Assistant Director of Engagement

The Talent Set are working on a fantastic opportunity with Versus Arthritis to find their Assistant Director of Engagement. This position is being brought in on an initial 2 year FTC.

The Income and Engagement Directorate plays a key role in transforming awareness of arthritis, building the charity’s profile and developing a strong, active and loyal community of support. The Assistant Director of Engagement will bring a single point of strategic leadership, integration and cohesion to the charity’s engagement functions.

We are looking for an exceptionally skilled and senior marcomms professional to lead a strategy that will grow awareness of Versus Arthritis’ brand and work. You will build a fantastic community of support, grow the media profile, and bring integration to marketing, communications, digital, and creative content functions.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Lead integrated marcomms planning and delivery across the organisation, ensuring that the plans and requirements of internal stakeholders are met whilst also delivering a coherent and paced programme of communications to our supporters and stakeholders in all four nations.

·       Manage and support the Head of Creative & Content to deliver the successful development and roll-out of a charity rebrand, including the management of attendant risks and opportunities.

·       Focus the charity’s PR & Media team on strategic and proactive coverage, ensuring the charity is the first port of call for arthritis or MSK stories.

·       Lead a team of technical experts across Engagement to be the best that they can be.

Person Specification:

·       Highly skilled marcomms leader with a significant professional background across at least one of communications, marketing or digital, ideally within a health, research, and/or not-for-profit setting.

·       Demonstrable experience of leading and driving improvement and integration across marcomms functions.

·       Accomplished leader and manager – experience of developing high performing teams to deliver ambitious plans, including major change programmes.

To be considered for this position please apply with your CV as soon as possible, regrettably please note we may not be able to reply to each and every application.

We are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practises that ensure equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and will happily make reasonable adjustments to always ensure a fair process.