Communications & Learning Assistant

Salary: £27,000 to £29,000 per annum

Location: Kings Cross, London with hybrid working arrangements. We have ‘core days’ when all employees are expected to work from the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The office is open all day every working day and employees can use the working space as much as is helpful to deliver their role.

Hours: Full-time, working to broadly standard office hours (35-hour week).

We welcome applications from individuals requiring flexible working hours. During core days, staff should work broad office hours (usually encompassing 10am – 4pm).

Reports to: Director of Communications and Learning

Applications close: 3pm, Monday 7th October 2024

About Esmée

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a leading independent funder. We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK. We provide c. £50million annually in grants to organisations and initiatives with brilliant ideas who share our goals. We also provide social and impact investment for organisations with the aim of creating social and environmental impact.

In 2020, we launched a new strategy with a focus on three interdependent aims: improving our natural world; tackling injustice to deliver a fairer future; and nurturing creative, confident communities. Under the new strategy we will be playing a more active role ourselves our range of tools to effect change. In addition to funding, this includes convening and brokering alliances, commissioning research and using our influence to achieve our goals.

Our strategy is underpinned by the need to tackle structural inequity, racism and the causes and impacts of climate change – both as an organisation and through the work we support.

Useful links to learn about us:

• Our values
• Working for Esmée

About the role

We are looking to recruit an additional team member to support and provide additional capacity to our Communications and Learning team in delivering the strategy. In particular:

• Helping to deliver our external and internal communications
• Supporting our approach to learning from the work we fund
• Supporting the administration of Funding Plus and Tools and arranging training for organisations we fund

Why apply:

We are seeking individuals who bring creativity, good attention to detail, and a passion for teamwork, while supporting the Foundation’s aims.  If you are interested in communications, enjoy creating content, and you think you can make a real contribution to our work, then this could be a great opportunity to develop your skills and career.

Core responsibilities:

1. Collaborate on delivering a communications plan that promotes the initiatives we support and highlights the work we do as a Foundation.
2. Serve as the first point of contact during the Communications Manager’s absence, ensuring continuity and accessibility for all stakeholders.
3. Support the Communications Manager in updating and writing copy for our website (using Wagtail), creating and sharing content for our social media channels (currently LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram) and newsletter (using Campaign Monitor), and monitoring engagement.
4. Work with the Communications Manager on internal communications (currently Teams channel and SharePoint): sharing updates about the Foundation’s work, news about the work we fund, and feedback we receive.
5. Work with the Communications Manager to organise and deliver the Foundation’s webinars (using Zoom) about our funding process and strategy.
6. Support the Foundation’s learning and impact approach, including organising training and learning events.
7. Funding Plus – support the Impact Support Manager in assessing and processing Funding Plus applications and awards (using Salesforce).
8. Tools – assist the Funding team in administration, payments and processing of the proactive projects we commission and run, e.g. event bookings and organisation, processing invoices, and tracking payments.
9. Actively contribute to the resources team, providing support for colleagues in the team as and where required.

Significant interfaces:

• Internally: all staff, in particular the Communications and Learning team
• Externally: people and organisations interested in our work and support, applicants and recipients of funding, and other sector partners

Skills and experience:

1. Good communication skills, with the ability to write and produce engaging content for different audiences.
2. Knowledge and experience of one of the Foundation’s sectors. (This might have been gained in a number of ways, including through lived experience.)
3. Demonstrated interest in communications or campaigning, which could be through previous roles, personal projects, studies, or community engagement.
4. Experience of using different social media channels.
5. Collaborative team player with the ability to work with a diverse range of people.
6. IT skills, with experience in using Word, PowerPoint.
7. Good organisational skills and attention to detail with the ability to conduct, prioritise, and manage several different tasks at once.

Personal qualities:

1. A keen eye for detail.
2. Enjoys being creative.
3. An active, constructive contributor to the team.
4. Adaptable and flexible in a dynamic work environment.
5. A genuine interest in and commitment to the Foundation’s ethos and values, which include: equity, kindness, integrity, ambition, and working together.

Benefits:

12.5% employer pension contribution (with a 5% employee contribution) and a range of benefits including: season ticket loan, income protection scheme, life assurance, (taxable) private medical insurance scheme, Give as You Earn scheme, cycle to work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme.

The Foundation has a strong commitment to the professional development of all staff.

Our commitment to DEI in recruitment:

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation believes that a greater diversity of views, skills, and lived experience will help generate better ideas, and will lead to better decision making. We want to encourage applicants with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. In particular, those with lived experience of racial inequity, disability, or poverty.

Applications close: 3pm on Monday 7th October 2024

Interview dates:      

• First stage interview: Thursday 24th October 2024 (online)
• Second stage interview: Tuesday 29th October 2024 (in person)

Apply today via the button below! For a chat about the role, you can reach out to Dom in the Inclusive Recruiting team. Call 0203 397 8333 or email dom@inclusiverecruiting.co.uk.