Digital Communications Jobs

You will have overall responsibility for the development and co-ordination of communications for YHF, working closely with the CEO and team on a communications strategy and plan, short video production, publicity and social media exposure of the member programmes and services across Harrow.

Resurgo’s mission is to inspire and equip organisations to bring about ambitious and sustainable social change through our expertise in coaching, impact management and programme delivery. We’re a bold and innovative organisation with the ambition to transform society.

Are you a gifted designer and communications professional with an interest in charity marketing? Join the Resurgo Communications’ team as the organisation rebrands and help deliver our new identity to our varied audiences.

Comfortable designing collateral for print and digital, you will have several years’ experience either in the corporate world or third sector. You will also bring your project management skills in other areas of communications and be comfortable working with a variety of internal stakeholders and external suppliers. Joining a supportive team who love a challenge, you will work alongside experienced colleagues – this is the perfect move for someone wanting to expand their skills while working to support our vision to transform the lives of young people across the UK.

The important stuff 

Location: Hammersmith, London

Contract: Full-time, Permanent (Open to part-time, 4 days a week)

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.30am-5.30pm with some out-of-hours work needed for events such as our Spear Celebrations

Salary: from £34,000

Closing date: Friday 21st February, 09.00am (We are interviewing on a rolling basis and might close the application early if we find the right candidate).

Application pack: Have a look at our application pack for more information about the role and Resurgo

Please feel free to let us know if you may require any reasonable adjustments to participate fully in our recruitment process. Contact us for any enquiries regarding accessibility.

Resurgo has been named one of the UK’s Best Places to Work by The Sunday Times. 

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

Graphic Design 

• Designing and producing collateral including digital and printed event invitations, leaflets, one-pagers and reports, and finessing presentation materials for senior colleagues, such as pitch decks, ensuring they are on brand and fit for purpose. 
• Working with the Communications Manager to rebrand all of Resurgo’s marketing materials in line with the roll-out of a brand refresh scheduled for mid-2025. This will include promotional materials for the Spear Programme, including banners, leaflets, posters, email templates etc. 
• Working with internal clients to provide print and digital solutions to marketing needs for a variety of audiences, from young people who are facing barriers to work, to corporate partnerships and funders. 
• Art working across print & digital. Preparing files for print and procuring print services, including bespoke print jobs where necessary. 

Project management

• Oversee outbound email marketing using Pardot for Resurgo’s audiences, by planning, designing pre-written content, scheduling emails, tracking audience crossover across teams, sharing analytics and making recommendations for improved engagement. Ensure GDPR and consent is adhered to across varying audience groups. 
• Set up and manage Resurgo’s Digital Asset Management library, including setting up a catalogue system for new photography created as part of the brand refresh. 

Campaigns 

• Work with the wider team on campaigns to promote fundraising and awareness, producing campaign plans and project managing implementation across teams. This includes match-funding campaigns working closely with our in-house Philanthropy team. 

Person Specification 

• A practising Christian who is passionate about personally representing the Christian values of Resurgo and committed to Resurgo’s mission to transform society.
• At least 3 years’ experience in a marketing or communications role.
• Solid IT skills including MS Office, project management.  Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, and other programmes such as Canva.  A good understanding of print and digital design concepts, (e.g. how to pre-flight a document before printing).
• A keen eye for design for both print (brochures, flyers) and digital (social media assets, email marketing) collateral; understanding the nuances of the two!  Knowledge of email marketing tools. Experience of using Pardot (Salesforce’s email marketing system) desirable. 
• Highly organised and able to manage a varied workload. Good grasp of marketing trends. Willingness to get stuck in with various other elements of comms work; experience in digital marketing an asset (e.g. website, social media, analytics, video).

Pestalozzi International is going through an exciting period of transformation and this is a new role within the organisation working closely with the Marketing Lead. Your role will take two forms, one will be to manage our social media, maintaining our brand and voice across our social media channels, and providing timely reporting.The other side will be to support the whole team with designing premium quality marketing materials, graphics for our website and printed/emailed materials.

You will need to be highly creative to develop our voice on these social  channels and to capture attention with impactful and engaging communications. You will support our community growth, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, building our online community of Alumni and inspiring new and existing supporters to engage further. 

