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Are you looking for your next opportunity as a Digital Fundraising and Communication’ Officer? Then look no further, come and join us at Hope House Children’s Hospices by playing a vital role in delivering ‘Our Mission’ helping every child with a life-threatening condition live their best life.

Hope House Children’s Hospices have an exciting new opportunity for a Digital Fundraising and Communications Officer to join our team. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, with hybrid working arrangements. In return, you will receive a competitive rate of £27,603 - £34,439 per annum.

Hope House Children’s Hospices is here to help every child with a life-threatening condition in our area to live their best lives by giving them and their family access to professional care and improving their quality of life, and raising the money we need to do this.

About the Digital Fundraising and Communications Officer role

As our first Digital Fundraising and Communications Officer you will use your expert knowledge and proven experience to drive our digital platforms, social media channels, SMS, and paid-for digital marketing campaigns to the next level.

You’ll be passionate about Hope House Children’s Hospices’ purpose to help every child with a life-threatening condition to live their best life by spreading awareness of our services, and supporting income generation by gaining more online donations, gifts in wills referrals, Lottery and event sign ups, as well as promoting our charity shops.

You will get a real buzz from communicating across digital platforms and social media, have a creative eye, and be happy working with colleagues from all areas of the charity.

You’ll be organised, unflappable and excellent at prioritising, and be full of ideas while remaining receptive to other opinions and feedback.

You’ll understand the need to be empathetic towards the children, families, volunteers and donors, and be happy to travel around the region to visit our hospices, fundraising offices, shops, volunteers, events and families.

We are looking for Digital Fundraising and Communications Officer who:


Has the energy and drive to identify, capture and place fresh and engaging content that will engage and inspire new and existing audiences across our digital and social media platforms to support Hope House Children’s Hospices.
Has knowledge and proven expertise in digital and social media marketing to optimise our digital performance and quantifiable results across all platforms, existing and new.
Understands that we are passionate about helping children to live their best lives. This is more than a job – it is a position of privilege and an opportunity to use your skills to benefit children and families.


What we offer:

In return for your commitment, we offer a great reward package, which includes


generous annual leave entitlement of 34 days per annum
organisational pension scheme
staff rewards programme
flexible working arrangements
great development opportunities.
supportive culture
pleasant working environment
subsidised meals


Closing date: 22nd November 2024

Interview date: To be confirmed

If you think you have what it takes to be our Digital Fundraising and Communications Officer then please click ‘apply’ now! We are welcoming informal discussions with our Communications Manager, Nathan Rowden, contact us on 07341 571601. We’d love to hear from you!

Hope House and Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospices are committed to equality of opportunity and meeting the needs of children, young people and families. The care we provide and the environment we create to deliver care reflects our ongoing commitment to respecting the diversity of the communities we serve, and the individual physical, spiritual and emotional needs of each person and their loved ones.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Role Title: Communications Designer
Duration: 6 months
Location: Telford, Hybrid
BPSS is required for this role

Role purpose / summary

We are seeking a talented Designer to join our Communications Team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for producing visually compelling graphic design products, creating engaging films, and providing support for various events. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and PowerPoint is essential, as is a strong understanding of design layout and cinematography principles.

The designer will collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders to ensure cohesive and effective communication of our brand's message across all platforms. You will need to be able to work independently effectively manage a rapid and ever-changing pipeline of work. Creativity, attention to detail, and a strong portfolio showcasing your design skills are a must.

For the design role, we'd be keen to see a portfolio or a showcase of work as part of the interview process too.

To work with and support the Internal Communications team who play a valued role in translating business strategy and organisational priorities into tangible communications deliverables, by developing and delivering high quality design work, and to work within the design team to deliver best-in-class digital and print media to enhance internal communication campaigns.

Key Skills/ requirements

Objectives:

• Work to short deadlines and adapt to rapidly changing priorities - offer flexibility to aid delivery, as required.
• Support the communications strategy.
• Support the team to deliver the highest possible standard of Internal Communications.
• Support and enhance the reputation of the team.
• Deliver high quality design work.
• Provide design consultancy.
• Ensure deliverables are aligned with leading industry standards.
• Seek to continuously develop your design skills.
• Act as guardian and champion of the brand.
• Support the development of the design team through constructive feedback, peer reviews, collaborative working, and cross-training.

Deliverables:

• Develop a range of digital media, complying with brand guidelines, to support and enhance the impact and reach of communications campaigns.
• Good all-round technical skills; have a strong understanding of different media file types. Publication and management of content on the Intranet (Create and edit intranet pages in our bespoke CMS system) and other key channels.
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite in a Windows based environment.
• Excellent typography skills and an eye for detail.
• Proficiency in the artworking of digital media plus brochures, banners, presentations, posters and other media.
• Design products including but not limited to digital and print media, video and audio, animation, illustration.
• Clear and authoritative design consultancy for stakeholders.
• Material support of any reasonable nature required to assist in the delivery of key business events delivered by the Communications team.
• Supporting and leading live streamed events with a confident grasp of using the technology required to do so.
• Explore the use of new technologies to deliver comms through exciting and modern ways.

Responsibilities:

• Work with communications business partners, wider team and internal stakeholders, to understand business objectives, suggesting and developing the most appropriate media to meet those goals.
• Work collaboratively with fellow designers, actively seeking and offering constructive feedback.
• Comply with, and contribute to, the development of standard design processes within the team. You may need to pass work to others and/or pick up work from others as priorities change.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest design industry trends, sharing experience, knowledge and new ideas with the rest of the team.
• Use design knowledge and experience to ensure the business goals can be achieved, clearly articulating design recommendations and choices.
• Ensure all work produced is compliant with the brand guidelines and within this scope deliver compelling, engaging and innovative designs that align to and push industry trends.
• Work within established processes in the team.
• Enhance processes within the team and seek to improve delivery time for routine tasks.
• Accurately estimate how much time is required for a piece of work and stay within this estimate. Ensure timely recording of progress against tasks in work management tooling. Ensure the Internal Communications team, and wider stakeholders, are well informed on the status of deliverables.
• Offer clear and authoritative design consultancy for stakeholders.
• Support continuous delivery by ensuring your work in progress can be transferred to another resource at any time, by ensuring it is saved onto the shared drive.
• Inform your line manager of concerns, risks and issues.
• Take appropriate care with hardware assets such as video and audio equipment.
• Adhere to all set principles and governance for our digital key channels.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!