#Care to join us?
We are looking for a Digital Marketing Officer to join our friendly and ambitious team here at Hft. This is your chance to make a real difference to people's lives.
Hft is one of the largest charities in England and Wales supporting learning disabled adults to live their life their way. We’re passionate about what we do and we use our unique understanding of the challenges facing the people we support to amplify their voices to bring about positive change. Hft was founded more than 60 years ago by a group of pioneering families who wanted a better life for their learning disabled children. We have a clear vision, we’re ambitious and fully committed to positive change for those we support and the social care sector. We’ve embarked on a journey of transformation that will ensure we can meet changing needs and extend our reach and impact.
What will you be doing?
Digital growth is an important objective for Hft as we work to significantly increase awareness of our charity and the work we do in supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best lives possible.
Working in the Brand, Communications & Marketing Team, our new Digital Communications Officer will play a key role in supporting the achievement of our external promotion strategy. The post holder will work with the Communications and Marketing Manager in developing our digital channels to promote our charity and the work we do, grow Hft’s reach to new audiences, boost engagement with supporters, and achieve our strategic goals.
This might mean planning and delivering campaigns via our social media channels, identifying creative and compelling ways to share stories and content across our website, or working alongside internal stakeholders to build and manage advertising campaigns on platforms such as Google Ad Words or Meta's Ads Manager. It's a varied role with plenty of opportunity to get involved in supporting our charity. If that sounds appealing, we want to hear from you!
What’s in it for you?
There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and lots of support along the way. ​​​​​​​
With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation, we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible. As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority.
We offer:
* All Hft employees get access to the Telus Health – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.
* All Hft employees get access to the Telus Health – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.
* Access to a range of discounts on your favourite brands through Telus Health
* Wagestream - allows colleagues to flexibly access their pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
* Access to wellbeing services including Health checks, Digital GP and mental health support via Aviva Digicare + Workplace
* Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
* 33 days holidays (including 8 bank holidays)
* A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
* Discounted mobile phone contracts with Vodaphone
Long service awards - Hft offers a monetary award after 10 years of service
Location: Home-based, with occasional travel
Find your place with us and change lives
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
​​​​​​​​​​​We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £29,363.00 per year
Work authorisation:

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Work Location: In person