This position will also support our overseas partners, helping to develop their capacities and contributing to the life-changing programmes our charity supports.

Main duties/responsibilities:

• Responsible for our social media outputs over LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

• Produce regular metrics and reporting on social media and digital engagement.

• Produce digital content such as brochures, fundraising documents, emails.

• Graphic design of marketing and fundraising materials and presentations as requested by other team members.

• Design and distribution of digital and printed supporter newsletters.

• Graphic design of Impact Reports and Annual Review.

• Social media outputs, website content creation, particularly around our Alumni audience, promoting Alumni reunions/key dates.

• Manage our library of photography and video content.

• Update the website.

• Liaise with teams across the globe to gather impactful content.

• Work in collaboration with the Marketing Lead and Fundraising team to develop digital and social media campaigns to maximise engagement of new and existing supporters.

• Update programme materials to improve relevance of the educational content.

Person Specification:

The successful candidate will be a highly engaged and dynamic individual who believes in the work we do and wants to let the world know. They will be bursting with ideas and excited by our vision and desire to work in the charity sector.

They will be able to clearly demonstrate the following experience and attributes:

Essential:

• Evidence of running creative and impactful social media campaigns on mentioned platforms

• Evidence of graphic design competency - good knowledge of Canva, Adobe Creative Suite products such as Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. (Or preferred programme)

• Experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF editor, use of collaborative docs, etc), Google workspace, Hootsuite or other similar scheduling software

• Strong organisational skills and a collaborative approach to working

• Meticulous eye for detail, especially with written content

• Able to communicate and respect diverse teams with a genuine, down-to-earth nature

• Must be eligible to work in the UK

Desirable:

• Good understanding of advertising on social platforms

• Video editing experience

• Capable of static and ideally animation design

• Use of WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or similar web software 

• Third sector experience

• Happy to travel internationally to remote countries

Are you a passionate and committed individual, with proven experience of working in a similar digital role?  You will develop audience-centric user journeys and help audience reach and challenge our thinking making the most of the knowledge drawn from our work with communities facing climate hazards. 

Knowledge of the international development, or climate resilience, sector desirable.

Practical Action is a change-making organisation that works in unconventional ways. We put ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We do things differently, so answers that start small can grow big – bringing people together in bold collaborations, using innovation and knowledge to build futures free from poverty and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

About the role

This role would provide strategic technical expertise to Practical Action’s Climate Resilience team to ensure it has the necessary regular and consistent expert advice and insights to deliver a valued and high-performing website for the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance.

This knowledge-sharing website is key to Practical Action’s role as the Knowledge and Communications lead for the Alliance and is built in WordPress with a DSpace resource repository.

The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance is a collaboration between humanitarian, NGO, research and private sector partners, working to build resilience to climate hazards in rural and urban contexts.

Accountabilities

• To build and maintain our Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager implementations
• To align website journeys with other online and offline activities
• To provide first line support for technical issues on the Alliance website
• To support delivery of engaging content work alongside colleagues
• To stay up to date with external trends and developments in website and digital knowledge sharing tools and techniques.

Skills and Abilities

• Google Analytics 4 (very strong) and drawing actionable insights from data
• Working experience of WordPress or other content management system
• Understanding of Dspace as a resource repository
• Good writing skills
• Ability to work well with people across different languages, cultures, and levels of digital understanding.
• Proactive problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience of project management
• Basic image & video editing
• Good understanding of Search Engine Optimisation principles.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Why join us?

The opportunity to work for an organisation that is making a positive difference to the lives of people worldwide, a friendly and supportive culture, and working with values-driven and highly engaged colleagues are just some of the reasons we think Practical Action is a great place to work.

You must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in the UK. 

This is a hybrid role, and you must be able to travel to our Rugby office, as you would be expected to attend on certain key dates and for specific meetings.

Additional information

Practical Action believes that having a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace culture based on respect will enable us to be an effective organisation. We seek to create an inclusive workplace in which people are accepted as individuals, regardless of their differences and where they feel their contribution is valued.  Practical Action is an equal opportunities employer, and we encourage applications from under-represented groups

Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

Closing date for applications:Friday 21st February 2025. 

