Senior Event Manager Jobs in Scotland
Relationship Fundraising Executive.
Salary: £27,400 per annum.
Location: Homebased, covering South Wales and Southwest England.
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
An additional role in an existing, established team, this is an exciting opportunity to join a national children's charity and contribute towards making children's lives safer and happier. You will be supporting delivery of the Community Fundraising strategy to increase income and deliver fundraising collaboratively within the wider Relationship Fundraising team. Our ideal candidate will live within the region and be willing and able to travel around the area.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
- Support the delivery of a range of fundraising campaigns and activities locally that provide significant income and are in line with the Community Fundraising strategy.
- Oversee the required stewardship of local corporates, organisations/clubs, volunteer fundraising groups, and Methodists that encourages further involvement in our work.
- Manage the stewardship and support for the sports participants, who sign up to run, walk and cycle for Action for Children.
- Support the delivery of a range of fundraising campaigns and activities locally that provide significant income and are in line with the regional fundraising strategy.
- Establish relationships to demonstrate accountability to our supporters and volunteers.
- Deliver set financial targets and non-financial targets and outcomes locally, along with the Relationship Fundraising Managers, through agreed objectives.
- Ensure expected income has been received and banked within the predicted timeframes.
Let's talk about you
- Experience of delivering successful fundraising activity in at least one of the following areas: sports participants, DIY, church fundraising, volunteer fundraising groups, regional corporates or events.
- Proven experience of networking and of developing and stewarding excellent personal relationships with senior external and internal stakeholders, donors, and volunteers.
- Proven ability to project manage a team of volunteers to achieve against specific financial goals where appropriate.
Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.
Contact: David Simpson on 01923361732 or email us at quoting reference 10257.
Good to know
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
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Closing Date: Tuesday 5th November 2024.
Interviews dates are scheduled for week commencing 11th November 2024.
Job Description
See below for further information about working with us:
Action for Children Employee Benefits
AfC Commitment Statement
Thank you!
OPPORTUNITY:
This is a fabulous opportunity for a dynamic comms professional who knows how to use communications to drive change. We seek a climate communications lead who is keen to bring their skills in campaigns, narrative-shift, media and digital comms to the world of steel decarbonisation. The steel industry is a major driver of climate emissions and yet few in the industry feel urgency and few outside the industry know that. Your job will be to help us change that.
This is an international role in an international climate campaign organisation that challenges steelmakers and the wider industry. We seek a dynamic communications lead based in the Europe/Africa time zone, who will work closely with Asia-Pacific colleagues, lead delivery in Europe, and coordinate our comms work internationally.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
SteelWatch is an international climate campaign organisation established in June 2023, driving corporate accountability and action in the steel sector. Our vision is a steel industry that underpins a thriving zero emissions economy. Our priority is that the steel industry gets on track for a 1.5 degree trajectory this side of 2030.
We run corporate campaigns and challenge the global industry to replace complacency with urgent action. We currently focus heavily in Europe and Japan, with team members in UK/Europe and Asia Pacific timezones. As a young organisation, we are evolving, testing, and learning, and seek team members who will enjoy breaking new ground with us.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role will combine three core elements: (1) ensuring coordination of SteelWatch communications activities, across all our multiple initiatives and timezones, ensuring great content, targeted reach, timeliness, coherence of message and coordinated plans; (2) ongoing and surge delivery of comms products and messages, such as media outreach, social media, thought pieces, particularly in Europe/Africa and sometimes US timezone. This will align with delivery of comms work in Japan/Asia led by colleagues in the region. (3) sharpening our communications strategy, our targets, and our ability to deliver our messages to the right people, shaped jointly with our Asia/Pacific based comms strategist.
The role requires coordination across the small and growing comms team, which is diverse in terms of experience level, region and expertise. It also requires hands-on delivery in your region/timezone and based on your own specialist skills. Media engagement is currently a gap we need to fill and an ideal candidate will lead and deliver our media work, as well as coordinating our wider comms. If the successful candidate excels in other strengths but not media, then we - and you - will need to build the team differently in terms of future recruits and consultants.
Responsibilities:
Coordination of the communication outputs and comms team resources
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Ensure coordination and coherence of the overall SteelWatch editorial and content calendar, with co-management of comms planning, team meetings, and ongoing communications outputs.
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Co-manage comms team resources, including identifying and bringing onboard additional capacity where necessary, to deliver on our fast evolving needs on communications.
