Stories Officer
1 week ago
Job description
The Talent Set are excited to be partnering with Action for Children to find their new Story and Content Officer.
Action for Children offer a hybrid working environment with remote home-working and an expectation of travel throughout the UK as needed. Typically, most staff work from home 2 days per week.
The role is for 12 months Fixed Term but has potential to go permanent.
We are looking for a passionate storyteller to gather powerful and engaging stories from Action for Children’s services to increase brand awareness (across our online and offline channels) to support the charity. Action for Children protects and supports children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives.
To help us achieve this, the key responsibilities will be:
- Lead on writing and gathering case studies to tell the stories of families, children and young people that use our services and the impact we had on improving their lives.
- Source, interview and write up, proofread new stories, and case studies, ensuring Action for Children can tell its story effectively to support communication, fundraising and digital activities.
- Develop and maintain key relationships with our services and storytellers to make sure they feel valued. Ensure storytellers are clear about how their personal stories will be used.
- Work closely with the Stories Manager to ensure stories fit into our pillars and key strategic priorities. Support the Stories Manager and team to develop a consistent and powerful approach to telling real-life stories through copy, images, videos to increase brand awareness.
- To project manage our stories pipeline and provide regular updates on story data and insights. To manage Resource Space where our stories are kept. To lead and manage compliance, GDPR and consent strategies within the team.
- In collaboration with media/digital officers highlight opportunities for tapping into the UK news agenda by effective use of stories and building up a network of staff and service users who can be used across different media (print, broadcast and online) to tell their story and that of Action for Children.
- Project management skills and prioritisation
- Excellent research, writing and presenting skills
- Knowledge of Resource Space or similar DAM systems
- Solid knowledge and understanding of case studies, story gathering and principles of the Stories Team (desirable)
- Excellent written skills - able to identify a good story and adopt a specific tone of voice and deliver it consistently across all content.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop strong relationships and build a network across internal clients and external partners.
- Ability to plan projects and deliverables, develop and deliver highly impactful content strategies to support story gathering requirements within Action for Children.
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