Senior Press Officer Jobs in Manchester

Responsible for driving the growth and retention of membership at The Textile Institute (TI). This role is crucial in ensuring that the TI’s membership base—both Individual and Corporate expands across all disciplines in textiles, clothing, and footwear worldwide. The Coordinator will engage with internal and external stakeholders, promoting the benefits of membership and supporting the overall objectives of the Institute.

The Senior Membership Coordinator will oversee and coordinate membership services, ensuring a high level of member satisfaction and engagement. This role requires strong organisational and communication skills, as well as the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. You will be responsible for streamlining membership processes, optimising workflows, and supporting the overall goals of the Institute.

Reporting directly to the CEO and working with members of the organisation from around the world and external clients, this is an exciting time and opportunity to join TIIHQ and work with a small and dynamic team with an international reach. This is primarily an office-based role although with hybrid working. 

Opportunity to travel, attend some great events both in the UK and overseas. 

Role Summary

As our Senior Strategic PR Lead, you will develop and oversee a strategy pursuing global opportunities to influence and respond to developments that strengthen ProVeg’s impact of an international food awareness organisation. Using an evidence-based approach and real-life stories you will inform, inspire, and influence a changing food system. You will position ProVeg as a pragmatic, solutions-oriented actor within the ecosystem of plant-based, fermented and cultivated food. You will work with NGOs, companies, food-service providers, startups, investors, policy advocates, the public, and many others to amplify key messages. 

We seek a dynamic, innovative leader in PR or public affairs who thrives on driving change and making a global impact. If you're passionate about shaping the future of food and have a proven track record in strategic communications, this role offers an exciting opportunity to lead ProVeg’s global narrative.Working with international colleagues, you will be a force to be reckoned with. You’ll help establish ProVeg as the go-to organisation helping the world transition to a plant-based, fermented and cultured foods system. You’ll build on our global reputation and credibility with a wide range of stakeholders.

You will develop a strategic and effective PR plan for ProVeg, and develop and oversee communications activities that promote, enhance, and protect the organisation’s charitable mission and vision. 

Job Details

• Reports to: Global CEO

• Department: INT Communications

• Direct reports: Senior PR Manager

• Closely collaborating with: Senior International Communications Manager, Digital Director (web, brand and graphic design), Chief Strategy Officer, International Director, Director of Partnerships & Institutional Engagement, Head of Philanthropy, Country Directors, internal and external colleagues. 

• Location: Remote, ideally in the UK, NL, PL, CZ, or, for exceptional candidates, potentially US (ET zone)

• Hours: 40 hour a week (36h possible) 

• Salary: dependent on experience and location, around £45-48k in the UK (based on 1FTE of 40 hours)

Responsibilities

Strategic development and implementation

• Develop and oversee an effective PR communications strategy, including business/trade press and public affairs (EU and UN advocacy), based on ProVeg’s strategic principles, impact areas and global interventions.

• Be accountable for the development, delivery, and evaluation of the organisation’s PR activities.

• Create relations with key media outlets to increase visibility and dissemination opportunities

• Develop media relations and build relationships with PR contacts to continuously grow our impact.

• Secure media opportunities for the Senior Leadership and Executive Team and the Global CEO.

• Oversee and ensure the management of positive relationships with the media and relevant change agents, and external colleagues.

• Develop and update, as needed, clear guidance (e.g., core messaging and brand narrative) for the communications team to ensure public communications are aligned with ProVeg’s organisational strategy and communications approach.

• Increase ProVeg International’s profile, particularly in broadcast media, enhance the organisation’s credibility and inspire supporters and other stakeholders through the use of engaging communications.

• Safeguard the organisation’s brand by overseeing and managing the development of crisis communications plans and advising on emerging issues and PR risks and opportunities. 

• Liaise with the Global CEO and the Senior Leadership Team on strategic communication alignment and/or adjustments, and coordinate and ensure synergies in terms of quality control, key messages, templates, strategies, etc. 

Management and leadership

• Model excellence in (remote) team management by motivating, coaching, giving, and receiving feedback, supporting and developing teams and skills, and driving innovation and creativity.

• Advise and work with colleagues across the organisation, to ensure we maximise opportunities to raise awareness, influence, and deepen engagement with our audiences in order to support a variety of objectives.

Budget and resource management and evaluation

• Manage a dedicated budget for effective reporting and forecasting.

• Produce timely and regular management information for leadership that effectively explains performance set against OKRs, KPIs and the broader strategic plan. 

