Campaigns Officer
£27,500 per year
Full-time, 35 hours per week
Fixed-term contract for 18 months
Based in Bradford / home and flexible working

We are on a mission to give children and young people from disadvantaged communities the literacy skills to succeed in life. You could join us as Campaigns Officer.

What you’ll be doing

We are recruiting two Campaigns Officers to deliver communications and behaviour change campaigns in National Literacy Trust Hubs and other target areas. Our Hubs are a ten-year, place-based response to the challenges of intergenerational low literacy.

You will work as part of our marketing and communications team, using a range of channels to spread key messages among communities and affect behaviours among target demographics.

You will build relationships with local partners including the media, and manage campaign activities and events, working closely with the communities team and Hub Managers in local areas. You will also support activity across the marketing and communications team and prepare copy for our newsletters, websites and social media.

Our current Hubs and local campaign areas include Blackpool, Black Country, Bradford, Birmingham, Doncaster, Hastings, Manchester, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Coast, Nottingham, Peterborough, Stoke, Suffolk and Swindon.

This is a home working role based in Bradford or one of our other project locations.

What we’re looking for

You will be experienced in planning, implementing and evaluating campaigns to change behaviours. You will be able to adapt key messages for a range of audiences, including press and social media, and have experience creating effective content for physical and digital delivery. You will be a strong team player able to represent your area of expertise across multi-disciplinary projects.

Why our work is so vital

Poor literacy and resulting inequality is not inevitable. The National Literacy Trust improves the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of those who need it most, giving them the best possible chance of success.

We make society fairer. Poor literacy creates social and economic inequality. The one in six adults in the UK with poor literacy earn less, are less likely to vote and more likely to experience health inequalities.

We enable social mobility. A child without literacy skills can’t succeed at school, and as an adult they will be locked out of the job market. The pattern is intergenerational and starts at birth.

Our work is targeted at communities with the highest levels of disadvantage and the lowest levels of literacy. We support thousands of schools and early years settings, bringing in wonderful partners like the Premier League and the nation’s best publishers who bring literacy alive. We campaign to make literacy a priority for our nation’s leaders. Our research and analysis make us the leading authority on literacy and drive our interventions.

What we offer you

As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.

Application details

Our people are our most important asset and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase representation of these groups among our staff as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.

Closing date: 10am, Monday 25 July 2022

Please note we do not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites. Registered charity no. 1116260 (England and Wales) and SC042944 (Scotland).

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