Senior Digital Communications Officer

Job Description

About the opportunity

The Senior Digital Communications Officer is a role that spans across both the Food for Life programme and the wider Soil Association, supporting colleagues from a whole range of different teams. You will be helping us to deliver both proactive and reactive digital comms activity and will lead on the day to day management and maintenance of the Food for Life and Food for Life Get Togethers websites.

You’ll play a critical role in creating and delivering high-quality content, working with the wider communications team and subject experts from across the organisation, including the central Digital Communications team.

You will also play a crucial role in engaging our online community, making sure our brand and programmes are well represented across both our website and social media channels.

To help us learn from our activity, you will also lead on the analysis of our digital activity, making recommendations to improve our digital communications. 

About you

You’ll utilise your broad mix of digital comms knowledge and experience, including: best practise in digital communications and content development, social media delivery, monitoring and reporting and copywriting for web and social media.

Important dates

Interviews are expected to take place: online, week commencing 1st March 2021

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience of developing and executing a multi-channel digital communications strategy  
• Experience of managing social media channels, specifically Twitter & Facebook
• Extensive experience of working with Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Extensive experience of creating rich content for digital communications and social media.
• Working knowledge of Photoshop and InDesign
• Good understanding of SEO
• Experience of using Google Analytics and creating insightful reports 
• Good understanding of PPC 

To Apply

Visit our website to submit your application form. Please note we look at applications on arrival and reserve the right to close this vacancy early.

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For any queries, including to be sent the full job description, please contact recruitment@soilassociation.org

Please note we do not accept CVs or Cover Letters.

Soil Association is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of their background. We value diversity whilst also acknowledging that people from certain backgrounds are underrepresented in our organisation. If you’re not sure about applying, please get in touch with us for a chat.

Thank you for your interest in supporting our work at the Soil Association

Company Description

The Soil Association, formed in 1946, is the only UK charity which works across the spectrum of human health, the environment and animal welfare. That’s because we cannot tackle these issues in isolation. 

We campaign for change, we support farming innovation, we serve healthy food in communities, we support and grow the organic market and we protect forests.

We couldn't do any of this without our supporters, partners, donors and dedicated staff. We make a difference in the world where it’s needed the most.

Our Food for Life programme is about making good food the easy choice for everyone – making healthy, tasty and sustainable meals the norm for all to enjoy, reconnecting people with where their food comes from, teaching them how it’s grown and cooked, and championing the importance of well-sourced ingredients.