About Camphill Village Trust
Camphill Village Trust is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges. Now in our 72nd year, our focus on humanity and nature was inspired by our past and remains as key to the Trust’s ethos today. This is reflected in our focus on social and green care integration, valuing everyone’s contribution, enabling personal pathways to development, celebrating the changing seasons, and respecting the rhythm of natural life.
We operate in both rural and urban communities, building on our care (social) farming legacy. Our historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming, organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills, continues to play to our strengths.
We continue to support adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges to live their best, independent lives. By applying our core values to modern social care, we ensure that our provision remains relevant to supported people and social care commissioners today.
Purpose
The Communications Officer will play a key role in raising the profile of Camphill Village Trust and sharing the work we do around supported living, nature-based skills and therapies and co-production.
This is a varied, creative, organised and audience-focused role, responsible for shaping and delivering engaging internal and external communications.
A key part of the role will be strengthening communication across our network of communities, making sure important information is shared clearly and consistently, and that colleagues and people we support feel informed, connected and included.
Working with teams across the organisation, the Communications Officer will help bring our stories to life in a way that feels authentic, compelling and true to who we are, while supporting our wider goals and growing our voice locally and nationally.
Location & Travel
Remote
The role is remote with regular travel across the nine communities.
Duties & Responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
- Contribute to effective and impactful day to day management of the Trust’s website, social media and mobile platforms.
- Planning, creation, editing and use of digital content (including visual and video content) across a range of channels.
- Support regular analysis of key performance metrics and analytics, using the learning to fine tune the communication strategy.
- Support an effective and efficient press and media operation.
- Be a key brand guardian, advising colleagues on design and style guidelines as needed.
- Support the development and delivery of improved internal communications and provide editing/writing/proofreading support as required.
- Support maintenance of internal communications platforms.
- Provide logistical and communication collateral support for internal and external events.
- Coordinate photography and videography to be used for a number of purposes and ensure proper consent processes have been followed.
- Support the development and implementation of paid advertising on our digital channels (particularly Meta and Google).
- Ability and willingness to travel to our communities based across the UK.
- Undertake any other duties which are consistent with this post, as directed by line management.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of the department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Relevant degree or professional qualification
Knowledge & Experience
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a talent for storytelling and producing a range of written materials.
- Experience of using Canva to create visual and video content for social media.
- Experience of working in a communications role
- Experience of creating content for web and using a CMS or website back-end
- Experience of briefing designers, animators or filmmakers
- Proficiency in digital communications, including social media platforms, paid advertising platforms, email marketing tools and analytics tools.
- Able to see the bigger picture and understand how the work of the Communications team supports the charity’s objectives, its priorities and campaigns.
Personal Attributes & Key Competencies
- Strategic thinker with excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships, influence and communicate effectively with a range of people.
- Flexibility, adaptability and an ability to think creatively.
- Commitment to diversity and anti-oppressive practice in all areas of work.
- Willing to travel to meet the needs of the charity.
Key Employment Terms
- Salary: £33,990.00 per annum.
- Location: The role is remote with regular travel across the nine communities.
- Hours: 37.5 hours a week, Monday – Friday.
- Holiday entitlement: 25 days annual leave statutory plus bank holidays pro rata.
- Sick pay entitlement after 1 month.
- Standard auto-enrolment pension scheme, with the option to contribute 10% of gross salary for a 6% contribution by the employer.
- Employee assistance scheme that is also available to your immediate family.
- Death in Service benefits: payments made to your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen.
- Once you join us, you'll be eligible to benefit from "Charity Discounts" where you can enjoy reductions from lots of differing retailers and service providers.
- The appointment is subject to a 6-month probation period.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Camphill Village Trust is an equal opportunity employer.
Camphill Village Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to complete the relevant pre-employment checks including a DBS check.
Pay: £33,990.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- What is your right to work in the UK? If you are a visa holder, please provide details of visa type and exact expiry date - we can't progress without this information.
- Are you a driver?
- Please provide your postcode and email address (if they do not feature on your CV).
- Tell us about a time you used communications to represent people ethically, inclusively and authentically. What did you do? What was the impact?
- Please use this space to provide a statement in support of your application.
Work Location: On the road
