This role is for a highly creative, confident, robust and professional communications individual, who has been working within an integrated digital marketing or communications team for at least two years.  The ideal candidate can put to use their learned skills to support a really busy, dynamic, forward-thinking, ambitious comms team and expand their own repertoire of communications skills at the same time.

You will be working closely with the Head of Marketing Communications and wider team to help plan, create and activate the Trust’s annual communication plan.  You’ll be supporting the team across a wide range of programmes, projects, campaigns and activities and delivering creative, branded, on-message content across a range of platforms - both digital and offline – using the appropriate tone of voice, that support the Trust’s Wilder 2030 strategy, showcases the Trust’s work, bringing our story and nature’s story to life in order to expand the charity’s reach into new and wider audiences, and bringing new supporters on board with the Trust’s mission.

Job Description – Key Responsibilities and Tasks

Responsibility 1: Content Design, Creation & Delivery

• Support the team in producing creative content, including video, tailored for specific audiences and platforms to achieve the best possible engagement with our incredibly broad audience base.
• Working with the Senior Comms Officer and the Website & Digital Lead, along with wider teams, to commission and produce short-form, long-form and multimedia content and execute across the appropriate channels.
• Using Canva, create on-brand design templates for teams and their projects to enable them to create print and digital collateral to engage with their audiences and promote the Trust and its work – providing internal training for staff where needed.
• Support the Website and Digital Lead in ensuring that the website reflects the three pillars of our 10-year strategy updating basic content where appropriate and helping audit and improve SEO.
• Where relevant, support Communications colleagues to localise and syndicate nationally created campaign and project content across the Trust’s own channels.

Responsibility 2: PR & Branding

• Support the distribution of press releases and keep our media contact records up to date.
• Manage our image library and design and branding resources library and source and supply where needed for various ongoing projects and campaigns.
• Help coordinate print and design work working with our suite of external suppliers, negotiating costs while ensuring quality standards are maintained.
• To fact check and proof read communications to ensure their accuracy.
• Support the production of the member’s magazine.

Responsibility 3: Comms Project Coordination & Reporting

• Use excellent project management skills to take on the coordination of a range of small projects across the Trust teams in their entirety, delivering content and activities and keeping key internal stakeholders informed and updated.
• Responsibility for updating our key Communications workspace (monday.com) through collaboration and networking with other internal teams and coordinating and attending meetings.
• Helping to collate key monthly analytics for our Communications reporting dashboard including; website, social and email metrics and generating reports from our media monitoring platform.