experience is comparable to the job description and person specification.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
DETAILS
- Salary: GBP 60,000-65,000 depending on experience (the range is aligned to London cost of living and would be adjusted according to the appointee's location)
- Location: Flexible. But must be prepared to work at least four hours per day 1300 – 1700 Coordinated Universal Time. Location in London or Berlin may be an advantage.
- Contract Type: Full-time, open-ended contract
- Closing Date: 9 June 2024
- Interview Dates: 14 & 17 June (first round interviews), 19 June (second round interviews)
TO APPLY
Complete and return our application form via our jobs portal. Kindly note that the application form is required; we will not accept CVs.
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is seeking a Head of Communications to lead our high-performing communications team. The successful candidate will lead strategic, high-impact external communications across the organisation. They will work closely with our global team across 30 countries involved in research and analysis. They will bring talent, enthusiasm, knowledge and experience. This role currently manages a team of five and reports to the Executive Director. The communications team is tasked to ensure strategic and effective media, social media, and delivery of our digital platform to drive change.
About us
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is a global organisation committed to cooperation with diverse actors in our movement. We have more than 80 global team colleagues based in 20+ countries around the world, who work with a wide network of human rights advocates.
We seek a world where transformed business contributes to a just and regenerative economy that delivers shared prosperity and climate security; respects human rights and provides redress for abuse; and ensures greater equality of power and wealth. We stand with, and amplify and support, the voice and work of partners, allies, and movements in seeking to create linkages between grassroots experience and regional/international decision-making. We build and deploy evidence to influence decision-makers in governments and businesses towards transformative norms, regulations, and re-aligned business incentives that deliver systemic shifts from exploitative business behaviour towards a rights-respecting and regenerative economic model.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic communications: Lead the strategic evolution of our global communications as a critical component of our strategies to make change happen. Drive impact by building strategic media and digital outreach that amplifies the work of ourselves and allies, and influences key audiences. Work across our global team to develop a shared understanding of grand strategy, key audiences, the fast-changing context, and how communications can drive positive change. With the management team, set the organisation’s communications strategy and ensure we have the right skills, knowledge, and connections to deliver it. Collaborate with regional and thematic leads to ensure our communications strategies help deliver the human rights impact our programmes seek with allies.
- Lead the communications team: Support a strong team, nurturing their skills to inspire effective and high-impact communications, with an emphasis on digital first. Ensure the work of the team is expertly planned and executed within budget and meets donor requirements. Deliver our performance management system throughout the year to ensure support, well-being, and accountability. Work with the Senior Management Team to manage strategic and operational opportunities and risks.
- Drive and execute innovative, advocacy-oriented communications: Work with senior management, regional and thematic teams to drive a dynamic approach to communications, alongside spotting proactive and reactive opportunities, building higher-level relationships with journalists and partners, and developing tactical approaches. Play an active role in executing impactful, advocacy-oriented communications strategies for key products and events.
- Digital action platform and technology: Work with the Web Content and Digital Officer to manage the development of the Resource Centre’s leading multi-functional digital platform, and our substantial data as compelling evidence. Develop an understanding of the organisation’s target audiences and ensure we deliver features that effectively support them to effectively organise and present their research data and promote human rights in business.
- Programme design and fundraising: Work with our development (fundraising) team and programme leads to ensure communications, and digital technology work is built into project design and budget, and that funders’ information needs are well-served.
Key competencies and attributes
Strategic communication: At least 5 years’ experience delivering top class communications and expert understanding of how strategic communications deliver change. Demonstrable experience in strategy design and execution. Sharp news sense and editorial judgement; strong grasp of the power of social media to make change happen; and a global perspective to communications.
People manager: At least 3 years’ experience in line management. Experience in nurturing and sustaining a high performing team that thrives in a diverse, and global context. Demonstrable success in supporting project teams to deploy communications strategically for impact.
Project manager: Track record of leading and/or implementing complex communications projects including planning, execution, and evaluation. Demonstratable success planning communications for a busy organisation working closely with allies.
