Communications Coordinator - Redcar and Cleveland
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
11/06/2024
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 21/06/2024 10:00
Salary:
Up to £27,500 subject to experience
Job Category:
Early Years Children Services
Employment Location:
Working across Dormanstown, Grangetown, Southbank, Kirkleatham and Eston. Your time will be split between working onsite in Redcar, with opportunity for home working. Wherever you work you will have access to the team for support.
Further Information
Thrive at Five’s vision is a society where every child can thrive and achieve their potential. Our mission is to help children in their early years develop strong foundations for life and learning. Our place-based model support’s positive development from pregnancy to age five. We achieve sustainable change by unlocking the power of parents and carers and enabling collaboration to strengthen early years systems.
We are looking for a creative, kind, and thoughtful colleague to help coordinate, in collaboration with the national team, our local, place-based communications with parents, schools, childcare, community, health and social care settings.
Look at our work https://thriveatfive.org.uk/ to consider if our mission, vision, values, and approach align with yours. You should also review the attached document to learn more about our work.
This is a three-year contract; extension is subject to continued funding.
Job Purpose
The communications coordinator will work in collaboration with Thrive at Five colleagues, our external communications team, and key partners and stakeholders, to build an approach which helps ensure parents and children, from pregnancy to age five, have clarity about the support available to them and access to resources they need.
Our communication approach will include advertising events to maximise attendance from our target audiences, the delivery of key messages to parents to build their knowledge and confidence so they can support their children. This includes sharing tips which focus on childhood development and ideas to help children be happy, healthy, and ready to learn.
The role involves creating and delivering digital marketing strategies across a range of platforms, social media use and engagement methods, writing for different audiences, and will include content creation for our website, internal and external reports.
The communications coordinator will ensure the work we do, and our learning is captured and shared effectively, As well as modelling effective and best practice communications approaches to other local stakeholders. The communications coordinator will also work with thrive at five leads, parent connectors, programme support teams and local parents.
The focus on parents, their experiences and insights, and ensuring we convey this appropriately will be a key task for the communications coordinator to oversee.
Salary Range - Up to £27,500 subject to experience
Location / hours / working pattern
This is a full time, 35 hours per week role. We work across Dormanstown, Grangetown, Southbank, Kirkleatham and Eston.
Your time will be split between working onsite in Redcar, with opportunity for home working. Wherever you work you will have access to the team for support.
We offer 25 days leave and a work placed pension scheme.
Please see Supporting Documents to view/download a full job/person specification.
Application process / closing date / interview date and location
Please apply by submitting to Allan.brownrigg@thriveatfive.org.uk your CV (2-page max including name of two referees) and a 500-word supporting statement explaining why you would be a good fit for the role and for our organisation.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview.
Closing date 10 am on Friday 21st June 2024.
Interviews will take place on 26th / 27th or 28th June 2024.
Contact details for further information:
To discuss this role please contact Allan.brownrigg@thriveatfive.org.uk
Please note
This job is closed for applications.