Senior Marketing And Communications Officer Jobs in Westminster, Greater London
Who we are:
Muslim Aid is a UK faith-based international development organisation that provides support to communities around the world affected by disasters, conflict, or endemic poverty without regard to their social, religious, or ethnic background.
Established in 1985, Muslim Aid has facilitated the engagement of the British Muslim and non-Muslim community in support of its work in a variety of ways. Over the years, its humanitarian work has included responses to major crises around the world including, famine in East Africa, earthquakes and flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
Summary of Role:
Join Muslim Aid as the Director of Operations to steer our strategic alignment and operational excellence across global initiatives. Reporting directly to the CEO and collaborating with senior directors, you will play a crucial role in overseeing our International Programmes, Income Generation and Marketing departments. This position is based in London and is a vital part of our mission to deliver impactful, efficient, and accountable operations worldwide.
About the Role:
- Work alongside the CEO and senior leadership to craft and execute strategic plans, ensuring it aligns with our broader goals.
- Prepare and present comprehensive operational reports at board meetings and committee meetings throughout the year, offering strategic insights and recommendations.
- Oversee the management of the Head of International Programmes and Head of Income Generation and Marketing, ensuring strategies and operations align with overall goals of Muslim Aid.
- Oversee the operational budget, guaranteeing resources are distributed with efficiency and effectiveness to uphold strategic priorities.
- Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory, and funding requirements, maintaining high standards of accountability.
- Ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness across all programmatic and departmental activities, implementing good practices and seeking opportunities for innovation and improvement.
About You:
- Proven experience in a leadership role within the non-profit sector, preferably in an international context.
- Experience in overseeing programmatic and income generation activities, demonstrating the ability to integrate these functions effectively.
- Proven experience in successfully raising funds from diverse income streams such as grants, donations, sponsorships, events, and partnerships.
- Experience in managing diverse teams and complex projects across multiple countries and contexts.
- Proven experience in change management and driving organisational development initiatives.
- Proven financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
Why You Should Apply:
Seize the opportunity to make a significant impact on the world with Muslim Aid. As our Director of Operations, you will not only lead key strategic initiatives but also inspire a team dedicated to operational excellence and global humanitarian efforts. This role is your chance to leverage your leadership and strategic skills in an environment that values innovation and commitment to community service. Join us to be at the forefront of change, empowering communities and making a real difference in the lives of those who need it most. Together, we can achieve remarkable things and create a legacy of compassion and integrity.
Benefits you will enjoy if you work for us:
- 37 days holiday (including Bank Holidays and Privilege days)
- Hybrid working (working in office 2 days a week)
- Paid time off for medical appointments
- 2 hours lunch break on Fridays
- Time off in Lieu (TOIL)
How to apply:
To apply please submit your cover letter (no more than 1 page) and CV.
The British Asian Trust is one of the most exciting and innovative charities working in South Asia. They were founded in 2007 by His Majesty King Charles III and a group of British Asian business leaders to tackle widespread poverty, inequality and injustice in South Asia. In recent years they have experienced substantial growth, with income increasing from £1m to £22m.
An estimated 172 million children in India are considered ‘at-risk’ from various forms of harm and exploitation. Children are made vulnerable by a complex network of interconnecting factors such as high levels of poverty, gender inequality, unsafe migration, cultural norms and poor implementation of schemes and laws. The Child Opportunity Fund’s goal is to create more safe spaces to ensure that millions of children can live their lives to the fullest potential. To achieve this, they are aiming to raise $25m which will be matched by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, totalling a $50m fund.
We are looking for an exceptional philanthropic fundraising leader, with experience of leading an appeal and first-hand programme management skills, to undertake a one year maternity cover as the Interim Head of Child Opportunity Appeal. The postholder will be responsible for overseeing the appeal, working collaboratively with the team to reach their significant fundraising targets across HNWIs, trusts, institutional funders and corporate partners.
This is an incredible opportunity to join a dynamic team that is creating a lasting impact that will enable future generations to not only survive, but also thrive.
