Communications Officer

Job Description

Communications OfficersOffice Based in central Birmingham, with national coverage and some flexible home working.Salary: £27,384- £29,905 (job evaluation and salary review pending) per annumJob type: 1-year fixed term (full time 36 hours per week).We may also consider working flexibly, job share, or part-time.Benefits include: 30 days holiday, working flexibly policy, non-contributory healthcare benefits, season ticket loans and a company pension scheme.Deadline for applications: Thursday 31 March 202212 noonInterview Date: Tuesday 5 April 2022About Us:We are the British Dietetic Association (BDA), the Association of UK dietitians. We are an award-winning not-for-profit organisation, based in Birmingham, employing dedicated, dynamic and professional staff who deliver services for our membership of approximately10,000 dietetic professionals. We are the leading organisation of nutrition professionals in the UK; representing the entire nutrition and dietetic workforce across all sectors. Our Vision is to improve the health of the UK population; by protecting and improvinghealth and care services; developing health and social care nutrition policy; improving the impact of dietetics; and, promoting positive discussion on food, nutrition, wellbeing, and health.The BDA Education and Professional Practice Team (EPP) are seeking a motivated and experienced communications professional with a can-do attitude to work with EPP, BDA members, project leads and stakeholders. Can you help us maintain, develop and support ourdigital presence, specifically, developing the effectiveness of the BDA website and resourcesYou will be expected to support the delivery of, a number of projects, ensuring high quality content is created or re-purposed across different BDA communication channels and those of our external contractors e.g., social media, website.The BDA is proud of its award-winning status within the sector, winning the Memcom Member Engagement Award 2015, the Best Social Media Campaign at the Association Congress 2016, as well as Best Trade Union Website at the TUC Media Awards 2016. In 2018 wewon the AAE Best Member E-newsletter and Best Social Media Campaign, whilst being shortlisted for Best Association Magazine by the Association Excellent Awards. BDA staff have also won Best Young Association Executive 2017 and were awarded runner up for CEOof the Year 2018.The BDA is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. The BDA intends to do this by maintaining and rigorously implementing an Equal Opportunities Policy and Code of Practice. We particularly encourage black and minority ethnic people, peoplewith disabilities and LGBTQI+ people to apply as they are currently under-represented in our workforce.You may have experience of the following: You may have experience of the following: Communications Manager, Communications Officer, Digital Officer, Membership Officer, Project Management, Charity, Third Sector, Charities, NFP, Not for Profit, etc.Ref: 108 310