Organisational Communications Officer

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Sightsavers is looking for an an experienced organisational communications officer to join our growing organisational communications team at an exciting time as we repurpose our Sharepoint intranet.

Salary: £29,117 to £34,255 per annum

Location: UK remote, with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked and mostly home working

Do you want to contribute to a great workplace for everyone? The organisational communications officer is a new role in a new team focused on building strong connections across all Sightsavers staff in all countries and helping to build greater business understanding amongst our employees.

At the heart of our channels approach is the development and launch of our new Sharepoint intranet, to drive engagement and adoption, and guide daily operations.

Within this role you will:

Support the Organisational Communications Lead in the development and creation of our new Sharepoint intranet
Assist in developing a strong content strategy for the intranet within the wider organisational communications channel strategy.
Be responsible for the hands-on delivery of our new intranet’s content strategy
Bring vital knowledge around Sharepoint and the wider Microsoft 365 channels mix
Day to day operations lead of our new intranet once live
Manage our organisational communications channels strategy
Be an active member of the campaigns and communications directorate

We are keen for the successful applicant to visit our offices for collaboration with the team once every two weeks but for the rest of the time this role will be worked from home. Please see the full job description for more information.

Benefits

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits including generous holiday, pension scheme and many others as well as a supportive, multi-cultural working culture. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London. We are committed to diversity and accessibility in all our work practices.

You have great content creation skills. You love putting your creativity to the test in new and interesting ways through great writing skills and creative content. You relish the challenge of a brand-new role and the opportunity to manage and oversee the day to day running of a Sharepoint intranet. As well as creativity, you know the importance of attention to detail and you are excited to use your experience and skills to manage our communication channels in a holistic, integrated way to engage, connect and inspire our global community of employees.

You’re a people-person and a team player with a lot of respect for the views and opinions of others. You are excited at being able to engage and strengthen the voice of all staff across the organisation through your content and creative approach in support of the wider organisational objectives. Language skills – especially French or Portuguese (in addition to fluent English) would be useful in this role but aren’t essential.

To apply for this brilliant opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. Due to tight project timescales, we’ll be reviewing applications as they are received so, please don’t wait until the closing date! Face to face interviews will be held at our offices in Haywards Heath on Thursday 12 October. The evaluation process may include a short job-specific written task.

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.