Summary: The Digital Marketing & Events Officer will play a crucial role in enhancing the visibility and impact of the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF) through effective communication and event management. This position involves creating engaging content for social media, organizing hybrid events, and collaborating with various stakeholders to amplify the voices of care-experienced young people. The role is vital in influencing local and national policy within the leaving care sector. It is a fixed-term position for maternity cover, requiring national travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create regular engaging social media content across NLCBF’s social media platforms.
• Engage with Young People’s Benchmarking Forum to identify social media channels and content to increase their reach.
• Work with the central Catch22 communications team to ensure messaging is aligned.
• Monitor engagement across NLCBF’s social media platforms and website and create regular reports.
• Collate and upload content to the NLCBF members and external website, in particular news stories, research updates and forum updates.
• Ensure the NLCBF external website is kept up to date.
• Work with sessional workers and YPBMF to create engaging videos/podcasts which amplify the voices of care experienced young people.
• Design images and write content that can be used to support specific campaigns for care experienced young people.
• Support the development of a communications plan and implement this to raise the profile of the Forum’s work.
• Keep NLCBF Events calendar on members and external website up to date.
• Set up Hopin events for online access to events and support online attendees at events.
• Create bi-monthly YPBMF newsletter in collaboration with Co-production Engagement Lead and Sessional workers.
• Create post event resources through video and audio editing and upload these to members’ website.
• Review online experience of events to determine what went well, what didn’t and implement improvements for future events.
• Liaise/communicate with outside agencies/organisations or other local authority services/departments to support the work of NLCBF.
• Comply with Health and Safety and Safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Carry out other relevant duties as may be required and as are commensurate with the nature and grading of the post.

Key Skills:

• Experience in digital marketing and social media management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to create engaging content for various platforms.
• Experience in event planning and management, particularly hybrid events.
• Proficiency in video and audio editing.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and health and safety policies.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel nationally for events.

Salary (Rate): 25,585

City: Gildersome

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Other