Dear candidate,

I’ll cut to the quick: we need you on our team.

This year we’ll launch an exciting new campaign called Stronger My Way, which will help people living with a health condition improve their quality of life through strengthening.

We’ll also continue to promote a major NHS initiative that allows patients to see a specialist physiotherapist instead of a GP at their local surgery when they have a bone, joint or muscle problem.

And the pandemic has only added to the sense of urgency around our campaign to improve access to incredibly important rehabilitation for conditions such as arthritis, MS and stroke.

You’ll use your experience of similar integrated campaigns to provide creativity, energy and sharply-targeted comms across multiple platforms.

You’ll bring your media contacts, nous and writing skills to generate coverage and secure profile for these issues in national, specialist and other forms of media.

We’ll also rely on your experience of working across other PR channels, such as social media, securing speaker opportunities and event attendance.

Across all of these areas you’ll be contributing in meaningful ways to the success of our new equity, diversity and belonging strategy.

Your experience of using your previous roles to advance these essential issues will be crucial to both the work we do and the mindset and processes we make integral to our work.

Look, we don’t always get it right – I certainly don’t. But one of our organisational values is learning.

This means you’ll always be supported to try something new, confident in the knowledge that if it doesn’t pan out, we’ll be more interested in what we can learn for future.

I’m particularly keen to hear from people from communities that are under-represented in the PR industry.

I look forward to working with you.

Best wishes,

Jon Ryan

Head of Press and PR

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Based in our London office when restrictions lift with homeworking available (subject to meeting homeworking assessment requirements, which includes a minimum broadband speed of 18 Mbps).

Fundraising Manager - Public Fundraising

Neuroblastoma UK

Every year in the UK, around 100 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that mostly affects children under five. Neuroblastoma UK is a small national charity, dedicated to finding a cure for neuroblastoma.  For 40 years, we’ve been funding leading research to develop new, more effective and kinder treatments for children with this life-threatening disease - and get one step closer to finding a cure.

Reporting to the Board of Trustees, The Fundraising Manager – Public Fundraising role will be a key role in the growth of Neuroblastoma UK during our 40th year and beyond. Currently one manager role manages all income streams, and this new role will be vital in ensuring both managers have capacity to grow their income areas and support the charity’s continued growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage the strategy, budgeting and delivery of all public fundraising streams – Individual Giving, Community Fundraising, Challenge Events and Legacy Marketing.  These will be your owned areas to decide on the direction, investment and how you want to run these on a day-to-day basis.
• Being the first port of call for supporters and potential supporters who get in touch with the charity via telephone, email and social media
• Recruiting and managing of volunteers required to support with duties
• Being the Data Protection expert within the organisation, ensuring GDPR is adhered to across all communications from Neuroblastoma UK
• Managing the database, ensuring all data, donations and communications are captured compliantly
• Processing donations and sending outgoing thank you letters to individual donors and groups
• Sending out information, merchandise, and fundraising materials to supporters who request it
• Supporting the Communications Manager by managing your own areas of the website and producing your own content for social media
• With the other managers in the organisation, supporting in duties outside of your specific team or department as required
• Taking the lead on developing our expenditure split and working with Communications Manager to keep this updated

Person Specification

• Demonstrable experience of growing Public Fundraising income in a small charity
• Microsoft Office skills – especially Excel
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of managing and delivering strategy
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to work well alone and in a team
• Excellent phone manner
• Ability to deal with sensitive situations with empathy
• Happy and able to work autonomously
• Proactive in optimising existing processes to improve performance
• Proactive in looking for innovative opportunities for Neuroblastoma UK’s fundraising
• Experience managing budgets and reporting on this monthly
• Experience in digital e.g., paid social, website management email marketing
• Driven by achieving ambitious KPIs
• Sympathetic to the aims and values of Neuroblastoma UK
• Experience of working with a database – we use Beacon
• Proactive in looking for solutions to any barriers you may encounter - solution focused rather than problem focused

Application Instructions

Please submit CV and cover letter to apply for this role.

The cover letter should detail why you would like to work for Neuroblastoma UK and why you would be a good fit for the role.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Charity People is thrilled to be partnering with The Royal Parks in their search for a new Social Media Manager!

Are you able to curate and shape conversations on nature, wellbeing, and on history and heritage? Are you a social media navigator with a flare for the creative? If so, we'd like to hear from you!