Interviews: It is anticipated that interviews will take place on Thursday 27th February 2025.

HOW TO APPLY

If you want to work for a charity with significant people ambitions, then we would like to hear from you. For more information, please visit our careers page. To apply please submit a copy of your CV and a supporting statement that includes the answers to the following questions:  

1. Why are you interested in this role?
2. What are the top three reasons you would be suitable for this role

Resurgo’s mission is to inspire and equip organisations to bring about ambitious and sustainable social change through our expertise in coaching, impact management and programme delivery. We’re a bold and innovative organisation with the ambition to transform society.

Are you a gifted writer with the ability to flex your style for a variety of audiences? Do you also have excellent project management skills? If so, you could step into your next career move as a Senior Communications Manager at Resurgo. 

We are looking for someone to be at heart of our communications work. Working across our busy charity with a variety of internal and external stakeholders you will project manage the roll out of a rebrand, project manage production of collateral, proactively work on press and PR, and lead on our thought leadership work – drafting articles, blogs and emails for our varied audiences. With the ability to work to deadlines, under pressure and with a high attention to detail and excellent people skills, you will join a supportive team working to support Resurgo’s vision to transform the lives of young people across the UK.

The important stuff 

Location: Hammersmith, London

Contract: Full-time, Fixed-Term (Open to part-time, 4 days a week)

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.30am-5.30pm with some out-of-hours work needed for events such as our Spear Celebrations

Salary: from £43,000

Closing date: Friday 21st February, 09.00am (We are interviewing on a rolling basis and might close the application early if we find the right candidate).

Interviews: Interviews to commence from Thursday 27th February

Application pack: Have a look at our application pack for more information about the role and Resurgo

Please feel free to let us know if you may require any reasonable adjustments to participate fully in our recruitment process. Contact us for any enquiries regarding accessibility.

Resurgo has been named one of the UK’s Best Places to Work by The Sunday Times. 

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

Project Management 

• Project manage the creation of content, from website to printed collateral, by working with internal and external designers and suppliers, and across the Resurgo team. 
• Work with the Digital Marketing Manager to project manage a website refresh, ensuring timelines and budgets are kept to. 
• Work with the Head of Media & Communications and external production companies on film projects, ensuring smooth running of production schedules, transport, locations etc. 

Thought Leadership & Copywriting 

• Raise brand awareness with external audiences through creating and distributing compelling thought leadership content.
• Produce varied written pieces, including internal and external newsletters; supporter-facing mailings; blogs; thought leadership pieces; news pieces and case studies. 
• Copywrite key publications, such as Resurgo’s impact report, supporter updates and other collateral, working with internal stakeholders. 
• Create a pipeline of new ideas for thought leadership across our varied audiences, in order to raise brand awareness and build our reputation as an expert in the field of youth employment. 
• Support other teams with writing tasks and manage proof-reading as required. 

Brand 

• Organise photo shoots with external photographers to build a new image bank to reflect the refreshed brand, including sourcing venues, liaising with young people, ensuring that correct permissions are recorded.
• Project manage the roll out of a rebrand which is happening in 2025. Project manage roll out of new brand assets, updated collateral for our Spear centres and central office. 

Internal communications 

• Collaborate with the People & Culture team, Senior Leadership Team and others to produce internal comms that are consistent, engaging and effective in communicating our goals and updates. Create an internal comms plan that reflects the future of a national organisation with staff in regional hubs. 

Press

• Support the Head of Media & Communications to implement the media engagement plan, including drafting press releases, building our media list and writing briefings for colleagues for media opportunities. Scope out new channels including podcasts that align with our organisational goals. 
• Report on press engagement and make suggestions for increasing brand awareness through traditional and non-traditional media. 

Person Specification 

• Excellent copywriting skills and understanding of tone of voice: solid spelling, grammar and clarity; ability to flex tone for relevant audience and channel. 

• Experience writing for a variety of audiences, preferably including donors or corporate partners. 

• Excellent track record in producing written materials for varied audiences. 

