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The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM) is looking for a Communications and Marketing Officer to join our small but ambitious team. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape how we engage with healthcare professionals, partners and the public.
Role Purpose
The Communications and Marketing Officer plays a key role in supporting the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM) by delivering effective, professional and engaging communications and marketing activity. The post holder will work autonomously to plan, create and manage content for a wide range of audiences including healthcare professionals, patients, policy makers, partners, and the wider public.
They will work closely with external key partners and take responsibility for project marketing, including leading the marketing and promotion of the Moving Medicine patient and professional resources. The role also supports all internal departments to meet their communications and marketing needs, ensuring a consistent, accurate and credible voice for FSEM across all channels.
Duties
Communications
- Deliver and support the implementation of FSEM’s communications strategy.
- Produce high‑quality written content for the website, newsletters, digital channels, policy communications, announcements and general audience information.
- Draft, edit and coordinate organisational publications, reports, position statements and guidance documents.
- Support committees and working groups in producing clinical or professional content, ensuring clarity, consistency and alignment with FSEM standards.
- Draft speeches, blogs, statements and briefings for Senior Officers as required.
- Manage and maintain FSEM’s digital communication channels, ensuring content is accurate, accessible and up to date.
- Monitor policy, news and sector developments to identify opportunities and risks.
- Provide advice on communication approaches to senior officers, committees and working groups.
Marketing
- Plan and deliver targeted marketing campaigns for key FSEM programmes including Moving Medicine, examinations, membership, awards ceremony and educational activity.
- Produce and coordinate promotional materials including digital assets, social media graphics, printed items and campaign copy.
- Manage marketing timelines, stakeholder input and delivery schedules.
- Ensure all marketing adheres to FSEM brand guidelines and reflects organisational values.
- Support and promote major Faculty events including the Awards Ceremony.
Digital and Analytics
- Oversee continuous improvement of the FSEM website, ensuring strong user experience, logical navigation and accurate content.
- Apply SEO best practice to enhance visibility and reach.
- Use digital analytics to measure the effectiveness of campaigns and communications, reporting on performance and identifying improvements.
- Ensure compliance with GDPR, digital accessibility requirements and content governance processes.
Collaboration and Organisational Support
- Work closely with all FSEM departments to support their communications, marketing and promotional needs.
- Provide expert communications support to sub‑committees, working groups and project teams across publications, marketing and engagement activity.
- Represent FSEM at internal and external meetings relating to communications, project work or collaborative activity.
- Support the planning and delivery of FSEM events, including on‑site support at the Awards Ceremony.
- Take delegated supervisory responsibility over administrative staff during events or specific project delivery where appropriate.
- Contribute to Faculty‑wide initiatives and organisational development activities.
- Participate in appraisal, maintain high professional standards and commit to ongoing learning.
Responsibilities
- Deliver accurate, timely and effective communications and marketing across all platforms.
- Uphold FSEM’s reputation and ensure positive representation of the Faculty at all times.
- Maintain high editorial standards across all publications, position statements and guidance materials.
- Ensure FSEM departments receive effective communications and marketing support.
- Represent FSEM professionally at meetings and sector events.
- Contribute to the smooth delivery of FSEM events, including conferences and awards activities.
- Ensure data accuracy, digital compliance and reliable reporting.
Accountabilities
- Highly effective delivery of communications plans and marketing campaigns.
- Increased engagement with key professional and public audiences.
- Successful promotion of Moving Medicine resources and other core programmes.
- High quality production of publications, position statements and guidance documents.
- Accurate and insightful reporting using analytics to guide future activity.
- Timely maintenance and development of the FSEM website and digital channels.
- Effective cross departmental collaboration supporting examinations, education, policy and events.
- Smooth, well supported delivery of major FSEM events.
Job Attributes / Skills / Requirements
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong digital communication and social media management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects independently and prioritise effectively.
- Strong relationship‑building and stakeholder management abilities.