The Royal Parks is a charity managing over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks and beautiful public spaces, across London. As Social Media Manager, you'll be a core member of the communications team, responsible for providing insight and expertise to The Royal Parks on marketing, campaigning, community and issues management; you will lead the charge on content creation and sharing, and all things social media to forward the motivations and messaging of the charity. As a public-facing member of the team, you will play a significant role in shaping and enhancing the charity's public image, and ensure that strong connections between the park teams and visitors run smoothly.

Core responsibilities for the role will include:
* Community management: building relationships with influences to amplify messaging; curating and shaping key conversations in-keeping with the charity's ethos; developing and supporting engagement and growth strategies across many social media platforms.
* Content delivery: creating rich media content; working closely with colleagues and collaborating with external partners to build and maintain a content sharing network.
* Digital marketing: using paid social media adverts to amplify campaign messages and calls to action and deliver campaigns.
* Customer engagement: building and maintaining productive relationships with colleagues across the parks network; addressing customer queries with accurate information.
* Reputation management: daily monitoring of social media activity; managing responses to crises and issues as these arise; working closely with colleagues across the network.
* Reporting: analysing, measuring and optimising social media performance across all channels; presenting insights and recognising key trends, benchmarking competitor activity, and disseminating accurate information across the parks network.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in successful management of social media strategies. You will have a keen eye for detail; a proactive and creative approach to planning and experience of managing multi-channel campaigns, using a variety of relevant software; as well as excellent stakeholder management skills. You will be efficient, organised, and strong team-player with a commitment to the Royal Parks' ethos and values.

Closing: 31st January
Interview: TBC

If you are interested in applying for this fantastic role, please do reach out to Alice Wood at Charity People ASAP so we can get the ball rolling soon!

Charity People 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.

Senior Social Media Manager
11 month - Fixed Term Contract
£42,417 - £47,660 D.O.E + London allowance of £3,600

Edenbrown Charities are delighted to be supporting a National Health Charity in their search for a Senior Social Media Manager to join them on an 11 month fixed term contract.

As Senior Social Media Manager you will play a key and vital part in positioning the charity preparing for the launch of an ambitious new strategy and campaign to advocate for the rights of the thousands of people living and affected by this health condition and highlighting they simply don't receive the care and support they need.

You will manage day to day activity across key channels, working across a number of teams to get appropriate buy in data for an impact driven approach to activity.

If you are a proactive social media expert with experience managing social media to deliver on a wide range of objectives, creating great experiences for supporters and service users, generating high levels of engagement and conversion as part of complex digital, and crisis and reputation management.

The closing date for applications is 09:00 am on 27th January 2022.
Please apply today, by sending your CV and supporting statement

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

UNICEF ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated, and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as our new Organic Social Media Officer.

As Organic Social Media Officer, you will support the day-to-day management of organic social content. You’ll have the opportunity to work with teams across the organisation to curate, plan, brief and publish content for our social media channels, from our business-as-usual social output to our big campaigns, to help drive and deliver UNICEF UK’s objectives and mission for children. The post holder will also support monitoring and reporting for social organic channels.

Along with a passion for social media and communications, you’ll bring to this role, knowledge and experience of managing social media channels (including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) and an understanding of how to optimise these channels to achieve business objectives. Ideally you would have experience of crisis communications and emergency protocols.

• Permanent
• £43,764.00 per annum
• Full time (37.5 hours a week)
• Flexible working options will be supported
• London office and Hybrid working to be supported

About us

The Centre for Ageing Better is an independent charitable foundation, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.

The Centre for Ageing Better creates change in policy and practice informed by evidence and works with partners across England to improve employment, housing, health and communities. We believe that more people living longer represents a huge opportunity for society and we want everyone to enjoy a good later life. But changes are needed so more people are in good health, are financially secure, are socially connected, and have a sense of meaning and purpose in later life. We have set out a bold ambition to do more on all these fronts.

We are striving to create an organisation that reflects our society and the communities we serve. A workplace where everyone feels empowered and where diversity of background and thought is celebrated. We know there is more work to be done and are committed to continuing to improve our practice around Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.

We are a Positive Action employer, therefore in recruitment where two candidates are ‘as qualified as’ each other, we will favour a candidate from any group identified as currently underrepresented in our team based on protected characteristics as outlined in the Equality Act 2010.

About the role

As Media Manager, you will develop and grow Ageing Better’s profile and relationships across national, regional, trade and broadcast media.

