About Scope

Scope is a major UK pan disability charity that is embarked on a programme of fundamental change to deliver its goal of ‘Everyday equality’ for disabled people.

About the role

This role will play an important part in making sure Scope builds external communications on strong knowledge of audiences, enabling us to grow our impact and income. You will work within an Insight team that is customer-led and focused on improving the lives of disabled people and parents and careers of disabled children. The team is focused on digitally driving the organisation forward in the area of research and engaging with disabled people in the best possible way.

The Insight team sits alongside, working collaboratively with research, evaluation and impact to meet the organisations goals and strive for everyday equality.

You will also lead on key relationships both internally and externally to obtain and manage trackers and large data sets and liaise with the Scope online community, social teams, services and agencies to respond to project requests from across Scope to support a broad range of audience and market insight requirements. You’ll be responsible for market Insight data collection, storage and security and consent, message testing, audience insight. The candidate will also be responsible for key agency relationships relating to brand and audience insight, ensuring we obtain best value, and that agencies deliver to our specification and in line with Scope’s principles. You’ll support the Customer and Market Insight Manager in delivering the team objectives, aligning with Scope’s values and ensure all research is designed to provide clear and actionable insight, and work with teams to support an evidence led approach and application of findings.

About you

This role would suit somebody with excellent analytical ability and outstanding communication skills both orally and written. Online research experience is essential, and the candidate will preferably have worked in an agency environment. You’ll need a strong interest in all areas of Market Research and the ambition to get involved with all aspects of our organisation is essential. You’ll have recent experience in managing the full life cycle of a research or insight project from writing the questionnaire, scripting, analysis, reporting and presenting. The candidate should be well organised, with proactive initiative and excellent people skills. You will be working with a small team of hard-working people, so somebody with a can-do attitude and keenness to work is essential. Given the wide range of duties in this role, career progression opportunities could be diverse for any successful candidate. 

To apply

We offer an excellent benefits package including flexible working, 27 days’ holiday and generous pension.

As a disability equality charity, Scope strives to make all opportunities to get involved as inclusive and accessible as possible. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. We will consider any reasonable adjustments and flexible working arrangements that make this role more accessible.

Please note: Your application will not be considered without submitting a cover letter and including your notice period.

Are you a good fit?

You want to work with a highly respected and aspirational brand, at the heart of a network of many of the UK’s leading figures and employers. 

You know that technology has a significant role to play, but that human interaction and relationships are of even greater importance.

You want to feel like a valued member of a growing team, in an organisation which recognises that that its people are not just a number, but its greatest asset and part of an extended family, working together to support each other to meet organisational and not just individual goals.

Ideal candidates will be looking for a demanding post in a fast moving entrepreneurial charity. This is an exciting time to join our team as we take Speakers for Schools to the next level. Multi tasking ability a must.

You should be sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders

What is Speakers for Schools?

Founded by ITV Political Editor Robert Peston (Trustee), and chaired by Andrew Law (Caxton Associates), Speakers for Schools was created to help level the playing field for UK state schools and their students by giving them the same access to the UK’s leading figures from politics, business, science, sport, the arts and more, as that enjoyed by private schools.

Bill Gates, Baroness (Martha) Lane Fox, Professor Brian Cox, David Dein, David Cameron, Natalie Bennett, Ed Balls, Naomi Campbell and over two thousand other influential, eminent and inspirational people, have been kind enough to volunteer their time to speak with Speakers for Schools. Almost a million Young People have attended a Speakers for Schools talk.

In 2016, we launched our Experience Programme. Experience works with our outstanding network of speakers and partner employers, to offer young people, amazing work experience opportunities, which would often be out of reach to them.

Our Experience Programme has more than trebled in impact since September as employers such as the Bank of England, M&C Saatchi, Disney, Spotify, Santander, Morgan Sindal, BA, BP, Cisco and others offer placements to thousands of Young People. In March we launched a ground-breaking virtual work experience programme in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hours: This role will be full-time (37.5 hours) & Permanent. 

Location: We are currently working from home.  This role will be based at our London office (near City Thameslink), but you will only be required to work from the office for up to 50% of your working week once the pandemic is over.

Application deadline: Please see below regarding notifications and start date.

Main purpose of the role:

• To support the charity’s marketing, communications and branding strategy to open up access for young people to reach their career potential.
• Promoting our Work Experience programme (Experience) and our School talks Programme (Inspiration) and one further programme to be launched at the end of September.
• Support the fundraising team to identify and acquire donations
• Working as a team player with a problem solving attitude, detailed orientated and loves working in fast paced dynamic environments

Main duties & responsibilities: 

• Managing the social media accounts (Twitter, Linkedin, Youtubem Vimeo andInstgram). This involves preparing the content calendar, scheduling posts, writing blog articles, managing the community responses and building followers.
• Managing the website content and wordpress CMS to update the website (News, blog articles and general content)
• Monitoring and providing reports on our googleanalytics, website, social platforms etc)
• Attending and leading meetings
• Tracking marketing expenditure (Excel budget management)
• Creating PR articles and building a media network towards expanding our media impact
• Brand guardian - Quality Control of content, images, branding, copy, pr, reputation
• Contribution to plans, strategies, commpacks and how to guides to support the Marketing teams objectives and activities
• Presenting to team and external stakeholders (Powerpoint)
• Supporting the generation of testimonials, ratings, surveys (In various formats, video, written, imagery etc.)
• Events and campaign marketing
• Email marketing: Mailchimp newsletter creation, management, sending and reports
• Supporting the adwords account (Learning on the job is fine)
• Abiding safeguarding policies, process and practise

