Head of Campaigns – top charity – London – £43k

High profile national charity that now has its ‘cause’ in a top 5 position on our government’s agenda seeks a Head of Campaigns who will inspire and lead the large, in house Campaigns team.

Already the proud winners of numerous industry communications awards for ‘best in house comms team’, it contains a bunch of talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds who are all interested in one thing: affecting change.

The goal of the division is to dramatically increase the general public’s understanding and empathy towards their fight and build further demand for political change.  The division equally supports the fundraising efforts and provides educational access to the public seeking to find out how they can access help.

The Campaigns team sits within a wider 50-strong team and includes Policy, Research, Public Affairs, Media, Brand and Internal Comms. The challenge is to integrate this activity to deliver effective, well researched, powerful, targeted and timely policy analysis, communications and campaigns – while supporting the rest of the organisation.

The team uses a variety of channels to run its campaigns, and therefore has a good working knowledge of various marketing, advertising, social and wider digital skills.

The Head of Campaigns role:

The main ambition for this role is to take a well performing Campaigns Team to a higher level of performance and impact, and to ultimately ensure that the charity secures lasting change. You will:

• Develop and manage a programme of high quality, timely and relevant campaigns at a national, regional and local level.
• Effectively manage the Campaigns team.
• Represent the organisation externally in meetings, in events and in the media.
• Work closely with other divisions and teams to develop integrated campaigns.

Experience required:

• A track record of developing and delivering winning campaign strategies that have made an important difference to the people you were trying to help.
• A good ability to respond to emerging events and turning them to an organisation’s advantage
• Experience of drawing innovation and creativity out of a team
• The ability to lead a team which can grow a large group of volunteer campaigners sufficiently engaged in a cause to help campaigning and fundraising efforts over time and different issues – primarily online, but also using offline techniques.
• Excellent understanding of integrating social media
• Good experience of people management and the ability to inspire a team
• Good budget management skill

Send your cv to Lorraine today!