About this role
Contract: Full Time, Permanent Location: Hybrid, two days per week in our London office As our communications officer, you will join our communications and marketing team. Part of our external relations directorate, the team play an essential role, crafting engaging communications that help achieve our mission and supporting colleagues across the charity to do the same. This role is perfect for a creative comms professional with a passion for writing and storytelling. Through compelling and strategic communications, you’ll help raise awareness of Frontline’s mission, attract supporters, influence public perception, demonstrate our impact and promote our vital work. From fundraising to programme recruitment, from influencing policy to promoting our commercial offer, our work would not be possible without the impactful storytelling you will create in this role. If you’d like to use your storytelling skills in a fast-paced role to make life better for children at risk of harm, we’d love to receive your application. Storytelling Working with colleagues across external relations, you will identify what storytelling is needed to achieve our charity objectives and make life better for children at risk of harm. You will seek out compelling stories, conduct interviews and turn these into content for a range of formats, including blogs, web copy, video and audio. You’ll work collaborate with colleagues to decide which stories to feature and how best to share them with our target audiences. You’ll provide communications support to colleagues for marketing campaigns, public affairs and at events. Social media and website You will manage Frontline’s social media channels, create our social media plan and engage with our followers as needed. You will create social media content yourself, as well as commission colleagues to create posts. You will share responsibility for updating and maintaining our website. Fellow and young person engagement You will collaborate with our Fellowship team to develop communications which keep our fellows – our programme alumni – engaged with our work including writing the Fellowship newsletter. You will build relationships with fellows who can provide compelling stories for your work. You will work with the young people on our advisory board to amplify their voices and incorporate their perspective into your work. Evaluation You will evaluate your performance through regular reporting and use these insights to evolve and improve your storytelling over time. You will develop an understanding of our target audiences and how best to engage them through your work. Branding Alongside the rest of the team, you will share responsibility for upholding Frontline’s brand, tone of voice and messaging and helping colleagues to do the same.