• Extremely organised and efficient; calm under pressure; able to juggle competing deadlines and priorities, splitting time across multiple projects. 

• Excellent people skills, able to relate well to colleagues of all seniority levels, freelancers and external agencies. 

• Solid project management skills, ability to hold various moving parts.

• Able to receive feedback on projects with humility, and confidence to give feedback and share ideas and expertise. 

• Good grasp of marketing trends. 

Location:  Home based, with some travel across the UK

Direct Report:  Reports to Head of Campaigns 

Background:  Communications, social media, writing, graphic design, digital analytics

Remuneration:  £34,000 - £44,000 with 5% employer’s pension and 25 days holiday (plus 3 discretionary gifted days between Christmas and New Year)

Start date:  ASAP

Term:    9 months

We are River Action

We are a small and agile campaigning organisation on a mission to rescue Britain's rivers from a toxic cocktail of agricultural, sewage and industrial pollution. We support community action, galvanise and mobilise public opinion, influence government policy, and call out destructive industrial practices to incentivise changes that end pollution. 

We are a talented team of positive disrupters and community mobilisers to deliver our strategy to urgently protect and restore our rivers for the benefit of community and wildlife.

Britain’s rivers are our life support system and they are dying. We need urgent action to bring them back to life.

What you’ll be doing

As Senior Digital Communications Coordinator, you’ll be delivering our digital communication strategy by coordinating the organisation's creative digital content and analysing the impact of our digital communications to increase our impact as a campaigning organisation.

We are looking for someone who can create digital content, implement new and creative approaches to digital communications and analyse impact.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating the development and delivery of impactful digital communications plans for work across River Action’s Campaigns, Communities, Legal and Fundraising teams. 

• Working with colleagues across the organisation to gather content including data and images for digital communications.

• Writing highly engaging, evidence-based and tactically astute content for digital communications.

• Designing digital communications materials using graphics software, videos and photography, adjusting format, style and medium for different platforms and audiences.

• Working closely with River Action's Media coordinator, to deliver reactive responses to real-time news stories and press releases.

• Collaborate with community activists and groups in gathering new video, audio, photographic and written content for digital communications.

• Posting and coordinating social media streams across all platforms (River Action’s prime channels are Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Linkedin).

• Actively cultivating River Action’s social media presence by growing the charity’s following across all platforms and supporting our many partner organisations and influencers with supportive posting.

• Maintaining River Action’s website, commissioning blogs, and other innovative content, ensuring the website is inspiring, accurate and relevant.

• Coordinating the delivery of River Action’s monthly newsletter including gathering content, writing copy and monitoring key indicator analytics.

• Monitoring and reporting communications performance and River Action impacts achieved through digital communications including social communications, email communications and website.

• Identifying new and innovative digital communications tactics to increase the impact of our work across the organisation.

• Testing and analysing the effectiveness of digital communications tactics. 

• Recruiting and coordinating relationships with key influencers and our alliance of collaborators to promote our work, develop key messaging and profile-raising.

• Collaborating publicly on communications and public engagement initiatives with other NGOs to develop and cement strategic relationships, and increase cross-promotion across platforms.

• Contributing to the development of our brand and key messaging with colleagues and help keep these fresh and relevant.

• Visiting sites and communities to generate stories and images, interview people of interest and create live content.

• Contributing to fundraising efforts particularly crowdfunding in support of the Campaigns and Fundraising teams and charity’s mission.

• Helping ensure all team members representing River Action are well-briefed and on-brand ahead of external engagement, and colleagues handle sensitive personal information and relationships according to organisational policies.

• Keeping up to date with our relevant work across campaign, legal, advocacy, policy and key relationships in order to inform communications.

General

• Follow all charity policies.

• Actively participate as part of the team.

• Help to promote a positive, healthy and happy work environment and team culture.

• Attend and contribute to regular meetings.

• Work in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

• Be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others at work.

• Undertake any other duties as reasonably required.

• Keep up-to-date with input from colleagues on related research, activities and policies.

The above overview contains the main duties and responsibilities for this position. However, in a small organisation such as River Action, staff members are expected to show flexibility in their approach to work and be willing to undertake other tasks that are reasonably allocated to them but which are not part of their regular job description. Where any task becomes a regular part of an employee's responsibilities, the job description will be changed in consultation with the employee.

