This is a challenging and rewarding position within a friendly and fast-paced charity, with clear growth amibitions and a determination to make a real impact on the employment prospects of young people with the most barriers to entering work.

This position will bring clarity, consistency and impact to marketing and communications across the charity. The focus will be to raise our profile, tell our story, and articulate our impact, to help to build meaningful relationships with diverse partners and stakeholders.

With a resonsibility for marketing, communications, brand management and stakeholder engagement events, the postholder will take a joined-up approach across digital, media, events and stakeholder communications, ensuring our brand is consistently represented, and our work reaches and engages the right audiences.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Experience

• A track record (over three years) of successfully delivering in a similar or related role.

• Delivery of high quality, effective communications across digital and print channels.

• Creation of compelling and accessible digital and print resources and materials.

• Management of website content and social media channels, implementing strategies and approaches to raise profiles and boost engagement .

• Engagement and liaison with local and nation al media publications.

• Writing, editing and proofreading to a very high standard.

• Management and planning of stakeholder engagement events and activities .

• Management of high-profile Ambassadors and advocates (desirable).

• Implementation of campaigns, to drive engagement and system s change (desirable).

• Working within the education, charities and/or the voluntary youth sector (desirable).

Skills

• Excellent digital and design skills, with the ability to create compelling, professional and accessible resources, reports and promotional materials.

• Engaging written communication skills, with the ability to adapt language and messaging to different platforms and audiences.

• A flexible approach with the ability to identify the best social, digital and print channels for a wide variety of messaging, and monitoring effectiveness through accessing, collating and analysing data.

• Creativity with the ability to make connections between themes and pull together engaging content to feed into communications.

• Exceptional communication skills, able to speak confidently with young people, professionals, funders and senior business stakeholders.

• Highly organised, with an attention to detail, excellent project management skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Attitude

• Positive and solution focussed.

• Self-assured, with a can-do approach and the confidence to bring ideas to the table.

• Thrives in a fast-paced and busy environment.

• Welcomes feedback, with a desire to continuously improve and develop.

• Passionate and enthusiastic about improving young people s lives.

• A commitment to our organisational values, of empowerment, collaboration, reliability, quality, and learning.

WHAT WE OFFER

• £40,891 per annum

• 28 days leave (inc. 3 days between Christmas and New Year)

• 2 volunteering days

• 1 life event day

• Matched pension contributions (up to 6%)

• Flexible working (our core business hours are 10am to 3pm)

• Life insurance (5 x annual salary)

• Canada Life WeCare employee support package