Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Children First’s marketing strategy to position us as the national children’s charity, protecting Scotland’s children.
• Oversee marketing campaigns with a focus on brand management, website development and marketing to cover the full marketing mix across multiple media channels.
• Manage and support the marketing team and work closely with other managers to achieve Children First’s strategic objectives.

Requirements

• Excellent strategic and creative marketing experience.
• Experience delivering successful multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Experience managing and developing people.
• Strong brand, communications and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A high level of expertise in digital marketing, web content, social media marketing and paid advertising.
• A data-driven approach, using insight and evaluation to improve performance.
• Experience managing budgets, projects and external suppliers.
• A strong drive for excellence, the ability to manage competing priorities and a track record in delivering to tight deadlines.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience within a similar role.
• Experience of multi-channel marketing campaigns, both digital and print

Preferred

• Professional qualification in marketing
• Understanding of child protection and trauma recovery.
• An understanding of and commitment to the principles of involving volunteers
• Excellent ICT skills (MS Office applications)
• An awareness of and interest in the work of Children First
• Coaching and/or training skills
• Experience of the voluntary sector

Benefits

• A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension scheme and wellbeing support
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
• Blue Light card discount
• A Fair Work accredited workplace