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Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global charity with a unique structure and an important mission: engineering a safer world.
To help achieve this mission, the Foundation uses strategic communications to raise our global reputation and thought leadership, develop strategic partnerships, and engage key stakeholders to help deliver our objectives.
About the role
Due to recent growth, we are now recruiting for a Communications Executive. This role sits within the Strategic Communications and Global Engagement team and is suited to a recent graduate seeking an entry level job or someone with one to two years’ experience in communications and/or a charity.
The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, keen to learn, approachable and happy to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. This candidate will have the opportunity to learn on the job, working across multiple projects within a small, friendly and supportive team.
The communications executive will source and share regular content from across the Foundation to raise awareness of our work to our online audiences including existing and prospective stakeholders, via our website and social media channels. Training and supervision will be provided by line manager.
The role will assume responsibility for creating and distributing the Foundation’s direct mail communications, including our newsletter, analysing and segmenting our contact database. Training and supervision will be provided by line manager. This role will also be responsible for the measurement and reporting of the Foundation’s ‘digital footprint’, including social media reach, website hits and direct mail activity, and provide analytics for a quarterly dashboard
The communications executive will support the wide strategic communications team, coordinating diaries, being involved in Foundation programmnes and providing general administrative duties. The role will ensure that the communications section of SharePoint, the Foundation’s shared document platform, is well organised and regularly updated with new marketing collateral, thought leader profiles and biographies, and branded document templates.
Key responsibilities
Social media copywriting and delivery
- Ensuring a regular drumbeat of content across the Foundation’s social media accounts – Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
- Increase the Foundation’s social media following and impressions, and reporting against it when necessary.
- Explore expanding the Foundation’s digital presence onto new platforms including Instagram.
Website content maintenance
- Maintenance and improvement of the Foundation’s website content including news stories and video content.
- Become trained in Episerver content management.
Digital marketing and direct mail
- Upkeep of the Foundation’s monthly newsletter, coordinating with grant holders to ensure latest publications and impacts are included.
- Oversee better segmentation of the Foundation’s contact database to facilitate more strategic direct mail communications.
Support communications section of internal shared document platform
- Ensuring the communications section of sharepoint is well organised and updated with newest versions of documents.
- Provision of new marketing collateral, professional headshots and biographies for key Foundation staff and branded document templates for use across the Foundation.
Support reporting and measurement function
- Assuming responsibility for the measurement and reporting of social media reach, website hits and newsletter take-up and press coverage.
- Ensuring rest of communications team are evaluating campaigns and projects in line with executive level meetings through diary notifications and weekly team catch ups.
- Support measurement and reporting for various campaigns across the communications team when required.
General support to rest of communications team
- Providing general assistance to members of the communications team in the delivery of various content campaigns, events, administrative tasks and more.
Job requirements
- Enthusiasm to learn on the job, receiving training, and help across the comms team and wider Foundation.
- Competency with office applications such as Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
- Experience of digital communications including social media (desirable).
- Knowledge of the charity sector (desirable)
- Degree (desirable but not essential)