About the role
As Interim Head of Child Opportunity Appeal, you will:
- accelerate and coordinate fundraising for the Child Opportunity Appeal across a diversified range of high value income streams in the UK, India, Dubai and globally;
- drive and implement the fundraising strategy, ensuring KPIs are monitored and met;
- coordinate internal working groups as well as external senior volunteers to ensure a consistent and aligned approach to fundraising and new donor engagement;
- produce effective prospect research and robust donor pipelines to secure major donations at the 6 and 7-figure level from HNWIs, corporates, trusts, foundations and institutional funders;
- ensure all donors and partners receive first-class stewardship and relationship management, working closely with in-country, programmes and communications colleagues to produce compelling proposals, reports and updates;
- support the CEO to manage the partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation;
- develop and deliver strong engagement opportunities and leverage cultivation event and project visit opportunities;
- contribute to financial planning and reporting, and develop processes and systems for effective fundraising and stewardship.
About you
Ideal skills and experience:
- Demonstrable experience of operating in a senior philanthropic leadership role with a strategic mindset and high levels of ambition
- Exceptional project/programme management skills
- Experience of running a significant philanthropic appeal/campaign, or playing a senior role in the delivery of a large project in a complex organisation
- Experience of implementing a fundraising strategy and successfully meeting KPIs and targets
- Strong track record in securing high value gifts from warm and cold donors and partners, including demonstrable ability to independently manage the fundraising process from research/identification to closing the ask
- Exceptional communication and networking skills with the confidence to engage stakeholders of all levels (SMT, Trustees, senior volunteers, donors, partners and colleagues)
- Strong team leadership skills with a supportive and motivating approach to rally colleagues across the organisation to deliver on the Appeal
- Ability to be both strategic and operational
- Ambitious, a natural-analyser, trustworthy, calm and proactive
Employee benefits
- 25 days annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays and 3 days between Christmas and New Years
- 5% employer contribution pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to a well being platform
Expert recruitment for fundraisers and charities.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
Director of Service Transformation
Employer - Kids
Location – Remote work involving regular travel within England
Salary - c.£70,000
Hours - 36 hours per week (Flexible hours considered)
At Kids, we're midway through an ambitious five-year strategy aimed at enhancing, expanding, and innovating our family support services. Working hand in hand with disabled children and young people, we're advocating for systemic reform while seeking sustainable methods to deliver our services. Our remarkable team is already co-creating new services, leveraging digital platforms, and devising creative solutions to meet families' urgent practical and emotional needs. You'll lead efforts to uphold our exceptional service quality, driving the development of innovative support models that cater to families' evolving needs and can be financially sustained.
As our Director of Service Transformation, you will lead the exciting next phase of transforming our charity’s services to reach more disabled children, young people and their families. You will be responsible for sourcing and delivering contracts and partnerships essential for the charity’s sustainability by advancing our digital outreach and nurturing new partnerships and securing sustainable funds for innovative models of support.
What you will be doing as the Director of Service Transformation:
- Lead and execute services strategies and plans that extend and transform the impact and financial sustainability of the charity’s services and support for disabled children, young people and their families.
- Lead the design, development and sales of innovative new service models and the scaling of existing services.
- Work closely with the other executive directors and leadership team to achieve the generation of an annual financial surplus to reinvest in Kids.
- Ensure the quality and safe delivery of all Kids’ services.
- Ensure effective budget management underpins service development and delivery. Ensure contracts and tenders are commercially negotiated and regularly monitored. Work with colleagues to identify and achieve necessary margins on contracts and projects for financial sustainability.
- Inspire and lead a high performing services team; support colleagues to test, learn and adapt as the charity evolves and transforms its digital and in-person support offer.
- Be an inspiring, visible and collegiate leader and team player who works across team boundaries to help drive organisational change and nurture colleagues’ ability to perform at their best.
- Model and lead effective communications with all colleagues that bring to life the charity’s values and behaviours. Support colleagues to ensure Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles and practice are evidenced in service design and delivery.
- Act as an ambassador for Kids on key platforms, carrying out media work as required; promote the charity’s products, services and work; and draw from services expertise to influence public policy and legislation relevant to disabled children and their families.
Essential Criteria – Demonstrated history of leadership in service provision, service evolution, or change management; adeptness in fostering relationships and/or experience in business development/sales.
Are you a proven leader with a passion for the power of practical support to unlock potential and transform lives? Are you a change-maker who will relish the challenge of finding a sustainable path to deliver fantastic frontline services?
Is this you? If so, get in touch and talk to us about being our next Director of Service Transformation.
The Good stuff/Benefits
- Join a company that truly cares about your wellbeing
- Enjoy an enviable annual leave package, starting at a generous 25 days and growing each year up to 30 days.
