Communications Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Global Aid Network UK

Description

Involving people is the heartbeat of GAiN and expressing our key messages to volunteers, donors, businesses and churches is essential to inviting people to be part of the network.

To support the work of the team in mobilising volunteers to be part of responding with heart and hand to poverty and crisis overseas by contributing to building and growing the network.

To glorify God, serve others and personally grow in faith, in accordance with the vision and values of GAiN and Agapé UK.

Taking responsibility for our regular online and printed communications will see this role develop a strategic approach to our overall communications.

Depending on strengths and experience, responsibilities will include managing communication with volunteers and donors, providing support for events and campaigns throughout the year.

As a developing team the nature of the roles requires a high level of teamwork, flexibility and readiness to take on a variety of responsibilities covering a broad area.

• Maintain our website content to be current and up to date
• Creating regular blog post content for the news section on our website
• Updating our social media feeds
• Producing regular enews content and format to be sent via mailchimp
• Producing regular printed newsletters overseeing the process from creating the content briefing through to mailing
• Working with the team to produce fund appeals both online and through direct mail
• Providing content to the Agapé central team on the work of the GAiN team
• Ensuring the GAiN & Agapé UK branding guidelines are followed
• Ensuring that GAiN communications activities are compliant with our Data Policy

• An excellent working knowledge of websites and social media
• Strong communications skills with the ability to build excellent working relationships
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word and other content creation tools as well as basic understanding of database management
• Experience of using content management systems is desirable