Qualifications

Required:

• An excellent understanding of the plant-based and alternative protein sector and knowledge of food systems change.

• A successful track record (5+ years) in journalism (print or broadcast), marketing, or public affairs, developing and delivering strategic objectives across a range of communications channels.

• Strong track record in PR (including broadcast), marketing and/or organisational branding.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, English to native level (or C1).

• Excellent networking skills and experience in building productive relationships with key media stakeholders and influencers.

• Strong project management skills.

• Ability to juggle a varied workload, delegate effectively and contribute as a team player.

• Strong team management skills and a commitment to motivating and empowering a team remotely in order to achieve their goals.

• High level of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills – externally and internally; ability to balance diverse interests of different teams.

• A strong understanding of, and experience of using, quantitative and qualitative evidence.

• Strong problem solving skills.

• Experience of strategy development and target setting.

• A commitment to ProVeg’s values and guiding principles.

• An instinctive ability to positively contribute to and influence the wider team.

Preferred:

• A good understanding of data protection issues, including GDPR

• Experience of visual communication methods (video, infographics, etc.)

• Understanding of the third sector.

• International experience.

• Understanding and/or experience of policy processes and advocacy.

Benefits of working with us

• A strong organisational focus on personal development, with a designated training budget.

• Provision of a work laptop.

• Flexible, trust-based working arrangements and home-office arrangements.

• Career-development support.

• Mindfulness programme - free Headspace account

• We are a workplace that encourages everyone to bring their whole selves to work. We are an inclusive workplace for our diverse employees around the world.

• And, last but not least, become part of a great team and work with us towards a world where everyone chooses delicious and healthy food that is good for all humans, animals, and our planet!

When?

Application deadline: 27 September 2024

Start: November 2024 (or sooner if possible)

Further information

Our Application Procedure

Submit your application and motivation letter and outline how you meet the role and person specification in no more than 2 pages, and please attach your CV.

The recruitment process includes: 

• Online Cognitive Aptitude Test and a Personality Test.

• A first online interview with the People & Culture team.

• Online trial task.

• A second interview with the hiring manager.

• The final decision may require an additional interview, usually with Senior Management.

Healthwatch Stockport is looking for a Communications and Volunteer Coordinator to join our team. If you have a passion for communications and making a positive impact, apply now!

Join our dedicated team as a Communications and Volunteer Coordinator. You will lead our communications strategy, coordinate members and volunteers, and engage our local communities. Your work will drive positive changes in Stockport's health and social care services.

Responsibilities:

Volunteer Coordination

• Recruit, train, and support new volunteer members, leading to the continuous development of our Enter and View Programme.

• Coordinate volunteer activities to align with Healthwatch Stockport’s objectives.

• Maintain a database of volunteers and members, tracking engagement and participation.

Enter & View Programme

• Oversee the Enter & View programme and support the Enter & View Volunteer Lead by collaborating with volunteers and partner organisations.

• Ensure the programme influences positive service changes and supports volunteers to lead the way in those changes.

• Produce and share Enter & View reports in a timely and accessible manner.

Research & Projects

• Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of targeted qualitative and quantitative research projects to gather feedback on health and social care services.

• Contribute to data analysis and produce comprehensive reports and intelligence briefings for NHS and social care commissioners, providers, local Councillors/MPs and the public.

• Ensure all reports are robust, straightforward, and accessible.

• Involve volunteers, service providers, and people with lived experience in our work.

Community Engagement

• Collaborate with the Healthwatch Engagement Officer to plan and deliver engagement activities with local people and communities.

• Gather feedback and insights from the community to inform Healthwatch Stockport’s work. • Represent Healthwatch Stockport at local events, meetings, and forums

See attachment for further responsibilities

Associate Director, Engagement (Major Gifts), UK & Europe
Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University
£68,000-£75,000
Permanent, Full-Time
Home-based (UK)

Are you a major gifts fundraiser ready for a new and exciting opportunity? Perhaps you want to work for a globally renowned institution, addressing the world’s most pressing needs with impactful solutions?

Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University is the world’s leading institution for global leadership, management and business education - but it is much more than a school. It is the world’s only truly global and multinational management school, delivering cutting-edge programmes training the next generation of leaders and innovators across the globe.

We are recruiting our new Associate Director, Engagement (Major Gifts), to help shape the future of Thunderbird and ASU in the UK and Europe.  As a member of a small but mighty team in the UK, you will work remotely with teams of skilled and dynamic colleagues based predominantly in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as others around the world.