- Option to buy an additional 5 days holiday.
- Enjoy your entitlement to Bank Holidays.
- We've got your back with Maternity and Paternity Pay.
- Rest easy knowing you're covered with our Death in Service plan.
- Invest in your pension plan with the option to top it up knowing that Kids is also contributing 3%.
- Achieve work-life harmony with flexible hours tailored to your needs.
- Unlock exclusive discounts at hundreds of online retailers through our employee benefits portal.
- Spread the word and reap the rewards with our enticing "Recommend a Friend" scheme.
- Access confidential support and expert guidance 24/7 through our Employee Assistance Programme, helping you navigate both personal and professional challenges.
- Take care of yourself with Company Sick Pay which you are entitled to from your first day.
- 5 days of paid family/carers leave.
- Salary sacrifice schemes available
- Develop your mentoring skills by either being a mentor or signing up for our mentoring programme.
- Expand your horizons with Kids online learning platforms, offering a wealth of professional courses for your personal and career development.
- Apprenticeship programmes available for employees
- Benefit from a colleague engagement programme enabling your voice to be heard.
- Lean on us during difficult times with Bereavement Leave.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Senior PR Manager
Are you a passionate about public relations and looking for your next challenge?
We have an exciting opportunity to join Sue Ryder as our Senior Public Relations Manager to help raise the profile of the charity and increase the public understanding and awareness of our work and our services. Reporting to the Head of PR & Internal Communications you will develop and lead a national PR strategy for Sue Ryder, raising awareness for a number of projects, services and campaigns.
About you:
We are looking for somebody with extensive experience of working in a national media or PR team, ideally within a charity. You will have significant experience of managing reputation management issues along with supporting governmental lobbying and influencing and affecting change in policy.
Experience of delivering pro-active PR campaigns with an excellent understanding of the media and experience of managing external PR agencies. You will be a highly proficient writer with the ability to direct and manage projects with multiple stakeholder involvement..
Key Responsibilities:
· Develop and lead a national PR strategy for Sue Ryder, with the aim of supporting income generation and increasing public understanding of the charity and measured against KPIs
· Manage and lead a responsive and pro-active national PR team which operates an out of hours service
· Deliver 2 x pro-active PR campaigns per year which meet set project KPIs
· Work to position Sue Ryder as an expert commentator on end of life and bereavement care within the national media
· Manage reputation management issues with the support of the Head of PR
· Manage our current roster of celebrity ambassadors and deliver against a celebrity outreach strategy to bring additional high profile supporters on board.
· Manage the retained PR agency ensuring that projects are delivered on time and on budget and achieving agreed evaluation metrics.
· Line management of the Case Studies Manager, National PR Manager and National PR Officer
· Develop and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues across the organisation, including members of the executive leadership team.
· Manage the day-to-day reporting against the PR departmental budget
What we can offer you:
Competitive Benefits Package
· 27 days holiday rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays (pro rata if part-time), - Company pension scheme
· EAP support scheme
· Staff discount with thousands of retailers
· Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
· and lots more. Please visit our careers website for the full list.
Closing date: 23rd May
Interview date: TBC
We aim to give all candidates the opportunity to perform at their best during our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any adjustments at any stage
If you want more than just a job, we want you. Join the team and be there when it matters.
Sue Ryder is here to make sure everyone approaching the end of their life or living with grief can access the support they need. There is no one size fits all when it comes to how we cope and the help we need, but with our support, no one has to face dying or grief alone. We are there when it matters.
Senior Social Media Officer
Are you passionate about social media and have experience of managing content across a range of platforms?
Sue Ryder is looking for a Senior Social Media Officer to join the Digital Team, to manage our portfolio of social media accounts and develop the charity’s channels to showcase the importance of our end-of-life care and bereavement support.
The Role
Reporting to the Social Media Manager, the role works closely with colleagues across the charity including fundraising, health & social care, and retail. Our social channels play a key role in providing support to people who are struggling with grief, as well as being an important engagement tool with our supporters. The role will be responsible for the content creation and planning across our accounts, including content around grief and bereavement, as well as taking ownership of key paid social campaigns.
Key Responsibilities:
· Content planning for our local channels and leading on social media activities for fundraising events, PR campaigns and other projects.
· Creating content with a story-led approach including copywriting and developing visual assets for our national and retail accounts including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn and TikTok.
