Head of Digital Products
- Employer
- RSPB
- Location
- Sandy, Bedfordshire
- Salary
- Starting at: £39,970 to £46,632 per annum
- Closing date
- 21 Oct 2019
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- Function
- Fundraising, Marketing, Campaigning, Senior Management, Management, Operations & Service Delivery, Business Development & Commercial, IT & Web Development, PR & Communications, Supporter Development, Digital
- Sector
- Environment / Conservation, Animal
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Saving nature is going to take leadership, collaboration, innovation, negotiation, and an ability to unite people to a common cause. Are these skills that you can bring to the role of Head of Digital Products?
Head of Digital Products
Reference number: tTHbV-10
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Salary starting at: £39,970 to £46,632 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
Your role in saving nature:
The RSPB's digital estate is vital to our mission to give nature a home - from rallying people together to speak up for nature, to inspiring a love of wildlife, to raising the income that pays for our conservation work in the UK and around the world.
As the RSPB's Head of Digital Products, you'll lead a team of the RSPB's best and brightest digital strategists - the folks who develop our website, email campaigns, digital marketing, social media and intranet. You'll be hungry to find new ways to use digital platforms to meet the RSPB's goals.
There'll be fundraising targets to hit. There'll be budgets to stay within. There'll be integrated marketing campaigns to deliver across multiple platforms. There'll be relationships to build and fascinating challenges to rise to.
As a skilled communicator, negotiator and influencer, you'll be proactive in seeking out opportunities to develop yourself and your team. You'll talk persuasively with everyone from internal colleagues to politicians, journalists and people from other organisations.
Above all else, you'll be an advocate for saving nature. Nature's in big trouble - the climate crisis and loss of habitat are pushing some of our best loved species towards extinction. We won't let nature fall silent. This role is your chance to make real change possible. What do you say?
Where you'll be working:
You'll be working at the RSPB Headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire - imagine a campus of more than 500 passionate, fascinating people, set in the middle of a nature reserve. There's a forest to explore, and a heath. Plus, the staff restaurant serves amazing fish and chips every Friday.
The RSPB is a team of more than 1,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers, all working to give nature a home, in the UK and around the world, from the heathlands of Dorset to the rainforests of Sierra Leone. You'll join a group of passionate research scientists, marketers, policy advisors, creatives, ecologists, communicators and educators. Are you with us?
Closing date: 21 October 2019
We are actively recruiting and may draw the role to close when suitable applications are received. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the Apply Now button to be directed to our website. There you can download the Role Profile and Application Details.
This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You will be asked to declare unspent convictions and cautions at offer of employment stage.
When you make your application please ensure that you include reference number tTHbV-10 on any correspondence.
No agencies please.
Company
The RSPB (the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) is a large, national charity dedicated to the conservation of birds and other wildlife and the environments on which they depend. Founded in 1889, the RSPB has more than a million members, over 2,000 employees and 13,500 volunteers. RSPB’s UK headquarters are in Bedfordshire and it has an annual income of nearly £133 million.
RSPB carries out conservation work in many different areas. It runs a network of 200 nature reserves covering almost 13,000 hectares, which are home to 80% of the UK’s rarest or most threatened bird species. It works with farmers to identify wildlife friendly farming methods, researches bird populations and partners with international conservation organisations.
RSPB is also an advocacy organisation, lobbying the government on diverse topics such as planning, wind farms and economics. It has a UK headquarters, three national offices and nine offices in the English regions. Its million-plus members, 200,000 of whom are youth members, make it the largest conservation organisation in the UK. RSPB also has 150 local groups and more than 80 youth groups. It has a volunteer to staff ratio of 6:1.
The charity was founded in Manchester in 1889 as the Plumage League (initially as a campaign against the killing of birds for the fashion industry). It received a Royal Charter in 1904, becoming the ‘Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’. RSPB moved to its present headquarters in Sandy, Bedfordshire, in 1961.
One of the RSPB’s most popular activities, carried out for children since 1979 and for adults since 2001, is the Big Garden Birdwatch. The Birdwatch is an annual data collection of bird populations that takes place every January. In 2016, 519,000 people were involved, counting over 8 million birds. The Birdwatch enables RSPB to build a picture of garden wildlife across the UK. It has shown, for instance, that the sparrow population has declined by 60% since 1979.
RSPB also urges supporters to ‘make a home for nature’ in their gardens. Activities include creating feeding stations and homes for hedgehogs, providing flowers and plants for moths, creating habitats for frogs and toads and forming safe corridors from one garden to the next.
RSPB, along with sister organisations, Stop Climate Chaos Cymru and Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, is part of The Climate Coalition. It argues that the effect of climate change on wildlife and wild places can already been seen and that increased flooding and rain from climate change will spell disaster for birds and wildlife.
RSPB is also a member of BirdLife International, a global partnership of conservation organisations that share common objectives.
RSPB is a major fundraising charity and spends around 90% of its income on conservation, public education and advocacy.
- Website
- http://www.rspb.org.uk/vacancies
- Telephone
- 01767 680 551
- Location
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The Lodge,
Potton Road,
Sandy,
Bedfordshire
SG19 2DL
GB
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