Diversity and Inclusion

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single criteria. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. So if you like the look of this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with everything in the job description, we would still like to hear from you. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and 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.

River Action is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young and vulnerable people and expects all members of staff to share this commitment.

Location

You will work from home with some travel across the UK.

Application process

Applicants should apply to jobs at riveractionuk dot com by submitting their Curriculum Vitae with an application letter describing their interest and suitability for the role by 9th February 2025. Only applications with all documents will be considered.

Interviews are anticipated be held via video conference during the week of 17th February 2025.

All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within one week of the closing date. 

We are looking for a Digital Communications Intern to support the work of the National Care Forum, the leading voice for not-for-profit care providers. 

Purpose: To support the communications function of the National Care Forum, specifically highlighting member stories and the NCF team’s activities together with promoting our membership offer, events programme and NCF Consult offering. 

NCF supports its members to improve social care provision and enhance the quality of life, choice, control and wellbeing of people who use care services. We work directly with not-for-profit providers of care and support services across the UK offering a wide range of services including, home care, housing with care, day care, intermediate care, outreach, dementia care, residential and nursing care, and specialist provision for all adults and older people. Our members support a diverse range of needs, including learning disability and autism, mental health, physical disability and those of older people with dementia. 

This is a varied role, offering an exciting opportunity to work within the not-for-profit care sector. 

Location: Coventry based or Remote

Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours a week. Salary: £24,570 

12 months fixed term contract 

Closing date: Monday 10th February, 9am 

Interview date: Monday 24th February 

Specific responsibilities: 

• Creation of digital assets for use on social media and website to promote NCF Consult, events and membership 

• Editing of video content to create a range of video formats suitable to various social media platforms 

• Monitor social media and website analytics and create regular reports 

• Write and schedule a range of social media communications and posts to promote NCF activity, member stories, NCF’s membership offer, NCF Consult and events 

• Regular updating of NCF website membership, events and NCF Consult pages 

• Keep up to date with digital communications trends and work with Communications Lead to implement into NCF’s communications where appropriate. Explore the appropriate use of AI in our communications and marketing work 

• Assist Communications Lead with creation of content for weekly members’ update to ensure all relevant news, offers, opportunities and promotions are featured 

• Attending weekly team meetings online and bi-monthly in person team meetings 

Person Specification: 

Required 

• An interest in and enthusiasm for digital communications, social media and editorial 

• Enjoys working in a small team 

• Detail-oriented and highly organised 

• Creativity and ideas for improving processes and content 

• IT literate with a good understanding of Microsoft Office packages 

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills 

• Energetic self-starter and able to manage time effectively while working independently 

• Excellent understanding of social media, with their finger on the pulse, and new trends in digital communications 

• Friendly and positive, with a can-do attitude and a willingness to learn quickly 

Desireable

• Experience in communications or a related area and/or a degree and strong academic record 

• Experience of creating digital assets on Canva 

• Experience of working with Word Press and Elementor or the ability to quickly learn website platforms 

• Experience of using social media scheduling programmes 

• Shares a passion for our cause 

• Good analytical and research skills 

• Blog and article editing experience 

CV's are not accepted - application form available on our website

Digital Communications Manager

Do you want a role where you can use your digital communications expertise to create a brighter future for young people? Are you passionate about the power of digital communications to drive meaningful change? If so, we want to hear from you!

This is an exciting moment to join this national youth charity dedicated to enabling young people to achieve their potential. As it embarks on its most ambitious expansion yet – opening seven new Youth Zones in the next 18 months – you will play a pivotal role in sharing this charity’s story and showcasing the transformative impact of their work through engaging digital communications.

The organisation is an equal opportunities’ employer and welcomes applications from under-represented groups; in particular from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ+ communities. The dedicated Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group, with support from the Senior Leadership Team, is actively promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion, ensuring a culture where everyone can be themselves and thrive.

Position: Digital Communications Manager

Location: Bolton/hybrid (two days a week in the Bolton or London offices (based in White City) combined with home-working and travel across the Youth Zone network as required.)