As the Associate Director, Engagement, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the unique, vibrant global community that is Thunderbird and ASU. You will be fundraising for dynamic priorities such as scholarships, collaborative and impactful programmes, centers, professorships, and more.

This is a chance to be part of an institution that is multicultural, diverse and inclusive, and whose alumni are genuinely changemakers.  You will be working for a truly global organisation with an outstanding reputation and almost limitless potential. 

Thunderbird is partnering with Constellate Global Talent on this search.

Interested?

The candidate pack and details to contact us for a confidential discussion are attached. 

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter via CharityJob or Institute of Fundraising no later than midnight on 2 October 2024.

Please do not apply via the Arizona State University website. No agencies please.

The Centre for Progressive Change is looking for two full-time Regional Leads, in Greater London and the North West, to join our team. These roles will be in charge of moving MPs in their region to actively support our campaigns in parliament through effective advocacy, community organising and mobilising. They will also grow our power in the region by building regional relationships, taking effective regional action and bringing in money to hire regional campaign staff.

At the Centre for Progressive Change we build campaigns for national policy change. We do this through effective advocacy, community organising, press, mobilising, business engagement and campaign research. We are a small dynamic team, punching well above our weight. 

Over the last two years we have built the Safe Sick Pay campaign - a campaign for Statutory Sick Pay reform. We have had huge successes including gaining the backing of 95 cross-party MPs for the reforms, securing at least two policy reforms in five of the manifestos during the electing including in Labour's and built a wide national coalition of health organisations, business groups, trade unions and others. 

The Regional Leads will be in charge of the campaign strategy and activities in their area to secure the backing of cross-party MPs. They will be part of a team of Regional and National Leads across the country that together are helping secure progressive national policies on economic, social and environmental issues. 

Position: Regional Lead

Responsible to: Executive Director

Location: 

For North West Regional Lead: Work from home, with a potential option of a hot desking space in the North West. The successful candidate must be based in the North West and be able to travel to different parts of the region and the country. 

For Greater London Regional Lead: Work in the office in Victoria or in the field 3 days a week. 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (full-time)

Salary: £45,000–£50,000 per annum

Annual leave:  40 days annual leave including bank holidays

How to apply:

To apply please download and fill in the application form on the website.

The deadline to submit your application form is Wednesday 18th September, 9am. 

Those shortlisted will be invited to a first interview on Monday 30th September online. A second interview will be held for successful applicants on Monday 7th October in person at Victoria SPACES, London.

Job Responsibilities

They will:

1. Create and implement a strategic plan to win over the majority of MPs in the North West region to actively support our campaigns in Parliament.

2. Use advocacy, community organising and mobilising to bring MPs on board with our campaigns across the region.

3. Build relationships with the key organisations in the region and engage them in our national campaigns.

4. Have, and keep updated, a regional Power Structure Analysis for each of our campaigns. 

5. Carry out listening campaigns, with regional partners, of constituents in the North West to inform our future campaign focus and policy demands. 

6. Build relationships with key businesses in the region to bring them on board with our campaigns and support them to put pressure on the MPs. 

7. Run our general election campaign for the region and bring Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) on board with our campaign.

8. Gather evidence on parts of the campaign so that we can learn which of our actions are being most effective - this will involve some standardising of the work. 

9. Raise £95k in funding for the North West region, including for additional campaigning staff, and manage the regional budget.

10. Recruit, retain and develop staff.

These responsibilities may change as the team grows, as the political context changes and as we shift our campaign focus. 

Skills, Experience and Qualities 

Requirements

You should have:

1. A proven track record of winning regional campaigns.

2. A proven track record of bringing cross-party MPs on board with a campaign and effectively taking action together.

3. Good existing relationships in the North West region. 

4. Excellent advocacy, mobilising or community organising experience. 

5. An ability to be strategic and pragmatic, and take the most effective route to our legislative goals.

6. An excellent track record of persuading different types of people in senior positions to support and actively engage in a campaign. 

7. A demonstrated ability to raise £95k a year.

8. Experience of managing a budget and staff. 

9. Excellent skills at self-directed work, problem solving and dealing with complexity, as well as the ability to be flexible and work in a startup environment with high levels of uncertainty and small campaign budgets, where everyone has to collaborate to get things done outside of their job role.

10. A commitment to the Centre for Progressive Change’s strategy, values and culture.

Desired (not required)

1. Expertise in community organising.

2. Knowledge of the political landscape in the North West and the key political power players. 

You may not have all of this experience but if you feel confident that you could fulfill the job responsibilities then we wold encourage you to apply.