Key responsibilities include planning and drafting high-quality and newsworthy media content including press releases, statements, comment pieces, and feature ideas and each week successfully pitching these to media outlets. You will drive our reactive media work, finding stories and angles and pushing Ageing Better ahead of the news agenda on breaking issues. You will advise the organisation and staff members on media angles and approaches and support colleagues in taking part in interviews and other opportunities for publicity.

You will also manage the work of a communications assistant and ensure that our media work is integrated with and complementary to our wider communications activity and functions.

In addition you will carry out a broader range of related media and communications duties, including leading the development and delivery of cross-channel communications and influencing plans.

About you

The successful candidate will have extensive media relations experience and a proven track record in increasing the national media profile of an organisation.

It is essential that you understand how different aspects of the media operate and have experience of cultivating positive and fruitful working relationships with journalists at all levels.

Previous experience of line management is desirable.

To apply please send application form in Word format (No CVs)

The closing date for this role is 5pm on Sunday 6th February 2022. Interviews being held by Zoom W/C 14th February 2022.

Please complete the attached Equality and Diversity form below and return alongside your application form.

Do you know how to write copy that inspires and creates action, how to spot when ads aren’t performing against target and how to improve and optimise them to meet their goals? Then join our talented, ambitious, forward-thinking and award-winning social media team! It’s an exciting time to join GOSH as you will be working on a number of high-profile campaigns, with colleagues across the charity and Hospital, so excellent communication skills and stakeholder management is key.

Given the nature of social media and how it’s constantly evolving, this role requires you to stay on top of best practice, spot trends and feed these back to the wider team so that we can deliver the best online experience possible to our supporters, donors, patients and their families.

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced social media expert to bring insight, passion, and talent to the organisation and team. You will help manage the day-to-day running of our organic and paid social campaigns and drive our ambitious social media strategy forward.

About the Team

This role sits within our Marketing and Communications Directorate, which is made up of Brand, Design, Communications and Digital Engagement teams. You’ll be working within the Digital Engagement team and will work closely with the Fundraising Directorate to deliver our social media strategy and lead on end-to-end delivery of social media campaigns, with a focus on income generation through paid social.

About You

You’ll have experience working in social media across organic and paid, taking a data-led and audience-first approach to your work. You will have proven experience in delivering high performing social media campaigns.

The ideal candidate will also have:

- Proven skills in paid social advertising, across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
- Experience of social-first content development, across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
- Proven ability in using data measurement and insights to improve and optimise social performance.
- Social media management experience, with proven skills in running organisational social media feeds.

About the Charity

Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, over 600 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Our staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill
children starts with you.

Recently awarded with a ‘Best Companies 2-star accreditation' and placed number 17 on the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list - we offer a range of attractive benefits including; a flexible approach to working, 30 days holiday, life assurance, enhanced employer pension contributions, and a discounted season ticket loan.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We recognise that people from some backgrounds are under-represented in our workforce and across the wider Charity sector. In April 2021 we launched our ambitious three-year EDI strategy committing to becoming a more inclusive workforce, reflecting the diverse communities that we work with and for and demonstrating this through all our areas of work.

A more diverse workforce will enable us to deliver even more impact and we particularly encourage applications from communities which are under-represented in the charity. This includes people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds, people with a disability, people who are LGBT+ or who are from less advantaged socioeconomic groups.

Further information on our EDI strategy can be found on our website.

Our approach to hybrid working

This role is based in our Central London office (WC1N, opposite Russell Square underground) with the option to work remotely up to three days a week.

Please refer to the full job description below for more information.

How to Apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete. You are encouraged to include a cover letter with your application, and should refer to the 'GOSH Charity Information Pack' on the Careers page of our website before you apply.

Closing date: Midnight on 31st January 2022.

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.

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Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it inspires our Communications team to find ever-more creative ways to promote our work and share how people can get involved in making a difference to children’s lives. Join us as a Social Media Coordinator and create work that means the world.

The aim of the NSPCC’s social media presence is to inform our audiences about child abuse in a way that is understandable, approachable, compelling and relevant. Our social platforms are an environment for us to engage and support our audiences; helping them to feel safe in speaking out and encouraging them to take action. 

