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Senior Editorial Content Producer (maternity cover)
Do you love words, stories, copy-editing and creating content? Are you also skilled at scheduling? Then come join our communications team and be part of a group of people who want to use their creativity for God’s mission.
• Fixed Term 35 hours per week
• Hybrid working – approximately two days a week at CMS House, Oxford.
• Starting salary £34,880 (FTE) depending on experience, with a generous pension contribution: up to 15 per cent employer contribution on annual salary
We welcome applications from everyone. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from minority groups as they are currently underrepresented within our organisation at this level. All appointments are made on merit of skill, experience and potential as set out in the job description and person specification.
Talk to us first?
If you would welcome an informal discussion about the role before applying, please contact Justine Nola, People and Culture Manager.
Your role
We are looking for a talented writer and editor who also has a flair for organisation. You’ll create and edit content for a variety of platforms, both print and digital and keep track of a bustling team’s workflow, liaising with other CMS teams and freelancers as necessary. An ideal post for someone who loves words as well as a good spreadsheet or two.
The organisation you’ll be joining
Church Mission Society is comprised of people who are passionate about mission and fired up about helping people follow Jesus. For over 200 years CMS has been at the forefront of global mission, living out the gospel of Jesus, seeing lives changed and communities transformed. If you join CMS you will find an organisation that has been reinvigorated with a fresh vision to make disciples of Jesus among people at the edges, both in the UK and around the world.
What you’ll need to succeed
The successful candidate will have extensive experience crafting quality editorial content, from news and feature stories, to think pieces and marketing materials, to social media posts and video scripts. An ideal candidate will also have demonstrable skills in creating and managing workflow schedules for individuals and teams.
It is also a requirement for this post holder to be a committed and practising Christian as well as committed to CMS’s values and aims. / You will need to be in sympathy with the aims and values of Church Mission Society.
Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download on the CMS website.
Our commitment to you
Our core values of being pioneering, relational, faithful and evangelistic are integral to everything we do, and we work hard to ensure that every member of staff is valued, supported and encouraged to continually learn and develop their skills.
We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of the people we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. We believe that every child or adult we come into contact with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm and abuse. Our recruitment and selection processes are in line with our Safeguarding Policy and the SCHR Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, which CMS is a member of as part of our commitment to safeguarding.
Closing date
We must get your application by midnight on Sunday 27 April 2025.
Interviews are planned to be held on Thursday 15 May 2025 at CMS House, Oxford.
To apply
Please send your application form, CV and two or three recent examples of articles or copy you’ve produced and/ or a link to your writing portfolio via our website or by post to HR Team, Church Mission Society, Watlington Road, Oxford OX4 6BZ. CVs will only be considered when sent with a completed application form, which is available to download from our website.
Candidates for all UK roles must already be eligible to work in the UK, with a valid visa and work permit if required.
As a member of the Inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, CMS has committed to systematically check with previous employers from the last five years for any ‘SEAH’ (Sexual Exploitation, Abuse or Harassment) issues relating to all potential new hires.
Registered Charity
People at the edges are at the centre of God’s story. Join our global movement as we follow Jesus to the edges together.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
From Amnesty International to Greenpeace UK, progressive organisations are using digital mobilisation to activate hundreds of thousands of campaigners and raise millions of pounds online. Forward Action believes that a digital mobilisation model - where organisations use digital channels to drive hundreds of thousands of supporters to take advocacy, fundraising and volunteering actions - can revolutionise campaigning and fundraising in the NGO sector. We help progressive organisations build digital mobilisation programmes and, as a Senior Digital Strategist, you will work with organisations to help them use a digital mobilisation model to drive real-world change.
You will be at the heart of our digital campaigns and fundraising work, managing projects and planning impactful strategies to help our progressive partners hit their goals. You’ll even have the opportunity to work on proposals and pitches for new projects, steering how we adapt to client briefs and our bigger picture organisational strategy. If you’re passionate about making the world a better place, have 4+ years in digital marketing, are well organised with good attention to detail and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, this job is for you.
This is a fixed-term maternity cover contract, expected to last up to 12 months, with the freedom to work both in our London office and remotely anywhere in the UK. You also have the opportunity to work abroad for up to 3 months in the year, as long as you can be online for the required core hours outlined below. Forward Action works a four day week, with all team members not working on Friday.
Forward Action is employee-owned, meaning that all employees co-own the organisation, taking responsibility for making our organisation as great as it can be, and share a portion of the profits each year. This role would receive a pro-rata share of the employee bonus for the length of employment.
