Communications and Engagement Manager (Maternity Cover)

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The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) is looking to recruit a Communications and Engagement Manager for a Maternity Cover for up to 1 year.

In this role, you will lead processes and activities in support of the design and delivery of the UKHIH’s global communications and engagement strategy under the guidance of the UKHIH Director.

The role requires strong campaign and project management skills and a passion for driving the conversation around humanitarian research and innovation by delivering integrated multi-channel communications campaigns to engage key stakeholders and drive impact around our work.

The role also leads UKHIH’s convening work, bringing together stakeholders (e.g., innovators, academics, and humanitarians) through various mechanisms to promote and facilitate collaborations that focus on new and improved approaches, processes, and systems that make humanitarian action more effective.

The UKHIH Communications and Engagement Manager will work closely with Elrha’s communications team to align communications as part of a broader organisational development process and strategy, contributing to ongoing communications efforts for both Elrha and UKHIH during a period of strategic change.

Your application will need to demonstrate:

• Experience of planning and delivering multi-channel communications strategies in a timely, targeted, impactful, and ethical manner.
• Experience in the international development or humanitarian sector, including an awareness of humanitarian issues and the way that the humanitarian system operates in terms of relevant media, networks, and organisations.
• Excellent track record of managing external communications suppliers and agencies.
• Experience supporting diverse teams in the development of communication and engagement strategies and capacity development.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop creative content across digital, print, and other mediums.
• An understanding of transitioning brands through organisational change processes.
• Experience with event management including webinars, round tables, conference events, workshops, and networking events.
• Strong written and design skills to inform the development of high-quality content for publication and to support partners in summarising complex information in clear, non-technical language.
• An understanding of how to track the impact of communications and engagement activities.

If you want to be part of an organisation that creates positive change in the humanitarian sector, then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed.

We offer:

• Remote working as standard – staff can access office bases in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Manchester if required/appropriate. We expect staff to attend team meetings and away days in person as needed.
• Standard working hours are 35 hours per week, with discussions for flexible working patterns available.
• Benefits include a minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family-friendly pay and leave schemes; incremental increase in annual leave (25-day basic entitlement) depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and retail discounts platform.
• Please read through the Information for Candidates document for further information to support your application, including details on Our Values, Strategy, Benefits, and Salary.

Note for applicants:

• Candidates must have the independent right to work in the UK at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role.
• Please read through the job description for a detailed list of requirements and ensure you complete the personal statement to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is the next career move for you.
• When applying, you will be taken through the Save the Children UK recruitment system. Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes.
• For any questions, please contact the HR team at HR@elrha.org.

Closing date: Tuesday 19th November 2024
Interview dates: Wednesday 4th December 2024

Role Description

Job Description
Joining Elrha: Information for Candidates

About UKHIH

Founded in 2020, the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) is an initiative hosted by Elrha, a global organisation committed to solving complex humanitarian challenges, funded by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO). Our mission is to address significant humanitarian issues through rigorous research and innovative solutions by bringing together diverse stakeholders from both within and beyond the humanitarian sector, fostering collaboration, co-creation, and resource mobilisation.

Since its inception, UKHIH has been at the forefront of advancing humanitarian innovation through Accelerated Innovation Collaborations (AICs), which drive major advancements in the field via a shared strategic learning process. A key feature of these collaborations is the inclusion of researchers from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) through the UKHIH fellowship scheme, allowing for invaluable insights and strengthening local capacities. Additionally, UKHIH supports the Humanitarian Rapid Research Initiative (HRRI), conducting real-time research on emerging crises, producing pivotal reports on issues such as ethical concerns in Afghanistan, response capacities to cholera, and the humanitarian impacts of natural disasters like the Turkey/Syria earthquake and the Pakistan floods. More recently, UKHIH has expanded its efforts to include ecosystem development within the humanitarian sector, focusing on UK capability mapping and exploring emerging technologies to tackle future challenges effectively.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Elrha is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work, both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBTQ+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Please ensure you read the full job description, the Candidate Information pack, and complete the Personal Statement as requested in the application process. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable people in our work. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.