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).
Registered Charity
21 - 50
We work tirelessly to empower excluded people to access healthcare.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Our Communications & Campaigns Coordinator leads our communications and supporter engagement work including developing and implementing our communications strategy and events plan.
Big Leaf Foundation is now entering its sixth year and we are looking to the future. To ensure we can continue to fulfil our objectives we want to engage more people in our work and make our collective ‘voice’ louder through increased awareness of the issues and how people can help.
We’re determined to put user-voice at the heart of what we do and to provide a more hopeful and human-centred narrative around asylum. Our Communications Coordinator will lead this work, building case studies and supporting our young people to share their stories through our new Youth Ambassadors programme. We also want to build links with other organisations that campaign to improve the rights of displaced young people and/or ensure existing legal rights are upheld – exploring how Big Leaf can best support and add value to these campaigns.
KEY TASKS
Communications
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Develop and implement a communications strategy to engage more people in our work and make our collective ‘voice’ louder through increased awareness of both the issues and how people can support.
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Cultivate existing and new relationships with the media/journalists to grow the organisation’s influence and reach.
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Create, edit and proofread materials including website content, newsletter, blogs, reports, social media and multi-media content etc.
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Support the wider Big Leaf Foundation (BLF) team to create impactful content that is consistently on brand, representative of BLF’s voice and in line with the overall communications strategy, providing team training and editorial oversight.
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Contribute to BLF fundraising activities through the writing of case studies/content as needed and/or supporting community fundraising events;
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Ensure BLF communications represent the voices of the young people we support;
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Recognise, understand and manage risks around the identification of our beneficiaries in
communications and media work, keeping safeguarding front of mind at all times;
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Support BLFs Youth Ambassadors to amplify our message and that of our beneficiaries e.g. through
print and broadcast media; partner training; participation in relevant consultations/focus groups
etc including arranging speaking events and helping them prepare for interviews;
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Regularly evaluate communication activities and make recommendations for continuous
improvement.
Events
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Lead on our Refugee Week plans each June - working with young people to co-create a series of events and activities that provide the opportunity for our young people, team, volunteers, supporters and wider network to come together and build connections while also maximising comms potential around RW;
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Support the wider Big Leaf team in planning and delivering other community events throughout the year; specifically providing communications support and ensuring the events have local media coverage where appropriate.
Campaigns & advocacy
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Cultivate relationships with organisations that campaign to improve the rights of displaced people; and/or ensure existing legal rights are upheld, exploring how Big Leaf Foundation (BLF) can best support and add value to these campaigns.
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Support our Youth Ambassadors who want to make their voices heard in local and national debates around displacement and immigration;
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Ensure BLF campaigns and advocacy activities are in-line with Charity Commission rules on political campaigning.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.