- Understanding of SEO, analytics and digital channel performance.
- Knowledge of GDPR and data protection principles.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and design tools such as Canva (or equivalent).
- Experience delivering communications and marketing activity.
- Ability to identify reputational opportunities and risks.
- High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
Desirable
- Experience working in a healthcare, medical, education or membership environment.
- Experience managing website content or CRM systems.
- Understanding of Search Engine Marketing (SEM).
- Knowledge of sport and exercise medicine, public health or clinical sectors.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level, or able to demonstrate equivalent experience, in communications, marketing, public relations or a related field.
- Evidence of continuing professional development in communications, marketing or digital media.
Desirable
- Training or certification in digital marketing, analytics, SEO or social media.
- Qualifications or training in health communication, public health or sport and exercise medicine.
- Training or certification in GDPR, data protection or information governance.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Starting Salary: £35,668 – £39,005 (Pro Rate to 14 Hours)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home-Based Role (living within or very close to the area covered)
Hours: Part-time (14 hours per week)The area covered comprises the Catholic dioceses of Birmingham and Portsmouth & the post holder must be able to travel widely around the area covered.
Job Profile
CAFOD works with the Catholic community in England and Wales to tackle poverty and injustice.
As a Community Participation Coordinator (Education Focus), you’ll grow engagement across Catholic schools, parishes and communities in the Birmingham and Portsmouth dioceses. You’ll inspire people to give, act and pray, while recruiting and supporting volunteers and building strong relationships with clergy, school leaders and diocesan partners.
Working within CAFOD’s national Education Team, you’ll collaborate locally to increase school participation and strengthen volunteer networks. This role is primarily school-focused, with occasional parish engagement.
This is a home-based role that requires regular travel across the dioceses and occasional visits to CAFOD’s London office. Flexibility is key, with some evening or weekend work and occasional transport of resources (expenses and time off in lieu provided).
Role Responsibilities
Delivering participation plans
- Share accountability for delivery of annual participation plans for the region (a group of dioceses) with a primary focus on one diocese or area, and share in the delivery of fundraising, education, campaigns and media objectives and targets, as delineated by the participation plan for the region. This role will have a focus on schools’ engagement.
- Contribute to the development of activities to achieve objectives in support of and appropriate for local contexts. Through increased numbers and activity of school volunteers, more Catholic schools will be visited by a CAFOD volunteer.
- Maintain regular outreach, promotion and relationship-building with volunteers and key leaders in parish and school communities and Catholic church and education networks.
Managing volunteers
- Be the lead volunteer manager for an identified portfolio of volunteer roles locally and ensure effective coordination and communication.
- Match the offers, skills, experiences and expectations of volunteers with opportunities and needs in relation to CAFOD’s plans for schools.
- Organise and promote volunteer meetings and training opportunities online/offline to either to deliver themselves or by another member of the Education Section.
Managing relationships and promotion
- Represent CAFOD in the diocese and ensure CAFOD retains a diverse range of relationships including with priests, school staff, academy trusts and others within a diocese
. - Ensure CAFOD is promoted via various diocesan communication channels, working with diocesan communications officers and school communities.
Job-specific competencies
I. A demonstrable commitment to volunteering and understanding of its potential as a force for change.
II. Experience of managing multiple relationships with volunteers and a wide variety of volunteers, including recruitment and retention, and managing volunteer performance.
III. Willingness and ability to travel extensively to all parts of the area covered and to travel to other parts of the region/country as needed. At times, it will be necessary to transport equipment and resources and to be flexible to work evenings and weekends.
IV. A proven ability to work within the Catholic education setting.
CAFOD is a welcoming, supportive workplace committed to a safe, inclusive culture where everyone is respected. CAFOD will make reasonable adjustments at every stage of the recruitment process to ensure candidates with disabilities or individual needs are fully supported.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
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CAFOD is the official Catholic aid agency for England and Wales tackling poverty and injustice across the world.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.