Jordan Mission
Media and Communications Officer - Volunteer
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Jordan Mission
Jordan Mission intends to improve life skills and develop self-esteem for young adults in East London (Newham). We focus on young adults struggling in finding guidance and information for employment, apprenticeships, or training.
What difference will you make?
The role will provide leadership and direction to the Board of Trustees to enable the board to fulfill its responsibilities for the overall governance and strategic direction of the charity, as well as oversight and scrutiny of the charity’s operations. The charity plans to pursue even greater collaboration with local partner organisations to deliver support and services, to enable affordable expansion of its activities.
It also provides an opportunity to work alongside an experienced and diverse team of trustees and senior management in a rapidly changing environment to make a real difference to the lives of young adults in the London Borough of Newham and in Badja, Togo.
It will develop a portfolio of new services that empowers young adults to love later life including activities that promote digital inclusion.
What are we looking for?
The role is absolutely critical to Jordan Mission’s success. As a mission-led organisation, everything we do has a strong communications dimension to it with a view to influencing, inspiring and impacting on others to do things differently.
Requirements And Qualifications
- First degree / undergraduate qualification
- Substantial experience in communications and marketing
- Solid understanding of the brand planning process and the broad principles of good marketing strategy and brand positioning
- Existing relationships with UK media and press contacts, ideally with property trade press, and experience of running successful PR campaigns
- Demonstrated experience in digital marketing and social media, and a particular eye for innovative high impact communications across multi-media channels
- Strong project management skills, including experience of working across complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, and managing scarce resources to tight deadlines
- Experience of developing and managing budgets, and procuring and managing suppliers to deliver outsourced support
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to tailor communication outputs to a wide range of audiences
- Strong line management experience and leadership qualities in terms of motivating and inspiring team members to perform at their best
- High level of competence in using standard software packages (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Light-room, Photoshop etc)
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Remote
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
What will you be doing?
The Media & Communications Officer is a very important role within Jordan Mission, reporting directly to the Chief Executive. The role will cut across all the different functions of Jordan Mission, working particularly closely with the Project Development Manager and Fundraising & Partnership Officer. The post-holder retains a cross-cutting responsibility for communications and liaising with senior individuals responsible for learning and development, to create a powerful and consistent narrative that underpins Jordan Mission’s communications with key stakeholder groups - including members, government, media and wider industry.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Drive an ambitious, innovative and integrated communications strategy around the benefits of green building in the UK and internationally, drawing from the extensive expertise within the Jordan Mission team and the wider membership, as well as a variety of other stakeholders and partners
- Support the successful delivery of JM’s programmatic activities through targeted marketing collateral, press and social media, and oversee the delivery of a varied and high impact calendar of events
- Raise the profile of JM’s brand within the marketplace and online, reinforcing the existing brand identity and associated messages in terms of purpose, values, value proposition, mission and vision
- Manage all proactive and reactive media relations, including developing strong relationships with national and industry press contacts, as well as supporting senior management team members to raise the profile of JM and their own personal profile to demonstrate the strength of leadership driving the activity of the organisation
- Develop and oversee the strategic marketing plan for JM, including member segmentation, packages of benefits, pricing models, sales collateral, and ultimate customer satisfaction with a view to reinforcing the value proposition, and member retention and recruitment
- Review the high-quality content generated by JM against the needs and demands of different audiences with a view to developing more tailored communications targeted at segmented groupings within and beyond the membership
- Oversee a growing programme of events, supporting the programmatic teams to deliver well attended events which support member engagement, but also generate commercial benefit from non-member events that can simultaneously deliver on JM’s charitable objectives
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location