Marketing & Communications Lead
Role Overview:
Are you a creative, have experience advising on branding, and enjoy strategising around marketing and communications? If yes, an integral role has come up to lead the Marketing and Communications Office here at The Resilience Project. We are looking for a dynamic self-starter to join our team as our Marketing and Communications Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding our organisational brand, managing our social media pages, and creating a marketing plan to showcase our work equipping changemakers with the resilient skills required to navigate a changing climate.
You will work closely alongside our supportive team to oversee, manage and drive our marketing and communications work, including guiding us through an expansion of our brand and launching us into a new level of marketing strategy. This role requires a flexible and experienced project manager with experience in branding and marketing work, and preferably, graphic design.
Are you?
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Based in and eligible to work in the UK?
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Experienced in branding and international marketing?
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Interested in youth climate engagement and climate action?
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Engaged in conversations of resilience, mental health and wellbeing?
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Creative? Under 33*?
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Compassionate? Joyful? A team player?
*Curious about our age cap? We are a youth-led and -focused organisation; our organisation was started by a youth activist to meet youth changemaking needs and we have kept that perspective as we have grown, partly by keeping a young team. By hiring in this age range, we ensure staff's connection to and understanding of our work as well as relatability to the rest of the team.
Key Responsibilities:
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Brand management: Lead on expanding the TRP brand to fit our growing organisation, managing a brand expansion project from design to launch. Monitor appropriate use of the TRP brand, ensuring external assets are brand-compliant and assisting colleagues in correct use of brand elements as necessary. Longer-term, ensure the Resilience Project brand is clear, stays relevant and up to date, prompting innovation in the brand as necessary.
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Marketing Strategy: Elevate the Resilience Project marketing strategy with the creation of a multi-year marketing plan that optimally captures the work and impact of The Resilience Project.
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Communications Management: Manage TRP's social media accounts, newsletter, and website, leading on content creation, with support from our Graphic and Motion Designer
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Strategic Planning: Collaborate with the leadership team to contribute to the strategic planning process, ensuring that marketing and communication objectives align with the organisation's overall mission and vision.
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Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution and evaluation of marketing and communication projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget and meet quality standards.
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Marketing and Communications Organisational Management: Lead on organisation and maintenance of marketing and communications-related documents, Asana projects, data (CRM and evaluation data), and document and information storage
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Partnership Engagement: Liaise with new and current community stakeholders, partners, and beneficiaries to increase marketing opportunities for The Resilience Project. Network to increase moments of collaboration with partners to increase TRP presence in the community.
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Team Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, providing leadership and coordination to ensure effective collaboration in marketing and communications project delivery.
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Monitoring and Evaluation: Lead on assessing the impact of marketing and communications, making informed decisions based on feedback for continuous improvement, in collaboration with the Chief Operations Officer.
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Resource Management: Manage marketing and communications project budgets and allocate resources efficiently.
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Community Outreach and Ambassador work: Represent The Resilience Project, our mission and values in community events, national and international meetings and summits, actively engaging with the target audience and stakeholders.
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Recognition Management: Proactively find opportunities for The Resilience Project to be recognised in our field of work, leading on application submission and relationship-building to this aim.
Essential
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Proven experience in brand management, ideally within a nonprofit or community development setting
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Proven experience in marketing management, ideally within a nonprofit or community development setting
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Proven experience in project management
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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
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Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate with diverse teams
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Exceptionally strong organisational skills
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Results-oriented with a focus on impact and outcomes
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Passion for making a positive social impact
Desirable
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Degree, or equivalent certification in, marketing, communications, social media, public relations, graphic design or related field
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Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and/or InDesign
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Proven experience in graphic design and content creation
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Proven experience in managing budgets and allocating financial resources
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Proven experience in web design and/or management
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History of working with international youth changemakers
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Working knowledge of platforms such as Asana, Airtable, and Google workspace
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Strong understanding of community engagement, mental health and well-being
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Proven experience in supervising or managing volunteers
Additional Job perks
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The Resilience Project operates a 4-day working week
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Strong culture of personal development and pastoral support with the provision of mental health days, weekly organisational Unwind sessions and a monthly Pastoral session
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Networking with leaders in the climate, social enterprise and academic sectors
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Strong culture of work driven by values of courage, co-design, joy, community and inclusivity
About The Resilience Project:
People around the world are trying to cope with the climate crisis, extreme weather, burnout, isolation and climate anxiety. The Resilience Project is a youth-led community resourcing young people (and changemakers in B-corporations and NGOs) to become effective and resilient climate changemakers for a sustainable future. We enable people taking action for the planet to find their voice, people and power. Our vision is a resilient changemaking culture, where kinship and compassion are embedded within the fabric of changemaking communities.
Our mission is to transform the lives of those transforming the world, equipping changemakers with the resilient skills required to navigate a changin
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