Communications Officer

**Location**: Remote or Midlands Training Centre
**Contract**: Full time, Permanent
**Salary**: £22,398 - £25,033 (depending on experience)
**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week

If you are a talented Communications professional looking to utilise your skills within the charity sector, this could be the role for you.

Canine Partners’ mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

To help us create amazing partnerships, we need amazing people. Canine Partners has an exciting opportunity for a Communications Officer to join our Marketing Communications team.

This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of our essential work that transforms lives every day.

**What you will do**:
**What we’re looking for**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Journalistic or editorial experience of acquiring stories and information first hand with tact, diplomacy and respect.
- Understanding and experience of working with both print and broadcast media.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and manage tasks from start to finishing, managing several tasks at a time.
- Understanding or experience of managing and moderating social media channels.

Most importantly you will be passionate about the transformative impact that our assistance dogs provide to our beneficiaries.

**We can offer you**:

- Generous annual leave allowance
- Employer matched pension scheme
- Charity Sick Pay
- Life assurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Wellbeing portal
- Discounts on goods and retail vouchers and cash back on purchases from eating out, entertainment, supermarkets, clothing and travel
- Dog friendly offices

This role benefits from home-based working, or if you have a preference to work form an office (fully or on a hybrid basis) we have office space at our training centre in Osgathorpe, Leicestershire. Regular travel throughout the UK and to our training centreis essential to meet with our beneficiaries, colleagues and other stakeholders.

We will provide a laptop and mobile phone for use in the role. Claimable expenses for business travel may be applicable or if practicable and available the use of a fleet vehicle when travelling from the training centre.

You may have experience of the following: Digital Marketing Officer, Marketing Officer, Marketing Communications Officer, Communications Officer, Marketing Executive, Digital Marketing Executive, Marketing Assistant, Marketing Communications Executive, CommunicationsExecutive, Communications Assistant, Digital Communications Executive, Marketing Communications, Marcoms, etc.

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