Communications and Operations Co-ordinator

Afield Environmental is a brand new charity responding to environmental injustice. We do this by working with communities to rewild disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods; and by supporting artists to undertake ecological research. This exciting and challenging role will be right at the heart of making everything happen. We are looking for a creative and community-minded Communications and Operations Co-ordinator to help develop Afield over the next 12 months. This is a varied role encompassing communications and operational support for the grants programme and the charity more generally. You will help us develop our communications strategy, support our grantees, and develop our systems and processes as a new charity.

As we are a new charity we have created this as a fixed-term appointment - we are still working out the longer-term roles for the charity. We are looking for someone who is organised and self-sufficient, a skilled communicator, and a connector of people and ideas. We welcome applications from those early in their career. Where a candidate needs time to grow into aspects of the role, they will be helped to do so through management support and training.

Key Responsibilities

• Communications
• Help deliver Afield’s communications strategy aligned with our mission.
• Make Afield’s Wilding and Arts grants visible, accessible, and compelling to key communities and audiences.
• Manage Afield's digital presence across website, blogs, and social media, creating compelling content written, visual and including graphics.
• Monitor, evaluate, and report on Afield’s communications activity, to continually improve our reach and resonance.
• Help document Afield-related events through photography and video.
• Support for grants programmes
• Support grantees in documenting, editing and communicating project outputs and outcomes, including video content, for a variety of audiences.
• Support the Grants and Cohorts manager as required, including setting up cohort meetings, helping manage selection panels and providing event support, preparing materials etc.
• Provide communications skills support as appropriate to grantees / cohorts.
• Other
• Provide administrative and operational support to the founders as required.
• Provide support to the organisation’s broader evaluation activities.
• You might occasionally be asked to support our grantee programmes in other ways such as helping at events or workshops.

Requirements

Essential

• An excellent communicator, with experience of running workshops, presenting information to audiences, or developing relationships with partners.
• Proven experience running and creating content for social media channels or websites.
• Excellent writing and editing skills for different audiences, with examples of published content (including for example social media posts).
• Empathetic, with a positive attitude and a desire to help our grantees. You should be able to provide evidence of supporting a group of people.
• Organised and energetic with a self-sufficient attitude, and with the ability to independently manage a busy workload, multiple deadlines and priorities.
• Demonstrable commitment to ongoing development and learning.
• Evidence of an interest in arts and/or the environment.

Desirable

• Strong understanding of digital content strategy, with experience of using a CMS platform, and social media analytics.
• Experience of arts–related documentation and/or archiving.
• Ability and comfort in creating structure out of ambiguity.
• Ability to identify challenges and opportunities, and express proposals for change.
• Experience working with or supporting artists, grantees or cohorts.
• Video editing.

For more information, please see the Job Description attached.