This role sits within our award-winning Social Media team and offers a fantastic opportunity to take a leading role in managing the NSPCC's national social media calendar; creating and coordinating campaigns and always-on content to further our goals of reaching more people, deepening our engagement and ultimately protecting more children from abuse. You'll be part of a team that champions creative innovation in social media content which is educative, credible, impactful and stigma-breaking. 

Main responsibilities:

- Co-ordinate the NSPCC’s busy social media calendar including some basic content creation

- Co-ordinate and develop an ongoing schedule of new content for the NSPCC’s social media platforms

- Take responsibility to quickly brief in or produce new and relevant content to respond to trending topics and ad-hoc opportunities

- Oversee the alignment of the NSPCC social media calendar with the overall organisation-wide comms strategy

- Proofread content supplied by colleagues and ensuring all posts follow a consistent tone of voice

- Work closely with colleagues across the Comms Directorate to establish best practice in developing new content for NSPCC’s social media platforms

- Secure and brief talent for social media content to maximise reach with new audiences

We are looking for someone with:

- Exceptional organisation and planning skills

-  Excellent written communication skills and experience with copy-writing for social media platforms

- A track record of collaboration and the ability to negotiate with stakeholders to reach social-first solutions

-  Knowledge and experience in managing a social media calendar with success in creating and commissioning innovative and engaging social media content

- Some experience of creating and editing basic graphics, video and animation using software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Effects and/or photo editing software

Join us and you’ll become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with. You’ll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that’ll bring the best out in you. And you’ll get to find your own way to make a difference that means more, and that impacts millions of young lives.

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As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

Are you an experienced digital marketer with extensive knowledge of paid media and social advertising? Are you motivated to do your bit for people and the planet? Then you could be the candidate we’re looking for.

We’re looking to appoint a Paid Media Specialist on a 12 month fixed term contract to lead on paid social strategy and implement fundraising, engagement and supporter recruitment campaigns. 

You will work with the Marketing Team to recruit new supporters, grow donations with the Fundraising Team, and collaborate with the Social Media Manager to increase the organisation's reach and engagement. 

Friends of the Earth raises one-off donations through eco-products, one of which is the Planet Protectors Pack. These products also have a secondary function of recruiting new email supporters through marketing opt-ins. 

Closing date: 31st January 2022

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture. 

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement. 

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all. 

Media and Communications Manager

This is an exciting time to join UK Youth as we launch our new strategy to 2025- Unlocking Youth Work.

We are looking for someone to work closely with the Head of PR, Marketing and Communications to lead on the development of an organisation-wide communication strategy and develop and deliver the relevant plans related to your areas of expertise.

You will have responsibility for managing organisational narrative and messaging, creating engaging copy, both long and short form across multiple platforms, and developing inspiring and impactful stories to bring our work to life for our key audiences.

You’ll also have responsibility for media relations activities including identifying relevant media opportunities, writing press releases, building out the organisation’s digital PR infrastructure and reporting, and proactively supporting on selling into national, broadcast and trade media to grow awareness of our work with key audiences. This will include working closely with the Head of Policy and Public Affairs on our influencing work.

You will line manage a Digital and Communications Officer and sit within a team of seven communications, digital and marketing experts.

What we’re looking for:

• You are an accomplished writer and communicator with strong examples of tailoring content to different audiences across multiple channels

• You have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in PR, including writing and distributing press releases to deadlines (experience of media intelligence platforms is a bonus)

• You are comfortable with analysing data and reporting into the wider organisation to demonstrate results

• You are creative, strategic and enjoy problem-solving

Who we are

UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.

With an open network of over 8000 youth organisations and national partners, we seek to impact young lives by unlocking youth work as a catalyst for change, working in partnership to build a cross-sector movement and create a society that understands, champions, and delivers effective youth work for all.

UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people. To find more about us and how we make an impact, please visit UK Youth Website

Why work at UK Youth?

We are a values-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising (even for those working remotely!) from lunch and learn sessions, staff quizzes to virtual coffee meet ups.

UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment.

We welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in our organisation including Black, Asian, minority ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We are also currently underrepresented by men, and so are seeking applications from different backgrounds, cultures, age, experience and identity to bring a wide range of experience, ideas, views and insights to UK Youth.

What we can offer you

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and vibrant organisational culture.

• Flexible/Agile Working

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)

• Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to 4 times your salary

• Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally

• 20% discount off bookings at Avon Tyrrell our New Forest Outdoor Centre including, camping, lodges and outdoor activities.

