Communications and Engagement Officer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom BUD (Businesses Under Development Limited) Full time

Contract Type: Permanent, 30 hours per week (4 days)

Location: London SE1 (Hybrid)

**Salary**: £26,000 - 30,000 PA (based on experience)

Reporting to: Comms and Engagement Officer

Working Hours: 4 days per week, Monday-Thursday 30 hours per week

*BUD Leaders is a four-day week organisation. This means that we work reduced hours (30) Monday to Thursday with no loss of pay.

**The Role**:
BUD Leaders seeks a creative, engaged and socially aware marketing graduate or social media and copywriting whizz, with strong communication skills and digital savvy, to act as our Communications and Engagement Officer.

Your role will be to support the Comms and Marketing Manager by building out and increasing engagement with our online community platform (‘BLOC’), as well as creating inspiring copy and content for our external communications.

You will be passionate about our organisation and its values (inclusivity, giving more, valuing differences, transparency and openness, being passionate and having fun) as well as a passion for connecting people and building collaborative online and offline communities.

**The Company**:
You’ll join us at a crucial moment as we develop our bold new campaign, Challenge X2, to double the revenue of 2030 Global Majority women by 2030.

We want to see Global Majority women represented in leadership positions across society. We want their voices and ideas to be heard, their ventures to be funded, and their success to lift others up with them.

Our mission is to rectify the power imbalance evident in leadership across organisations in the UK.  

We do this through projects and programmes focused on leadership, organisational development, and systems change to address the causes of inequity. As a social enterprise, we direct 51% of our profits to elevating Global Majority women in business.

**Person Specification**:
You will have a passion for storytelling, connecting people and increasing engagement with our networking and skill sharing platform in order to build social cohesion and connection, with a focus on empowering global majority female leaders.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role
- Experience in digital marketing/social media.
- Experienced in building and maintaining online platforms.
- Experience of creating, formatting and writing advertising material such as flyers and newsletters using online tools such as Canva.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of managing online meetings/events or webinars.
- Highly proficient in information technology and computer systems, particularly Office 365 including Word and Excel.
- Conscientious working style with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

**Desirable Skills**:

- Experience in data analysis from social media and web platforms.
- Experience in designing infographics
- Experience or strong understanding of the social enterprise sector

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Being a BUD ambassador - promoting our offerings and services to potential clients within our target profile.
- Support with various community-based projects via our skill sharing platform (BLOC), corporate/community connection projects and events, building our ‘tribes’ and enabling connection between each other and our corporate partners.
- Building impact stories throughout the year to inspire other businesses/clients and to support funder reporting and marketing and communications initiatives.
- Summarising data using google analytics and creating monthly reports
- Working closely with the Comms and Marketing Manager, and Project/Portfolio Managers. Providing weekly updates, brainstorming, and troubleshooting.
- Reporting on/evaluating these ongoing projects. Gathering data on members and engagement on BLOC
- Onboarding new members to the BLOC platform and brokering online introductions with existing members
- Creating content on Canva to add to the sub-home pages
- Working with the portfolio manager to help improve the platform
- Arranging events and supporting with facilitation where needed, including weekly welcome sessions, quarterly in person networking events, webinars and monthly masterclasses.
- Developing relationships with BLOC members (online and offline) and connecting BLOC members to support each other.
- Representing BLOC via the online platform and at events.
- Storytelling, social media contributions and gathering stories and content for the monthly newsletter.
- Increasing engagement/members.
- Ensuring compliance with our company policies (including Health & Safety, Safeguarding and Data Security) so customers and colleagues are protected at all times.
- Observing and adhering to our standards so that all customers are provided with the same excellent standard of service.
- Other administrative support as necessary.

**Supplementary Benefits**:

- Hybrid working: Minimum 1 day per week in office + any additional in person meetings/events.
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