Job Details
Campaigns Officer
National Deaf Children's Society
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Expires in 6 days
Overview
We are looking for a Campaigns Officer to work with our influencing and activism leads to positively influence governments and local services across the UK.
£31,720 to £35,000
per year
Permanent, Work from Home
Homebased
Key information
The National Deaf Children's Society are the leading charity for deaf children. We give expert support on childhood deafness, raise awareness and campaign for deaf children's rights, so they have the same opportunities as everyone else.
Disability Confidence
We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering interviews to candidates who request to be considered under the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum requirements of the person specification. Please contact us at recruitment@ndcs.org.uk with any accessibility or reasonable adjustment enquiries.
About the role
- Engage politicians, decision makers and people with lived experience through planning and co-ordinating of impactful campaigning activities.
- Build online campaigning actions using Engaging Networks, updating our webpages and organising social media posts.
- Support our Community Activism Lead in developing assets to enable local communities to campaign on the issues they care about.
- Organise campaigning events, attend party conferences and other opportunities to influence decision-makers.
- Create engaging and compelling online and offline content including emails, blogs and magazine articles.
Requirements
- Experience of leading campaigning activities that have successfully brought about policy change.
- Excellent writing skills with a proven ability of writing engaging content.
- Knowledge of local and national political structures within the UK and how to influence them.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills.
- Strong digital skills and a sound understanding of agile values and principles.
- A criminal record check or DBS disclosure (if offered the position).