12 months fixed term contract

Salary: £50-55k

Location: London EC1A 9BU

Hybrid – a minimum of 2 days in the office (Tuesday and Wednesday) and the other days remote working

About Barts Charity

At Barts Charity, our vision is to provide life-changing improvements to health for the people of East London. We’re committed to investing around £150 million in new projects over the next five years in key areas of research and healthcare, which makes us one of the biggest medical/health funders in the country.

About the role

The Marketing & Communications team at Barts Charity inspires support by sharing the stories of those we fund. This role will work closely with the Funding & Impact team and Fundraising team to confirm comms needs, manage a content pipeline and write compelling content for various audiences and channels. While we don’t handle media work directly, we collaborate with communications teams at Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University London, and various research institutes and projects.

The key deliverables for the role are:

• Identifying and managing a content pipeline to serve website, social media, fundraising messaging and donor stewardship comms, paid advertising, supporter communications and all other written content
• Project managing the Impact Report
• Line managing the Content & Communications Officer

We would like to hear from you if you have the skills and capabilities below:

• Impactful and adaptable communication - a keen eye for a story and ability to write compelling copy for multiple audiences.
• Stakeholder engagement – ability to develop relationships with a broad range of internal and external partners.
• Project management – managing projects that involve various stakeholders (internal and external) and ensuring projects are delivered to a high standard.
• Team development and planning – working with colleagues to shape and refine effective processes.
• General skills - experience with a CMS such as WordPress; monitoring services such as Meltwater or Cision; Canva.

How to apply

Please send your CV and a supporting statement (of no more than 2 A4 sides), highlighting how you meet the key skills and experience required for the role as outlined in the Job Pack.

Please access the full candidate job pack: Senior Communications Manager

Interview Process

Diversifying Group 

Teams interviews - 20th – 29th January 2025

Barts Charity

1^st stage - competency-based panel interview (virtual) - 13^th & 14^th February 2025

Final stage – In-person interview – 18^th & 19^th February 2025

Closing date: Wednesday 15^th January 2025 at 23.59hrs

If you would like to discuss the role before applying, please feel free to contact Jo from Diversifying Group at joanna@diversifying.com.

Barts Charity Commitment

We are a friendly, diverse, and inclusive team and are committed to having employees that represent all communities. We welcome applications from people from all identities and backgrounds and we particularly want to encourage people from under-represented groups to apply to work with us.

Disability Confident Committed

Barts Charity is a Disability Confident Committed employer. We will offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you wish to apply under the Disability Confident campaign, please clearly note this in your application email.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible.

If you would like to discuss any specific requirements or would like an informal conversation about the role, please get in touch with joanna@diversifying.com.