Delivery of timely coherent comms outputs
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Design the communication strategy and a range of creative outputs for our corporate campaigns, particularly the ones focused on Europe-based companies, in line with campaign’s theory of change.
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Develop communications materials to shift the dominant narrative of the steel industry which may include data visualisation, rankings, storytelling etc.
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Build and maintain strong relations with journalists in key media and trade media outlets, manage a database of journalists, and ensure regular flows of news/information to establish SteelWatch as a credible voice in steel decarbonisation.
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Coordinate timely responsive comms outputs in relation to external news and events.
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Coordinate with ally organisations, where relevant, to coordinate, input into, align and amplify their outputs
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Collaborate with our Asia Comms strategist and other communications colleagues to ensure consistent, smooth and cohesive approaches to SteelWatch’s voice across the geographies and outputs.
Development of strategy and capacity
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Working closely with our Asia comms strategist, develop our messaging, tone of voice, and overall approach to comms as a driver of change.
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Build organisational capacity to articulate and challenge narratives in and around the steel industry and to influence others with our point of view.
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Analyse data and insights and develop segmentation and understanding of audiences needed to achieve our change goals.
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Commission and manage external expert inputs as needed.
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Develop and incorporate ongoing learning into communications strategy
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Other responsibilities assigned by the Director
APPLICATION CRITERIA
Essential skills and experiences
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At least 8 years’ experience (and potentially much more) in strategic communications, including journalism, digital media and storytelling;
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Experience in designing and delivering communications for achieving campaign goals;
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Demonstrated ability to pursue narrative change;
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An appetite for change-making, ability to articulate systemic problems, and understanding of how communication contributes to driving transformative change;
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Proven record of developing communications for technical issues. Ability to grasp technological issues sufficiently, and to nuance and ensure credibility of our messages;
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Strong editorial, writing and audience segmentation skills;
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Ability to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of partners, from campaigners to analysts to communication experts;
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Experience working across geographies, languages and cultures;
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An appetite to work in a start-up, with all the curiosity, adaptivity and learning that it entails.
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Availability to work at hours that enable collaboration in other timezones and to travel occasionally.
Desirable
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Experience in handling media relations and developing pitch;
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Skilled with media monitoring and analysis for influencing narratives;
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Skilled in creating engaging social media assets;
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Demonstrate high level of editorial and legal standards, ensuring adherence to internal and external requirements and advocate for best practice;
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Familiarity with hiring and coordinating with freelancers;
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Experience in corporate-targeted comms.
Language requirements
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Ability to work in English at a native level is a requirement. Additional language(s) preferred.
For full list of working benefits, conditions and ways of working, please see the full job description on our website.
Registered Charity
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Our Mission is to turbo-charge the transformation to a decarbonised steel sector that enables the environment, communities and workers to thrive.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Social Media & Marketing Executive £22,000 per annum (pro-rata)
Full time role (37.5 hours) with an initial 6-month fixed term contract continuing subject to funding.
Remote working, with the option for hybrid working (up to two days in the office if in London or Manchester).
(You must have the right to work in the UK as we unfortunately do not offer Sponsorships)
At One Million Mentors, our aim is to ensure that every young person in the country has access to a trained mentor as they transition into adulthood. We believe that investing in mentors will help to address the skills gap agenda and improve social cohesion.
Would you like the opportunity to:
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Be part of a dynamic, values-driven organisation working to achieve lasting social change?
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Work across the business, public and third sector to develop innovative ways of harnessing the potential of young people in Great Britain?
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Help shape a growing organisation?
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Enhance your personal development and job satisfaction through monthly team training sessions, personal L&D opportunities and a 15 hour per year volunteering allowance?
If so, this may be the role for YOU!
About the role
As the Social Media & Marketing Executive, you'll play a key role in helping us deliver our Communications Strategy. You'll increase our online profile, manage our social media presence, expand our audience, increase engagement and support our growth. You’ll create eye-catching and impactful content for distribution across a range of channels and platforms, and to a range of audiences. With a keen eye for design, and as the champion of our brand, you’ll ensure our communications are always spot-on. You’ll be energetic, results-driven, and ready to tackle multiple tasks with set deadlines.
For a more detailed job description, please see the job pack attached.
Remuneration and benefits: Salary bracket of £22,000 (pro rata), up to 6.5% employer pension contribution and 25 days holiday per year (pro rata).
**Please note that applications submitted without a Covering Letter will not be considered**
For further details on how to apply, please see application guidelines attached.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.