Project and Communications Officer

**The job of a Save the Children UK's Project and Communications Officer is an integral and collaborative one.**
- Are you a pro-active problem solver who can manage competing priorities?
- Are you confident with communicating simply and effectively, including social media?
- Do you enjoy working in teams/ with people and have experience working collaboratively across multiple teams?
- Are you motivated by our vision of creating a Scotland/ world where every child doesn't just survive but thrives and can go on to change the world - and of inspiring and leading others to do the same?

**If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you**

**Note**:
There will be at least one day a week in the office for this role.

**About Us**

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

This role is based in the UK Impact department. Here, we aim to tackle child poverty and disrupt its impact on children's early learning. We work closely with the children, families and communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

**Job Purpose**

You will be responsible for providing vital support to a range of projects and communications activities, ensuring that our work runs smoothly and that people inside and outside the organisation get to hear about it.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

**Main Accountabilities**

The Project & Communications Officer's key duties will be to:

- Support the efficient operation of several projects and teams, including organising regular project meetings and maintaining agendas; tracking actions; keeping notes and ensuring project documents are up-to-date
- Identify bottlenecks, contingencies and risks to projects and communications activities, and diagnose and support with solutions and mitigations to barriers
- Communicate with stakeholders regarding project requirements and progress
- Take responsibility for a range of finance tasks, including designing and using systems to track income and expenditure; setting up and monitoring expenditure requisitions; and being a point of contact on finance tasks for the team
- Project manage internal and external reporting tasks and create, collate and update key information about our work to meet our reporting requirements
- Project manage the organisation and co-ordination of events and visits, and help to promote and run them
- Design and draft content for social media channels, and help to identify opportunities for engaging content
- Draft compelling and engaging briefings about our work for internal and external audiences
- Support the smooth running of the office (for roles based outside our London office) by processing mail, overseeing access to the office, and other relevant tasks
- Other tasks that are in line with the role and grade

**Person Profile**
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work through tasks logically, identify risks early, and seek effective resolutions
- Confidence to raise and clearly describe risks, problems and possible solutions promptly with more senior colleagues
- Experience of co-ordinating with colleagues across teams to align to goals and projects on a timely and efficient basis and manage competing priorities and tasks
- Ability to maintain the highest of levels of confidentiality and sensitivity when dealing with sensitive information from families, partners or senior colleagues
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, particularly the ability to explain your plans and systems, and communicate what you need from others
- Good writing skills for non-specialist audiences, with the ability to pull different pieces of information together into an engaging story
- Good numeracy skills and confidence with using simple Excel files
- Strong commitment to and interest in the work of the UK Impact department, with our focus on the early years and poverty among children living in the UK

The above criteria does not necessarily have to have been in paid work, please do think about your voluntary/family experience when considering them.

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