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Role Overview:
The Talent Set is thrilled to be working with a leading health charity as they search for a Head of Content and News to support them for a fantastic 6-month fixed term contract.
The successful candidate will be tasked with spearheading a team in crafting impactful media that ignites awareness and empowers the organisation’s community. You will oversee the creation of top-tier health content, ensuring everyone impacted has the knowledge and support to thrive.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own external communications, crafting strategic narratives that shape public perception.
- Cultivate relationships with media, influencers, and stakeholders to challenge misconceptions, elevate awareness, and champion the needs of those living with and at risk of the condition.
- Head a dynamic press team, safeguarding the organisation’s reputation and aligning media efforts with their goals.
- Guide content creation via integrated campaigns, collaborating closely with marketing and communications.
- Oversee a multidisciplinary content team, setting the strategic direction for high-quality, evidence-based content across print and digital platforms.
- Champion accessibility, trust, and relevance for diverse audiences (patients, families, healthcare professionals, and stakeholders).
- Build strong partnerships across the organisation, offering invaluable expertise to colleagues.
- Lead and develop a team of media, content, and web specialists, fostering excellence within your domain.
- Translate complex information into clear and motivating written and verbal communications.
- Contribute actively as part of the senior leadership team, providing strategic guidance and shaping the future of the organisation.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Executive Team and Board of Trustees on critical issues like crisis and reputation management.
Person Specification:
- Existing strong relationships with key journalists, health care sector is preferable.
- Someone who works confidently with internal and external stakeholders to secure buy-in and drive action.
- Ability to build strong relationships across the organisation, ensuring colleagues receive the support they need for success.
- Previous experience overseeing budgets, monitoring expenditure, and reporting on financial performance.
- Experience in communicating confidently with senior stakeholders.
- Understanding of the media landscape and someone who excels at working with media outlets.
- Possess a strong understanding of the health and political environment (advantageous).
- Someone who stays current on the latest advancements in communications and digital content.
- Experience responding quickly and driving projects to completion efficiently.
- Ability to maintain a calm and resilient demeanor in demanding situations.
- Able to manage a heavy workload effectively within a critical area.
- A team player who enjoys collaboration and fosters a positive, results-oriented environment through teamwork.
What’s on Offer:
- A fantastic salary of £58,000 to £64,000 for the ideal candidate.
- Remote working with just the occasional visit to the charity’s central London Office.
- 6-month fixed term contract.
- Working with a groundbreaking charity that is changing the lives of people with their work.
How to Apply:
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role.
Commitment to Diversity:
The Talent Set and our partner organisation are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, age, or gender. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
We are looking for people who will thrive in a fast paced, rewarding role helping to change the lives of young people. We have vacancies in our centres in Bridlington, Bradford and Hull.
We believe that our Graduate Scheme is one of the most exciting in the charity sector. We provide exceptional training and experience, and the opportunity to work with young people and colleagues who will challenge and inspire you.
IntoUniversity is an award winning charity that runs local learning centres in the heart of communities where the young people we support live.
Our centres provide an innovative education programme which includes: practical learning support, motivational and confidence-building activities for children and young people aged 7-18.
Our aim is to inspire students from the least advantaged neighbourhoods to broaden their horizons and achieve their full potential.
As the UK’s leading university access organisation, our staff team is helping thousands of young people each year. We currently have forty one centres and extension projects across England and Scotland. We have a number of new centres planned for 2023 to 2024, and ambitious plans to scale up our provision further over the coming years.
If you believe that all young people deserve the chance to develop their talents regardless of their background and want to play a part in helping them succeed, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
Application deadline: There is not a fixed deadline. Instead, we will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and will appoint
Start date: 29th July 2024
Salary: £27,400 per annum
Working hours: Monday, Thursday from 09.30 to 18.00, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 0900 to 1730
Staff benefits:
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33 days (including bank and public holidays)
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Plus additional 2 closure days in December and 1 day in July
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Plus additional length of service entitlement (one day per year of service, up to 5 days)
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Employee Assistance Programme
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Life Assurance
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Staff in FOCUS – rewards, competitions and prizes across the year
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Interest free new starter loans of up to £1,000
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Summer working hours
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Cycle to Work Scheme
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Corporate eyecare scheme
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Employer pension contributions of 6% from April 2024
As a charity with social mobility as its core objective, IntoUniversity is wholly committed to equality of opportunity. We work with children and young people from a diverse range of backgrounds, and we believe that our staff team should be similarly diverse and representative.