· Manage the response matrix for our social media moderation and escalation processes in line with organisational safeguarding procedures.
· Moderation cover for the Online Community and deputise for the Social Media Manager in meetings/project groups. Supervise the Social Media Assistant through proofreading, monitoring and delegating tasks.
· Gather data and insights to develop reports with actionable recommendations.
· Plan and implement paid social campaigns for fundraising events throughout the year.
· Provide training and support for colleagues in social media best practices.
About You:
· Experience in planning and coordinating social media content for different platforms
· Highly proficient digital copywriter with excellent attention to detail
· Intermediate level of Photoshop or Canva skills
· Experience creating and editing high-quality videos for social media and mobile
· Experience of using GA4, Looker Studio and Excel to build reports
· Ability to create, manage and optimise paid-for social media campaigns
· Excellent organisational skills and ability to efficiently work across a multi-disciplinary team to prioritise projects and content
· Experience of monitoring social media out of hours
Competitive Benefits Package
· 27 days holiday rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
· Company pension scheme
· Staff discount with thousands of retailers
· Refer a friend scheme - £250
· Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
· and lots more. Please visit our careers website for the full list.
Closing date: 27th May
Interview date: We are interviewing on a rolling basis
Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a sufficient amount of candidates is received
We aim to give all candidates the opportunity to perform at their best during our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any adjustments.
An initial call will be arranged prior to invitation to interview
If you want more than just a job. We want you. Join the team and be there when it matters.
Sue Ryder is here to make sure everyone approaching the end of their life or living with grief can access the support they need. There is no one size fits all when it comes to how we cope and the help we need, but with our support, no one has to face dying or grief alone. We are there when it matters.
This is a remote role based from home with travel across England and Scotland required, including overnight stays. Please note that this advert may close early should sufficient applications be received, so early application is advised.
At WithYou we are looking for a Head of Internal Communications to join our organisation. This is a full time, fixed term maternity cover position until August 2025. If you are looking to join a forward thinking, values-driven charity and have the passion and expertise to progress our internal communications offering, we'd love to hear from you.
Reporting into the Executive Director of Marketing and Communications, this role will join our Marketing and Communications directorate, an innovative team of people who are committed to raising the profile of WithYou, our clients and our colleagues. In this role you will lead WithYou’s internal communications and engagement strategy so our people understand and can contribute to our strategy and direction.
You will work to improve communications, engagement and channel delivery across WithYou, leading the journey to a new interactive platform, using a new internal content strategy to inform it. In addition, you will forge strong relationships to coach, influence and provide clear direction and leadership on all internal communications activity, helping to develop and embed a new organisational strategy and other initiatives, with staff insight at the core.
This is a remote role based from home with travel across England and Scotland required, including overnight stays. This is a full time, fixed term maternity cover position until August 2025. The salary for this role is £56,000 - £68,675 per annum.
Join us in our mission to be there for adults and young people experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol and their mental health. Together, we can enable people to overcome drug, alcohol and mental health challenges and reclaim wellbeing - if you think this could be the career for you, take the first step and apply now to join our amazing team.
REQUIRED SKILLS
We are looking for demonstrable experience in a similar role, with knowledge of the approaches, tools and techniques that support clear implementation of internal communications and engagement. It is essential that you have experience of adapting central messaging for specific audiences, a proven ability to deliver an annual programme of staff events, along with managing effective and accessible channels that encourage an inclusive and supportive culture. This is a busy team, with multiple priorities ongoing and huge plans for the future, so it's important that you are highly organised and able to manage your time effectively.
We want to foster a positive and empowering culture and are looking for someone who can manage and develop a team, and build meaningful relationships with diverse teams and people at the highest levels, exciting them about what internal communications can help them to achieve. A full job description is available on request.
We’re looking for:
- A relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong internal communications and engagement experience.
- Senior internal stakeholder management experience.
- Team management experience.
- Strong copywriting skills and content design experience.
- Digital platform development and rollout experience.
- Strong channel and event management experience.
- Understanding of research and evaluation.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Strategic thinking ability and operational judgement.
- Ability to listen, engage, influence and build relationships.
- Exceptional communications skills and the ability to engage people across a large diverse organisation.
- Ability to work flexible and unsocial hours as required.
- Commitment to the organisation's Guiding Principles and Behaviours.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.
At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.
We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.
We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.
We Are WithYou.