Digital technology & data: Experience of design and delivery of website, digital tools, and data to make change happen. Experience of working with developers to manage and maintain a website.
Human rights, and economic justice expertise: Familiarity with social justice or human rights issues and a willingness to keep up to date. Experience communicating economic justice and human rights issues desirable.
Team player: Experience of, and commitment to, working in high-performing teams that are highly collaborative and focused on outcomes. Experience of working with colleagues remotely, and in multicultural and diverse working environments desirable.
Networking: Track record of developing strategic relationships to enhance communications and advocacy efforts, e.g. civil society partners, consultants, journalists, opinion-formers. Experience building relationships of trust and joint action with allied organisations is strongly desirable.
Languages: Must be fluent in English. Additionally, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, or Russian language skills would also be an asset (all languages of our digital action platform).
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is a diverse, global team. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background and we acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in progressive movements. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Latinx and other minorities, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGTBQ+.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About the role:
The Achieving Potential programme at SHP supports SHP clients with options and opportunities to build their confidence, learn new skills and try new things. We are recruiting to an exciting new post within our team, having recently secured funding to take forward our digital inclusion offer.
People experiencing homelessness are often from the most socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and are digitally excluded. Digital access is crucial for peoples’ independence – e.g. accessing Universal Credit or GPs, but it’s also fundamental in addressing isolation and loneliness. Feeling connected to others can be the difference between someone continuing their journey out of homelessness or falling back into drug-use due to isolation/loneliness – we want to break the vicious cycle between digital and social exclusion.
As the Digital Inclusion Project Coordinator, your objectives will be to spearhead initiatives aimed at increasing digital inclusion within SHP’s diverse communities. This multifaceted role requires a blend of strategic planning, community engagement, technological proficiency, and environmental stewardship. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders from both withing SHP and externally to develop and implement sustainable solutions that bridge the digital divide and minimize the environmental impact of electronic waste.
About you:
- Demonstrated experience in community outreach, project management, and stakeholder engagement, preferably in the fields of digital inclusion, sustainability, or social justice.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to engage with diverse audiences and communicate complex concepts in a clear and accessible manner.
- Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving abilities to identify barriers, develop innovative solutions, and address complex challenges related to digital exclusion and e-waste management.
- Willingness to embrace change, navigate ambiguity, and adapt strategies in response to evolving priorities, emerging trends, and feedback from stakeholders and community members.
- Confidence to promote the benefits of the digital world and to challenge traditional silos and system barriers, as well as the ability to use different approaches and methods of communication with different stakeholder in order to achieve this
- The willingness and ability to provide flexible support, including support in the community and a variety of settings
- Proven ability to cultivate and maintain productive partnerships with different agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, and other stakeholders to leverage resources
About us:
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
We offer you more than a job; we offer you a chance to be part of a compassionate, driven team that's committed to making a real difference in people's lives. You'll have the opportunity to lead, co-create, and inspire change while enjoying a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.
Join us in creating a brighter, more hopeful future for individuals in need.
Important info:
Closing date:Sunday 9th June at Midnight
Interview date: Wednesday 19th June
This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Digital Content Creator
Are you looking for an opportunity to put your digital marketing skills and creativity to use for a socially responsible cause? Do you have a flair for creating engaging videos, a passion for social media and a love of all things digital?
We are looking for a highly creative digital marketing specialist to create and deliver engaging and inspiring content across our range of digital channels.
Ensuring our digital presence supports and enhances our business offering and delivers our messages effectively, the role requires a creative, digitally savvy individual with proven experience of developing and delivering successful digital marketing campaigns.
You will be a social media whizz, have strong design skills, know your way around a digital camera, and have experience in copywriting and proofreading. From coming up with new ideas for delivering digital content, to managing social channels and developing our websites, this is a truly varied role and the opportunity is there for you to really make it your own.
Sound like the challenge you're looking for? To apply, please submit a covering letter indicating how you feel you meet the person specification and why this might be the role for you, together with your CV.
- Contract length: 3 months with possibility of extension.