The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise that we have much more to do in this regard. We are committed to building a culture where students, staff and volunteers are valued for the unique people they are.
We therefore encourage applications from candidates from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. In particular, we actively and warmly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, male candidates and candidates with a disability as they are currently under-represented within IntoUniversity.
St Gemma’s Hospice is a truly special place.
“Our son, Joe Turner, was inspirational. He was determined, strong, kind, clever, funny, witty, sporty, thoughtful, generous and happy. He wanted to enjoy his last precious months ‘being a normal teenager’ and the St Gemma’s team did everything they could to support him in doing just that.”
St Gemma’s is one of the UK’s leading hospices and has been providing the best possible care and support for the people of Leeds for over 40 years! There has never been a more exciting time to join the hospice as the charity builds on the success of the past, with some ambitious growth plans for the future! We have a hugely exciting vacancy and are looking for a dynamic and innovative individual to join the charity’s successful and ambitious fundraising team. Could you be the next Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser of the largest hospice in Yorkshire?
The Role
As Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser you’ll be working alongside passionate and talented fundraising colleagues to achieve the charity’s ambitious plans for income growth. Your duties will include:
- Supporting the delivery of the existing Individual Giving Strategy and increasing acquisition, engagement and income.
- Developing income and expenditure budgets.
- Planning, developing and delivering the charity’s appeals and raffles offering.
- Obtaining compelling Hospice stories from patients and their families, volunteers and staff.
- Managing the stewardship of legacy pledgers and supporting with gifts in wills promotion.
The Person
We are looking for a talented, passionate and innovative individual to propel their income stream forward and achieve great results! To be considered for this role you should have experience working within fundraising or marketing and ideally a track record in planning and delivering campaigns or appeals. You should possess strong written communication skills and be able to write creative and inspiring content. As Senior Individual Giving Fundraiser you should have an exceptional eye for detail, and also be comfortable working towards deadlines and targets.
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St Gemma’s is not just a place to work, but it’s a family. It fosters a positive, empowering and supportive team culture and puts huge emphasis on staff wellbeing. It is a truly special place, and this is an opportunity not to be missed!
If this sounds like the type of environment that would suit you for the next phase of your career, then get in touch! The role is permanent and full-time, and offers the opportunity to work flexibly from the hospice and from home.
If you think you could be the right person to fulfil the exciting responsibilities of this role, apply here, or get in contact with Charlie or Leanne at Charity Horizons for more information.
Please note: If you would like to submit an application or express your interest in an alternative format such as audio or video upload or require any adaptations for your initial engagement with us, please contact either Jen or Leanne who will be happy to advise on this.
Please also be aware that we use anonymous recruitment methods when submitting shortlists for all our roles and we only work with organisations that are happy to engage with us in this way.
Charity Horizons is an equal opportunities employer and as such actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable candidates irrespective of age, disability, hidden disability, race or national origin, religion or belief, gender, gender expression, political view, sexual orientation, medical condition and pregnancy.
This is an exciting new role to build upon the recognition of our achievements to date, by elevating the awareness of the Trust and our many partners. We expect that National Geographic will release their documentary in Autumn 2024 about Shackleton and the expedition organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust that found the wreck of Endurance in the Weddell Sea. This is likely to lead to heightened awareness of and interest in our work, which will appeal to applicants with a real interest in maritime heritage and, ideally, the Falkland Islands and/or the South Atlantic/Southern Ocean.
As COO you will serve as the first point of contact representing FMHT in, we envisage, an increasingly high-profile public manner. You will report to the Chair of Trustees, working collaboratively with the Trustees. You will also collaborate with a variety of charities, institutions and agencies, all with shared interests in our work.
We are seeking an energetic ‘all-rounder’ - a proven leadership professional who will roll their sleeves up and deliver. You will have outstanding communication and liaison skills, be skilful in raising funds and engaging sponsors together with sound financial and contract management experience. Drawing from your previous experience you will help to design, implement and deliver our operational and commercial objectives. Highly self-motivated, you will possess the vision, energy and drive to help create and to implement sustainable strategies for the Trust.
More information is available when you click on the apply button as this takes you to the FMHT website where the full job advert, job description and application pack is.