BENEFITS
- Competitive salary
- 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
- Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
- We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period
Should you be successful in your application, you will be required to provide 3 years worth of references and where applicable, will need to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
About the role
Are you passionate about women’s health and the power of communications to advocate, inform, and influence? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join us as interim Head of Media and Communications.
In this role, you will play a vital part in the RCOG’s mission to improve the lives of women and girls around the world, through the delivery of creative communications campaigns and high-impact media stories. You will promote our guidelines, research and reports to support their use around the world to deliver high quality, safe and compassionate care for women.
Leading our busy press office, you will have opportunities to shape the media agenda on critical women’s health issues and champion the voices of women and girls through creative story-telling. Your social media expertise will ensure we are effectively listening to and engaging our members, partners and the public.
You will enjoy building and managing relationships with stakeholders to deliver opportunities for partnership working – including national health organisations, other Royal Colleges and women’s health charities. You will have excellent strategic judgement and be confident to advise senior College stakeholders on high profile and sensitive issues.
Reporting to the Director of Communications, you will line manage our Senior Media and Communications Officer and work closely with colleagues in our policy, public affairs and marketing teams to help ensure the College’s external affairs work is integrated, coherent and impactful.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of our annual media and communications plan, including priority campaigns in partnership with marketing, policy and public affairs colleagues
- Oversee our busy press office, ensuring we maintain strong media relations and are achieving high impact coverage on College priorities
- Deliver proactive external communications to promote awareness and impact of RCOG programmes, projects and products
- Ensure we are effectively using our social media and digital channels to listen, engage and influence, including production of videos, podcasts and webinars, etc.
- Build strong relationships with partners and stakeholders to gather intelligence and identify partnership opportunities
- Lead on ensuring the RCOG maintains effective communications and media processes, including forward planning tools, media logs, activity summaries, and evaluation reports.
About you
This position is well-suited to an experienced communications professional who is passionate about women’s health, and the role that creative communications and campaigns can play to advocate, inform, and influence.
Requirements:
- Experience leading the development and delivery of integrated communications campaigns Excellent news sense and experience leading a busy press office covering high profile issues
- Ability to lead on and manage sensitive/ emotive/ ethical issues in a sensitive manner
- Creative and technically excellent writing skills
- In-depth experience to use digital channels to listen, engage and share information
- Confident in building partnerships and being a trusted advisor to senior colleagues
- Ability to work independently to meet deadlines, with a proactive and efficient working style
Our culture and benefits
The College offers an agile working policy meaning staff are able to work from home or in our stunning office in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:
- Agile and flexible working
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution after probation
- Enhanced occupational Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave policies
- Interest-free bike, season ticket and technology loans after probation
- Tailored Learning and Development and study leave
- Affinity staff networks
- Free lunch (onsite only)
- Employee Support Service counselling
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Lifestyle discounts
For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site
How to apply
- To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button, or our careers site to download the full Job Description.
- Closing date: 10.00am on Tuesday 28 May 2024
- Interviews to be held in person in week commencing 3 June 2024
We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We are therefore looking for candidates whose backgrounds, experience and identity enhance the diversity of our existing team. We are particularly encouraging applications from underrepresented groups at the College such as those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and those with a disability. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.
We are only accepting applicants with a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.
About us
The RCOG is a professional membership association dedicated to improving women’s health care across the world. We do this by setting standards for clinical practice, providing doctors with training and lifelong learning, and working with partners to advocate for women’s health and health care across their life course. We are a global leader in this specialist area, supporting 16,000 members in the UK and internationally.
We are a values-led organisation placing high standards, innovation, openness, inclusiveness and trust at the centre of all we do.
Creative United is one of the UK's leading social enterprises working across the arts and creative industries. Based at Somerset House in Central London, we deliver a wide range of publicly funded programmes focused on increasing access and inclusion in the arts. Our experienced team is committed to supporting artists, musicians and creative entrepreneurs of all kinds with the skills and confidence to develop and grow their social and economic impact, helping to maximise their contribution to the strength and diversity of the UK's creative economy.
We are looking to recruit a talented and self-motivated Senior Business Development Manager to join us in June 2024 on a 12 month fixed term maternity cover contract.
Reporting to the Director of Strategic Development, this role is essential to driving forward the implementation of Creative United’s business development plans across multiple programme and project strands. Key responsibilities include the planning and delivery of business development activities that build on our existing service offer, responding to the needs of the creative communities that we serve, whether on a local, regional or national basis.