We are looking for:

Education and Qualifications

Essential: 

• 5+ years full time marketing and communications experience

Desirable: 

• Degree in Marketing, Business or Design

Experience

Essential: 

• Basic level creative skills, eg: photography, photoshop
• Social media management and marketing 
• Writing marketing and implementation plans
• Writing articles (Pr, content, technical) 
• Managing marketing budgets
• Email marketing – the use of Mailchimp
• Brand management – following and enforcing brand guidelines 
• Digital marketing

Desirable

• Design experience with Indesign, illustrator and premiere highly desired but not required.
• An understanding in tech startup culture, wireframes, apps, and tech development desired but not required.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Office (Words, excel/csv, pdf editor, collaborative docs, powerpoint)
• Public relations and managing partners
• Confident is using Vimeo, Youtube, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagramfor a marketing (not personal) capacity
• Wordpress CMS management

Desirable

• Creative cloud adobe software
• Other CMS management systems a plus

Personal qualities

Essential

• Able to communicate and respect diverse teams
• A natural leadership style, able to gain respect and work as a team player with a range of people
• Genuine, down to earth nature
• Strong organisational skills and a collaborative approach
• Positive, hands-on approach, highly motivated with drive to achieve success.
• High degree of ethics and professional standards

We are looking for people who:

• Are sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Excel at organising their workload and enjoy driving work forward independently
• Think strategically and can change tactics while still meeting larger objectives

You will be working directly with:

Reports to Chief Marketing Officer

To work with Campaigns and Comms Manager, Content Manager, Creative Designer, Events Manager, Events Officer as well as wider team.

How to Apply:

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period.

Please make it clear in your cover letter what previous experience you have working with Salesforce. 

Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.

Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.

The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools:

Interviews will be scheduled as applications are received, before the closing date, and will take place over Microsoft Teams. We may appoint before this date depending on applications.

We will be closing this on or before Friday 28th August.

Our new team member will start ASAP.

Reference ID: Marketing Manager

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00 to £45,000.00 /year

Be part of Team Rescue and come and work for a growing dynamic group of fundraisers and marketing professionals dedicated to rescuing animals from cruelty and suffering around the world.

International Animal Rescue (IAR) is an award winning charity based in Uckfield, East Sussex, committed to animal welfare and conservation.  At IAR we do exactly what our name says: we save animals from suffering around the world. We rescue and rehabilitate orangutans in Indonesia, release bears in Armenia from caged captivity, treat injured howler monkeys in Costa Rica and care for dancing bears in India - and so much more. Whenever we can, we release rescued animals back into the wild; and when that's not possible, we give them a safe haven for life.

We are looking for someone who can assist the small but growing fundraising and marketing team who likes to make things happen. This is a role will suit someone with specific experience in digital marketing, particularly email marketing and who is passionate about animal welfare and conservation.  We are committed to welcoming people from the widest possible diversity of background, culture and experience.

IAR is vibrant in the market place creating exciting appeals for existing supporters as well as a recruitment tool for prospective supporters. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is inspired and motivated by the work of IAR, who will provide support for the fundraising and marketing team to develop and increase its income, taking this vitally important work to the next level. If this is you, we would love to hear from you.

Are you passionate about healthcare in Yorkshire? Do you get excited about charity marketing campaigns?

Two years ago, Leeds Cares became an independent charity and re-launched with a new brand. Our aim now is to make the charity a household name in the Leeds area and ensure we’re instantly recognisable. We’re looking for the right candidate, with an excellent eye for detail and huge enthusiasm, to lead on this brand development work.

You’ll join our Communications and Marketing team, who play a crucial role in telling the story of our work and its impact. You’ll be part of building our profile, our media presence, our brand and managing our reputation. As part of our ongoing commitment to increasing awareness and understanding of our work, we are expanding and reshaping the team to enable us to adopt a more strategic, pro-active and integrated approach to our communications activities.

Reporting to the Director of Communications, the Marketing Manager will have a key role in the team, transforming our current brand into something that’s emotive and engaging. You’ll work on improving visibility of the charity across the hospital sites and out in the community. By working with colleagues from across the organisation, you will ensure our marketing activities achieve our fundraising goals and provide a good return on investment.

You will use a range of different channels to raise awareness of the charity and support the team in developing extensive marketing collateral. You will also be instrumental in forging partnerships with businesses, individuals and other charities, to raise the profile of the Leeds Cares brand.

The role is a varied one and involves working across the charity and the NHS on many projects at any given time.

Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference?

If so, we could have the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for a Digital Marketing Officer to join our team at Tanio (formerly Valley and Vale Community Arts).

Working in a small team based in Bettws, you will be pivotal in our mission; to offer a range of community arts-based activities to help a diverse range of people develop new skills, confidence and self-esteem through creative self-expression. 

