Location: Home based, with some travel across the UK
Direct Report: Reports to Head of Campaigns
Background: Communications, social media, writing, graphic design, digital analytics
Remuneration: £34,000 - £44,000 with 5% employer’s pension and 25 days holiday (plus 3 discretionary gifted days between Christmas and New Year)
Start date: ASAP
Term: 9 months
We are River Action
We are a small and agile campaigning organisation on a mission to rescue Britain's rivers from a toxic cocktail of agricultural, sewage and industrial pollution. We support community action, galvanise and mobilise public opinion, influence government policy, and call out destructive industrial practices to incentivise changes that end pollution.
We are a talented team of positive disrupters and community mobilisers to deliver our strategy to urgently protect and restore our rivers for the benefit of community and wildlife.
Britain’s rivers are our life support system and they are dying. We need urgent action to bring them back to life.
What you’ll be doing
As Senior Digital Communications Coordinator, you’ll be delivering our digital communication strategy by coordinating the organisation's creative digital content and analysing the impact of our digital communications to increase our impact as a campaigning organisation.
We are looking for someone who can create digital content, implement new and creative approaches to digital communications and analyse impact.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Coordinating the development and delivery of impactful digital communications plans for work across River Action’s Campaigns, Communities, Legal and Fundraising teams.
- Working with colleagues across the organisation to gather content including data and images for digital communications.
- Writing highly engaging, evidence-based and tactically astute content for digital communications.
- Designing digital communications materials using graphics software, videos and photography, adjusting format, style and medium for different platforms and audiences.
- Working closely with River Action's Media coordinator, to deliver reactive responses to real-time news stories and press releases.
- Collaborate with community activists and groups in gathering new video, audio, photographic and written content for digital communications.
- Posting and coordinating social media streams across all platforms (River Action’s prime channels are Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Linkedin).
- Actively cultivating River Action’s social media presence by growing the charity’s following across all platforms and supporting our many partner organisations and influencers with supportive posting.
- Maintaining River Action’s website, commissioning blogs, and other innovative content, ensuring the website is inspiring, accurate and relevant.
- Coordinating the delivery of River Action’s monthly newsletter including gathering content, writing copy and monitoring key indicator analytics.
- Monitoring and reporting communications performance and River Action impacts achieved through digital communications including social communications, email communications and website.
- Identifying new and innovative digital communications tactics to increase the impact of our work across the organisation.
- Testing and analysing the effectiveness of digital communications tactics.
- Recruiting and coordinating relationships with key influencers and our alliance of collaborators to promote our work, develop key messaging and profile-raising.
- Collaborating publicly on communications and public engagement initiatives with other NGOs to develop and cement strategic relationships, and increase cross-promotion across platforms.
- Contributing to the development of our brand and key messaging with colleagues and help keep these fresh and relevant.
- Visiting sites and communities to generate stories and images, interview people of interest and create live content.
- Contributing to fundraising efforts particularly crowdfunding in support of the Campaigns and Fundraising teams and charity’s mission.
- Helping ensure all team members representing River Action are well-briefed and on-brand ahead of external engagement, and colleagues handle sensitive personal information and relationships according to organisational policies.
- Keeping up to date with our relevant work across campaign, legal, advocacy, policy and key relationships in order to inform communications.
General
- Follow all charity policies.
- Actively participate as part of the team.
- Help to promote a positive, healthy and happy work environment and team culture.
- Attend and contribute to regular meetings.
- Work in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
- Be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others at work.
- Undertake any other duties as reasonably required.
- Keep up-to-date with input from colleagues on related research, activities and policies.
The above overview contains the main duties and responsibilities for this position. However, in a small organisation such as River Action, staff members are expected to show flexibility in their approach to work and be willing to undertake other tasks that are reasonably allocated to them but which are not part of their regular job description. Where any task becomes a regular part of an employee's responsibilities, the job description will be changed in consultation with the employee.
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single criteria. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. So if you like the look of this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with everything in the job description, we would still like to hear from you. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
River Action is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young and vulnerable people and expects all members of staff to share this commitment.
Location
You will work from home with some travel across the UK.
Application process
Applicants should apply to jobs@riveractionuk.com by submitting their Curriculum Vitae with an application letter describing their interest and suitability for the role by 9th February 2025. Only applications with all documents will be considered.
Interviews are anticipated be held via video conference during the week of 17th February 2025.
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within one week of the closing date.