This is a hybrid-working role that involves spending a minimum of 2 days per week at our offices in London. You will have strong interpersonal skills and enjoy building relationships through a combination of face to face, telephone and written communications. You will be comfortable working with minimal supervision to plan and coordinate activities that involve the buy-in of other staff and partner organisations. You will be able to inspire and motivate other people to work with you to achieve our shared goals and priorities through effective planning, implementation and evaluation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Senior Media and Campaign Manager
Contract: Fixed term contract for approximately seven months maternity leave cover. With either part time of 4 days (28 hours) per week or full time (35 hours per week) options available.
Ideal start date: 24 June 2024 to provide up to two weeks hand over with the current post holder.
Location: Hospice House, Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JG. This role is eligible for the Hospice UK Hybrid Working Arrangement from the start of employment, with around once a week as a minimum in the office.
Starting salary: £43,646 per annum FTE
Closing date for applications: 12pm on Thursday 23 May 2024
Expected week of interviews: w/c 27th May
Charity People is delighted to be partnering with Hospice UK to recruit a Senior Media and Campaign Manager to help shape the UK's conversation about hospice and end of life care, death and grief. Through strategic, savvy and nimble media relations work, and through contributing to wider mobilisation of and engagement with public and political audiences, you will help to change public perceptions, political agendas, and policy priorities.
Hospice UK is the national charity for hospice and end of life care, working to ensure everyone affected by death, dying and bereavement gets the care and support they need, when they need it. Their mission is to transform the way society cares for the dying and those around them. To empower individuals, communities and populations to embrace the ethos of hospice care and extend its breadth and reach to improve everyone's experience of death, dying and bereavement.
Key responsibilities within the Senior Media and Campaign Manager role will include:
- Devise and deliver an ambitious media strategy to consistently secure top tier coverage which advances Hospice UK's strategic aims in line with their influencing objectives.
- Identify and produce engaging stories, nimbly working with research, data, people's stories and leading complex negotiations with colleagues from across Hospice UK to do so.
- Independently lead complex and sometimes risky negotiations with influential journalists.
- Lead relationships with colleagues to drive forward changes in healthcare policy through briefing journalists, placing opinion pieces, and securing news and features coverage for Hospice UK's research and calls for change.
- Work closely with storytellers to ensure that people's lived experience of death and grief is reflected in the national media, driven by an active, daily commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Take an active role in reputation management for Hospice UK and develop and maintain their public position statements for key topics to support consistency of message.
- Advise on public campaign strategy and content while leading the representation of the charity's policy and political work to secure maximum impact across their digital channels.
- Develop audience-led channel content strategies to engage and keep informed the charity's membership and professional audiences and spot potential opportunities for public mobilisation work.
- Manage constructive and strategic relationships with journalists across the national media, placing stories regularly and briefing them on the latest developments.
- Build warm, collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Oversee and improve operations of the press office function including running core services such as media monitoring.
- Develop and deliver a high-quality media measurement framework that captures the impact of Hospice UK's work.
- Line manage and develop the Senior Media and Communications Officer
- Support staff who are conducting media interviews and develop their confidence in the media to give succinct and engaging lines to journalists.
Hospice UK are looking for someone who is collaborative, has superb news judgement and who is able to pivot quickly from project to project and story to story. You'll need a softness of touch when working with storytellers and hospice colleagues, and the patience and pragmatism to work with internal and external colleagues. You'll need to be decisive, and able to explain complex decisions to journalists and senior management. As well as strong media relations skills, we're looking for someone with a wider understanding of the full communications and marketing mix, and who will have some oversight and strategic control of the charity's digital channels.
We would love to hear from you if have the following skills and experience:
- Significant experience in a Media/PR professional role with Exceptional writing skills
- Ability to contribute creative ideas to generate content for news and features stories
- Experience of developing media strategies that deliver exceptional news and features coverage
- Demonstrable experience of developing media relationships and partnerships and outstanding interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate on challenging stories with senior journalists
- Understanding of how 'traditional media' interfaces with multi-channel integrated campaigning, and a strong eye for effective and engaging digital content
- Experience of reputation management
If you're interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please send your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance.
Charity People and actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
We are seeking an experienced community engagement professional with a demonstrable track record of team leadership, inspiring education and engagement outcomes and successful grant fundraising.
