Do you want to work for a charity to help shape and improve health and social care services across Hertfordshire? Do you like being part of a team that is dedicated and supportive? Do you have a flair for writing and a passion for communications?

If so, we are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and creative individual to join us.  We want you to develop engaging communications and targeted messages to support and promote projects, campaigns and events for audiences across Hertfordshire.  You will possess excellent writing skills and have a proven track record for preparing good quality content for a range of channels including social media, the web and print.

We have an exciting and varied workload and this job is key to the organisation.  Above all, we are looking for an effective team player with enthusiasm and commitment to the role.

If you are interested and want to help us make a difference, we would like to hear from you.

Vacancy: Publications Manager (Communications team)

Closing date for applications: 29 March 2020

Company overview: Scriptoria is an award-winning sustainable development consultancy. Founded in 2001, we work with government agencies, research programmes, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives around the world to implement and support international development programmes. We deliver these services through our four expert teams: Consulting; Data and Technical; Communications; and Training. This role is for a position in our Communications team.

Job suitable for: Editorial or communications professional with at least two years’ project management experience.

Starting salary: £24,000–28,000 (dependent on qualifications and experience).

Minimum qualifications: 2:1 Hons degree or higher.

Location: Office-based, southwest London (SW17).

Contract type: Full-time, permanent.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an experienced editorial or communications professional to join our growing Communications team as a Publications Manager. You need be efficient and enthusiastic, and keen to learn new skills. You need to be happy working in a small, friendly team, but also able to use your initiative and work independently with minimal supervision.

We are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in the areas in which we work and is keen to make a difference. Our work is varied and we are often very busy, so we need a Publications Manager who is able to juggle multiple tasks, meet deadlines and deliver high quality results. Excellent English-language skills, strong attention to detail and knowledge of the publishing process are essential.

About the role

Our Communications team produces a wide range of products – from legacy reports, policy briefs, and websites, to animations and infographics. We work at all stages of the publications process from concept development, writing, editing and proofreading, to design, layout and translation. Your work will require you to engage with a wide range of subject areas across sustainable development, including agriculture, climate change, gender, water resources management and poverty reduction.

You will be responsible for managing projects from start to finish. This will include being a main point of contact for clients and providing innovative suggestions for communications products. You will manage the projects assigned to you and ensure that they are delivered to an excellent standard. Experience of copyediting and proofreading is therefore essential.

Project management tasks will include producing quotations and schedules, managing budgets, carrying out product research, sourcing photos, formatting Word documents, and developing and maintaining the Communications team’s processes and systems.

Many projects involve working closely with Scriptoria’s other departments (Consulting; Data and Technical; and Training). You will gain an insight into their specialities and work collaboratively to provide a range of bespoke communications and knowledge management solutions for clients.

Main duties

• Client liaison – this will include working to control clients’ expectations of the jobs/projects you are leading on. Examples of this would include ensuring that they fully understand schedules and deadlines, as well as what inputs each piece of work will require. You will be a main point of contact for some clients and will work proactively to provide quality control and to suggest new communications products that meet their needs.
• The running of projects assigned to you – this will include: (i) liaising with clients to establish their requirements; (ii) assigning editorial, writing, design and translation jobs to appropriate members of Scriptoria’s core staff and associates; (iii) working with Scriptoria’s graphic designers and web developers to create engaging content; (iv) tracking and recording the progress of work using timesheets and databases; and (v) liaising with our Head of Finance to ensure that projects are invoiced promptly and their profitability assessed.
• Quality control of publications – this will include checking documents written and edited by Scriptoria’s core staff and associates. It will also include (i) checking proofs and (ii) helping the Communications team to ensure the smooth running of design and layout work.
• Proofreading, editing and small ad hoc writing tasks – as required by the projects you are managing or at the request of the Head of Communications Services.
• Quoting for work – this will involve producing quotes for new jobs, coordinating and writing proposals, and dealing with enquiries from clients.
• Managing associate writers and editors – for large projects involving multiple associates you will be required to manage and quality assure their work. You will also support the Communications team to test and take on associates in good time to deal with increased workloads.

• Business development – supporting the Business Development Lead to identify potential new clients to meet and conferences to attend, and prepare marketing material to promote our services.

Criteria for selection

Essential

1. Minimum two years’ experience in a communications or editorial role, with an excellent understanding of standard publications processes
2. A confident and professional approach to dealing with clients and the ability to deliver excellent customer service
3. Outstanding copyediting and proofreading skills with excellent verbal and written English
4. Strong project management skills and the ability to multi-task and cope flexibly with a range of projects
5. The ability to work under pressure, both independently and as part of a team
6. Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook)
7. An interest in sustainable development.

