Location: Woods Mill
Salary: £37,025.63
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 35pw
Closing Date: 22nd July 2024
Interview Date: Beginning of August TBC
Would you love to have a key role in connecting people with the amazing wildlife and wild places in Sussex?
Do you have experience across a breadth of communication channels and a desire to use these skills to reach diverse audiences and inspire them to take action for nature?
Sussex Wildlife Trust is currently recruiting for a Head of Communications, an exciting opportunity for a experienced communications professional to lead our talented and creative team. This role would help deliver the Trust’s new strategy “Our Wild Sussex” to support our vision of a Sussex rich in wildlife, valued and protected by everyone.
Sussex Wildlife Trust
Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT) is a conservation charity for everyone who cares about nature in Sussex. We focus on protecting the wonderfully rich natural life that is found across our towns, countryside and coast. By working alongside local people we create opportunities for us all to connect with nature and for nature to thrive in even the most unlikely places.
We are now in a critical decade for change to protect and restore nature with the help of more people taking action for wildlife. Now is the time for an ambitious action plan to match the scale and urgency of the challenges we are facing. Our new Strategic Plan – Our Wild Sussex – was launched in April and sets out our vision and commitment to turning the tide for wildlife so that by 2030, nature in Sussex will be in recovery.
To deliver our new strategic aims, we have recently completed a comprehensive restructure of the charity to align to our goals. This restructure has generated a suite of new roles and opportunities which will enable us to achieve our ambitions of restoring and protecting at least 30% of Sussex land and sea for nature, inspiring one in four people in Sussex to take meaningful action for wildlife, building a stronger more inclusive and diverse organisation and becoming a net zero and climate resilient organisation.
In order to encourage diversity and inclusivity within the environment sector, we particularly welcome applications from people who have an ethnically or geographically diverse background, who are non-graduates and/or are living in economically deprived areas
The Role
To enable Sussex Wildlife Trust to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by leading the Communications Team to deliver high quality communications, excellent customer engagement and engaging visitor experiences.
This requires a strategic approach to ensure the creation of inspiring communications, delivered to diverse audiences, through a wide range of media, whilst safeguarding the Trust’s reputation.
The Person
We are seeking a highly skilled and creative individual who will work as part of the Trust’s senior management team to communicate and engage audiences in our exciting new strategy.
They will be a experienced leader who will provide direction, management and development for the Trust’s talented Communications Team. With a track record of originating and executing engaging communications across a range of media, to maximise media exposure and to reach and inspire diverse audiences including our members and supporters,.
They will be confident and experienced in budget management and performance monitoring to ensure the effectiveness of the Trust’s communication activities. These include interpretation, publications and communications across all key media and digital platforms. Experience of PR would also be beneficial.
Experience of campaigns would be useful as this role will support local campaigns as well as working closely with the national Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts on nation-wide campaigns and communications.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays each year (pro-rated for part time staff)
- Pension – company contribution from 6% and employee contribution of 3%
- Life Assurance – Pension Scheme Members 2 x Salary, Non-Pension Scheme Members 1 x Salary
- 2 days paid leave for volunteering each year
- Flexible working policy
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- EAP
- Employee discounts
- Informal car share arrangements
For more detailed information see what we offer page in the Recruitment Pack.