The Head of Engagement will provide maternity cover for approximately 13 months and work as part of the Senior Leadership Team at SERT to drive how we influence, engage and empower people and communities to value and protect rivers in the South East.
You will bring passion for our cause and demonstrable experience in delivering inspiring outcomes from education and engagement projects and programmes. You will drive the further development of our Engagement Strategy with innovation and creativity, securing external funding to deliver against the Trust’s strategy and ambition.
Interviews to be held week commencing 3rd June 2024.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. Don’t miss your opportunity, apply now!
London’s Air Ambulance Charity continues to develop a supportive and enabling environment that gets the best out of our people. We promote a culture of progression and professional advancement offering a range of learning and development opportunities. In addition we offer flexible working options, wellbeing packages and family friendly employment policies.
It’s an exciting time at the Charity – we have over 125,000 supporters who support our work through regular giving and lottery, and we actively recruit around 40,000 new Lottery players and Regular Givers each year.
This role supports the development, management and optimisation of our Lottery and Regular Giving programmes through Face to Face fundraising. You’ll be working with our fantastic face to face fundraisers cultivating our relationships with our external agency partners as well as supporting training, day-to-day management and monitoring of third-party fundraisers.
If you’re passionate about inspiring and motivating others, have experience of managing projects, training programmes or campaigns and enjoy working with a broad range of stakeholders and agency partners, then this is the role for you!
Apply today or contact us for more information.
We pride ourselves on our dedication to being an employer that values diversity, we firmly believe that each team member can provide a unique perspective and valuable contribution to the lives of the people we serve, applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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We are inviting applications for an Events Officer, to start as soon as notice period allows.
The events programme of the Institute is essential to our public profile. Rooted in the work programmes that the research team are working on, events are opportunities for us to discuss the themes of our work with other experts and senior decision-makers, and to communicate our messages to the media and wider public. All our events, whether in-person, hybrid or entirely online, are produced to a very high standard and often include high-profile speakers and audiences. Our Events Officers work with colleagues across the Institute to deliver our range of public events, roundtables, workshops and conferences.
As part of the events team, within the wider communications team and reporting to the Head of Events, you will:
- Support the design and co-ordination of the Institute’s programme of public and private events, including panel discussions, conferences, receptions, workshops and roundtables.
- Manage all logistics and marketing for timely, professional event organisation and delivery.
- Help prepare for and deliver Institute events outside of London, including our party conference programme.
- Share management of the busy events email inbox and deal with internal and external event enquiries.
For full details, including a more detailed job description and a person specification, please read our job application pack.
This role could suit people with a wide range of different experiences. If you are interested in applying but are not sure you have all the skills or experience we are looking for, please do so and give us the opportunity to consider you as a candidate.
The IfG is committed to supporting greater diversity and inclusion within our workforce, and to fostering an environment in which everyone feels welcome, supported and valued. We welcome applications from anyone who is interested in government and how to make it more effective, and particularly encourage applications from candidates who belong to groups currently underrepresented in the think-tank sector. This includes but is not limited to Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates, disabled candidates, and candidates from low-income backgrounds.
The Institute for Government is the UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Senior Grant and Trust Fundraiser
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Fundraiser to work closely with the Head of Fundraising and Chief Executive to maintain a fundraising pipeline, research new prospects and write high quality bids to a range of grant and trust funders.
The organisation is at an exciting stage of its development with a strategy of cautious and sustained growth, so if you want to be part of the next chapter of growth and development… then apply today!
Position: Senior Grant and Trust Fundraiser
Location: London or West Midlands/hybrid (with frequent travel to London if you are based in the West Midlands)
Hours: Full-time, 37.5hours, flexible working
Salary: Up to £35,000 (depending on experience)
Duration: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 19th May
Interview Date: Stage one interviews will take place week commencing 20th May, although it may be earlier for particularly promising candidates, we reserve the right to close the application window early.
The Role
You will be instrumental in securing the funding, which the organisation needs to continue to deliver and develop its services, across a wide range of functions and projects. You will be an entrepreneurial, knowledgeable fundraiser, adept at finding the right opportunities to fit the right projects. You will also be meticulous and organised in your approach to stewardship, maintaining contact with funders and working with colleagues to collate the information needed for reporting.
