Campaign Communications Manager

Theirworld; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Founded 23 years ago, Theirworld has grown to become a leading global children’s charity committed to the best start in life for children and young people by ending the education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation.

If you care about issues like climate change, gender equality, inclusion, helping refugees and ensuring the voices of young people are represented at all levels of decision-making, then education is the key to unlocking big change in these areas. If you want to make change happen, join us!

We believe in unlocking big change from a supportive and inclusive environment. This is why, we now have an innovative 4-day-working-week which sees all employees working Monday to Thursday with the office closed on most Fridays.

This is in addition to hybrid working with most staff taking at least one day a week based in the office.

Other benefits include:

• Regular in-house training
• Travel
• Central London location: 5 mins from Liverpool St Station and Shoreditch High Street
• Highly competitive salaries, plus more
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home office expense allowance
• Life Insurance
• Season ticket loan scheme

About the role

As Theirworld embarks on the third year of its successful ‘Act For Early Years’ campaign, we seek a dedicated Campaign Communications specialist. The successful applicant will support our busy Campaign team in their calls for:

• At least $1 billion in new funding commitments from governments, international donors, businesses, and philanthropic donors to kick start progress and action for the youngest children.
• The first-ever global finance summit for the early years with the aim of securing the necessary investments to transform lifelong outcomes for all children
• A network of global partners to activate the Act For Early Years campaign locally

Based in London, the position’s primary focus will be coordinating activities across the Act For Early Years campaign, working with both internal content resource, as well as campaign partners and agencies.

The ideal candidate will report to the Director of Communications, working closely with the Senior Campaigns Advisor, and be a highly organised campaigning professional wanting to use their skills to end the global early years crisis.

Main responsibilities

The Campaign Communications Manager will support Theirworld’s Campaign and Communications teams by developing and managing the full campaign communications strategy. This will include planning and delivering across the following types of activities:

• Strategy: Developing and then running the campaign communications strategy to manage daily, weekly and monthly communications to key stakeholders, as well as promoting campaign asks and actions around moments and events.
• Digital campaigning: Overseeing all campaign channels (website, social, email) as well as setting up sign-on letters and petitions, creating partner content, sharing assets and supporting our ‘Act For Early Years’ influencers.
• Content coordination: Creating, managing and distributing content on both owned channels as well as to our partner network. Creating and curating content from key campaign milestones such as meetings, events and announcements.
• Events support: We run our own campaign events as well as supporting externally organised events. You may be asked to help manage everything from venue research, guest list management and badging as well as the creation and delivery of event branding and collateral.
• Partner communications: More than 150 businesses, early childhood organisations, NGOs, ministerial teams and foundations already support the campaign. You will create and update campaign communications toolkits and manage ongoing communication with the network.
• Communications story development: You will work with internal teams and partners to shape ongoing stories about the campaign. These may be for media outreach or as part of ongoing news shared on campaign channels and to partners
• Reporting: You will be responsible for developing regular reports on the campaign’s progress across several key indicators
• Creative ideation: The Act For Early Years campaign is fun, disruptive and attention-grabbing. You’ll help generate and create creative communication moments from global actions to experiential events and conference pop-ups
• Celebrity Champions: You will create a mobilisation strategy for engaging campaign ‘champions’ including well-known individuals, youth, First ladies etc.

Experience, skills and character

• Determined, enthusiastic and proactive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously with ease.
• A problem-solving mindset and ability to take initiative
• Excellent written English and verbal communication skills. Additional languages a bonus
• Confidently engaging with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to execute effectively under tight deadlines while staying organised and focused for results.
• A collaborative, hands-on attitude and team-player approach.
• At least 3-4 years’ experience in campaigning is essential, with an emphasis on having used digital channels extensively as well as supporting a network of partners. Previous work in public global mobilisation is highly desirable.

Starting at £40,000 + per year based on qualifications and experience.

Apply for this role

Please submit your CV and a covering email to [e-mail] including the name of the role of interest in the subject line of your email.

Only open to applicants with the right to work in the UK.

Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is successfully filled.

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