At Tanio, we strive for all community members to have access to inspiring, aspirational and high-quality arts experiences in safe environments.

Could you join us and help us achieve our mission? 

In return we offer the chance to work with a dedicated and passionate team, a competitive salary, flexible hours, and an attractive benefits package including a stakeholder pension scheme.

Salary: 22K (pro rata) 

Hours: 0.5 (equivalent to 2.5 days per week)

The core skills we are looking for:

• Experience of Working in Marketing and Communication in a similar role

• Experience of working in an arts or charity sector role and/or in marketing with minimal budget

• Experience of writing press releases

• Knowledge of Social Media Platforms and how best to use them for a small arts charity

• Knowledge of analytics, data creating and evaluations

• Experience of social media platforms, building and engaging audiences

• Knowledge of copyright and data protection laws

• A high level of computer literacy

• Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing

• Excellent visuals skills

• Experience of Adobe packages including Photoshop

Highly desirable (extra) skills:

• Degree or relevant qualification applicable to the skills required in this role i.e. Marketing/ Communications 

• Knowledge of Social Media Platforms and how best to use them for a small arts charity

• Competency with video editing software

• Good presentation skills

• Fluency in the Welsh language both verbal and written and/or the desire to learn

To apply for this role please send a CV and covering letter by Friday at 5pm on 28th August 2020 explaining why you believe you are suitable for this role. 

Good luck and we look forward to hearing from you.

Application guidance 

• Please submit an up to date CV and a letter outlining why you are suitable for the role. 

• In your covering letter when telling us about your main strengths in applying for this post, please address each point in the Person Specification from the job description in turn. 

• Any statements that you feel are relevant to the post should be backed up with evidence and examples. Do not use general phrases such as “I have the necessary skills ...” or “I am confident I can do the job well”. We need to know how you meet the requirements based on the evidence you provide. If, for example, you tell us that you are a good project manager, tell us why and where you have used these skills before. 

• You should include details of any current or previous jobs, outlining tasks, responsibilities, and achievements that would be relevant to this post.

• Experience gained outside paid employment may also be just as important. For example, you may have done voluntary work in the community, or have skills acquired through other interests. 

• Concentrate on relevant information and experience, transferable skills from your home life, voluntary work, past and present employment. 

• Sometimes it may feel like you are stating the obvious but remember that we can only assess the application on the information you give us. 

• If at all possible, please ensure you provide a daytime telephone contact number on your CV or covering letter. 

About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

About the role
Crisis is growing its ambition in marketing and communications and we have recently expanded the team so that we can build large-scale public support for our goal of ending homeless for good. We’re also undertaking a large-scale digital and data transformation programme to enable us to deliver exceptional supporter experiences, underpinned by insight and best in class technology.

This exciting new role will help to lead a step-change in our marketing and digital activity, bringing together our existing marketing and digital functions with newly created digital marketing and supporter engagement teams.

We are looking for someone who is available to start as soon as possible.

About you
You’ll be an experienced and enthusiastic marketing and digital professional, with substantial team leadership experience, and a track record in delivering excellent results both in engaging external audiences and in supporting other departments and colleagues.

You’ll have in-depth digital communications expertise, a commitment to putting insight at the heart of your team’s work, and experience of ensuring an integrated, supporter-centric marketing approach across a complex organisation.

Your strategic and leadership skills will mean you’re able to identify and embed new, more integrated and efficient ways of working across marketing and digital teams.

Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

· Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
· Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
· 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

How to apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please apply by submitting a CV and covering letter.
In your covering letter please give examples of how you meet the criteria 1-5 in the person specification.

If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team through the Crisis website.

Person Specification (full list of points in the attached Job Description)
Essential
1 Substantial experience at a managerial level within a marketing or digital role
2 Experience of building digital capabilities across an organisation
3 Very strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire teams across functions to work in an integrated way
4 Excellent digital marketing knowledge with experience across content, social media, email, search and digital advertising
5 An audience-centric and data-driven approach with the ability to ensure teams have access to the data and audience insight they need to deliver exceptional user experiences

Closing date: Sunday 16 August, 11.59pm

Expected interview dates: Tuesday 8 September or Thursday 10 September

We value diversity, promote equality and encourage and applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness.

Marketing Officer - £30,000 - £36,000 pa, Health Centre - South West London

• Do you have notable marketing and communications experience?
• Do you have a background in brand, digital and communications?
• Would you like to work for an established medical health centre?

Pro-Marketing is working alongside an illustrious health centre who are seeking a Marketing Officer to support their overall marketing and communications plan for their trust marketing team. This high achieving marketing team operates like an in-house agency within the charity and notably has an in-house design team too.

What's great about this organisation?

