Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation (HIWCF) are seeking a Communications Manager to join their team.
If you are someone who can think strategically about using communications to enable aspirations for growth, who can communicate compellingly to people of all backgrounds in all formats, and who can produce communications content and materials of an extremely high quality, this could be the role for you.
Supporting philanthropy development
This is an existing role which has the opportunity to build on an excellent strategy and recent brand development.
The post is highly focused on supporting philanthropy development, and so successful applicants are likely to have worked within or closely alongside a fundraising or development team.
The role
The purpose of the role Communications Manager is to:
- Develop and deliver communications strategy targeting philanthropy audiences to help build our endowment funds
- Build HIWCF’s profile across the region with various media outlets (online, press and broadcast) and other external stakeholders, ensuring “HIWCF” becomes synonymous with Hampshire & Isle of Wight charitable giving
- Continue the development of HIWCF’s communications channels to ensure they reflect the diversity of the region, reach new audiences, and reflect their professionalism
- Ensure that community groups around the region are aware of HIWCF’s grants and programmes
The individual
You will be joining a dynamic and friendly team, taking forward HIWCF’s communications work to enable their fundraising success, as well as supporting their purpose — grant making.
You’ll understand that great public communications are fundamental to success.
You will be a talented storyteller, with proven writing skills and knowledge both of traditional and digital communications platforms.
You’ll have excellent communication skills and a natural understanding of how to develop excellent public facing media and communications content that speaks to vastly different audiences.
You’ll be a team player who is willing to get your hands dirty to ensure the team’s overall success.
Key tasks
- Delivering an already established communications strategy that supports HIWCF’s aspirations for financial growth and reaches their key target audiences
- Develop and maintain brand identity and profile across all media including crafting strong, targeted and clear messages about what HIWCF do and why
- Lead on planning, copywriting and production of all HIWCF marketing and comms materials and platforms
- Oversee the management of a case study and images database including managing consents
- Manage the website, including generating content, making improvements to functionality and monitoring its performance
- Develop relationships with journalists across all media and manage press relationships
- Manage the marketing and communications budget
Person specification
- Personable and credible and able to liaise with equal ease with high profile people and beneficiaries of community groups
- Committed to and motivated by equity, diversity and inclusion
- Self-motivated and hard working
- Reliable, honest, tolerant, determined and well presented
- Able to travel around Hampshire and IW when required
Essential skills
- Track record of delivering communications strategies using a wide range of channels
- Ability to produce content that can be purposed for many different formats and channels (eg video, long form case study etc)
- Experience of managing websites (WordPress) and the Microsoft suite of software, and able to confidently utilise any other software eg Meta, X, Mailchimp, CRMs etc
- Ability to produce high quality marketing materials in print using DTP software
- Excellent administrative skills and attention to detail, with the ability to develop and maintain internal systems to store information compliant with legislation (such as data protection rules) and good practice Excellent spoken and written English
About HIWCF
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation is an independent charitable foundation which connects local donors with local causes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are the largest charitable grant maker based in, and focused solely on, the region.
Our vision is for communities in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight to flourish. We enable positive social change within the poorest and most disadvantaged communities in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight by linking local giving to local need, through our professional grant making.
We help local communities to flourish by making charitable grants to effective community groups tackling poverty, disadvantage and inequality, when and where they can make a real difference. We provide a professional route for philanthropists, funders and donors to make a lasting impact with their generosity, through our endowment model.
All our funding is made under one of six “impact themes” — Poverty & Inequality, Flourishing Communities, Employability & Skills, Health & Wellbeing, Crime & Safety, and The Environment. Poverty & Inequality is the golden thread running through all our grant making.
How to apply
On appointment remuneration will be a gross full time salary up to £40,000 (pro rata if part time) for the most experienced candidate.
Apply by sending a CV and covering letter to Jo Dakin, Office Administrator on [email protected].
HIWCF will require a minimum of two suitable referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent line manager. (They will not contact them unless you are offered the role.)
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as they will close applications as soon as a suitable candidate is found.
Please email [email protected] to request an application form.
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