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Salary: £29,656-£32,000 per year (dependent on experience)
- Based: Remote with occasional travel to the London office
- Closing date: Ongoing
- Interviews: May be arranged at short notice
- Start date: As soon as possible.
Please see the full job description and person specification for further details.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Refugee Council is one of the leading organisations in the UK working with people seeking asylum and refugees. Our operational teams based in various locations throughout England provide advice and assistance across a wide range of issues, including helping people seeking asylum through the complexities of the asylum system, addressing issues of destitution, and assisting refugees and people seeking asylum to access key services including housing, welfare benefits, health, education and employment.
The Team
This role sits in the Digital Team within the Fundraising and Digital Directorate. This team is responsible for updating and transforming the Refugee Council’s external facing digital platforms. Including, but nor exhaustive to, the website and key social media channels.
This Role
The Digital Designer will devise excellent creative design and ideas to support the Refugee Council’s strategic priorities, particularity in relation to income generation and social media.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
The Digital Team is the central hub of digital expertise within the charity and a significant amount of our communications are delivered via owned and paid-for digital communications.The Digital Team is currently involved in two core organisational projects: a rebrand and a website re-design. We have many different audiences we need to connect with, including the people we are here to help, and our digital platforms need to reflect that.
The Digital Designer’s main duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Deliver creative and considered design solutions that meet the objectives of the brief, engaging with key audiences on preferred platforms.
- Understand the organisation’s values and interpret into creative outputs that are fully on brand and drive action, inspire and inform Refugee Council’s key audiences.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the 'Apply' button.
Closing date: Monday 3rd June 2024.
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The Talent Set are delighted to be working with Action Against Hunger to find their Head of Communications.
As Head of Communications, you will have overall responsibility for growing our brand profile, furthering public interest in our cause and positioning us as an influential and trusted voice on hunger across the world.
You will lead a strategic, motivated and highly impactful team that has received investment in recent years. You will be comfortable developing strategy, planning and budgeting and take a ‘hands-on’ approach as needed. You will align our media outreach, content strategy and creative output, social media and digital activity to maximise engagement, influence, and income. You will oversee our Ambassador programme, maximising opportunities to raise awareness and generate income via high profile celebrity supporters. Your team will profile our sector-leading special events and leverage strategic partnerships to raise awareness and showcase partnership impact. Our recent investment in digital mobilisation is delivering at scale, and with your help, we will continue to bring communications, fundraising and advocacy teams together to inspire action and support.
Key Responsibilities:
· Leading the development and implementation of ambitious communication strategies that will generate long-term sustainable growth in engagement and brand recognition.
· Leading a motivated, skilled and passionate team of 9 people that is driven to collaborate and maintain a high level of performance. Ensuring staff are developed, invested in and wherever possible, retained.
· Developing a brand that builds trust and authority, reflects our tone of voice, draws on audience insight and puts the voices of affected communities at the heart of our communications.
· Driving organisational understanding of our key audiences and ensure we are developing and delivering content that is responsive, authentic and engaging.
· Ensuring that our media and PR outreach achieves organisational objectives and is targeted, effective and measurable.
· Overseeing a digital engagement strategy that supports the organisation’s strategic aims, including social media, website, email and SEO strategies.
· Overseeing the implementation of our Ambassador and Influencer strategies and leading the team to raise awareness, achieve policy change and raise funds via our work with celebrity ambassadors.
· Overseeing the organisational communications strategy for emergency appeals, including leading on the development of emergency appeal protocols and external communications in relation to Action Against Hunger’s membership of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).
· Ensuring team targets and KPIs are met, objectives are commensurate to resource, and activities are delivered on time and to a high standard.
· Setting and achieving your department’s annual plans, budgets and reforecasts; managing an annual budget of £550k+ (including salaries) and line managing four direct reports: Senior Content Manager, Senior Digital Engagement Manager, Press and OR Officer and Senior Officer for Ambassador Relations.