• Cyclescheme and Techscheme

 How to apply

Candidates are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description of this role. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, about your journey to date; how this has shaped you and the things you learnt along the way.

If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please read the job description, and complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system (provided by Applied).

• Closing date for applications will be Monday 7th Feb 22 at 11:59pm

• Interview dates TBC

As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks which include criminal record check and employment reference.

As part of the recruitment process UK Youth will be gathering and uses certain information about you. For further information regarding this please review our Data Protection Privacy Notice which explains what data of yours we process and how we use it.

Independent Age works to ensure that as we grow older, we all have the opportunity to live well with dignity, choice and purpose. To achieve this we provide information, advice and connection services for older people; campaign on the issues that matter most to them around health and care, poverty and loneliness and provide capacity building support to others working in the sector.

This is an exciting time to join Independent Age as we work on our new ambitious strategy for 2021 – 2023 and increase our profile, impact and reach so more people can live a happy, connected and purposeful later life.  We want to find talented individuals from diverse backgrounds to join us on this journey.

This important role supports Independent Age’s media & PR programme and will help deliver our ambition to build our reputation and raise our profile across a wide range of media channels, to challenge ageism and the inequalities that exist in older age. 

We would be looking to you to bring the experience you have gained from working in a busy media or public relations team and proven ability to implement innovative and successful media campaigns (across digital and traditional channels). 

You will be adept at applying your broad knowledge and awareness of best practice and emerging trends in digital and social media to a range of media and PR projects; capable of managing a varied workload, working to tight deadlines and able to identify and create newsworthy stories and able to use your interpersonal skills to influence and persuade a wide range of internal stakeholders.

At Independent Age we live by our values. We are Purpose-driven; compassionate; expert; collaborative; accountable; inclusive.

We champion inclusion and celebrate diversity within and outside our charity to create a culture where everyone knows that they belong and can bring their whole self to work.  We hire from a variety of backgrounds as we know this makes our charity stronger.

If you are passionate about our cause, share our values and believe you have the skills for this role, then we’d love to meet you. 

We know that a good work life balance helps us perform at our best, so we provide support to attain this with flexible working hours and regular remote working opportunities’.  We also offer great benefits including 28 days annual leave plus public holidays, a generous pension scheme with life assurance and fantastic learning and development opportunities.

We offer two incremental salary increases for everyone joining us, one at successful completion of probation and the second on the first anniversary of starting with us. 

Independent Age is committed to safeguarding and follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding those we work with. We therefore ask that you supply your full work history with explanations for any gaps in the application documents you submit and if offered the post, we will require two employment references including your current or most recent employer.

To apply, please visit our website to submit a cover letter detailing how your skills and experience meet the criteria within the Job Description and Person Specification, along with your CV.

Interviews will be held on Monday 31 January and Tuesday 1 February

We are looking for a talented PR specialist to help deliver the charity’s key messages via the media, on both a pro-active and reactive basis, working closely with colleagues across the charity and with lead responsibility for consumer media engagement, sharing our work via social media, and monitoring and evaluating StepChange press coverage.

With this role you can enjoy a hybrid working environment, primarily working from home with some days in the office and occasional travel.

What you will be doing

• Quickly and efficiently handle incoming media requests for comment, interviews and filming, liaising with the Media & PR Manager on how to manage requests, and keep accurate records of them.
• Compile and distribute, by 9.30am, the morning media monitoring service for the charity and handle day-to-day liaison with our media monitoring provider.
• Source and maintain relevant, accurate media lists and handle day-to-day liaison with our media database provider.
• Bring a proactive and creative approach to the planning of the charity’s media activities, and implement agreed activities such as drafting briefings, quotes, press releases, articles, blog posts etc
• Proactively pitch feature stories, pulling together evidence, insight and client case stories to support the charity’s objectives.
• Take responsibility for reflecting the charity’s media, policy and campaigns work on StepChange’s social media channels. Liaise with stakeholders across the external affairs team to create a regular stream of content that gives insight into the charity’s work in these areas
• Compile monthly coverage reports and competitor analysis for management information purposes.
• Keep abreast of developments in debt (and within the charity) to be able to talk knowledgably about key issues.
• Establish and maintain relationships with relevant journalists.
• Be prepared to cover parliamentary monitoring in the event of absence of other staff.

