Communications and Engagement Manager - South
- Employer
- British Heart Foundation
- Location
- Camden, London (Greater)
- Salary
- £35,000 p/a + benefits
- Closing date
- 3 Jun 2019
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- Contract Type
- Freelance / Contractors
- Hours
- Full Time
- Discipline
- Corporate Communications, Marketing Communications, Public Affairs / Policy
- Seniority
- Manager / Mid-Management
- Sector
- Charities
Job Details
Are you a dynamical public relations professional looking to make a difference in one of the country’s biggest charities? We have an exciting opportunity for a PR-centric individual to join us as our Communications and Engagement Manager and work with our Regional Communications team leading the communications output for the BHF across the South of England.
About the role
Your job will be raising the public profile of the BHF focusing on our research funding and its impact and will promote the BHF's work, influencing local partners, shaping the charity's reputation through media, engagement events, and other communication channels. With a proven track record of finding and developing compelling stories for the media, you'll work with the regional media team to devise and deliver regional PR strategies to promote key brand and awareness campaigns.
You'll also work with local teams to deliver impactful communication strategies, meeting challenging KPIs and demonstrating significant impact which should raise the public's desire to give.
Your local expertise will guide the way we influence and use both traditional media, digital channels and engagement opportunities.
About you
You'll be a self-starter with a positive and 'can-do' attitude. To be successful in this role you'll have:
• Excellent time management skills
• Rhe ability to work under pressure
• Excellent communication skills, able to negotiate and build strong relationships both internally and external partners, including journalists.
• Knowledge of digital communications tools.
• IT literate you'll be competent with Microsoft packages.
With previous experience of writing for the web you will have led media campaigns and successfully promoted and championed PR to colleagues. With understanding of media landscape across your patch you'll be able to tap into local audiences through different media outlets.
About us
When you work at the British Heart Foundation, you become a part of medical history. Part of a world leading organisation that has played a role in decades of life saving breakthroughs, from heart transplants and pacemakers to stents and clot busting drugs. And we’re not about to stop any time soon. We are here to beat heartbreak forever. To stop heart and circulatory diseases devastating families. And if you want to help us get there sooner, you could be the Communications and Engagement Manager we need.
How to apply
To apply for this role please click through to our website for further details. Our process involves submitting your CV and supporting statement, which should outline your interest and explain how you meet the role’s criteria.
Please note this is a 9-12 month maternity cover contract
Interviews are due to take place Friday 14th June at our London head office
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
British Heart Foundation recognises and respects the value and diversity of all.
Company
Our Vision
Our vision is of a world in which people do not die prematurely of heart disease.
We will achieve this through our pioneering research, our vital prevention activity and by ensuring quality care and support for people living with heart disease.
We need you to share our vision because, together, we really can beat heart disease.
Our Strategy
But if we are to succeed in beating heart disease, it's v ital that everyone is aware of our objectives - and how we are working to achieve them.
Read more about Beating Heart Disease Together, Our Strategy
Our Activities
As the nation's heart charity, the British Heart Foundation focuses on three vital things:
Investing in pioneering research
We fund around 1,200 research projects investigating every aspect of heart disease - from causes and safer drugs to improving surgical techniques.
Supporting and caring for heart patients
We fund BHF Nurses who visit heart patients with all types of heart conditions in their homes. We provide defibrillators and echocardiograph machines for hospitals, emergency services and first-aiders.
Providing vital information to help people reduce their own risk of dying prematurely from a heart or circulatory related illness
We produce publications, videos and other materials for health professionals and the public including children. We inform people about how to improve the health of their heart through public information campaigns, advertising and the media.
Some vital facts and figures
There are over 400 BHF Heart Nurses caring for patients across the UK.
Over 1,620 Heartstart UK schemes teach people what to do in an emergency. More than 1.6 million people have been trained by Heartstart UK in schools and the community.
The BHF invests over £137 a minute on research to keep the nation's hearts healthy.
Download a copy of our booklet 'Beating Heart Disease Together, Our Strategy'
- Website
- http://www.bhf.org.uk/
- Location
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Greater London House
180 Hampstead Road
London
UK
NW1 7AW
GB
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