Communications and Influencing Officer

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Base pay range

Manchester or London

Closing Date: 4 August 2025

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity as a Communications and Influencing Officer (Part-time/2 days a week) for our work in England. We are looking for a skilled communicator and project manager to make people listen to the stories of children and communities growing up in poverty in the UK and want to make change alongside them.

You'll be driven by co-production, can make the complex simple, and know how to get straight to the heart of the matter, bringing people with you.

You'll work with teams and communities across England who are working for change on a local, regional and national basis, through both practice and policy. You'll make sure that we're communicating ambition and impact, showcasing the power of community driven change. Your expertise will ensure that others are with us, with a particular focus on funders and policy makers.

This is an exciting job-share opportunity, critical to our ambitious strategy in England.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard.

We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

In the UK, our mission is focused on ending child poverty. We work alongside families, partners and communities to build long-term change, rooted in lived experience, at both local and national levels.

About the role

As Communications and Influencing Officer you will provide communications, influencing and project support to the England and Westminster team, ensuring that our work is communicated appropriately across a variety of platforms and that people inside and outside the organisation get to hear about it.

We are looking for someone to work in this position Part-time/2 days a week (job-sharing with a colleague who works 3 days a week). We're particularly looking for someone with a strong communications skillset to complement the influencing skillset in the current postholder.

You will work closely with a range of colleagues across the team and associated select Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) to contribute to ensuring consistent and effective messaging and communications, both directly leading strands of work and supporting others.

You will support our work in engaging stakeholders, fundraising & awareness efforts in line with our England and Westminster strategy, our UK Collective Impact ambitions, and our organisational brand. You'll also play a part in ensuring consistency in our approaches to knowledge management and project management across select MDTs, providing project management and project support as required.

In addition to travel for some person internal or external meetings, this role will also be required some travel to community partnerships in South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and in London, especially around events and content gathering.

If you are passionate about using communications to drive impact for children and want to contribute to building a more just and inclusive future for children, we'd love to hear from you.

In this role, you will

• Support research activities for our influencing work, particularly participatory work, working closely with colleagues
• Support the development and delivery of campaigns that mobilise supporters to take influencing actions and contribute to policy change, for example, creating, developing and maintaining campaign websites, working on MP actions, supporting stunts or events.
• Plan and deliver communications in line with strategy and objectives, ensuring alignment, effectiveness, and brand consistency.
• Work with colleagues to create materials that 'Tell our Story', such as cases for support, case studies, stories, funder reports, fundraising materials, impact reports, and presentations, to effectively communicate our mission and achievements. Develop compelling content for various channels to engage and inform audiences, both internal and external
• Work collaboratively with partners to develop, coordinate and implement shared messages that support and reflect our collective goals
• Support colleagues to develop content and materials to showcase impact
• Apply good project management practices and provide finance & administration support across the team.

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have

• Strong organisational skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong writing skills for non-specialist audiences, with the ability to pull different pieces of information together into an engaging story
• Skills and experience with tools to develop a range of communication content, including websites, reports, and social media
• A strong team player with an empowering and collaborative working style and excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to juggle priorities and work flexibly
• A flexible approach that enables leading projects and delivering activities for projects led by others
• Ability to maintain the highest levels of confidentiality and sensitivity when dealing with sensitive information from families, partners, or senior colleagues
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Location & Ways of Working

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office (usually between 2–4 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact.

This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world.

We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss.

Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

Part-time

Job function

• Job function

Marketing and Writing/Editing

• Industries

Non-profit Organizations, International Trade and Development, and Fundraising

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Salary: GBP 28800 - 43200 per year

Experience: 3 years required