Salary: £37 - £42,000

Contract: 12 months Fixed Term Maternity Cover Contract

Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours/week) with flexible working available

Benefits: Agile working organisation with flexibility in working hours; 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days with length of service) plus bank holidays, birthday leave and annual leave purchase scheme (from day one of employment); company matched pension; company sick, maternity, paternity & adoption pay; voluntary benefits with discounts on health & wellbeing, retail & leisure.

Closing Date: 17 February 2025. We may close this job early if we receive a high number of applications. If

you’re interested, it’s a good idea to apply sooner rather than later!

Interview: In person at a Youth Zone w/c 24 February 2025

There will also be a short, values-based phone interview ahead of the in-person interview.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced Communications and External Affairs team that plays a crucial role in supporting the organisation’s growth plans. Over the past three years, the team has repositioned communications as a valuable strategic tool , helping to achieve significant progress toward key goals. They have introduced a modern visual identity, developed a compelling narrative and made significant strides in digital communications including refreshing the website. Underpinned by a new digital strategy, these efforts have already increased engagement across all digital channels, reaching wider audiences with powerful stories. The Digital Communications manager will build on this momentum, delivering the digital communications strategy, and ensuring digital communications remains central to the charity’s aim to establish itself as a nationally recognised brand.

About You

The ideal candidate will be an experienced and hands-on digital communications professional with expertise across all areas of digital, including social media management, website optimisation, and e-marketing. They will bring fresh ideas, a creative mindset, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

We are particularly interested in hearing from people with short-form content creation expertise to support current social media ambitions. You’ll be comfortable managing and growing digital channels, and creating innovative, high-impact content that connects with diverse audiences and amplifies the powerful stories of young people, supporters and partners.

If you’re ready to make a real difference, showcase your digital expertise, and work as part of a small, hard- working communications and external affairs team we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter (of not more than two pages), explaining clearly why you are interested in the role, and answering ALL points as outlined on the role profile.

About the Organisation

A national youth charity that believes all young people should have the opportunity to discover their passion and their purpose. The charity funds and builds state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound youth centres called Youth Zones in some of the country’s most economically disadvantaged areas. It also offers training and support to the teams that run Youth Zones – as part of growing national network of independent youth charities.

You are actively encouraged to submit anonymous applications; in practice this means removing your name and email address from your CV and cover letter. The HR Lead will have these details from your submission, but they will not be available to the selection panel when they are considering your application.

The charity is committed to the safeguarding of young people. In accordance with its Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires a basic DBS check.

Other roles you may have experience of could include Digital Communications, Communications, Digital Marketing, Digital Communications Manager, Communications Manager, Digital Marketing Manager, Digital Communications Officer, Communications, Officer, Digital Marketing Officer.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation

The Digital Communications Officer role sits within the Fundraising team which is responsible for the organisation’s income, profile, reputation and supporter base through external and internal communications and campaigns. The primary focus of this role will be social media management, with activities extending to other areas of digital communications, including website content and digital advertising production. Reporting to the Communications and Engagement Manager, the Digital Communications Officer will be instrumental in growing our communities and reach online, promoting Doctors of the World’s UK and overseas operations and advocacy, and driving support for our humanitarian organisation. 

Doctors of the World UK (DoTW) is part of the global Médecins du Monde (MdM) network, which delivers over 400 projects in more than 70 countries, 6,000 volunteers and 5,000 employees. We deliver both emergency and planned medical support, staying to support people in need of healthcare for the long term. We advocate directly for the rights of everyone to access healthcare, no matter who they are or where they are from.

In the UK, we deliver our own domestic programme supporting people excluded from healthcare in the UK, including people seeking asylum and those who are homeless. Across our network we have projects ongoing in countries ranging from emergency responses in Gaza and Ukraine through to development work in Sierra Leone and Myanmar.

This role plays a key part in our fundraising and communications team helping us to meet our fundraising targets and drive growth in both our responsive and strategic communications.

Our vision is of a world in which people affected by war, natural disasters, disease, hunger, poverty, or exclusion get the healthcare they need.

Application deadline Friday 7th February 0900.

