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Digital Content Manager
Please note a covering letter is required
Reports to: Chief Executive
Line manages: Marketing and Communications Officer, Trainee Editorial Assistant
Hours: 35 hours per week (hybrid working options available)
Term: Permanent
Other benefits: Company pension scheme, Employee assistance programme, Season ticket loan
About the Association for Laboratory Medicine
The Association for Laboratory Medicine (LabMed) is the leading professional body supporting the practice and development of science in healthcare and laboratory medicine.
We are a diverse and inclusive community of scientists, clinicians, innovators, collaborators and researchers. We celebrate the power of science and medicine, the importance of partnership and the value of knowledge in the pursuit of human health and wellbeing.
We foster the highest standards in laboratory testing and patient care, provide trade union support for all our members, promote laboratory medicine to the wider community and support scientists and practitioners through scientific and training meetings, bursaries and awards.
Purpose
As Digital Content Manager, you will oversee and develop LabMed’s digital content across multiple platforms. This role offers a chance to apply your skills to make a tangible impact on healthcare and laboratory medicine, driving engagement and innovation in a meaningful field.
You’ll lead our content strategy to grow engagement with key audiences, implement creative solutions to build our online presence, and explore new opportunities for revenue generation. You’ll also support LabMed’s core values of inclusion, collaboration, and innovation while managing a small team.
You will work closely with the Chief Executive, membership volunteers, editorial boards, and the staff team to create impactful content that informs, inspires, and supports our diverse audiences.
Responsibilities
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Lead the development and implementation of a content strategy to grow audience engagement through the Association’s website, e-newsletter and LabMed News (our member magazine).
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Manage and innovate the content on Lab Tests Online (our patient-facing site) including supporting the Editor with editorial and review processes.
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Liaise with editorial boards to ensure our digital content remains insightful and relevant.
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Commission, edit, and deliver high-quality content in partnership with editors, contributors, and topic experts.
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Support the Publications and Communications Committee to ensure consistent quality and alignment with organisational goals.
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Explore and implement opportunities for revenue generation through advertising and paid content.
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Produce the Association’s Annual Report and contribute to business planning in collaboration with boards and teams.
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Supervise the Marketing and Communications Officer, providing clear direction and support.
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Oversee the Trainee Editorial Assistant until May 2025, creating a meaningful and rewarding experience for them.
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Champion Labmed values of inclusion by supporting diverse editorial boards across our publishing programme.
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Develop an awareness of work being done by LabMed committees to promote through communications channels
What do you need to have
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A strong editorial skill set and an understanding of publishing processes.
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Experience managing, evolving and optimising digital content
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Understanding of user experience (UX), accesibility, and SEO best practices
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A proven ability to develop content strategies that drive audience engagement.
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Excellent project management skills with the ability to prioritise multiple tasks.
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Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
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Familiarity with revenue generation opportunities within digital publishing.
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A proactive and enthusiastic approach, with the ability to adapt in a small, dynamic team.
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Experience leading/supervising colleagues?
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A commitment to LabMed’s values of inclusion, sustainability, and innovation.
Our values
LabMed is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity in our workforce. We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our staff team. We know that everyone is an individual, so please always tell us what we can do to support you.
Our values are:
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We are innovative – promoting new scientific development to improve health and wellbeing.
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We are inclusive – ensuring that we are open and accessible to everyone.
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We care for people – helping the healthcare profession deliver better care and providing a healthy and fulfilling environment for our members and their teams.
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We care for the planet – influencing how healthcare science can minimise our impact on the wider natural world.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Are you an experienced health writer and editor?
Do you want to use your skills to help British Heart Foundation (BHF) fund even more scientific breakthroughs and help us save and improve the lives of families and loved ones?
If so, this Health Editor role could be for you!
About the role
We want to reach and support more people with heart and circulatory conditions, helping them feel informed, empowered, and understood.
