Content and Communications Officer

CHM; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Content and Communications Officer to join their innovative team. This role involves creating engaging content across digital and offline platforms, supporting a wide range of communication initiatives that align with the organization's mission. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in digital marketing, excellent project management skills, and a passion for storytelling that resonates with diverse audiences. Join this forward-thinking organization to make a positive impact on nature and communities while enjoying a flexible working environment and fantastic benefits.

Benefits

7% employer pension contribution

Life assurance

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Paid volunteer days

Continuous Professional Development

33 days of holiday

Staff social calendar

Qualifications

• 2+ years in integrated digital marketing or communications.
• Experience in creating engaging content for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Produce creative content for various platforms and audiences.
• Coordinate small projects and maintain communication with stakeholders.

Skills

Content Creation

Digital Marketing

Project Management

SEO

Video Production

Canva Design

Education

Degree in Communications or Marketing

Professional Development in Digital Marketing

Tools

monday.com

Canva

Job description

Content and Communications Officer
Location: Taunton, Somerset. Hybrid working available
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Salary: Banding Level 2 - £27,000 - £29,500 per annum

About The Organisation

Our client is one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the UK. They are a science-led movement focused on restoring habitats to support a wide range of wildlife and restore natural processes that are essential for healthy landscapes, and provide vital services such as clean air and water, food, carbon absorption and flood alleviation.

About The Role

This role is for a highly creative, confident, robust and professional communications individual, who has been working within an integrated digital marketing or communications team for at least two years. The ideal candidate can put to use their learned skills to support a really busy, dynamic, forward-thinking, ambitious comms team and expand their own repertoire of communications skills at the same time.

You will be working closely with the Head of Marketing Communications and wider team to help plan, create and activate the Trust’s annual communication plan. You’ll be supporting the team across a wide range of programmes, projects, campaigns and activities and delivering creative, branded, on-message content across a range of platforms - both digital and offline - using the appropriate tone of voice, that support the Trust’s Wilder 2030 strategy, showcases the Trust’s work, bringing our story and nature’s story to life in order to expand the charity’s reach into new and wider audiences, and bringing new supporters on board with the Trust’s mission.

Job Description - Key Responsibilities and Tasks

Responsibility 1: Content Design, Creation & Delivery

• Support the team in producing creative content, including video, tailored for specific audiences and platforms to achieve the best possible engagement with their incredibly broad audience base.
• Working with the Senior Comms Officer and the Website & Digital Lead, along with wider teams, to commission and produce short-form, long-form and multimedia content and execute across the appropriate channels.
• Using Canva, create on-brand design templates for teams and their projects to enable them to create print and digital collateral to engage with their audiences and promote the Trust and its work - providing internal training for staff where needed.
• Support the Website and Digital Lead in ensuring that the website reflects the three pillars of our 10-year strategy updating basic content where appropriate and helping audit and improve SEO.
• Where relevant, support Communications colleagues to localise and syndicate nationally created campaign and project content across the Trust’s own channels.

Responsibility 2: PR & Branding

• Support the distribution of press releases and keep media contact records up to date.
• Manage the image library and design and branding resources library and source and supply where needed for various ongoing projects and campaigns.
• Help coordinate print and design work working with a suite of external suppliers, negotiating costs while ensuring quality standards are maintained.
• To fact check and proof read communications to ensure their accuracy.
• Support the production of the member’s magazine.

Responsibility 3: Comms Project Coordination & Reporting

• Use excellent project management skills to take on the coordination of a range of small projects across the Trust teams in their entirety, delivering content and activities and keeping key internal stakeholders informed and updated.
• Responsibility for updating the key Communications workspace (monday.com) through collaboration and networking with other internal teams and coordinating and attending meetings.
• Helping to collate key monthly analytics for Communications reporting dashboard including; website, social and email metrics and generating reports from themedia monitoring platform.

The organisation offers fantastic benefits including:

• 7% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Flexible and agile working
• Wellbeing support - Employee Assistance Program
• Diversity networks through RSWT/TWT
• Paid volunteer days
• Continuous Professional Development opportunities
• 33 days of holiday (25 + bank holidays)
• Staff social calendar and events

The opportunity to make a real and positive difference to nature, communities, and the climate!

Closing date:Tuesday 20th May 2025

Interested?

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