Communications and Marketing with Impact

Are you a passionate Communications and Marketing professional looking to make a real impact? Community Integrated Care has your dream role!

We are recruiting for a specialist Marketing and Communications Manager to play a key role in our award-winning Partnerships and Communities function. This unique team collaborates with leading brands, innovators, and public figures to developing groundbreaking programmes and campaigns that tackle inequalities for people who draw on social care.

Our work has included:

• Creating innovative physical activity and life-skills programmes—from our Learning Disability Super League with Rugby League, to major partnerships with UEFA Women’s Euro, Rugby League World Cup, and World Para Swimming Championships.
• Campaigns that inspire independence and social change- such as leading the social care programmes for Save Our Wild Isles, inspired by Sir David Attenborough’s acclaimed documentary, working with WWF, National Trust, and RSPB.
• Developing new innovations - including What-To-Do.co.uk, a unique digital community that enables people to live their dreams and develop new skills, with diverse experiences from cookery classes with legendary chef Rosemary Shrager to celebrating football with Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan.
• Leading influential training, policy and campaigns, addressing issues such as disability hate crime, accessibility, and political rights.

What is The Deal for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your full-time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days.
• Impactful work: You will be at the heart of innovative programmes that change lives at scale.
• Hybrid Working! This role blends working at home and from our welcoming Head Office in Widnes.
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7) to financial support options, you'll have support available to lead an easier financial life.

About the role.

This role manages the communications and marketing needs of Community Integrated Care’s Partnerships and Communities function. Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering content creation and communications requirements for our programmes
• Ensuring that our programmes reach, inspire and engage our target audiences
• Leading marketing strategies that enable us to attract new partners and funding.
• Raising the profile of our work, to enhance Community Integrated Care’s reputation and attract further growth

This is a full-time, permanent post and you can be based anywhere in the North West but must be available to travel to our head office in Widnes at least once a week.

 Day to Day (list not exhaustive see attached job description)

• Lead the strategic development of marketing and communications, ensuring each project has a clear strategy aligned with organisational and project goals. This requires collaboration with departmental teammates, Community Integrated Care’s in-house internal and external communications team, and key project stakeholders
• Oversee or create marketing and communication assets to support projects, partnerships, and campaigns.
• Identify media opportunities and develop quality content to enhance visibility, engagement, and income generation.
• Actively contribute to the identification and securing of strategic partnerships, funding, and ambassadors.
• Manage project deliverable, ensuring efficient, high-quality delivery within scope, budget, and deadlines.

Our ideal Candidate

Qualifications, Experience and Knowledge (list not exhaustive see attached JD)

• Degree: Degree in Marketing, Communications, or another relevant subject.
• Collaboration: An effective team-player and collaborator, able to work effectively with in-house teams, partners and suppliers.
• Strategy design: Experience designing strategies which are sensitive to the needs and perspectives of the audience and represent the organisation’s brand appropriately.
• Content Creation: Experience creating various content types (videos, press releases, social media) and working with creative teams /agencies.
• Media Relations: Track record of generating quality media coverage, including press releases and media packs, and building relationships with journalists.
• Partnership Development: Experience collaborating with partners, developing pitches, and aligning marketing with partnership or business development strategies.
• Digital Marketing: Strong background in digital marketing, social media management, and using analytics to optimize performance.
• Co-production and inclusion: Commitment to working with inclusively with our audiences, understanding and meeting their needs and dreams.  

Please note, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending upon the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

Interested and want to know a bit more?

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In our 2023 Colleague Engagement Survey, 56% (over 3,300!) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +28. This is a measure of exceptional employee engagement!