As a Health Editor you’ll play a key role in the production of our award-winning Heart Matters magazine, creating and editing high-quality written and video content to support people with heart conditions.
You will generate ideas and produce high-quality, engaging and accurate content with a clear user focus.
You’ll work with key internal and external stakeholders and identify ways to make the best and most efficient use of content across the BHF website, publications and booklets, ensuring the people who need our support are at the heart of everything we do.
Working arrangements
This is fixed term contract until 26 Sep 2025 covering a secondment.
This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office.
At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.
About you
You will have strong previous experience of writing, editing, subbing and proofreading content for a varied audience, as well as generating impactful ideas using audience insight and SEO techniques.
A strong leader, you’ll have an attention to detail to eliminate ambiguity and will have excellent written communications skills able to articulate ideas, thoughts and engage in the decision-making process.
You will also have a good knowledge of best practice in health information production and health and science issues, especially relating to heart and circulatory disease and long-term conditions.
About us
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
Interview process
Please note interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams.
Registered Charity
More than 1000
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
Thank you!
Hybrid working, with primary location at our London office
This is an exciting time for the WI, as we are planning the next stages of our strategy and building on our strategic vision launched in 2020 – to be bold and inspiring, growing and relevant, flexible and inclusive. We are proud to say that we continue to be the largest and most influential UK-based women’s organisation, with over 180,000 members. Our campaigns push for change on the issues that matter to women and their communities, and we have been a powerful voice throughout our 108-year history on issues from equal pay for women to protecting the environment from pollution. Today we continue to support and empower women to campaign to tackle climate change, for more awareness of mental health and to end violence against women. The WI has a track record of achieving real change on a huge range of issues, and this record of action shows that we are as relevant today as we were in 1915 when we began.
The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (the NFWI) is responsible for running the organisation and provides support and advice to members at both regional and local levels. The NFWI also works with the Denman Trust to fulfil its charitable objectives and implement a comprehensive educational programme of courses and activities, both online and in person, to WI members and non-members.
As a staff team, our strength is in trusting and engaging each other. We champion flexibility and inclusion, having implemented a bold hybrid model that supports a good work life balance and wellbeing, whilst at the same time allows the charity to flourish and do our best for our members.
About the role
In this senior leadership position, you will manage the WI Enterprises team in maximising revenue and achieving key financial targets. Coordinating trading activities such as our membership magazine WI Life, launching new initiatives and forging corporate partnerships, you will use your skills and experience to secure funding and drive financial growth for WIE and the WI.
Notably, you will obtain substantial sponsorship for key projects, develop far-reaching marketing strategies and raise the profile of our learning organisation Denman. At the same time, you will actively develop the team across WI Enterprises, draft the annual business plan and budget, and set clear and ambitious performance targets before ensuring their attainment. Above all, you will foster a culture of innovation and high achievement, where every colleague is focused on results and has the skills to make things happen.
About you
Experienced in managing sales teams and leading commercial operations, you will combine a track record within the publishing or editorial sector with innate flair for negotiating contracts and agreements. You will need to be adept at creating budgets and business plans, skilled in identifying and pursuing successful revenue streams, and familiar with using data to inform strategic decision-making. Confident reporting and presenting at Board level, as well as networking and engaging with stakeholders at all levels, you will have a demonstratable understanding of marketing and fundraising within the charity sector.
Although experience within the voluntary sector, or a membership organisation would be beneficial, it’s your commercial acumen, deep understanding of financial management and innate ability to forge profitable partnerships and build effective relationships that will be key to your success.
How to apply
For further information about this Head of Commercial - WI Enterprises role, please download the recruitment pack which includes the job description and person specification.
To apply, please submit your current CV with a covering letter clearly explaining why you would be suitable for the role to the HR department.
Closing date: 6 February 2025.
Interview date: First and second round interviews to be held in the week commencing 10 February 2025.
No other media or agencies, please.
The WI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and values diversity. Reg. Charity No. 803793.