Person Specification:
· Team and line management
· Strategy development and delivery for a communications department or team
· Demonstrable interest and/or experience in international development and humanitarian issues
· Brand identity development and management
· PR and media management
· Crisis media management
· Planning and managing projects within tight budgets and timeframes
· Experience in the development of marketing materials and significant campaigns
· Commitment to Action Against Hunger’s mission and values
To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.
We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.
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Join the ACU as the Marketing and Communications Officer and use your communication and marketing skills to help us build a better world through international collaboration in higher education.
The ACU offers a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the higher education sector. We are one of the largest, most diverse international university networks, bringing together over 400 universities in 40 countries. Championing the power of higher education to improve lives, we support our members – and our people – in contributing to sustainable development across the Commonwealth and beyond.
The role
The Marketing and Communications Officer supports the delivery of multichannel marketing and communications campaigns for a portfolio of projects from across the Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU’s) membership, scholarships, and programmes and projects business units.
This role has a particular focus on the project management and production of engaging print publications for the ACU’s programmes, and social media and email campaigns which drive engagement and conversion. As well as working within a team of 4 other MarComms colleagues, you will be working closely with colleagues across the ACU, such as the Senior Communications and PR Officer, colleagues from within the Commonwealth Scholarship Alumni team, the Commonwealth Scholarship Programmes team, and the ACU Programmes team, to help promote the programmes, grants, and projects run across the ACU.
The postholder will be advised by the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager of the priorities for the role over the year, including compilation, copyediting, and visual editing of the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission’s (CSC’s) Annual Report, two Common Knowledge magazine editions, assistance with 65th Anniversary campaign activities, CSC and ACU website updates, a regular programme of mailings, and support with general Scholarship and programme promotion over social media.
Who are we looking for?
You will need:
- Excellent content compilation, copywriting, and copyediting skills, including writing for (and understanding of) different audiences and channels, and sensitivity for different cultural contexts, with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams to fulfil joint objectives.
- Experience of editing and proofreading content for publications, such as reports and/or magazines.
- Experience of working with external suppliers and internal stakeholders on the production of publications, including commissioning content and working to production deadlines.
- Experience of producing and uploading digital content for multiple platforms and channels, e.g. websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
- Experience of achieving impact, engagement, and conversion through multichannel marketing and/or communications campaigns.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to deadlines.
- Ability to be flexible to respond quickly to shifting priorities, with advice on priorities from the Senior Marketing and Communications Manager.
- Proficiency in the use of the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
- Proficiency in the use of Canva graphic design software.
What to expect:
We see equality, diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our mission and we value the many different perspectives that people from all backgrounds bring to our collective performance (you can find out more about our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and safeguarding on our website by clicking here).
We believe in investing in all our people and creating cultures in which everyone can thrive.
We offer a fantastic package of benefits including:
- 27 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time employees), plus 4 Christmas closure days
- Generous pension scheme – 5% employee contribution, 10% employer contribution
- Volunteering days
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave
- Give As You Earn charitable donations scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sabbatical leave
- Ability to request flexible working from day one
Closing date: 7 June 2024.
If we receive sufficient applications before the closing date, interviews may take place earlier, so you are encouraged to apply early.
The Refugee Council is one of the leading organisations in the UK working with people seeking asylum and refugees. Our operational teams based in various locations throughout England provide advice and assistance across a wide range of issues, including helping people seeking asylum through the complexities of the asylum system, addressing issues of destitution, and assisting refugees and people seeking asylum to access key services including housing, welfare benefits, health, education and employment.
The Team
This role sits in the Digital Team within the Fundraising and Digital Directorate. This team is responsible for updating and transforming the Refugee Council’s external-facing digital platforms.
This Role
The Digital Copywriter will devise excellent creative copy and ideas to support the development of the Refugee Council’s digital platforms, with a particular focus on producing inspiring, impactful copy for our website and social channels.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
The Digital Team is the central hub of digital expertise within the charity and a significant amount of our written communications are delivered via owned and paid-for digital communications. The Digital Team is currently involved in two core organisational projects: a rebrand and a website re-design. We have many different audiences we need to connect with, including the people we are here to help, and our digital platforms need to reflect that.
