Content Communications Officer

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We’re looking for an unflappable, pragmatic communicator who knows how to uncover great content, is great at prioritising and delivering at pace, and above all, puts people first.

VSO’s ambition remains to bring lasting and positive change in the lives of primary actors – those who are marginalised or vulnerable – by using the transformational power of volunteering. In this role, you’ll work across the global VSO portfolio of projects to source, collate and deliver highly effective content that can be widely used to generate communications messages for use in the wider range of income generation activities including fundraising appeals, media articles, supporter magazine, email campaigns, website etc.

It’s a wonderfully varied role that will give you the opportunity to work alongside some very talented and capable people, who will inspire and motivate you in your role. We invite you to bring your authentic self to work – your skills, experience, knowledge – and you’ll be encouraged to put your own stamp on the role too.

Working across different countries and with a variety of teams, this is a great role that gives you the broadest view of international development and VSO’s unique volunteering for development model. You’ll report into Public Fundraising and join a dynamic team that’s achieving great results for our Primary Actors. If you’re thinking this sounds like the role for you and want to find out more, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Project manage work across the global VSO network, media, fundraising, digital and lifelong engagement teams to discover content which can be used for public fundraising audiences at different stages of their journey
• Work with project portfolio managers to source, collate and deliver effective content for communications messages for use in the wider range of income generation activities, including fundraising appeals, media articles, supporter magazine, targeted email campaigns, VSO website and Annual Report
• Develop and manage a content and story gathering plan to cover the needs of public fundraising campaigns and donor stewardship, including budget, calendar of work, overseas visits, pre and post content production activity and all photography and audio-visual needs
• Working with the global implementation team to plan project visits for story gathering and allocate human and financial resource
• Content Production: manage a range of high-quality, ethical assets, accessible to all VSO teams, using the VSO Multimedia site (digital asset management site) and Knowledge hub. Manage editing and photography within budget as defined by communication teams.