Desirable

1. Experience of using a range of social media tools, and planning and managing social media campaigns
2. Experience using Adobe design software or other graphic design packages
3. Knowledge of WordPress
4. Knowledge of communications for development, advocacy and engagement.

To apply

Please send your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages to Alex James (see job spec below for details). In your cover letter please (i) explain briefly why you would like to work for Scriptoria’s Communications team and why you think you are the kind of person we are looking for; (ii) outline how you meet the criteria for the job, making clear reference to the numbered list above; and (iii) state your salary expectation and when you would be available to start work. Please include examples of your most relevant experience, using specific examples wherever possible.

Candidates shortlisted for interview will be asked to complete a short project management test in advance.

Closing date for applications: 23:59 GMT, 29 March 2020.

Interviews are due to be held at Scriptoria’s offices in London w/c 6 April 2020.

Business Analysis
Temp - 12 Month
London
My client is currently looking for a Business Analysis within the Hackney area you will join a successful team and provide specialist high level advice and guidance to service directorate staff in the preparation of business cases for ICT systems.
Responsibilities:
1. To ensure that all systems comply with the companies policies, especially those of Information Management and Security.
2. To act as a specialist advocate for technology, to enabled change with an understanding of the cultural and management challenges involved in such projects.
3. To prepare business cases for directorate and corporate systems, to involve investigations into business systems and processes, to deliver benefits to service or efficiency ,making recommendations, producing reports, process and data models as necessary.
4. To keep up to date with all new technology, legislation and any additional changes as they relate to your responsibilities.

Person Specification:
1. Understanding of the business application framework, in particular CRM, EDRMS, Workflow, Web, and Business Intelligence.
2. High level knowledge/understanding of capabilities of the following:
- Integration techniques
- SQL Server 2005 reporting
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 / 2005
- Understanding of virtualised environment and clusters
- MS office and Macro functionality.
- Understanding of MS Outlook functionality including email editors, signatures and formats
- Familiarity with thick client enterprise systems.

If

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Client-

My client is a new set up organisation in the health sector who are working closely with the NHS departments and Central Government. My clients is looking for someone to help them manage and maintain their website which has very important massage for the public in regards to the current situation.

Your Role-

You will help organizations by managing their website. They oversee the functionality of the website, evaluate and manage website performance, facilitate hosting and server management, and develop, maintain and update website content. You will have excellent understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS) and technology infrastructures.

Your Responsibilities:

• Plan, implement, manage, monitor and upgrade the organisation's website.
• Respond to and troubleshoot all website issues.
• Identify and respond to all website security breaches.
• Ensure that the website is protected by enabling the appropriate security measures.
• Update HTML, CSS and JavaScript regularly.
• Conduct content audits to eliminate redundant and/or duplicate information.
• Create appropriate website content aligned to the organization's strategy.
• Ensure website quality and efficiency by conducting regular test plans.
• Improve the User Experience of the website regularly.
• Collaborate with all staff and management to ensure that the website aligns with brand strategy and meets the organization's standards.
• Create strategies to grow subscriber base and web traffic metrics.
• Ensure full compliance on the website with all laws and regulations.
• Keep up-to-date with industry best practice and monitor competitor websites.

Requirements for the role-

• You will have 2 years of work experience as a Website Manager.
• Expert knowledge of Content Management Systems.
• Prove experience of managing and maintaining large websites.
• Highly proficient in HTML, XHTML, CSS design, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility, firewalls (functionality and maintenance), Access, mySQL and JavaScript.
• Great understanding of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Ability to troubleshoot website issues in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail with an analytical mind and outstanding problem-solving skills.
• Excellent content creation and writing skills.
• Fantastic time management skills with the ability to multi-task.

In return-

£200-£250 per day (Outside IR35)

Next step-

Please kindly apply to the role by forwarding your most up to date CV with proving experience of the requirements.

Morgan Hunt is a multi award winning Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

NCDA seeks a Public Engagement Officer to support efforts engaging PLWNCDs to raise awareness of NCDs, help drive policy change and strengthen the NCD response. The Public Engagement Officer will support the implementation of the Our Views, Our Voices initiative.

In 2020, the Our Views, Our Voices initiative will be creating the NCD Diaries, a participatory and community-based programme that will provide a compelling repository of documented lived experience illustrating local and personal realities living with NCDs, the challenges faced and aspirations and recommendations for change. A selection of NCD Diaries will be showcased in a global exhibition in 2022.

