Communications Coordinator

ECHO supports children and young people with heart conditions and their families, who have been treated within the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS network of 48 hospitals. Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect and affects just under 1 in every 100 babies born throughout the UK.

ECHO helps from diagnosis, which is often during pregnancy, throughout any treatment and care pathway or bereavement.
Families are supported at every stage of their heart child’s journey throughout childhood, teenage years and during the transition to adult services.

As the sole communications person at ECHO, you will use your communication, marketing and design skills to create online and offline resources that promote ECHO, to grow our membership and beyond.

You will work closely with our operations and development lead to create a communications strategy and with the team to raise our voice across all channels, Digital Marketing, Printed Newsletters, Reports will come from you,

You will update and create content for our website that parents / carers and young patients can understand and interact with.

This is an exciting, hands-on, and fast-paced role, ideally suited to someone skilled in content creation, relationship building, and with a good eye for detail.

You will need great organisation and communication skills as you will be working with a number of teams across the charity, NHS, Education, and others. You will be flexible, adept at time management and prioritisation, with experience of managing multiple projects and activities at once.

For full details, see the full Job Description and Person Specification attached.