Communications Manager
The National Deaf Children’s Society
Home-based role
1 year Maternity cover role paying £32,522 – £38,490 per annum
Charity People are delighted to be partnering with the National Deaf Children’s Society to recruit a Communications Manager. As Communications Manager you’ll bring wide experience, skills and knowledge in communications. You’ll enjoy a mix of operational and strategic work with a focus on the charity’s international work.
This fantastic role will provide the opportunity to work closely and collaboratively across the organisation providing expert communications advice and delivering engaging and compelling communications for a range of audiences.
The National Deaf Children’s Society is a leading charity for deaf children. They provide expert support on childhood deafness, raise awareness and campaign for deaf children’s rights, so they have the same opportunities as everyone else. They do this through improving deaf awareness in schools, transforming support for deaf children, and campaigning on key issues.
About the role
As Communications Manager, you’ll create communications for wide range of internal and external audiences in order to increase knowledge and raise awareness of the situation of deaf children and their families living in developing countries and communities and help advocate for their rights.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading and running their Deaf Child Worldwide communications to deliver on international strategic objectives. This could include identifying opportunities to promote the society’s international activities, events, blogs, webinars, training and projects as well as the production of a monthly newsletter.
- Being the communications conduit for the charity’s international partners, consultants and practitioners to ensure a two way communications flow.
- Representing Deaf Child Worldwide at relevant external meetings as agreed, in particular BOND Communications and Disability Groups and IDDC among others.
- Working alongside fundraising colleagues so that their supporters receive relevant and up to date information about the charity’s work and collaborate with colleagues in the production of the Annual Report and Impact Report to highlight the charity’s internationals work.
About you
We’d love to see applications from individuals with the following skills and experience:
- Significant experience of communications (international, corporate, change) in an organisation of a similar size, complexity and geographical dispersion, possibly for an international non-governmental organisation.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You should have the ability to liaise with internal and external contacts at all levels, associated with the field of deafness.
- Ability to understand complex ideas and communicate sensitive issues in a clear and accessible way for different audiences.
- Experience of working with partners and stakeholders, either in the UK or internationally, to develop their ideas into communications materials.
- Extensive experience of creating and implementing engaging multi-media campaigns and content using a range of channels and tools to communicate with audiences both within the UK and overseas.
If you’d like to find out more about this role please reach out in the first instance to Alice@CharityPeople.co.uk with an up-to-date CV. Alice will then be in touch to arrange an initial call and to talk through your experience, the role, and the application process.
Deadline: Monday 11th December
Interviews: TBC
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