We are committed to making sure Forward Action is an inclusive, diverse and anti-oppressive organisation. We especially encourage people from the global majority, or from underserved communities on the basis of race, ethnicity, class, educational background, gender identity, sexuality, disability and age to apply. We know it’s not possible for any applicant to have all of the skills outlined below. Don’t worry, we would still love to see an application from you if you hit most of the criteria!
Applications close at 23:59 on Sunday 4 May.
What you’ll do as part of our team
Strategy + planning
- Develop strategies for the projects on which you lead, working with the Digital Strategy Manager as needed to ensure we are always delivering strategic excellence
- Schedule and attend planning and project review meetings with clients
- Take part in workshops to generate ideas for tactics that help our clients hit their goals
Project management
- Manage projects from conception through to build, coordinating work from both our creative and tech teams
- Being the key point of contact for our partners on specific project strands
- Ensuring all projects you manage are delivered on time and to scope
- Coordinating with freelancers as required
- Building partner relationships
- Ongoing management of live partnerships, ensuring we’re always exceeding expectations and are tuned into different partner needs
- Building excellent rapport whilst delivering projects within agreed scopes and in a timely manner
Reporting + data analysis
- Analyse performance and test data, and provide strategic recommendations based on your insights
- Ads setup + management
- Build digital ads on a variety of platforms for our partners, ensuring an effective targeting strategy
- Ensure we are always optimising ad spend and suggesting changes in approach in line with results
Builds
- Working from templates to set up landing pages on a range of platforms
- Coordinating with the tech team to manage more complicated tech builds
- Building emails as required by partners
- Winning new business
- Work with the partnerships team to produce compelling proposals and win new business, as required.
- Assisting the Digital Strategy Manager in planning and scoping the time it takes your team to deliver certain tasks and use this to accurately quote the costs of projects
- Contribute to the wider team
- Actively participate in all-team meetings and internal knowledge sharing channels, contributing ideas and adding insights
- Play an active role in supporting our team culture
Commitment to anti-oppression practice
- Actively participate in Forward Action’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) action plan
- Ensure that inclusion and anti-oppression are at the heart of your work internally and externally
Essential criteria
- 4+ years’ experience working in digital marketing, with proven experience of developing strategies and campaigns that deliver results against goals
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience of managing multiple stakeholders and building strong working relationships across functions
- Being comfortable working in a remote-first, fast-paced environment
- Experience of using digital platforms to build and send mass emails, and comfortable managing email lists
- Experience of managing ads in Meta, and proven ability to interpret the data to optimise against goals
- Excellent organisation and attention-to-detail with ability to juggle multiple priorities and keep to tight deadlines
- Experience of managing projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and to scope
- Dedication to helping build a fairer, more progressive society
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- The ability to learn quickly. We don’t expect you to know or have done everything when you start - but if you don’t have this, we’ll be looking for evidence that you can pick up new skills and knowledge quickly, then run with them.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the charity and/or non-profit sector
- Knowledge of how to plan and deliver a fair A/B experiment
- Experience of working with Engaging Networks and Mailchimp, and/or other CRMs and email software
- Experience in running TikTok, and Search ads
Salary and benefits package
Starting salary: £37,620 (outside of London, with a £3k annual travel bursary)/£42,135 (inside London)
Holiday: 25 days/year (pro rata to 20 days per year due to the 4 day week), plus bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.
Benefits:
Four-day week – Forward Action works Monday - Thursday
Flexible working hours – our standard working day is 7.5 hours, with core hours of 9.30am–4.30pm. You can choose when to work the remaining hour around these, by either starting earlier or finishing later.
Work where you're happiest – work remotely or from our Hackney office – whatever suits you best. There’s no return-to-office requirement.
Employee Ownership – co-own the organisation with your colleagues, shape the organisation and share a portion of the profits, pro-rated for the length of employment
Climate Perks – two additional holiday days per year if you travel by land or sea
Employee Assistance Programme – in-person, phone and online counselling (six sessions per issue), legal and debt advice, bereavement and medical support, and online CBT resources.
3% employer pension contribution
Extensive progressive policies, such as our Period Policy
How to apply
To apply for this job, please complete the form when you apply
To ensure our hiring process is as fair as possible, we run an anonymised application procedure. So please remove your name and contact information from your CV before uploading it, and only enter these details in the online form.
To apply, you will need to include:
your CV (with name and contact details removed)
up to 250 words explaining how you’re suited to the role and why you want this job
Application deadline: 23:59 Sunday 4 May.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a written online task from home - this can be any time that works for you between 9-12 May. Based on the tasks, a small number of candidates will be asked to attend an interview via a video call during the week commencing 19 May.
If you would like to schedule an informal chat about the role, or you have any questions, you can contact our team.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.