Details:
- Salary: £29,216 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Communications Officer
Location: Based at SIA House, Milton Keynes - We offer hybrid working with the expectation of three days per week in the office.
Salary: £29,216 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday – Friday
About the role
We’re looking for a communications officer to assist the communications team in delivering Spinal Injuries Association’s (SIA) strategy to further enhance SIA’s standing as the expert guiding voice for life after spinal cord injury.
In close collaboration with the digital communications coordinator, you will help make our website the go-to, accessible source of information and support for the spinal cord injured community. You will also support in executing SIA's social media strategy, coordinating with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure impact and reach.
Duties include
* Be proactive in working with departments across the charity to generate diverse and compelling digital content that engages and informs our audiences, ensuring consistency and alignment with tone of voice and brand guidelines.
* Support with implementing the necessary changes to enable the website to achieve accessibility accreditation.
* Assist with the monitoring of analytics for the website.
* Support with the creation and updating of information across the website, including the SCI Knowledge Hub.
* Monitor the website for any broken links and issues and work with the digital communications coordinator to fix them in a timely fashion.
* Support in executing SIA's social media strategy, coordinating with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure impact and reach.
* Support in creating dynamic, accessible, compelling and sharable on-brand content across all platforms.
* Assist with monitoring social media campaigns, ensuring quality control, consistency of approach and accuracy.
About us
The Spinal Injuries Association is committed to a singular vision: a fulfilled life for everyone affected by spinal cord injury. Everyone has a right to live a fulfilled life and that means the life they choose, a life that has the same opportunities as everyone else. We are the expert, guiding, voice for life after spinal cord injury.
We’re the leading national charity supporting individuals who sustain damage to the spinal cord resulting in paralysis. We are a dedicated organisation providing high-impact, quality services for people with spinal cord injury and their families. All of our work is based on the personal experiences of our members.
Being a user-led organisation is important to us; more than 11,200 of our members, almost half of our staff and the majority of our trustees live with spinal cord injury.
Benefits
* Annual leave: 28 days per holiday year plus bank holidays
* Access to Group pension scheme (6% employer contribution)
* Access to Group life assurance scheme
* Access to Healthcare cash plan
* Access to Employee assistance programme (EAP)
* Employee volunteer days
* Discounted gym membership at many top gyms across the country
* Free car parking at MK Head Office
* Investing in their people - all members of staff are encouraged to discuss their development plans and aspirations with their line manager. A budget is available for talent development.
* Wellbeing - People are at the heart of everything this organisation does. They offer hybrid working in their modern, bright open plan office, quarterly staff development days, annual reviews and regular 121s.
Closing Date: Monday 22 April 2024
Interviews: Wednesday 1 May 2024
Location: Online or in person in the Milton Keynes area
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
At SIA, we value diversity. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment as we believe diversity fosters a more innovative, creative, and caring culture.
We are striving to create a culture that fully represents all the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, family or parental status, or disability status.
Disabled candidates who meet the standard job criteria will be offered a guaranteed interview.
No agencies please