Events & Communications Coordinator - Kenilworth, United Kingdom - British Horse Society

British Horse Society

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Kenilworth, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The British Horse Society is the nation's largest equine charity with a passion for horses that is backed by knowledge and expertise. The BHS represents and provides a range of services for horse riders, horse owners, enthusiasts and professionals.

Our Home Team within the Society is made up of professionals who bring together a variety of experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. We celebrate the diversity of our people and place a high value on creating an environment where everyone can bring their whole self to work. We work with agility, giving you autonomy to make decisions about where, when and how you work within a set of principles that are agreed within teams.

We are looking for an Events & Comms Co-ordinator to support our Development Team which is made up of all the BHS regional and national managers as well as the volunteer support team. The Development team provide an engaging local presence focused on delivering the work and activities of the charity at a local level. The Event & Comms Coordinator will support the team in creating and communicating promotional material for local/regional/national events and activity across multiple platforms.

Key skills needed for this exciting role:

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal with good customer service.
Enthusiastic and selfmotivated with excellent teamworking skills.
Previous experience and technical skills in creative writing, marketing and design, with good proofreading skills.
Excellent IT skills as well as competent socialmedia user across all platforms.
Ability to prioritise, organise workload and work to deadlines
Good equine knowledge with full understanding of the equine market

So, you're interested?

Here's some information on the role.

You will support the Development team by creating engaging content for promoting a variety of equestrian activities locally.
You will be responsible for creating and uploading relevant content regarding upcoming events and activities to the BHS website in liaison with Regional/National Managers, volunteers and the marketing team.
You will design new resources and templates to develop a library of useful promotional material to support volunteers and Regional/National Managers in promoting their events, for print, digital and social media.
You will be confident in the use of social media to enable the marketing and promotion of local activities to increase engagement and reach new/widen range of audiences.

What will you get in return?
Annual Leave: 26 days + plus bank holidays (increasing to 28 days after 3 years' service)

Pension:Automatic entry at 4% into our scheme after 3month deferral period, contributions matched up to 5%
Health Benefits: health (income protection) insurance,health cash plan, life assurance at 4 x salary, yearly flu jab
Wellbeing Support: 'Everymind at Work' mental health and wellbeing app and quarterly webinars, opportunities to participate in range of engagement activities such as our book and gardening clubs, 'Put the Kettle On' informal virtual chats and our annual Funuary activities
Training and Development: Access to a range of formal and informal development opportunities, including BHS Wise (our elearning platform), our 'A Day in Your Shoes' crossdepartmental work shadowing scheme and 'C-Me' communication workshops.
Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Pay for eligible Home Team members.

The British Horse Society is committed to achieving equity for all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better organisational outcomes.

We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all employees.

We therefore strongly encourage suitably experienced people from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£23,000.00 per year

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