• Amazing London location
• Modern offices
• Tangible cause as you will get to see first-hand what the centre raises funds for
• High achieving marketing and fundraising functions
• Centralised brand aligned marketing team
• In-house design team
• Opportunities to market health awareness activity that makes national news

In this role you will be responsible for…

• Brand championing the charity and their brand principles
• Establishing the marketing and communications plans
• Managing the day to day relationships with external agencies on allocated projects
• Establishing clear KPIs and project objectives for each campaign
• Using and suggesting new digital tools to improve services and ways of working including Slack, Trello and Typeform
• Managing email marketing to GPs
• Developing and delivering paid social media advertising via LinkedIn and Facebook
• Increasing the number of GPs registering the organisation's education programme
• Developing and maintaining the internal database, producing suitable recommendations from direct marketing activity e.g. guidance on email communications to target health professional audience

You will be ideally suited for this role if you have…

• A relevant trust marketing programmes and campaigns background
• Offline and online marketing experience
• Need to have traditional print and brand creation experience
• Notable experience of agency relationship management
• An interest in working for an established medical health centre
• Healthcare marketing industry experience would be highly appealing and advantageous

What next?

If you are interested in applying for this Marketing Officer role, or in learning more, then contact me ASAP:

Tel: 0207 269 6338

Email:

Would you like £500 in high street vouchers?

Well, if you know any tax, legal, finance, HR or marketing candidates looking to move jobs please refer them to us and if we successfully find them a new job in the next 12 months we will send you £500 in high street vouchers of your choice.

As well as this we are looking to grow the Pro-Recruitment Group family and would be interested in any amazing Recruitment Consultants you think might like to work for us. £500 on offer for any referrals we successfully hire.

The consists of five distinct brands: , , , and .

We have an exciting new opportunity at BTO for a Digital Marketing Manager to drive a step-change in our fundraising. With an income stream target of £445k, you will develop and lead a new digital fundraising strategy that increases our income, delivered through digital channels.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held remotely on Thursday 6th August so please get your application in as soon as possible,

For further information see the attached role description. 

Islamic Relief Worldwide

Islamic Relief UK (IRUK)

Head of Marketing

BASE LOCATION: London, UK

REPORTING TO: UK Director

LINE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

4 Direct reports

Digital Engagement Manager

Marketing Manager (Offline)

Digital Marketing Manager

Executive Assistant

(Total department staff: 9)

Islamic Relief:

Islamic Relief is an international relief and development agency striving to alleviate poverty and suffering around the world regardless of colour, race or religion. Established in 1984 in response to the widespread famine in Africa, Islamic Relief has grown to be a key, well known and respected aid agency in disaster relief and the ongoing development of people in over 25 countries.  It specialises in Education & Training, Health and Nutrition, Water & Sanitation, Income Generation, Orphans’ Support, Emergency Relief and Disaster Preparedness.  Islamic Relief is a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and is an implementing partner for DFID, ECHO, the World Food Programme and UNHCR.

PURPOSE OF DIVISION (IRUK)

Islamic Relief UK (IRUK) is a Strategic Business Unit (SBU) that is part of Islamic Relief Worldwide. IRUK’s focus is strengthening effective funding, mobilising for change through advocacy and awareness-raising, and strengthening programme development and delivery. IRUK works with various partners and institutions, from governments, non-governmental organisations and local authorities to grassroots communities.

PURPOSE OF DEPARTMENT (MARKETING):

The Marketing Department will liaise with key stakeholders to ensure IRUK campaigns and products are effectively promoted to its targeted audiences through intergrated and creative marketing and fundraising techniques.

The department seeks to raise awareness, funds and understanding of IRUK, grow influence, drive action and ultimately bring key audiences closer to our purpose.

JOB PURPOSE:

Working with the UK Senior Management Team (UK SMT), the Head of Marketing has strategic and operational responsibility for all aspects of marketing and brand management for Islamic Relief UK.

The Head of Marketing will have overall responsibility for the quality, consistency and strategic direction of our Marketing services. This will involve the delivery of cross-channel, high profile impactful marketing campaigns that drive action and engagement with IRUK.

This role will understand emerging trends in marketing, and work to understand how these innovations can be applied to the organisation’s context.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

• UK Director
• Heads of Department and Managers
• Creative agency
• Regular contact with IRW Directors and Department Managers

SCOPE AND AUTHORITY

Scope of the Role:

• Lead the development and implementation of the marketing strategy with plans and activities to raise brand awareness including the adoption of IRUK’s brand and values across the organisation and to deliver impactful fundraising and advocacy campaigns.
• Provide effective leadership and build strong working relationships with departments across the organisation to ensure integrated marketing plans are developed and implemented to achieve maximum impact with external audiences.
• Play a key role as a member of the UK SMT in developing IRUK’s strategic priorities and implement plans to raise awareness of the Organisation’s activities and their impact.
• Provide effective leadership for team members delivering marketing activities, ensure digital marketing and branding plans are in place and act as an inspiring role model at all times.

Responsibility for Resources:

Manages the Marketing Department budget, operating within the budgetary limits of the Department, and in accordance with IR policies/processes. Overall responsibility for all technical equipment within the Marketing department..

