Digital Project Manager

We work with organisations that play a crucial role in making our societies better for all of us. They've been at the forefront of policy campaigning to improve school food, to better conserve the ocean, and to protect children in war. Their websites are often the first thing funders and policymakers will check to see how legitimate or credible an organisation is. Nothing kills credibility faster than a website that loads slowly, categorises content in a way that no-one outside the organisation understands, or a site where the design is just… bad.

The challenge is that too many policy websites prioritise internal audiences over external. Rather than thinking “what does policymaker X need to see?”, the question is “what do senior management want to see on the website?” This leads to websites that are an output in themselves, rather than websites that lead to outcomes.

We’re looking for someone to manage digital projects at Cast from Clay. Your job is to ensure that all our digital workstreams prioritise outcomes (hard to do), over simple outputs (anyone can do).

The job: Ever-curious, you’re the kind of person that is always looking for opportunities to make digital deliver for clients. You'll have an instinctive sense of what will (and won't) work on various platforms (websites, data platforms, etc.), how they should complement each other and what it means to build an engaged online audience. You’ll have that instinct because you've done it before: you’ll know to run website design and build processes, manage developers, and be confident in explaining to a client why they should take one route over another.

You’ll have a number of responsibilities from day one. You’ll be the point person for digital projects, supporting on new business opportunities, managing our website hosting and maintenance business, and managing a team of developers to ensure our work – and processes – are grade A. While you may have a technical background, it’s worth being clear that we are not looking for exclusively technical candidates. Understanding programming is key, but you won’t need to do any.

Why us? The kinds of people that thrive at Cast from Clay are intellectually curious, are open to challenge, and care about the details. Most importantly, they prize clarity of thought. In today’s world we are overwhelmed with information and content. Knowing what you think and being able to explain why is, to our minds, one of the most important skills of today. It’s worth saying that we don’t care what your political views are, as long as you have some. The team has a mix of views, and we view ideological diversity as crucial to our ability to be an effective consultancy.

What we are looking for:

• Someone who prizes outcomes over outputs, and knows how to adapt their approach to achieve best results.
• A consultative approach: you’re able to identify problems, solutions and opportunities, and convince others of your point of view.
• Experience in a consultancy or agency and an understanding of client management.
• Experience managing a team, and an understanding of how to get the best out of different types of people in that team.

What we offer:

• We offer a competitive benefits package for all our positions, including enhanced parental leave, sabbaticals, and training budgets.
• Office: we work from our offices in Vauxhall on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You’re welcome to use the office more frequently than that if you wish.
• Home office allowance: we’ll make a £150 contribution towards kitting out your home workspace.
• Flexible working: tell us how you work best and we’ll do what we can to make it happen – including if you want to spend time working from abroad.
• Regular team socials: we like spending time together so every few weeks we come up with ideas for things to do together. That’s included board games over pizza, ice skating, movie nights, playing a VR game together and going on llama safari at our local city farm.
• Training: you’ll get up to £500 annual training budget to spend on your professional development.
• Pension: we will pay 5% of your salary, matching the 5% you pay, to make a total of 10% annual contributions.
• Holidays: we offer 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays, and we close the office over Christmas.
• Bonuses: we offer a 5% new business bonus, and a company wide bonus if annual profit targets are hit.

Things to note:

• You need to have permission to work in the U.K. already - we cannot sponsor visas for this role.
• We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, class, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.