Junior Creative Project Manager

The NSPCC's mission is to end cruelty to children in UK. To carry out its charitable work and achieve its strategic objectives, the NSPCC must communicate efficiently and effectively with the maximum possible impact,relevance, and emotional resonance to engage all key audiences including supporters, professionals, serviceusers, volunteers, and the public across a variety of offline and online channels.

The purpose of the Brand and Content team is to create the most compelling, relevant content and communications for our audiences - informed by channel and creative expertise - to help prevent child abuse.

Our key focus is to:

·    Lead the development of the organisation's brand and content strategy

·   Tell a clear and inspiring story of what we do and the impact we have as a charity

·   Develop, deliver, and optimise content for our audiences across our owned channels

The Brand and Content team is made up of creatives, digital and social content makers, producers, and project managers. We are responsible for creating marketing identities, concepts, materials, and campaigns across all channelsand for all audiences.

Job purpose

The role of Junior Creative Project Manager is integral to the day to day running and delivery of projects and therelationship management between commissioning teams across the organisation, our in-house creatives, andour external suppliers.

·       Contribute to the Communication function's purpose of ensuring that all content and communications areof an appropriate high standard, consistent with NSPCC's brand and key messages.

·       Manage and deliver the production of a range of creative content and communications materialsfor campaigns, partnerships, and events across all channels and platforms.

·       Manage key client relationships across the organisation - ensuring work meets the expectations set out inthe original client brief and support the creative team in providing clear and persuasive rationale for concepts and creative execution.

·       Help deliver the agreed Brand and Content team strategy, plans and standards.

Key relationships - Internal

·       Reports to Senior Creative Project Manager

·       Works closely with other members of the Creative Project Management team, and wider Brand & Content department

·       Works closely with colleagues from the Communications directorate and other teams across the organisation

Key relationships - External

·       Liaison with creative freelancers as appropriate

Main duties and responsibilities

·       Manage creative production to ensure high quality work is delivered on time and to budget through internal and external services

·       Oversee the day-to-day production of several projects

·       Engage with stakeholders and commissioners to build strong relationships and manage expectations throughout project lifecycle

·       Facilitate project meetings; briefings, stand ups, wash ups

·       Define project objectives into actionable creative tasks

·       Create and maintain project schedules, problem-solving any deviations

·       Encourage best practice and look for opportunities to optimise ways of working

Responsibilities for all Staff within the Communications directorate

·       A commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people

·       To actively participate in regular department and team meetings, contributing to strategy, discussions and decisions which will be beneficial to NSPCC's communications activities.

·       To maintain an awareness of own and others' Health and Safety and comply with the NSPCC's Healthand Safety policy and procedures.

·       To take personal responsibility for keeping up to date with NSPCC work to end cruelty to children,including securing updates on project and service developments and general NSPCC news.

Person specification

·       You have excellent communication skills and are confident managing stakeholders, commissioners, and external suppliers

·       You are proactive and think ahead, asking the right questions along the way

·       You are a problem solver and know how to navigate a challenge

·       Great attention to detail and organisation skills

·       Exceptional time management and know how to drive a project forward

·       You are adaptable and keep calm when things don't quite go as planned

·       You can manage several projects simultaneously

·       You love collaborating on creative projects and like to keep up to date on creative developments

Safer Recruitment

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process ofobtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

The recruitment and selection of our people will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and incompliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.

Our principles:

Always seek to recruit the best candidate for the role based on merit including their skills, experience, motivation andcompetencies. Our robust recruitment and selection process should ensure the identification of the person bestsuited to the role and the organisation.

•          Committed to diversity and equality of opportunity and will interview all applicants (internal and external)who self-declare at application as having a disability and who meet the minimum requirements in the person specification of the vacancy they are applying for.

•          We will make reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process in order to enable successfulcandidates who declare disabilities to start working or volunteering their time with us.

•          Any current member of staff or volunteer who wishes to apply for vacancies and is suitably qualified will be considered and addressed fairly and objectively based on their merit.

•          As an organisation committed to safeguarding, we will ensure all under 18's joining the organisation willhave ongoing risk assessments to ensure their role and activities are safe and appropriate.

•          All documentation relating to candidates will be treated confidentially in accordance with the GDPR legislation.