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

The job holder is accountable for fulfilling their roles and responsibilities in line with Islamic values and principles of fairness, humanity, honesty, respect and fair treatment of their colleagues and staff. The following are the main responsibilities that the role holder will be accountable for:

1. Developing and implementing the Marketing strategy, related plans and brand management to ensure campaigns achieve maximum impact

• Identifies and prioritises the marketing needs within IRUK in line with strategic priorities and campaigns.
• Lead the development and delivery of the marketing strategy to raise IRUK’s profile, funds and improve understanding of our work with key external audiences including potential beneficiaries, donors, supporters and other stakeholders.
• Develop and implement supporter journeys across direct marketing channels.
• Assist in the development and annual review of IRUK’s marketing strategy to ensure it is fit for purpose to support IRUK in its work.
• Develop and implement plans to provide advice, support and resource materials to assist stakeholders in the marketing and positioning of their activities.
• Work with internal stakeholders to plan content for all major campaigns and areas of work.
• Ensure that strategies, campaigns and activities across all departments optimise the way IRUK is viewed by the public and external stakeholders, and ensuring that our purpose and impact is relevant and understood across all owned, earned and paid channels.
• Work collaboratively with Islamic Relief Worldwide to maximise our brand’s ability to enable positive emotional connections with our audiences in a way that drives long-term engagement.
• Provide strategic input to cross-organisational projects and seek to identify steps to accelerate progress and maximise the impact of IRUK’s campaigns activities.
• To offer senior level marketing expertise to relevant stakeholders at IRUK.
• Overall responsibility for the content and appearance of all print and digital materials to ensure consistency with the brand and brand values (consulting stakeholders where appropriate).
• Work with the Head of Comms and Creative Content on editorial direction, design and production and distribution of publications.
• Work with the Head of Comms and Creative Content to produce copy and design of all marketing content both online and offline ensuring they are high quality, up to date and align with relevant policies.

2. Management of the Marketing Department developing and implementing strategies/workplans and Key Performance Indicators

• Responsible for the provision of an effective Marketing department to deliver accurate and timely work. Provide support and guidance where required.
• Keep the marketing department’s work plan under review to ensure congruence with a developing and changing organisation.
• To be accountable for setting and achieving annual Marketing KPI targets, and for contributing to broader departmental, divisional and organisational KPIs as agreed with the UK Director.
• Analyse and report against the KPIs and create action plans to address any areas of concern/risk.
• Ensure the use of KPIs/metrics to evaluate the impact of marketing services and initiatives – ensure they are understood, valued and adopted across the department.
• Support the Marketing Manager (offline) to provide best practice expertise and support across offline and direct marketing channels and techiques.
• Support the Digital Marketing Manager to provide best practice expertise and support across digital marketing channels and techiques.
• Play an active role with senior colleagues to ensure IRUK meets the compliance requirements of the regulatory bodies and also provide formal reports and advice as necessary to the UK Director to enable the fulfilment of their responsibilities.
• Manage the Marketing budget and participate in forecasting and budget setting processes and reviews to ensure effective use of resources for advertising and marketing campaigns.
• Working with the Heads of Fundraising and Comms and Creative Content to ensure donor journeys are effectively implemented across all marketing channels.

3. Support fundraising and income generation with an effective digital strategy and digitial marketing plans

• Oversee the development of a digital strategy and integrated digital marketing plans to enhance our reach and engagement with targeted external audiences.
• Responsibile for the content, editorial policy and quality control of IRUK’s website and and social media channels to maximise opportunities to reach and engage with new and existing supporters/donors and raise funds.
• Inspires and mentors creative excellence in the immediate team and any external providers so that creative output is on brief, on brand, and supports Islamic Relief’s cause.
• Ensure that IRUK’s digital marketing strategy is maximising on digital opportunities available, keeping fully informed of the latest digital marketing trends, tools and innovations.

4. Development and growth

• To lead on the creation and development of key building blocks, processes, systems and guidelines for the Marketing department to deliver effective and sustainable growth and high-quality materials, consistent with Islamic Relief’s brand, across all departments. 
• To future-proof IRUK by building a network of external contacts, undertaking regular competitor analysis and sector research, investigating ways to improve effectiveness, seizing opportunities, anticipating risks and encouraging innovation and improvements. 
• To build, develop and manage strategic partnerships with business suppliers ensuring cost-effective service, clear compliance and commitment to IRUK’s values/goals.
• Oversee and advise on the quality of marketing materials IRUK’s delivers – in creativity and by technological platforms.
• Review and audit IRUK’s existing marketing materials, developing roadmaps for future improvements.
• Ensure maximum return on investment from marketing budgets.

5.  Provide effective leadership, motivation and development of the  Marketing Department and act as an inspiring role model

• Provide on-going expertise and quality checking of IRUK’s marketing materials involving other stakeholders at every possible opportunity.
• Lead by example to create an effective and motivated marketing department which delivers strong customer service ethics and in partnership with all aspects of IRUK.
• Carry out regular one to one meetings with direct reports.
• Ensure that the annual performance review process is managed within IRUK’s policies, processes and timelines, agreeing objectives and training needs for team members.
• Address and manage effectively any areas of underperformance, within IRUK’s policies and procedures.
• Regularly review the performance of individuals and teams, providing advice, support, coaching/mentoring/learning and development as appropriate.
• Develop and lead all aspects of work of the Marketing department including budgetary management.

