This role will lead the delivery of the Trase communication strategy over the next 5 year strategic period.
Working as part of the Impact team within Trase, alongside those engaging directly with companies, governments and financial institutions, you will lead a small team to deliver strategic communications - press, media, content production, events, social media, promotion and publicity, including outreach to multipliers and amplifiers.
You will drive communications to support the engagement work of the Trase team, making tactical choices to best deliver the overall mission of the initiative.
Our communications work is purposeful, targeted and and evaluated for its contribution to our strategic aims - rather than Opportunity To See numbers or the number of pieces placed.
You will bring your experience of developing communications strategies on global issues working with multiple partners to find and tell the story of Trase, what we can learn from the data, and what this means for the world.
You will be part of a leading, multinational, multidisciplinary, and multilingual team of experts, working across the Trase initiative to help ensure the delivery of this exciting program of work is effective, manageable and fun. We value diversity, inclusivity and creativity at the core of what we do and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
For success in this role, these things will matter the most:
- Strategic vision - able to bring clarity and secure collaborative buy-in on how communications can deliver on strategic influencing objectives
- Collaboration and leadership - able to create buy-in and enthusiasm around communications, motivating team members to deliver and supporting them to flourish
- Writing - demonstrable experience of creating compelling and concise written pieces both from scratch and from detailed technical information, accurately and creatively
- Planning - demonstrable experience of creating and delivering communications plans for the release of new data sets, to share insights, or in response to external events, to deliver on Trase’s strategic priorities
- Decision-making - able to make sound tactical decisions to ensure our external communications work remains tightly aligned with our strategy for engagement and impact
- Essential behavioural competencies:
- Solutions and action-oriented: able to prioritise effectively and work autonomously to develop and deliver strategy/tactics. Meets deadlines and proactively ensures dependencies are in place.
- Entrepreneurial and adaptable: able to respond flexibly to a fast-moving internal and external context, and to get new ideas off the ground.
Required skills and experience:
- Track record in creating, delivering and evaluating communications plans; including press and media relations as well as a wide suite of digital communications channels.
- Experience and success in strategic communications i.e. using communications to deliver on strategic goals through many routes, including advocacy, engagement, partnership working.
- Track record of working with complex or technical information and making it accessible to a variety of audiences.
- Track record of working on global issues with multiple partners.
- Experience of building relationships with journalists, and partnering with other organisations to leverage impact.
- Experience working with people from different backgrounds and cultures, ideally in a geographically dispersed organisation.
- Management experience (line management, volunteer management, or freelance service providers).
- Fluency in English.
Desired skills and experience:
- Experience communicating messages that represent minority or underrepresented groups.
- Language skills in one or more of the Trase core languages: Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, French, Mandarin Chinese.
- Experience of working in organisations with a multi-project portfolio, and working with partner organisations.
The successful candidate must live in the UK. Global Canopy can support with visa sponsorship if required.
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of the qualifications listed.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Mentor Recruitment Lead £32,000 per annum (pro-rata) plus London weighting if successful candidate is in London
***Cover letters written by AI will not be considered for interview***
Previous applicants need not apply
Full time role (37.5 hours) with an initial 6-month fixed term contract continuing subject to funding.
Remote working, with the option for hybrid working (up to two days in the office) if located 45 minutes away from one of our offices in London, Manchester and Cardiff.
At One Million Mentors, our aim is to ensure that every young person in the country has access to a trained mentor as they transition into adulthood. We believe that investing in mentors will help to address the skills gap agenda and improve social cohesion.
Would you like the opportunity to:
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Be part of a dynamic, values-driven organisation working to achieve lasting social change?
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Work across the business, public and third sector to develop innovative ways of harnessing the potential of young people in Great Britain?
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Help shape a growing organisation?
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Enhance your personal development and job satisfaction through monthly team training sessions, personal L&D opportunities and a 15 hour per year volunteering allowance?
If so, this may be the role for YOU!
1MM Mentor Recruitment Lead main tasks include:
● Build, lead, own and execute 1MM’s mentor recruitment strategy
● Source enough mentors to ensure 1MM has an oversupply (c.15% higher than demand) of fully trained, location relevant mentors available
● Build a sustainable growth engine that ensures the pipeline of mentors remains sufficient on an ongoing basis
● Work with key stakeholders across the business to improve conversion rates by refining our onboarding process
● Meeting all quality assurance KPIs
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Establishing employers, professional networks, community groups etc. as Volunteer Providers.
● Ensure key partners are smoothly handed over to the relevant colleagues within the business at the appropriate time.
● Provide regular reports on progress related to the role.
For a more detailed job description, please see the job pack attached.
Remuneration and benefits: Salary bracket of £32,000 (pro rata) plus London weighting if successful candidate lives in London,, up to 6.5% employer pension contribution and 25 days holiday per year (pro rata).
**Please note that applications submitted without a Covering Letter will not be considered - cover letters written by AI will not be considered for interview*****
For further details on how to apply, please see application guidelines attached.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.