Interviews week commencing Monday 17th February

Applications should include CV and cover letter (mandatory). Please also attach portfolio (optional).

We are looking for a keen digital communications intern to join the Students’ Union marketing team!

Working closely on our social media channels and digital presence, their work will embody the Students’ Union brand in all the content we create. You will be working predominantly on within our commercial marketing the wider Students’ Union team to deliver marketing requests and extend our reach and engagement to University of Northampton Students.

This role is perfect for an individual studying Marketing, Digital Marketing, or Communications and wanting some on the job experience to support their studies.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Support in the delivery of agreed annual communications plans, as well as supporting the development of in-year comms with the internal staff team when required, ensuring content is in line with the SU brand and strategy.
2. Working alongside the Senior Brand and Communications Coordinator to consult with service delivery staff and elected officers to ensure our communications campaigns are strong and collaborative.
3. Support development of UNSU’s brand and presence across all of our physical sites, and our physical and digital assets, ensuring our brand becomes a trusted and valued partner to our members and the University.
4. Work with the Students’ Union Staff to develop our member's understanding of the Union, its elected officers and how our democratic functions work.
5. Develop a strong relationship within the Students’ Union with staff, officers and volunteers.
6. Produce video content and copy for our website, email comms and social media channels.

Can you help young athletes beat their personal best? 

Then come and join a small team of doers, who have banned red tape, silos, politics and “computer says no” scenarios to work for a really uplifting cause.  At SportsAid we exist to encourage, enable and empower the next generation of athletes to achieve their ambitions in sport and life. For decades, we have been side by side with Britain’s greatest emerging sporting talent, from Mo Farah to Jessica Ennis-Hill to Ade Adepitan, Paula Radcliffe and so many others to give them vital support before they became Olympian and Paralympian stars. 

We are looking to appoint a Digital Communications & Content Manager to play a pivotal role in reshaping the way we communicate and we engage young athletes and SportsAid’s supporters. You will develop a communications plan, and develop and deliver creative content to interest, engage and inspire and galvanise support for SportsAid. 

Does this sound like you? 

• A strategic mindset 

• Proven track record in developing and delivering communications strategies and plans 

• Proven experience in digital content creation, social media management and communications. 

• Strong writing, editing and storytelling skills, with an ability to tailor content for different audiences and platforms. 

• Proficiency in using social media platforms, content management systems and email marketing tools. 

• Knowledge of SEO best practices and experience with web analytics tools (eg Google Analytics). 

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, managing multiple projects and deadlines. 

• Significant experience in a charity, nonprofit, or sports organisation

The salary is £40,000,000-45,000 p.a. and opportunities for flexible or remote working are available.

SportsAid therefore positively welcomes, and seeks to achieve, diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants, volunteers and employees receive equal and fair treatment.  We positively encourage applications from all candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, disability, marriage and civil partnership status, gender identity, background, religion, faith, sexual orientation, maternity status, pregnancy, belief or nationality.

On receipt of your application you will be sent a confidential equal opportunities form which all applicants will be asked to complete.

 FSW is looking to increase its presence in the digital world by recruiting a Digital Marketing and Communication Executive to work alongside the Director of Fundraising and Marketing. This exciting role is ideal for someone who wants to develop their skills and experience whilst making a lasting difference to the families of Sussex.

Family Support Work has been working in Sussex for 135 years, founded by social-minded Christians in the 1890s; we have been at the heart of caring for families ever since. If you are passionate about our mission and want to play a role in driving forward the work of Family Support Work, we want to hear from you.

FSW values and invests in their employees’ development. Employee benefits include:

• Matched employers’ contribution to a group pension scheme (to a current maximum of 4%)

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time)

• Family friendly policies and flexible working

• Regular in-house training and opportunities to study for other qualifications

Post: Digital Marketing and Communication Executive

Salary £25,000 - £28,000 (pro-rata) 

Hours 18.75 per week by arrangement 

This is a hybrid of office (Brighton) and home based with flexibility to suit the applicant. 

Working closely with the Head of Marketing and Communications as well as the Events and Programme Manager, the postholder will support the delivery of the training and consultancy programme and support the communications and digital function at SMK.  

