Job description
Advocacy Communications Manager – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Climate Change
Contract: Permanent, Full Time. 35 hours per week
Salary: £43,668 – £45,851 with excellent benefits
Location: London, UK
Hybrid Working: A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in London office, or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid. WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base.
About WaterAid:
Want to use your skills in advocacy communications to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere? We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.
Join WaterAid as an advocacy communications manager to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.
About the Team:
You’ll be part of the Advocacy Communications team. We lead, facilitate, and coordinate creative and compelling communications to help WaterAid achieve advocacy change at a national, regional and global level.
About the Role:
As the Advocacy Communications Manager, you will ensure we have strong and effective communications at the very heart of our Water and Climate Change advocacy campaign.
You will:
- Lead the development, coordination and delivery of strategic communications plans in support of our water & climate change advocacy campaign, working closely with colleagues from across the federation.
- Lead on specific priority global communications opportunities that help deliver advocacy objectives (e.g., COP).
- Inspire colleagues with your creativity and innovation – whilst remaining ruthlessly strategic ensuring that every piece of content has a defined purpose and audience
- Create external-facing messaging that translate complex policy into compelling campaign arguments for a range of advocacy audiences.
- Brief and work closely with creative agencies to deliver compelling communications products.
- Advise best use of communications budget to achieve set objectives.
About You:
- Experience of planning and delivering communications across a range of channels to achieve advocacy change.
- Ability to translate complex issues into simple messaging that non-expert audiences can understand and act on.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of delivering successful communication plans at global and national level across both low-income and high-income country contexts.
- Ability to manage complex and competing priorities, working with relevant multi-team stakeholders to ensure strategic coherence and/or identify creative solutions.
- Ability to develop long term plans whilst remaining flexible and responsive to immediate opportunities.
Although not essential, we also prefer you to have:
- Experience of delivering communications work in Africa, Asia and/or Pacific country contexts.
- Experience of working on climate change or similar issues.
- Experience of the charity sector, particularly international development, in a communications role.
- An understanding of the ethical issues surrounding communications for international development.
Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 28th July 2024. Availability for an interview is required week commencing 5th August 2024.
How to Apply: To see the full job pack, please click ‘Apply’. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.
Pre-employment screening: To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. All our vacancies require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.
Our Benefits:
- 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
- We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangement
- Season Ticket Loan
- Free annual eye tests
- Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
- Sabbaticals
- Volunteer Day
Our Commitment
Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.
Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.
Safeguarding:
We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously.
