Fundraising Officer (Social Media)
An exciting role has opened up in our Supporter Engagement Team for someone who can provide outstanding support for, and develop meaningful relationships with, our supporters: campaigners, volunteers, fundraisers and donors to deepen their engagement and activity with Compassion.
Fundraising Officer (Social Media) Responsibilities:
The role will also have specific responsibilities to steward Compassion’s growing social media communities, to develop and maintain a suite of materials including those for the offline campaigner’s programme, and to facilitate our Planning Permission (objections) process.
Fundraising Officer (Social Media) Requirements:
Set within a vibrant Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Team this role is essential to the activities of Compassion and will offer a strong insight into the workings of the charity. You will need to have excellent customer service skills, the ability to communicate with a wide variety of individuals, and be able to juggle a variety of tasks and workloads. No two days are the same.
Excellent interpersonal skills, both oral and written are needed, as well as a creative approach to problem solving. Good database and computer literacy will also be an advantage.
The successful applicant will have the ability to work autonomously, but will enjoy working with the input and support of other team members in a dynamic environment.
About CiWFI:
Compassion in World Farming International is recognised as the leading international farm animal welfare organisation, actively campaigning to improve the lives of millions of farmed animals around the world. You could join us in tackling the biggest form of animal cruelty on the planet – and help to end factory farming.
Compassion receives no government funding so relies entirely on the generosity of supporters to prevent cruelty to farm animals all over the world. Our supporters are absolutely vital to our effectiveness as a campaigning organisation.
Location: Godalming, Surrey
Job type: Full Time, 2 years Fixed Term Contract, office based, 37 hours per week
Salary: Up to £22,505 per annum (depending on experience)
Closing date: Thursday, 16th January 2019
Interviews planed for: Friday, 24th January 2019. However, interviews may take place throughout the application period.
No Agencies please.
You may have experience of the following: Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Fundraising Executive, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit etc.
Ref: 90762
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team at Teach A Man To Fish, an award-winning international development charity. We are looking for a proactive and driven individual, with a demonstrated track-record in marketing communications and excellent administrative capability. S/he will develop and manage communications, branding and marketing across the organisation for a range of external audiences. The Programme Communications and Marketing Officer will also play an important role in marketing and communication for our flagship programme, the School Enterprise Challenge, to schools, teachers and students across the world.
Basis: Full-time paid position
Location: Finsbury Park, London, UK
Salary: £25,000 to £27,000
Start date: Immediate
Reporting to: Programme Development and Fundraising Manager
Direct Reports: None but management of UK office volunteers is part of the role
About Teach A Man To Fish
At Teach A Man To Fish our mission is to empower young people in schools with the skills and mindsets that help them to succeed in work and in life. We guide schools step-by-step to set up student-led educational and profitable school businesses that are both educational and profitable. Participation in planning and running a real-life business empowers students with critical business, workplace, entrepreneurship and transferable life skills so that they leave school prepared to get a good job or run their own successful business.
We are a small organisation with big reach - since 2006 we have brought our pioneering School-Business Model to more than 100 countries, assisting over 300,000 young people.
The overall aim of this role is to raise the global profile of Teach A Man To Fish and the School Enterprise Challenge programme.
Main responsibilities
The Programme Communications and Marketing Officer role encompasses two main areas of work – Communications and Media Relations and Marketing. The Officer will be managed and supported by the Programme Development and Fundraising Manager and will work closely with the School Enterprise Challenge programmes teams in the UK and in our countries of operation.
Communications and Media Relations
- Create and manage high-quality communications for different Teach A Man To Fish media, social media, print materials and publications, and the Teach A Man To Fish website
- Work with the Programme Development and Fundraising Manager to develop and implement a Teach A Man To Fish organisational communications strategy
- Manage the School Enterprise Challenge communications calendar to promote the programme across a range of media, social media, print materials and publications, and the School Enterprise Challenge website in English and Spanish
- Identify, develop and manage relationships with different media to raise the profile of Teach A Man to Fish, our programmes, our key staff and our partners in hi-profile media publications
- Ensure that all organisational communications materials adhere to our style guidelines
Marketing
- With the support of the Programme Development and Fundraising Manager, develop and maintain effective organisational marketing materials
- Work closely with the School Enterprise Challenge programmes teams throughout the year to create and manage high-quality communications and marketing materials in English and Spanish
- Maintain contact database and email marketing system
- Recruit and line manage UK volunteers to support specific communications tasks
- Ensure collection of up-to-date communications materials including video, photographs, case studies, presentations, texts and maintain a central library of these
- Represent Teach A Man To Fish externally at conferences, meetings and other events
Person Specification
The successful applicant will have the following qualifications, skills and experience:
Essential:
- Right to live and work in the UK (no applications will be processed from applicants without this right).
- Undergraduate degree in a relevant field
- Minimum 2 years’ marketing or communications experience
- Advanced Spanish language skills
- Superb written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt communications for different audiences, especially those with English as a second language.
- Solutions-orientated with a demonstrated ability to proactively identify and solve problems.
- Experience of managing social media accounts for an organisation
- Demonstrated interest in international development and education
- Excellent administration and project coordination skills with a keen attention to detail
- Confident user of Microsoft Office and Google Documents
- Proficient in the use of email marketing software (e.g. MailChimp) as well as photo-editing and graphic design software (e.g. Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Canva and Powtoon)
Desirable:
- Experience of migrating and maintaining high-quality contact data in Salesforce or other CRM software
- Experience of working or volunteering in a small, fast-paced office environment
- Experience of living and working in a developing country context
- Video editing experience would be beneficial.
Application Procedure
Please submit a CV and a covering letter (max 2 pages). Please explain why you are interested in this role and how your relevant experience and skills match this person specification.
The closing date is 23:59 on Sunday 15th December 2019. We expect to hold first round interviews 18-20th December 2019.
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