Comms and Content Lead

London, UK (Hybrid)

£32K/yr – £38K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own policy comms and content operations, turning policy work into repeatable campaigns and founder-facing messages across Substack and social channels.

  • Content & Campaigns: Design and deploy campaigns that shape government stakeholders and founder narratives.
  • Media & Voice Amplification: Ensure Startup Coalition earns relevant press and founders get loud coverage.
  • Campaign Engine: Build scalable comms systems and broaden our outputs beyond the current baseline.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design, plan and execute eye-catching content that supports our policy work. You will work with our team to develop and implement the organisation's communications plan. You will manage content design and deployment on our substack, social channels, and wherever else our content will help move the needle on policy and communicate our work to both founders and policymakers.
  • Shape messaging that drives successful campaigns. We’re tackling challenges and encouraging Government to seize opportunities across the digital economy. You will be a key member of the team helping frame our work to land with key stakeholders in Government and beyond.
  • Ensure startup voices are heard. This means making sure that Startup Coalition is featured in relevant press, and that our founders are amplified.
  • Build an industry-leading campaign machine. We are just scratching the surface of the opportunity, with significant room to grow our comms output in exciting ways. We’re looking for someone to grab the opportunity to build something.
  • Chip in on everything else. We run a small operation, so everyone works together to deliver great policy work that helps achieve a policy environment that enables tech startups and scaleups to grow and scale effectively.

Requirements

  • Positive, optimistic and enthusiastic, who loves politics and technology.
  • Creative, comfortable capturing and editing content and willing to try their hand at new tools to develop content across a variety of channels.
  • Exceptional writer that is happy to own the visual identity and voice of our brand,
  • Happy working rapidly, with ambiguity and who can take the initiative.
  • Approachable and happy spending a lot of their time talking to founders, policymakers and other folks in the ecosystem.
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Startup Coalition

We work with digital startups and policymakers to create better policy for the digital economy.Founded by tech entrepreneurs, the Startup Coalition (formerly Coadec) is a non-profit that campaigns for policies to support tech startups in the UK. We conduct research, host events, and run campaigns on behalf of the UK’s startup community.

Founded in 2010
London, England, GBR
15 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51%
Direct
35.3%
Referral
7.6%
Social
4.7%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15