PR & Marketing Officer

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NYAS is the leading provider of advocacy and associated service across the UK. NYAS shares the opinion that every child or young person experiencing care should have the same chance to live happy, healthy and rewarding lives as their peers.

If you are looking for a rewarding role with an organisation that makes a difference to young people’s lives, we want to hear from you.

Are you an inspiring communicator? Do you want to use your skills to influence change, build key PR and media skills and give young people a voice?

We’re looking for a creative PR and Marketing Officer to be the first point of contact for our media enquiries, develop engaging literature and coordinate our case studies work.

You will have hands-on experience of marketing and communications and be creative and independent in your thinking, and use a range of marketing tactics and tools. Joining a small team, this is an exciting opportunity to develop and implement a marketing strategy which will help ensure that care-experienced children and young people across England and Wales are able to reach their full potential.

Other responsibilities include:
Work with the fundraising team to develop supporter acquisition and retention key messaging and communications, for activities such as direct marketing appeals ensuring our supporters always get the best experience.
Research and produce excellent, compelling and accurate case studies, which demonstrate the services offered and the impact these services have upon the people we support.
Support the delivery of the internal communications and engagement strategy, providing clear organisation wide messaging to staff and volunteers.
Coordinate content activity across all channels, to ensure staff and volunteers are informed and engaged in organisational projects and activities.
Identify and develop media opportunities, working closely with the policy team and other staff across the organisation.
Produce and distribute well written, effective, accurate and impactful press releases, articles, statements, case studies, Q&A sheets, briefings and other media materials to local and relevant national media.
Work with designers (agency and freelance) to coordinate, edit and distribute marketing assets’

For more information, please view the attached job description.

In your application, you will need to evidence, using specific examples, how your skills and experience meet the criteria laid out in the person specification, within the job description attached. Requirements include:

Proven experience either in a marketing/PR role.
Ability to write compelling and persuasive copy for a wide range of audiences and publications.
Understanding of marketing principles; both in print and digital marketing.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Creative and with keen eye for detail.

In return for joining NYAS you will receive the following benefits:

26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
Company sick pay
Health care plan
Salary sacrifice pension contributions
Learning and development opportunities
Cycle to work scheme

NYAS operates robust safe procedures to ensure the protection of the children, young people and adults at risk we work with. To comply with NYAS’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a Digital Risk Assessment.

NYAS is an equal opportunities employer

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we receive a high number of applications.