Digital Communications Officer (Maternity Cover)

Working Days: 30 hours per week
Length of Contract: 9 months fixed-term contract with possibility of extension

We’re recruiting a highly organised and experienced Digital Communications Officer to provide
maternity cover from February 2024. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn and develop in a
fast-paced environment where you can drive positive change within food, farming and land use.

The successful applicant will support the Communications Manager and play a key role in our
daily communications and digital media, including social media and website. This role will
directly lead the weekly delivery of NFFN’s member newsletter, so experience with MailChimp and
graphic design tools, such as Adobe Express and Canva, is essential.

This role is suited to someone who has the enthusiasm to learn and is an excellent
communicator. We want someone who is highly self-motivated for a virtual team and thrives in
collaboration. We don’t expect you to be an expert in food and farming but to have some
knowledge of our key work areas, including nature-friendly farm best practices and awareness of
policy development in food and farming. We want to see a passion for the environment and
sustainable food and farming, with a keenness to learn and bring new ideas for how we
communicate the messages of our core campaigns. You will have excellent copywriting and written
communication skills with experience in managing complex campaigns and messages. Our ideal
candidate is eager to see change happen, solutions-orientated and capable of balancing multiple
priorities and deadlines simultaneously.

Key responsibilities: 

• Supporting in implementing our
  communications strategy
• Managing our weekly newsletters
• Creating content for our social
  media and monitoring our platforms
• Writing content for our website and keeping it up to date
• Developing content for campaigns and helping to manage comms around events both in-person and
  online
• Running social media campaigns, including paid social media advertising
• Supporting
  the creation of content, including copywriting, editing, video editing and graphic design

Closing Date: Midnight, 29th January 2024
Interview Date: 2nd February 2024