Senior Campaigns Officer in London

Age UK is recruiting for a Senior Campaigns Officer to inspire people online and offline to amplify the voices of older people and campaign for change. In this role you’ll manage our 470,000 strong online campaign community and lead offline activities to get the attention of decision makers. This is a crucial role that helps us to secure meaningful social change and communicate our influencing work to our campaigners and the public. We operate a hybrid-working model, a blend of home and office working. This role will include regular days working from our London office (minimum once per month, but also as and when meetings or campaign events). Your travel costs to the London office are not covered by the charity.

Must haves:

• Proven track record of supporter management and implementing engagement strategies that grow and build involvement online and offline.
• Good experience of co-ordinating events.
• Extensive experience of managing complex projects and coordinated cross organisational working.
• Good experience of working with storytellers or people with lived experience.
• Experience of recording and using data to track and evaluate campaign metrics and adapt campaign tactics in response to these.

Skills and knowledge:

• Extensive digital campaigning skills including good knowledge of Engaging Networks or equivalent platform.
• Demonstrate a strong personal commitment to diversity and inclusion and apply this across all communication channels.
• A demonstrable interest in and understanding of how change happens and the political process including the UK Parliament.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, along with an ability to prioritise workload and competing demands.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills creating materials for a range of platforms and audiences.

What we offer in return:

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme.
• Wellbeing days – 2 paid days per year (pro rata for our part-time colleagues).
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, Bupa health cashback plan and EAP.
• Car Benefit scheme, Cycle to Work scheme.
• Home & Tech - apply to buy any Home & Tech items from 'Currys' & 'IKEA', up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free (subject to affordability).
• Blue Light Card scheme.
• You Did It Awards – recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information:

Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an ‘A’ in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected. Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.