The Digital Designer’s main duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Delivering creative and considered copy that is audience-led and supports the realisation of the Refugee Council’s strategic priorities.
- Working closely with the Refugee Council Media Team, and particularly the Senior Stories and Content Officer, who will provide story-led content for the Copywriter to develop in a way that engages with our key audiences.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the 'Apply' button.
Closing date: Monday 3rd June 2024.
This is a new role created to assist the small but growing team at SKT with our primary goal of engaging and mobilising residents in the neighbourhood we serve, numbering around 7500 people. SKT will assume management of community and event spaces at the heart of the neighbourhood this year and we are preparing service providers to make room for community voice in shaping local services. Involving residents in shaping their future is central to our purpose, whether by ensuring local assets and amenities work for them, or by influencing service delivery. This makes the Community Engagement Coordinator role an exciting and important addition to the team.
Main Tasks:
Volunteer Recruitment, Training and Coordination
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Recruit and maintain a team of twenty active volunteers from the local community to assist in community building initiatives.
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Develop and deliver a volunteer programme to engage the South Kilburn community which will likely include, but not limited to:
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Community research and consultation
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Public space improvements (greening, activation etc)
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Promoting community cohesion through events
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Train volunteers in peer-engagement and consultation practice,
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Induct and supervise skilled volunteers, as necessary.
Community Cohesion and Wellbeing
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Encourage and inspire volunteers to work as a team, take ownership of each activity, and to celebrate collective successes,
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Involve volunteers in planning and delivering community projects and events.
Resident Voice
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Collaborate with the Community Engagement, Partnership and Marketing Manager to develop and deliver a consultation plan to better understand residents’ needs and priorities,
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Conduct outreach in the community with trained volunteers, including door-to-door canvassing, satisfaction surveys, pop-up stalls etc.
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Collect and systematically analyse information gathered through outreach and community consultation.
Widening Participation
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Increase rates of community participation, belonging and pride across all segments of the community in South Kilburn.
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Use creative methods to increase engagement with decision making from all sections of our diverse community.
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Contribute to a new system of representative community governance, enabling the resident body to speak with one voice,
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With partners, support the coordination of community events in South Kilburn.
Empowerment and Progression
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Maintain continued awareness of local opportunities and train volunteers to disseminate accurate information and signposting,
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Seek opportunities for volunteer progression including supporting those looking to do so in to work and work-placements with local businesses.
Partnerships and information sharing
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Maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including partner charities, volunteers, Brent Council officers and community members,
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Work with the Communications and Engagement officer to disseminate useful information to residents.
Other
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Be an ambassador for SKT and ensure our values of joy, collaboration and inclusion are upheld by the volunteer team.
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Be responsible for organising team building days and social events for SKT staff, volunteers, and Trustees.
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As we are a small but growing team, the Community Coordinator is expected to participate in team actions, mobilising through outreach and events to increase our collective impact for the community.
This job description does not constitute a 'term and condition of employment'. It is provided only as a guide to assist the employee in the performance of their job and may be varied from time to time.
Person Specification
Essential Qualities:
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Approachable and personable,
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Organised,
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A good facilitator and convenor,
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Passionate about people and social justice,
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High level of empathy, an understanding of regeneration, and experience of supporting and involving communities experiencing stress.
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Committed to the principles of equal opportunities and diversity.
Essential Skills and Knowledge:
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Demonstrable ability to plan and manage own workload,
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Experience in leading and motivating teams,
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Excellent verbal communication and active listening,
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Persuasive, credible and determined,
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Can demonstrate initiative.
Desirable:
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Spoken Arabic, Somalian, Eritrean, Bengali (Sylheti), French, Portuguese or other widely spoken minority language in South Kilburn,
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Knowledge of community organising techniques and methodology.
*’Flexible working’ means this role could suit someone wanting to work 9am to 5pm or 10am -6pm three days a week or shorter hours over more days to fit around childcare commitments, for example.
Working with the communty to shape the future of South Kilburn.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.