What we want from you

• Sound knowledge and understanding of media processes (including social media, blogs)
• Good PR skills and understanding of how the media works
• Good knowledge of news and current affairs
• Experience of drafting press releases, articles, quotes and blogs
• Experience of monitoring and evaluating media coverage
• Experience of dealing with press calls and briefing staff for interviews - or experience of planning and conducting interviews
• Experience of having proactively secured media coverage or of working as a journalist.
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Self-starter, able to work on own initiative and who appreciates the need to keep up to speed with developments
• Happy to balance the demands of regular, routine and detailed administrative work with a creative approach and new ideas
• A PR or journalist qualification is desirable
• Previous experience of working in PR or as a journalist in a business or personal finance related field is desirable

What we offer you

• 24 days annual leave (this increases by one day per year up to a maximum of 29), plus bank holidays
• Hybrid work – the ability to work from home
• An individually tailored personal development plan and ongoing training
• The opportunity to buy and sell annual leave
• Use of a Charity laptop and headset for working from home
• Travel season ticket loans
• Discounted car parking
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Group personal pension scheme
• Westfield Health cash plan
• Employee assistance programme
• Financial planning
• Long service awards
• Free tea and coffee in the office

About us:

StepChange is the UK’s largest and most comprehensive provider of free debt advice. Hundreds of thousands of people come to us for help every year. Some are at crisis point and many don't see a way out. We help them to find a way out of their debt problems. We don't judge people; we provide the support, guidance and solutions that are needed. Whatever the situation we'll look for practical solutions that make our clients' lives better.

Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organisation, serving humanity for over 37 years. With an active presence in over 40 countries across the globe, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those affected by poverty, conflicts and natural disasters.

IRW is recruiting for the position of 'Head of Media & External Relations’ to join its dynamic team. The role has the option to be stationed from our London or Birmingham office, we are currently working from home on a temporary basis due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Job Purpose:

• Lead on impactful media work that supports the wider divisional and organisational strategies and priorities, whilst strengthening IRW’s global external relations function in collaboration with key stakeholders and leading partner offices in Europe, North America, Middle East, and the ERA divisional advocacy team
• Supporting key global media and advocacy campaigns on priority issues like gender justice, climate change and humanitarian emergency response
• Develop and deliver the media and external relations strategies and annual global calendar that realises the full potential of media, social media, events and other external engagement initiatives that help to build the Islamic Relief brand, reach new audiences, communicate key messages, and increase donor and campaigner engagement
• Writing and then overseeing the implementation of all relevant policies (such as the social media policy) across the IRW family
• Working closely with the External Relations and Advocacy Director, as well as the General Counsel and the Senior Communications Advisor, to protect and build Islamic Relief’s profile and reputation internationally

The successful candidate must have or be:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject/discipline such as journalism or political science
• Significant experience of leading and managing media relations and social media engagement for a high-profile organisation – including crisis management
• Substantial experience of staff management, coordination and performance management
• Experience of developing and managing communications strategies and coordinating budgets
• Extensive knowledge of international media and of media needs and trends and skilled in securing media coverage and in responding effectively to diverse media enquiries
• Literate in the workings of social media and proficient in the use of social media/digital platforms
• Able to write engagingly and persuasively for a variety of external audiences
• Able to assimilate complex information swiftly and communicate it accurately and with clarity
• Good understanding of international advocacy, especially at a UN level, government affairs and political sensitivities
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the charity and international NGO/humanitarian sectors – including current trends, challenges, opportunities and networks
• Significant experience of external engagement through summits, conferences and other events
• Understanding of multimedia landscape and ability to commission, produce and distribute video, audio and other visual content to drive strategic objectives
• Significant experience of supporting the development and media rollout of advocacy campaigns
• Experience of developing media/communications training modules and delivering training

For more information, please click on the Documents tab above to view the full Job Description.

If you are talented, reliable, service-minded, resilient and a highly motivated professional looking for a meaningful career, with a strong commitment to IRW’s mission and values of sincerity, excellence, compassion, social justice and custodianship, please apply by completing our online application form.

For more information on the excellent company benefits we offer our employees, please visit our website.

PLEASE NOTE: Interviews are expected to take place on 10/02/2022.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

• screening clearance
• proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
• criminal records check
• receipt of satisfactory references

Please note, for UK-based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications that would require sponsorship.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

IRW is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom IRW engages. IRW expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. IRW 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 his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Applicants should be sympathetic to the values of Islamic Relief:

(Sincerity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Justice and Custodianship)

Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer

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