Senior Communications Officer
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Senior Communications Officer
We are the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,600 women and children in our national network of services. These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs / ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services and culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline (run in partnership between us and Women’s Aid). We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, managing a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.
Position: Senior Communications Officer (Press)
Location: Head Office, London
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: circa £35,000 per annum
Benefits: include 28 days holiday, pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and a savings / bonus portal.
Closing date: 5 June 2019
Interview date: 12 June 2019
About the role:
Our small communications team covers a wide-ranging remit of work spanning reactive and proactive national and regional press, integrated campaigns, internal communications, the organisation's website, social media, newsletters and service literature. This is a great chance to join this busy team in a new role and make a real impact in reaching out to women and children who experience abuse and bringing about change to end violence against women and girls.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Communications Officer (Press) with excellent writing skills, news judgement and story-telling aptitude. Overseeing a busy press office function, this post will respond to reactive requests, spot tactical opportunities, whilst developing and rolling out a proactive programme of work across national and regional media.
Responsibilities:
The post-holder will work with a wide variety of media to broaden our exposure both nationally and regionally, as well as increase the profile of local services. The role will ensure the voices of survivors are at the heart of all our communications work and that the organisation is positioned as a long-standing expert and the country’s largest single provider of services in the VAWG field.
We work in an exciting and fast-paced environment, collaborating closely with the Policy, Fundraising and Operations teams to identify stories, case studies and sector trends, and develop these into media pitches and campaigns.
About you:
The successful applicant will have a minimum of 5 years’ experience working within communications and undertaking high-profile media relations with proven results. You will have the ability to strategically prioritise requests and manage a complex workload with competing demands. The role will involve the production of content for newsletters, social media and the website, ideally including audio-visual materials and graphics.
This is a wide and varied role. No two days are the same at Refuge, but the work of the communications team is interesting and rewarding.
All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality, which underpin all of our work
Other information:
We are proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We are an accredited training provider; we offer the first Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) accredited qualification for our profession. Other benefits include 28 days holiday, pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and a savings / bonus portal.
A basic Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.
The organisation is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.
You may have experience of the following: Senior Communications Officer, Communications Officer, Communications Manager, Communications Coordinator, Communications Executive, Internal Communications, PR Assistant, PR Officer, PR Advisor, PR Executives, Marketing Manager, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Executive, Charity, Third Sector, NFP, etc.
We are the UK’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM). Every day we support over 6,600 women and children in our national network of services. These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs / ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services and culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline (run in partnership between us and Women’s Aid). We advise Government and lobby hard to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, managing a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider. We give a voice to the voiceless.
Position: Senior Communications Officer (Press)
Location: Head Office, London
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: circa £35,000 per annum
Benefits: include 28 days holiday, pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and a savings / bonus portal.
Closing date: 5 June 2019
Interview date: 12 June 2019
About the role:
Our small communications team covers a wide-ranging remit of work spanning reactive and proactive national and regional press, integrated campaigns, internal communications, the organisation's website, social media, newsletters and service literature. This is a great chance to join this busy team in a new role and make a real impact in reaching out to women and children who experience abuse and bringing about change to end violence against women and girls.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Communications Officer (Press) with excellent writing skills, news judgement and story-telling aptitude. Overseeing a busy press office function, this post will respond to reactive requests, spot tactical opportunities, whilst developing and rolling out a proactive programme of work across national and regional media.
Responsibilities:
The post-holder will work with a wide variety of media to broaden our exposure both nationally and regionally, as well as increase the profile of local services. The role will ensure the voices of survivors are at the heart of all our communications work and that the organisation is positioned as a long-standing expert and the country’s largest single provider of services in the VAWG field.
We work in an exciting and fast-paced environment, collaborating closely with the Policy, Fundraising and Operations teams to identify stories, case studies and sector trends, and develop these into media pitches and campaigns.
About you:
The successful applicant will have a minimum of 5 years’ experience working within communications and undertaking high-profile media relations with proven results. You will have the ability to strategically prioritise requests and manage a complex workload with competing demands. The role will involve the production of content for newsletters, social media and the website, ideally including audio-visual materials and graphics.
This is a wide and varied role. No two days are the same at Refuge, but the work of the communications team is interesting and rewarding.
All candidates must demonstrate a commitment to the feminist values of empowerment and equality, which underpin all of our work
Other information:
We are proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. We are an accredited training provider; we offer the first Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) accredited qualification for our profession. Other benefits include 28 days holiday, pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and a savings / bonus portal.
A basic Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.
The organisation is committed to quality, equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. This post however is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
No agencies please - as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down.
You may have experience of the following: Senior Communications Officer, Communications Officer, Communications Manager, Communications Coordinator, Communications Executive, Internal Communications, PR Assistant, PR Officer, PR Advisor, PR Executives, Marketing Manager, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Executive, Charity, Third Sector, NFP, etc.
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