6. Deliver a full and comprehensive role as a Head of Department

• Identify and influence key decision makers and capitalise on opportunities to maximise IRUK’s reach within the marketing context.
• Have a positive impact internally and externally – with the people and communities that IRUK works with and for.
• Undertake corporate assignments as required by the UK Director.
• Work and lead collaboratively as part of the UK SMT and in the spirit of IRUK’s values.
• Support UK SMT colleagues in resolving significant operational issues.
• Attend UK SMT meetings to update colleagues on Marketing and other key strategic matters, as outlined above, and to support the UK Director.
• Communicate the work of IRUK positively both internally and externally.
• Represent IRUK with both internal and external audiences.
• Identify new, creative and innovative solutions as well as practical approaches to organisational issues.

7. Other

• esponsible for decisions regarding the interpretation of brand guidelines and working with the Head of Comms & Creative Content to set the creative standards of content produced by and for IRUK.
• By virtue to being a member of the UK SMT, contribute to IRUK’s decision-making process.
• Represent IRUK at key external events and initiatives when required.
• Promote Islamic Relief’s vision, mission and values.
• To work closely with the Media and Advocacy teams in the Comms & Creative department  to ensure that opportunities in these areas are maximised in an integrated manner and that public communication by these teams supports the overall marketing strategy.
• To ensure that all marketingactivities adhere to charity law, compliance/best practice, including in the area of data protection, marketing consent and vulnerability.
• Build strategic relationships peers from third sector and other organisations where relevant, ensuring quality outputs, evaluation and value for money across all activities.
• Research marketing and brandingtrends and innovations with a view to improving IRUK’s marketing work.
• Take a constructive and sensitive approach to others from a variety of backgrounds, where the work of others is valued and respected.

General Duties

• Be flexible within the broad remit of the post.
• Comply with organisational policies and practices.
• Encourage effective cross departmental working through personal example.
• Keep professional knowledge and expertise up to date.
• Attend internal and external meetings as required and contribute positively.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with this post as reasonably requested by the UK Director.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

It is essential that the post holder shows a good understanding and empathy with the Islamic values and principles as well as commitment to IRW’s vision and mission.

Essential Criteria

Experience:

• Substantial experience operating at a senior level in an INGO/Charity sector to develop successful integrated marketing strategies and plans
• Proven experience of leading insight-driven, multichannel marketing campaigns and delivering on large scale campaigns
• Experience of working within a diverse, multidisciplinary team 
• Practical experience of successfully developing and managing marketing  budgets, KPIs, evaluation and monitoring systems, and insightful performance reports
• Extensive experience using audience, consumer and/or data insight and research to drive brand and marketing planning
• Experience of capitalising on digital and social media channels, technologies and platforms to cost-effectively grow and develop supporter bases
• Proven experience in planning and project management, with the skills to engage colleagues and support at all levels
• Experience of working with data management/analysis teams, and related CRM systems, to optimise data and data capture opportunities to help drive growth
• Experience of building, developing and managing strategic partnerships with business suppliers (including creative and buying agencies), ensuring development of clear briefs, value-for-money, achievement of results, compliance and commitment to an organisations values and goals
• Demonstrable experience of successfully leading teams with responsibility for effective performance management and motivation
• Solid experience of stakeholder management.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Ability to enthuse and motivate a team during a period of change
• Ability to work in partnership with other teams but with the presence to introduce innovation
• Ability to create and deliver impactful audience focussed content
• Authentic and trusted leadership style
• Highly motivated, positive and solution focussed
• Ability to apply creative thinking and problem solving skills to deliver innovation
• Ability to manage high level projects, from inception to successful conclusion
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to negotiate agreement on expectations and outcomes in a busy environment, with changing priorities
• Ability to think laterally and creatively
• Initiates collaborative working in a diplomatic manner
• Clear understanding of confidentiality
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects with overlapping milestones
• A strong working knowledge of a wide range of digital and social media technologies, platforms and marketing
• Senior level understanding of current marketing trends
• Knowledge and understanding of the current marketing context for Islamic Relief
• Strong understanding of international development and humanitarian work
• Working knowledge of Macromedia Creative Suite
• Self-sufficient in production of documentation etc, with the use of Microsoft Office, and other relevant IT packages as appropriate
• Educated to degree level, or to have equivalent relevant experience
• Suitable accredited marketing qualification such as CIM Certificate in Marketing
• A good knowledge of general data protection regulation legislation and evidence of developing policies to ensure compliance and best practice.

Desirable:

• Membership(s) of the Institute of Direct Marketing or equivalent professional organisation.

Personal Qualities

• Strong motivation for and empathy with the aims and objectives of Islamic Relief
• A genuine passion for making a difference
• Understanding of and affinity with Islamic Relief values
• Confident and positive approach to work.

Other requirements

• Willingness to travel and work outside of normal office hours when necessary – particularly during emergency campaigns.

Interim Head of Marketing

You will be engaged to develop the marketing (and communications) strategy and plans for agreement, in line with the overall strategy and plans. You will lead the team to implement the agreed plans, delivering the agreed outcomes and objectives.