The Public Engagement Officer will work with the CD team, the communications team, particularly the multimedia specialist, and other stakeholders for the fulfillment of its responsibilities. The ideal candidate will bring understanding of the global health agenda, understanding of public engagement, volunteer management, communications and overall programme management.

This is an excellent opportunity for candidates interested in working for a respected civil society organisation, engaging with national and regional stakeholders in different geographies, and getting involved in priority NCD-related global health and development issues.

NCDA seeks applicants with suitable experience and background for a full-time role as Public Engagement Officer. This position reports to the Capacity Development Manager. This position is for three years and is subject to yearly renewal.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Strategist to join our delightful and ethical team. The role will lead on the development and implementation of robust website strategies for our fantastic charity clients.

You’ll be involved in all major projects, working with new clients to devise clear, measurable and actionable website strategies. You will also work with existing clients to help them devise goals and determine metrics to measure performance and improve their sites.

We want you to help develop the role, but we’re looking for someone with experience in at least three of these key areas: 

• Website strategy development
• Campaign strategy development
• Content and SEO strategy development
• Conversion rate optimisation
• Performance tracking and reporting
• User research
• Client education/upskilling on digital best practices 

What you’ll do as part of our team:

• Help clients identify where their website sits within their broader digital, fundraising and communications plans and the ways it can best support these
• Work with clients to identify clear goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) for their websites as well as campaigns they may run, and establish clear reporting frameworks 
• Carry out regular strategic reviews analysing how client’s websites are performing 
• Work with clients to identify opportunities and areas for improvement on their websites. This could include new functionality as well as design and user experience improvements
• Support the Fat Beehive team with user experience activities and adherence to digital best practice 

Skills and experience you’ll need to have:

• Experience in a digital strategy or digital campaigning/ fundraising role with demonstrated experience developing and implementing digital strategies
• Experience of working in, or good knowledge of, the charity or not-for-profit sector 
• Good working knowledge of Google Analytics and using insights from data to inform strategies and projects
• Ability to think creatively and see where areas of opportunity lie
• Experience developing tracking plans – experience with Google Tag Manager will be especially useful 
• Great writing and communication skills – you’ll need to be able to explain things in clear and simple ways to clients who may not have much digital experience
•  Excellent time management skills – you’ll be able to manage several projects at the same time in a fast-paced environment 
• Effective requirement gathering skills and an ability to pull these together into coherent project plans

Skills and experience that are desirable, but not essential:

We know that we can’t expect you to have all these skills, but it would be great if you were also able to offer any of the following knowledge or experience: 

• Experience with, or knowledge of, user research 
• Experience developing clear, focused campaign strategies 
• Experience developing strong website content strategies, including a solid understanding of SEO best-practice
• Experience with conversion rate optimisation (if you have experience specifically related to online fundraising even better!), including experience running A/B and/or splits
• Experience of working in a digital agency
• An understanding of digital workflows such as agile, waterfall or Kanban
• Knowledge of digital tools such as Hotjar, survey software (Survey Monkey, Jot Forms, Typeform etc), Optimal Workshop, Google Optimize/Optimizely, Moz, SEMrush etc.
• Experience of audience segmentation, research and insight metrics
• Knowledge and experience of implementing Google AdWords
• Experience presenting to groups and facilitating workshops 
• Experience working with Google Drive as well as  Jira, Trello or other project management software

What we offer

£40K salary 

Other benefits include:

• Profit Share (shared equally) and quarterly performance bonus
• 27 days annual leave, 2 volunteer days per year and an extra day of leave for each year worked (up to 5 extra days).
• Matched pension contribution up to 7.5%
• Dental Plan, Income Protection and Death in Service benefit
• Health and Wellbeing Budget
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
• Dedicated training budget
• Flexible and fair working culture
• Bi-weekly chair massage (from a qualified masseuse)
• Free Friday drinks – and team lunch every month.

It’s important to us that we practice what we preach. We’ve all chosen to work in the charity web design sector because we want to help bring about positive social change – and we know that starts with us as individuals. We’re always challenging ourselves to work in a way that puts awareness of power, diversity and inclusivity at its heart. 

About Fat Beehive

Fat Beehive is dedicated to providing a friendly, relaxed, safe, fulfilling and fair work environment. We want to create a workspace where people want to come to work and that engages them to give their best. Attracting, recruiting, developing and inspiring the very best people – people who are happy and engaged in their work do a better job – which ultimately makes it easier for us to delight our clients.

Closing date: Friday 27th March

Interviews: Monday 30th March

We especially encourage applications from women, BAME, and disabled candidates. We are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.

We already work with selected recruiters, so ask that other recruiters don’t contact us.