Appel à manifestation d’intérêt : Recrutement d’un(e) Responsable de contenu au Royaume-Uni.
Key Responsibilities
Developing and delivering CAFOD’s content strategy
* Update and implement CAFOD’s content strategy and plan, working alongside international staff, national offices and partner staff as well as supporter-facing and communications teams in England and Wales to identify the strongest stories and gather content that supports CAFOD’s priority messages.
* Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to establish which content to use when, and on which channel to help achieve engagement, advocacy and fundraising targets
* Ensure a list of priority countries and content commissions is planned annually, facilitating this process through cross-organisational groups.
* Lead CAFOD’s cross-organisational group – the content working group including chairing monthly meeting and being first point of call for content opportunities and requests.
* Work with the creative account manager and communications planner to understand briefs and CAFOD’s channel marketing plan to learn which content is more successful in reaching targets. Pull on data and wider research from the sector and beyond.
Sourcing, commissioning and procuring content
* Commission and manage content from both CAFOD’s overseas programmes and England and Wales including hiring, managing and building relationships with overseas freelancers, working with national offices and partner organisations;
* Promote content to internal stakeholders including pointing people to strongest stories by sending regular content emails and ensuring CAFOD’s content database, Storyhub is up to date;
* Source appropriate content from CAFOD’s sister agencies and partners overseas, to be repurposed for CAFOD’s use;
* Manage CAFOD’s communications consent policy, updating consent forms and processes as required, providing guidance to staff.
Managing our content collection training programme
* Manage relationships with priority country teams and partner organisations and identify communications training needs and ensure adequate training and support is delivered.
* Establish and develop a network of community reporters to enable consistent and personal sharing of stories and day-to-day experiences from specific individuals overseas.
Safeguarding
All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.
This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
Person Specification /Essential Criteria
Understanding our Context
* Understanding Catholic identity: Ability to develop strong links with the Caritas Network and other organisations.
* Understanding CAFOD: Ability to explain what is distinctive about CAFOD as a Catholic development agency
* Understanding International Development: Able to demonstrate an understanding of solidarity and human dignity in the way people are portrayed and recognise that there are complex challenges in development.
Working together
* Managing ourselves: Ability to recognise what needs to be done and take action to deal with it, particularly organising people and processes to achieve results
* Working with others: Ability to build positive and productive working relationships with all colleagues and facilitate collaborative relationships across CAFOD, with external partners, donors and suppliers.
* Communicating: Ability to motivate and inspire others when presenting ideas and handle difficult interpersonal issues with sensitivity.
* Looking outwards: Ability to build cooperative, professional relationships with partners, supporters, suppliers and communities
Making change happen
* Managing resources: Ability to make careful plans to allocate, use and optimise resources to achieve the required results.
* Achieving results: Able to look for better processes and ways of working to achieve results, use judgement to make sound decisions and communicate and implement them.
Essential competencies
* Ability to spot good fundraising and media stories that will provoke an emotional reaction with a UK-based audience, as well as raise income based on audience research and data evaluations
* Proven experience in influencing and dealing with competing priorities from multiple stakeholders, facilitating a shared understanding
* Proven experience in project management with multiple stakeholders and developing complex plans
* Experience in interviewing and gathering visual content including photos and film
Desirable Criteria
* Experience of working with photographers, film makers and story-tellers, particularly those based overseas
*Willingness to travel overseas for up to 4 weeks a year and ability to work in diverse and challenging conditions
* Experience working with content management systems.
Application process
Interview Date : Wednesday, 19th April 2023