Communications Officer

Not-for-profit organisation Groundwork London are looking for a passionate, creative communicator with project management skills to join our Marketing and Communications team.

Our role as the Communications Team is to engage with London’s diverse range of communities, ensuring they know what services are available to benefit them, and to celebrate our good news stories. We work closely with project delivery teams to develop and implement communications strategies that are specific to each of our wide range of environmental and social action projects. This means we can effectively promote and increase engagement with our projects and services and highlight the real changes we make to people’s lives.

As Communications Officer, you will be an ambassador and guardian of the Groundwork London brand. The role requires strong communication and project management skills and the ability to produce high quality content for a range of different audiences across a range of media channels. You will be responsible for writing project communication strategies, producing creative content and copywriting, with an emphasis on online and social media, and ensuring these are delivered on time and on brief.

About us

Groundwork London works with communities across the capital to transform their lives and the places they live. We have been at the forefront of social and environmental regeneration in London for over 25 years, and today we have a simple mission: to create better places, improve people’s prospects, and promote greener living and working. We are passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny, and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances.

Please contact us if you have experience in:

• Communicating compelling stories and key messages to specific target audiences through a variety of mediums
• Writing and implementing communications plans for projects or campaigns including effective social media campaigns (organic and paid)
• Experience developing and maintaining strong media relations to deliver positive media coverage for a charity or company
• Producing high-quality visual content and engaging copywriting, with an emphasis on online and social media
• Using analytics to monitor and report on performance of communications and campaigns
• Applying basic-intermediate graphic design principles to produce content for a range of mediums, including digital and print
• Producing content for WordPress websites