Head of Marketing Responsibilities:

• Develop the marketing (and communications) plans for agreement, that support the delivery of the VDS strategy, business plan, purpose and values.
• Develop the optimum people and process framework that support the delivery of the plans, outcomes and objectives.
• Lead the team to deliver the expected short-term objectives and outcomes, as well as being set up for the future.
• The development and delivery of our digital plans, including website and all social media.
• All internal and external communications, including communications within projects such as policy renewals and Brexit.
• The development of optimum budgets to achieve outcomes and budget owner
• Accountable for the outcomes and quality of the VDS marketing plan and outcomes.
• The effective leadership and development of the team with clear objectives, effective coaching, 121s and appraisals.
• Attendance at Performance Executive Meetings as required
• Development and oversight of the communication plan and outcome
• Development and oversight of the digital plan and outcomes
• Overall brand positioning based on agreed outcomes.
• External partnership development for products and services
• Segmentation of membership and market for communications, sales and retention.
• External events, exhibitions and seminars plans and outcomes.
• Internal communications framework
• Ensure all plans support and develop the agreed member experience
• Overall member value and reach.
• Market research and insights.

Head of Marketing Requirements:

• Be an excellent communicator
• Possess strong people leadership skills
• Have a solid commercial and financial understanding
• Have experience of developing and delivering comprehensive marketing plans across the full mix of requirements, including communications, digital, social media and brand
• Lead teams, working and influencing cross-company up to Executive level
• Set clear outcomes and measurements
• Have financial services experience
• Be change-oriented – implementing plans that require change
• Have experience of working within a senior management team environment
• Possess a high degree of integrity and confidentiality
• Be a team player
• Be flexible, responsive and considered in approach
• Have exceptional communication skills
• Possess a high awareness of cultural sensitivity.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications whatever your background – be it educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

No external agencies please.

About the company:

Our client is a mutual insurance company founded in 1865 and run by experience veterinary surgeons on behalf of the veterinary profession.

Location: Office-based (Knutsford. Cheshire, WA16 8XZ), currently working from home but with ongoing flexibility so long as outcomes are delivered. Some travel is required.

Job type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £60,000 per annum (pro-rated for 6 months)

Benefits: They offer Competitive salary. Generous holiday entitlement on-contributory individual pension. Generous company benefits. Desirable, Cheshire location with easy access to the motorway network

You may have experience of the following: Head of Marketing, Marketing Manager, Marketing Operations Manager, Senior Marketing Officer, Senior Marketing Manager, Senior Marketing Executive, Senior Marketing Specialist, Marcomms, Marketing Communications Manager, Marketing Specialist etc.

Ref: 93826

At the British Hen Welfare Trust we’re a little crazy about chickens. We’re a small, dynamic, fun team of passionate people who care deeply about our food chain and the impacts on our feathered friend’s welfare. We work tirelessly to bring about a day when all commercially farmed laying hens can range freely. Until then we save as many as we can from slaughter, rehome them and try to change policy.

Founded in 2005 the British Hen Welfare Trust has twice been voted Best Charity of the Year, and our Founder, Jane Howorth, was awarded an MBE in 2016 for her work to improve the lives of commercially farmed chickens.

But we want more people to be aware of our work and this is why we need YOU!

We are looking for a creative storyteller with a proven track record of creating and producing effective digital and branded content. You will be responsible for all digital content creation and propose new ideas to enhance the brand and help drive traffic and engagement.

You will research, develop and deliver content ideas in a variety of digital formats and platforms, across all online channels, to maximise engagement with our various audiences and grow an online community. A key brand ambassador, the Digital Content Producer will work closely with the team to define and maintain a cohesive and aligned digital presence.

As our Digital Content Producer, you will:

• Brainstorm new and creative ideas
• Innovate and present new digital strategies
• Implement and support digital marketing strategies including social media, email, blog, display advertising, PPC, SEO and more
• Drive traffic to company pages
• Upload content to our website
• Develop engaging online content including videos, graphics, and blogs
• Measure and report performance of digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals, using Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and other relevant sites
• Keep abreast of new social media sites, technologies, and digital marketing trends; implementing these new technologies in developing campaigns
• Identify trends and insights, and optimising spend and performance based on the insights
• Administration duties include creating, following up and archiving documentation.

Key role responsibilities

• Take responsibility for digital content creation across all formats. Be proficient in executing photography, and videography as well as editing content to make it suitable for specific platforms.
• Research, report, assemble and produce content for the British Hen Welfare Trust website, social media, and other digital platforms (including, but not limited to, video, live podcast/social broadcast, graphics, website content and traditional outreach campaigns).
• Working with the wider marketing team, you will concept and plan asset development proactively to ensure that imagery and video is captured to provide value added content for the business and our customers (advertising, social, video, signage, etc).
• Identify opportunities and actively contribute with ideas for engaging themes and campaigns.
• Ensure all content is in line with brand guidelines identity and tells the story of our brand and values
• Ensure there is a consistent and unique tone of voice across all our content.
• Manage the file and image libraries of the brand
• Ensure content is engaging, informative, shareable and supports SEO.

To apply for this role, you must have;

• Outstanding storytelling abilities with an exceptional ability to write in different voices for a wide variety of audience segments.
• Proven experience in a design/creative role.
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite software, Premier, Photoshop, After Effects and InDesign.
• Strong understanding of managing a content-led digital presence.
• Attention to detail and good time-management.
• Experience of adapting material for various purposes, to maximise impact.
• Experience using a variety of platforms and formats, including online, social media native formats and emails.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people, inside and outside of the charity.
• Planning and organisation skills; capable of dealing with several projects at a time, prioritising effectively.