The fundraising strategy contains plans to further develop specific areas of fundraising such as individual giving, corporate partnerships and legacies, and you may be called upon to support the Head of Fundraising in putting plans together for the implementation of these, working alongside the Senior Administrator (Fundraising and Communications).
About You
You will have experience in a fundraising, philanthropy or relationship management role and a track record of success in securing at least five-figure donations from grant and trust funders.
You will have:
· Knowledge of digital fundraising approaches
· Outstanding writing and communication skills
· The ability to understand financial language and budgets
· Strong research and prospecting skills
· The capacity to build excellent relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally
· Experience of measuring impact and delivering evaluation reports
You will be asked to submit a one-page covering letter and your CV.
About the Organisation
The charity have been around since 1997, when it started as a small playgroup set up by parents dismayed at the lack of provision for their autistic children. Since then, it has grown into a major deliverer of services and support in London and the West Midlands with a turnover of around £2.6m per year. The mission is to support autistic people to live happy and fulfilling lives and change society’s attitude to autism, whilst also providing essential services and enriching opportunities to autistic people.
Join a value-driven organisation, which employs value-driven people who want to make a difference and play a vital part in ensuring that it can resource and sustain this amazing work.
Benefits include:
· Flexible working patterns with the option to work in a hybrid way
· 25 days of leave (pro rata for part time roles) each year plus 8 bank holidays and the additional office closure between Christmas and New Year
· Access to ongoing training and progress in the areas that interest you
· Access to our wellbeing initiatives and an Employee Assistance Programme
· Enrolment on to our pension scheme
· A supportive, warm and fun working environment made up of values driven people who are passionate about changing the world for autistic people
We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and global majority candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and disabled candidates.
The charity is a neuro-affirming employer, with a strengths and rights based approach to neurodiversity which affirms neurodivergent identity – they don’t want to “fix” or “cure” autism, and don’t see it as a “disability”. The team are working to improve the ways in which they recruit and support neurodiverse employees and those with lived experience of neurodiversity.
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PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and working closely with the Chief Executive, the post-holder will lead on all aspects of development, marketing and fundraising, and people/HR development; maintaining high level relationships with donors and prospective donors and maximising opportunities to secure new sources of income from individuals, companies and charitable trusts, as well as improving our internal comms.
We are looking for someone who has experience working in collaborative environments to meet organisational goals and build and manage relationships. They will demonstrate a willingness to learn and develop in order to surface and establish partnerships, lead funding bids, develop our people, and act as a key representative of the Centre to the outside world.
Time off
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30 days annual leave increasing to 33 days after 3 years’ service (plus public holidays)
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Paid carers’ and compassionate leave
Financial
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Contributory pension scheme – employer contribution 8.5% (employee contribution 2.5%)
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Non-contributory group life assurance scheme (4 x annual salary)
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Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay
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Enhanced sick pay scheme (after 6 months’ service)
Wellbeing
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Employee assistance programme through life assurance cover. WeCare: 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more.
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Flexible working arrangements i.e. part time, compressed hours, working hours etc.
The Centre for Homelessness Impact exists to improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness through better use of data and evidence.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Location: Work from home, with regular travel around England. Easy access to London is preferable.
Hours: 36 Hours - Full time
We are looking for a Fundraising Officer to lead the administration of CCT’s tiered membership programmes, annual and church-based appeals, legacies, and fundraising events. The Fundraising Officer will also support in the creation of marketing materials to support these initiatives.
Following the growth in audience development through online events and digital activity, CCT welcomed younger and international members and increased the number of donations. We have since witnessed decreased retention rates and are looking to implement methods to increase member and donor acquisition and retention.
The role of the Fundraising Officer is vital to maintaining excellent service delivery across our core fundraising programmes and providing strong supporter care.
This role will support the organisational-wide aim to build a collaborative fundraising culture and ensure CCT’s buildings at risk are sustained for the appreciation and benefit of future generations.
If you would like to apply for this role, please visit our recruitment portal to begin your application. You will be asked to submit a CV and a short supporting statement (max 2 sides A4) outlining why you’d like to apply and how you fulfil the person specification for this post, so you’ll need to refer to the job description.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 8am on Thursday, 16 May 2024.
The interviews will take place online, using Microsoft Teams, on Thursday, 23 May 2024. Please note that the interview date and location have been specifically chosen according to the availability of the panel.
We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We are not a licensed sponsor at this time. Any offer of employment will be made subject to valid right to work in the UK being provided.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.