With the Head of Marketing and Communications you will support SMK’s communications and marketing activity, aimed at strengthening our stakeholder relations, growing our profile and amplifying our reputation.  This role will focus on digital marketing activity, in particular social media, and content creation.

With the Events and Programme Manager you will support administration, research and communications needs of the training and consultancy programme.  

Good knowledge of digital marketing, especially social media is essential. You should have an interest in developing innovative digital content including copy and visual media for a range of online channels. You will need to be able to produce and schedule quality content related to the programmes to build engagement and sales.

You will also have the ability to develop SMK’s channels further and stay on top of digital trends, audience development and stakeholder engagement practices.

We have some excellent benefits including 25 days annual leave, Christmas closure and an additional one week organisational shut down in August as part of our commitment to work/ life balance.

Job description 

Programme support  

• Provide overall administrative support to meet programme objectives.

• Coordinate programme activities for projects, events and workshops.  

• Support the T&C (Training and Consultancy) team with research around marketing and identifying new clients/organisations.  

• Support with managing and updating SMK’s online systems, including the website, our e-commerce platform, and Mailchimp.  

Marketing  

• Support the planning, creation, and scheduling of multiple marketing projects, ensuring the ‘SMK voice’ through tone and brand is implemented across the channels.

• With direction from the Head of Marketing and Communications, manage and implement the rollout of the Awards social media engagement content plan.

• Oversee our use of social media (e.g. scheduling and asset creation)

• Support with webpage updates when required.

• Collect social media data and monitor engagement

• Be responsible for SMK projects communications when required, which might include digital marketing and communications (webpages, e-news and social media). 

Salesforce  

• Database management, including cleaning and updating records.

• Undertake relevant training when required.

Other 

• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the purpose and remit of the post. 

Person specification 

Essential 

• Demonstrable experience in social media delivery including content creation for appropriate channels and monitoring, collecting and analysing data.  

• Experience in co-ordinating online and in person events.  

• Experience of building effective relationships with stakeholders, such as clients or suppliers.  

• Ability to find pragmatic solutions, seek improvements, and adapt to changing situations 

• Good organisational skills – able to manage own workload effectively, take initiative and work under pressure 

• Willingness to support others where needed 

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, with a willingness to learn and use new systems 

• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends, if required 

• A good understanding of current issues affecting civil society and change-making 

• Flexible, hardworking, happy to work within a small team, and committed to continuous personal development 

• Good research, analytical skills and structured thinking.

Desirable

• Experience of developing a social media strategy

• Experience of audience development and engagement methods through digital marketing

• Experience or interest in campaigning  

• Experience with Salesforce or another similar CRM.  

Skills  

• Strong administrative and logistical capabilities 

• Good digital marketing skills 

• Ability to use social media tools such as Canva and Hootsuite 

• Good attention to detail and problem-solving skills 

• Some experience of databases (ideally Salesforce) 

SOS Children’s Villages UK is part of a global federation, which exists to ensure that each child and young person grows up with the healthy relationships they need to become their strongest selves. We are the world’s largest non-governmental organisation focused on supporting children and young people who don’t have, or who are at risk of losing, parental care.

We are now looking for a UK-based dynamic Head of Communications and Digital (maternity cover – 12 months from mid-May) to lead on the strategic implementation of communications and digital initiatives.

• Enhance our brand visibility in the UK
• Ensure effective engagement and communication with our supporters
• Create and implement our digital and content strategies
• Leverage creative content and campaigns
• Work with colleagues in the UK and across the SOS Children’s Villages Federation to achieve results. 
• Line manage two capable direct reports

If you are a proactive and collaborative communications and digital professional adept at managing a diverse range of priorities, looking for a pivotal role within a friendly, flexible, and supportive team, then this could be for you!

To Apply

Please read the full Candidate Pack attached which contains the entire job description and person specification, and submit a copy of your CV and a covering letter.

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 11 February 2025, 9.00 am UK time. We reserve the right to close the application process early if a successful candidate is found.

Please note: The post-holder must be UK-based. We are unable to provide employment sponsorship if required and unfortunately cannot progress applications without the required right to live and work in the UK on a permanent contract.