Want to make dreams come true?

We are always on the lookout for people who share our values and mission of enabling individuals with serious and life-limiting medical conditions to fulfil their dream. If you're interested in increasing your impact both within your local community and the wider world, please take a look at our vacancies below.

Chair of Trustees

We are looking for that special individual who can provide leadership to the organisation, the board and the Chief Executive with style, compassion, and flair. Without doubt the role requires the levels of governance and oversight expected of a national charity but the key ingredient will be passion – passion for our cause, passion for our team and above all a passion for making a positive difference.

Please download the full Job Description here. 

Interim Marketing Engagement Manager

Remote Working with occasional visits (when conditions allow) to the office in Liphook, Hampshire

Either individual or marketing agency

Temporary contract (up to 6 months) with potential to move to permanent

Individual - £30,000 pro rata per annum or Agency - £3k per month

Full-time or part-time hours available (28 – 35 hours)

We’re looking for an Interim Marketing Engagement Manager or suitably qualified marketing agency to join us on a contract (for up to six months) which has the potential to become a permanent position.

Role Purpose

· To drive marketing communications activity through growing the supporter base and the delivery of targeted activities.

· Take ownership of the charities website and social media activities, improve their outputs and ensure content is up to date and relevant.

· Be responsible for all marketing engagement activities including the production of website content, social media updates and email marketing activity.

· To create engaging and relevant marketing content and analyse success of this content according to performance indicators.

· To lead in the delivery of all communications / public relations activity.

· To be responsible for the delivery of the charities individual giving targets through the planning and implementation of a range of engagement activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Digital Activity

· Run social channels on a day to day basis, responding to queries as necessary.

· Develop and optimise digital and social media outputs, including text, images, video and audio to reach wide-ranging target audiences.

· Spot trends and advise on best social media content and new technologies.

· Review online content, making sure it meets users’ needs, is up to date, and is search engine / key word search optimised.

· Create relationships with external websites like bloggers to increase site traffic.

· Run the website on a day to day basis and oversee the management of all technical aspects.

Marketing & Communications

· Lead in the delivery of charity positioning and proposition.

· Work with colleagues and produce marketing content for fundraising activity, corporate partnership activity and for community and volunteer activity.

· Work with colleagues to ensure dreams family story content is ethically sourced and deliver the content required for all marketing and supporter engagement.

Public Relations Responsibilities

· Take the lead in the management and delivery of the charities public relations.

· Responding to requests for information release or press conference from the media or designating a spokesperson or source of information.

· Establishing and maintaining relationships with consumer, community, employee, and public interest groups.

· Writing press releases and other media communications to promote clients.

· Studying the organization's objectives, promotional policies, and needs to build public relations strategies that influence public opinion and promote products, ideas, and services.

Individual Giving

· Lead on engagement activity that retains and grows the active donor base.

· Create and implement individual giving campaigns across all channels - digital, post, email and SMS.

General

· Recruit and manage external freelancers and agencies as needed to agreed plan and budget.

· Provide quality control support e.g. proof-reading, editing and ensuring content is on brand.

· Co- ordinate, manage and sign off all aspects of design work.

· Supervise and mentor any Volunteers, and / or any other staff that may be assigned to them, at the discretion of line management

· Ensure that all fundraising activities undertaken are legal, ethical and based on good practice guidelines such as those from the Fundraising Regulator, and in particular within GDPR.

· Gain agreement on how success will be measured and report on the results of all activity.

· Undertake any other duties as requested by line management

Person Specification

· Educated to degree level or equivalent with evidence of continuous professional development.

· Evidence of making a significant difference in marketing engagement both on and offline.

· Comfortable in the digital space and evidence of utilising technology to promote and deliver a digital by design approach.

· A self-starter, with experience of charity marketing specifically brand proposition, audience development, and increasing awareness & associated return.

· Visually creative, articulate and highly developed communication skills, resulting in the production of clear, inspirational and persuasive action plans.

· Strong interpersonal skills, a relationship builder with the ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships and operate at a senior level.

· Proven ability to form positive and productive relationships with internal stakeholders.

· Highly organised, with excellent time management skills, the ability to prioritise own workload and multi task to meet targets / deadlines.

· Good analytical and problem solving skills.

· Proficient with email and marketing software - experience of using CRM systems and proficient using content management systems to update website and social media platforms.

· Willing and able to work with / manage a number of different external suppliers with the ability to meld disparate outputs into a cohesive plan.

How to apply

If you would like an informal chat about the role, please email Richard Ashton [email protected] to arrange a suitable time to talk.

To apply in the first instance, please provide your CV with a covering letter including a written statement (2 sides A4 max) which makes a compelling case for why you believe you should have the role. Tell us how your experience, skills and personal attributes meet the requirements of the person specification. Please email your application to Lynne Govus: [email protected]

Please download the full Job Description here as well as the Staff Application Form here.

Closing date: Friday 5th June 2020 (applications received after this date will not be considered)