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Community Engagement and Social Media Officer

Employer
Citizens Advice Staffordshire North and Stoke on Trent
Location
Staffordshire
Salary
£21,912
Closing date
24 Aug 2021

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Sector
Charities / Voluntary
Job Type
Community
Contract Type
Full time permanent
Working Pattern
Flexible hours
Hours
Full-Time

Job Details

Staffordshire Victims Gateway and Restorative Justice Service provides information, advice and or practical and emotional support to victims of crime to help them cope and recover from their experience and to exercise their rights as determined by the Victims Code.

The role will work with the Service Manager and Co-ordinators of the Staffordshire Victims Gateway and Restorative Justice Service (SVG) to develop the services reach to the local community and other local services promoting what the service can offer for victims of crime and will produce highly engaging content across a broad range of social media platforms.

The role will help the service to expand its range of promotional materials, and be proactive and forthcoming about identifying new tools to heighten engagement and reach our target audience.

Key Responsibilities

As the Community Engagement and Social Media Officer you will;

Social Media

  • Work with Service Co-ordinator to plan and deliver proactive and reactive media activity to increase SVG’s brand awareness and promote our service to victims of crime and partners
  • Enhance referrals for our specialist services Hate crime and Restorative Justice
  • Develop and undertake annual communication campaigns to improve

access to the hate crime service using various media platforms and promotional materials;

  • Develop and undertake specific targeted campaigns to increase

referrals from under-represented groups using appropriate media platforms and promotional materials to suit the target audience;

  • Produce campaigns in collaboration with victims, professionals and
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  • Create, Upload and Manage informative, relevant and engaging content to promote the service, encouraging followers to share and increase the social media reach
  • Work with teams across the service to spot promotional opportunities and to create material for social media platforms.
  • Collaborate with SVG’s external partners on raising awareness of what our service offers and build relationships with them that allows the sharing of relevant information through various social media platforms
  • Act as a point of contact for press enquiries
  • Collating data about numbers of followers and footfall on website in a quarterly report.
  • To develop a long-term plan to maintain and grow a social media content calendar, in order to raise the profile and promote the service.
  • Manage and maintain the social media presence across the services social platforms / day to day running of the social accounts (Instagram / FB and Twitter) and weekly updates and maintenance to the service website.
  • To work with the service co-ordinator and service manager to design and develop a clear strategy for the social media and marketing campaigns
  • Respond to customer queries across various IT / social media platforms
  • Experience of Wordpress; Adobe software and Microsoft office is desirable

Community Engagement

  • Be a representative of SVGRJ at community and partner events
  • Engage with under-represented groups in the local community to raise awareness and increase accessibility to our service in particular the specialist hate crime support on offer
  • Contribution to the achievement SVGRJ’s marketing targets and objectives, with particular reference to achievement of targets for the number of self-referrals coming into the service.
  • As directed by the Service Manager and in partnership with external partners, creation and management of highly effective marketing campaigns for launching of new areas of service provision and specific events to highlight key area of service provision
  • In conjunction with the Service Co-ordinator, liaison with the design and print agency, for the production of print requirements of promotional material for events and promotion of the service
  • In liaison with the external partners, development of marketing campaigns in respect of community and policing activity in order to maximise attendance at events, workshops and accessibility to specialist services.
  • To manage the website for the service, ensuring accuracy of information and relevant content as the service develops

Tasks:

  • Social Media the post holder will be responsible for coordinating and delivering a range of engaging and relevant social media posts across a range of social media platforms in order to engage a wide variety of audiences from victims of crime to professionals working alongside the service.
  • Community Engagement the post holder will be responsible for attending community events and promoting the service to local people and other professional’s in the Staffordshire area. The post holder will also be responsible for engaging with local community groups in particular those that are harder to reach.
  • Website Maintenance the post holder will be responsible for keeping our website up to date and relevant.
  • Quality – the post holder will be required to familiarise with and achieve the required    quality standards in his/her work
  • Partnership working– the post holder will develop and maintain positive working relationships at an operational level with key partnership agencies especially with Criminal Justice Partners as part of the management of the social media platforms. The post holder will build relationships with key partners in order to be able to undertake specific campaigns in partnership with the relevant services in particular for Hate Crime and Restorative Justice elements of our service.

Essential requirements of the role

The post holder will  be required to

  • have access to their own vehicle, be prepared to use it for work purposes and have appropriate insurance cover
  • be subject to and clear DBS and Enhanced Police Vetting Checks
  • be willing to work flexibly including working some unsociable hours including evenings, weekends and Bank Holiday’s when required in order to meet the needs of the service.
  • Adopt an agile approach to working to include a balance  between home, office working , in partnership/community venues across Staffordshire
  • Know what we mean by equality and diversity and share the organisations commitment to make equality of opportunity a reality both within the organisation and the community we serve.
  • Ability and willingness to work not only during the weekday daytimes, but also, as required, at weekends, and on Bank Holidays.
  • carry out other tasks consistent with the grade from time to time

 

 

Company

Citizens Advice Staffordshire North & Stoke-on-Trent is one of the country’s largest and most dynamic advice agencies with a national reputation for exciting and ground-breaking innovations. We have been at the cutting edge of most major developments in advice work during the last 40 years whether pioneering tribunal representation and debt advice in the early 1980s, or inventing casework support to the victims of race harassment in the mid-1990s, leading the field in advice services to refugees and asylum seekers and other excluded groups in the ‘noughties’ or piloting digital and developing telephone advice as we do now.

We are an independent local charity, led by a Trustee Board of local volunteers with a wide range of skills and experience. As such, we respond swiftly to emerging local needs and base our service development very firmly on the issues faced by our local communities.

As members of Citizens Advice (the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux) we are also committed to giving accurate, free assistance to any member of the community and, having done that, we use the experience of social problems brought to us by our enquirers to responsibly influence the social policies that have caused those problems.

Because we want to be as available as possible to all members of the community, we are careful to maintain a style which is completely impartial so we do not have any underlying political or social aims or ideologies as an organisation, and we attempt to keep our personal views from compromising that impartiality.

Our mission statement requires us to empower individuals who are poor or who suffer discrimination, and to inform policy makers of how they can combat poverty and inequality. This involves us in robust use of the media (locally and nationally) and in work with other organisations and groups.  We actively participate in a wide range of local partnerships.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01782 408651
Location
Advice House, 13-15 Cheapside
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST4 4HF
GB

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