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Senior Communications Officer

Employer
Simplified Recruitment
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£25,000 to £31,000 pa
Closing date
3 Aug 2018

Job Details

Our client is looking for a confident, capable and enthusiastic team player, who is passionate about youth social action, to join their team. 

 

Young people have the energy, ideas and capacity to address society’s challenges. When they take part in social action everyone benefits. They do – because they develop their skills and their characters – and communities do – because they are healthier, more integrated and socially mobile. This is what they call the ‘double benefit’.

 

The vision of the #iwill campaign is to make this kind of meaningful social action a part of life for 10 to 20 year olds across the UK – and where possible to encourage starting early. Examples include caring for someone in the community, providing peer support online, volunteering for a charity or campaigning or fundraising for an important cause.

 

Over 850 organisations from across multiple sectors make up the #iwill campaign, which was launched by HRH The Prince of Wales with cross-party support in 2013.

 

They are the charity that coordinates the #iwill campaign by connecting its partners, communicating the impact of quality youth social action and challenging the collective to do more.

 

They want a highly motivated person to join their team to help them enable more young people, wherever they live and whatever their background, to become more active citizens today and in the future.

 

Job summary:

 

The Senior Communications Officer will report to the Director of Communications and support their team to deliver campaign work and drive the youth social action agenda forward.

 

This will include: empowering young people to shape the #iwill campaign narrative and voice their own experiences of social action; ensuring they articulate and amplify impact and learnings; and mobilising partners with campaign milestones such as Share Your Pledge Day and #iwillWeek.

 

Main responsibilities:

 

• Create and curate content to share through key campaign communications channels by working with their entire team, a range of campaign partners and their growing community of #iwill Ambassadors

• Ensure youth voice is central to communications activity by working with the Communications Officer and their team to further incorporate into campaign activity

• Plan and deliver regular campaign newsletters, elevating important calls-to-action and messages related to campaign communications priorities, including work on health and social care and environmental themes

• Contribute to the organisation of the campaign’s annual celebration week each November, marked by #iwillWeek, which includes advance communications planning, facilitating partner-led events, and unveiling the newest cohort of #iwill Ambassadors at an event organised by the communications team

• Create and facilitate media and social media coverage of youth social action case studies and stories

• Maintain the iwill.org website, ensuring accurate and engaging content

• Build and maintain relationships and partnerships with external communications partners in order to leverage goodwill to maximise reach of campaign agenda.

Person specification

 

A successful candidate would be expected to demonstrate the following:

• An understanding and passion for youth social action, preferably having been involved in youth social action as a young person or adult volunteer

• Experience or strong interest in working or volunteering in an organisation focused on empowering youth voice

• Strong personal organisational and project management skills, in particular being able to manage multiple tasks and often with multiple stakeholders independently

• Strong event organising skills, ensuring young people and senior stakeholders alike are engaged and aligned for events of all sizes

• Being an effective communicator and comfortable working flexibly in a fast-moving, collaborative environment

 

Hours of work:

• 37.5 hours per week (core hours: 9.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday)

• Flexible working patterns can be agreed

• Some travel across the UK may be required

 

How to apply:

If you’re interested and believe you can bring the right passion and skills, then apply online with your CV and cover letter, no more than two pages each. They're open to discussing part-time or secondment arrangements so please let them know if this is of interest up front. 

 

Closing date: Monday 23 July, no later than 5.30pm

Interview dates: Thursday 26 or Friday 27 July

 

Salary: £25,000 to £31,000 pa

Location: Central London

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Start date: As soon as possible

 

Please check your email for confirmation that your application has been received and to follow further instructions if applicable.

 

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