Communications Officer

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom The Active Wellbeing Society Full time

**Overview**

**Salary**:up to£23,000

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Full time 36.5 hours per week Monday to Friday with some evening and weekend working

**Location**:Head office in Tyseley, Birmingham. Hybrid working with some travel outside of Birmingham.

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) is a community benefit society working to tackle inequalities and promote community wellbeing. Our work with communities’ cuts across a wide range of policy agendas - from health and social care to transport and planning, community cohesion to climate action, jobs, and skills to physical activity - and is increasingly recognised nationally as demonstrating best practice in supporting communities most in need and achieving significant systems and behaviour change.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources, and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference - whether at an individual level or more widely.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Communications Officer to join our fast-paced organisation as we grow and maximise opportunities for a national delivery mode. Your role will be to help raise the profile of The Active Wellbeing Society, across all areas of work, particularly through designing and delivering engaging content to be shared across internal and external channels and building relationships with strategic stakeholders online and through the media.

This role is suited to someone with a passion from tackling inequalities and promoting community wellbeing, and a keen understanding of the social and political landscape in which we operate. Working as part of a dynamic and friendly Communications & Marketing team you will produce high quality copy, write, and optimise content for the website, digital newsletters, print publications, social media as well as handle media enquiries and draft effective press releases.

We are working to a hybrid model across the organisation and value in-person contact. This role will require regular weekly working at our head office in Birmingham or other designated offices / locations across the city and travel and work from other locations outside of Birmingham as part of our national work.

**Main Duties**

1. Develop, write, and edit engaging marketing and communications content to be shared across the organisation’s internal and external channels.

2. Write high quality copy for the website, digital newsletters, print publications and social media in support of the organisation’s strategic vision, mission, and values.

3. Build organisational profile with key strategic audiences online (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn) through social media engagement and content creation.

4. Ensure consistency in terms of voice, branding, messaging, and frequency of posting via digital channels.

5. Working closely with IT and HR teams provide support to the organisation’s website and intranet projects.

6. Develop and deliver effective creative campaigns; track analytics and create reports detailing effectiveness of communications campaigns

7. Build and maintain rapport and positive relationships with the media (local and national), drafting press materials and responding to media requests.

8. Maintain and update an organisational media library (photos, videos, stories, and audio) in line with data protection/consent, including capturing/recording media where necessary.

9. Monitor national and local trends, news and opportunities and provide regular internal briefings.

10. Keep abreast of new and emergent thinking across wellbeing, community development and tackling inequalities.

11. Support the organisation, working with communications and marketing colleagues, on its communications and marketing strategy and plans.

12. Provide design support for reports, newsletters, brochures, and presentations using appropriate software (e.g., Canva, Adobe, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) for a range of audiences.

13. Carry out all duties as may be reasonably assigned from time to time and within the level of this job description.

**Knowledge, skills and experience**

1. A passion for tackling inequalities and promoting community wellbeing - and an interest in and understanding of the social and political landscape we operate in.

2. Excellent written and communication skills, ability to write, review and edit engaging content to a high standard.

3. Skilled at summarising complex ideas in writing (essential) and developing and delivering social change campaigns (desirable).

4. A wide breadth of multi-channel communications.

5. Experience of working with the media and providing effective public relations/journalism support.

6. Understanding of communications, public relations, and marketing best practices.

7. Experience o

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