Desirable

• Previous experience of working with WordPress/Shopify.
• Videography and podcast production (creation and post-production editing).
• An understanding of Marketing tools such as SalesForce and MailChimp.
• Ideally, you'll hold a degree or similar qualification in a relevant subject.
• Previous experience in the charity or animal welfare sector is beneficial but not required.

Personal qualities:

• A confident self-starter able to work as part of a dynamic team.
• You should possess a creative flair and bring to the role a range of skills to promote the business.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Must be highly organised and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills.

Perks;

• Remote / work from home

This world-renowned health organisation, leaders in their field in research, education and practice, are looking to recruit a Marketing Officer into their busy Marketing Team with a broad remit, delivering the marketing strategy to establish and maintain their international reputation as the thought leader in their area.

To be successful in this role you will thrive in a busy environment, taking pride in every aspect of your work and be keen to constantly learn and develop – you will be given fantastic opportunity to expand your experience and knowledge.

You will be highly organised and enjoy working on multiple projects at once – understanding how to prioritise, manage and juggle your workload to ensure all work is carried out to the highest standard.

Key responsibilities include:

• Brand Championing
  • Communicating brand principles to both external and internal audiences, keeping it at the heart of marketing initiatives
  • Assist with the development and implementation of brand principles; visual identity, tone of voice, and brand guidelines
• Marketing Planning
  • Working with the Senior Manager to help propose and plan detailed marketing objectives and projects that support the wider organisational strategy
  • Manage multiple projects and priorities, keeping project files updated, invoicing, and sharing project updates
  • Managing projects, ensuring work is delivered on time and to budget, as well as managing day to day relationships with freelancers and external agencies
• Marketing and Creative Management
  • Manage email marketing, develop and deliver paid social media advertising
  • Manage and support the creative process across all channels, providing sound creative judgement and consolidating and delivering feedback to stakeholders
  • Good understanding of production processes and able to work collaboratively across the internal teams
  • Presenting campaign proposals, producing content and marketing collateral
• Events
  • Working closely with the Events team to deliver educational and promotional events, developing and maintaining internal database
• Team Working
  • Working in partnership with Digital & PR teams, working collaboratively and positively with multiple stakeholders

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to broaden their experience and gain exposure across the full spectrum of Marketing & Communications.

You will be flexible, with an agile approach to work, confident, and creative. You will be highly organised and calm under pressure and enjoy managing multiple projects and deadlines.

Please apply with your CV for further details.

We expect a huge level of interest in this position and regrettably won’t be able to respond to each individual applicant.

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) helps ensure that the Further Education and Training sector develops world class leaders, teachers and trainers. We work across the whole FE sector and are funded by Government grant, commercial contracts, professional membership (The Society for Education and Training - SET) and accreditation fees and a variety of other business activities.

We are now looking to appoint a Comms and Marketing Director who will lead our marketing and communications team through a period of significant change and growth. This is an exciting opportunity to strengthen a strong core professional function, drive marketing and communications leadership, and provide focus, clarity and transparency within roles and responsibilities. The role includes direct responsibility for our external and internal comms strategy, brand strategy, press and media, and digital engagement. It also plays a wider role in developing and embedding the marketing and comms strategy, planning and processes across the organisation, and in building a strong community of highly motivated, capable marketing and comms professionals all working towards common goals.

The role will report into the Director of Business Strategy and will be a key member of the ETF Senior Management Team (SMT). To achieve this goal you’ll need to be an experienced leader within marketing and communications functions, with deep and broad functional expertise including SEO, SEM and SMM, great emotional intelligence and the ability to lead both your team and your peers. You’ll enjoy, and truly excel at, the strategic dimensions of marketing and comms leadership, helping position the ETF to be recognised as an integral part of the FE sector by all key stakeholder groups

The successful candidate will:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent
• Have sound political judgement
• Proven experience of developing and leading campaigns
• Ability to work independently and responsibly while managing numerous projects simultaneously.
• Strong creative, strategic, analytical and organisational skills
• The ability to combine long-term planning and short-term reactive work, and excel in both
• Attention to detail and editing skills to ensure that material published on behalf of the ETF meets its exacting high standards
• The experience, resilience and self-confidence to earn the respect of the senior management team
• Experience of establishing and maintaining networks across the whole sector.

If you are an exceptional candidate who would like to make an impact and enjoy working in a vibrant and cooperative environment, we will welcome your application.

Applicants should apply by submitting a CV and cover letter (2 pages maximum), outlining how you fulfil the requirements of this role. 

Closing Date: 28 August 2020 at 12 pm

The Education and Training Foundation values diversity and is committed to making appointments on merit by fair and open processes, in accordance with its equal opportunities policy.

National Zakat Foundation (NZF) is looking for a Director of Marketing to join its growing team. We’re an ambitious and dynamic Islamic charity which collects and distributes funds for the purposes of hardship alleviation and community education in the UK. 
 
You will be responsible for the strategic and tactical marketing plans ranging from branding, advertising, promotion, supporter acquisition through to stakeholder marketing. 
 
You will lead a small team, have budgetary responsibilities and play an integral role in the growth of the charity. 
 
Sound like the role for you?