Senior Community Engagement Coordinator

Overview

These roles are critical to our future success and to saving and improving lives. You will play a vital part in engaging communities, using your communication, marketing, and outreach skills to encourage members of the public to become blood donors. A key aspect of the role is coordinating and delivering community engagement activities to ensure we have the right volume and mix of donors to meet patients needs today and in the future. You will also contribute to national campaigns, adapting and implementing them across your region. We have multiple opportunities available across London, with a base at our Tooting Centre. This is a dynamic, mobile role that involves travel, so flexibility is essential. Occasional weekend and Bank Holiday work may be required. While hybrid working is available, attendance at community events is a core part of the role You may be required to work a variety of working patterns dependant on the type of event, which would include working at, weekends and on, In this role, you will be supporting the delivery of the community engagement strategy within the donor experience directorate.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinating the delivery of regional engagement to ensure success and that we have the right volume and mix of donors to meet patients needs today and in the future.
• Developing a local plan of activity to help meet the organisation\’s aims and objectives.
• Focussing on coordinating and delivering local activities that promote the registration and donation of RO blood, with a focus on high Black Heritage populated areas.
• Considering how the role can raise awareness and deliver against organ, plasma, stem cell and bone marrow donors where appropriate.
• Proactively approaching local community groups/partners, event leaders, businesses and Community Grants Programme NHSBT funded projects, as agreed with line manager and within the strategic plan to meet organisational objectives.
• Working closely with colleagues to ensure that contact with partners and stakeholders is managed consistently and effectively.
• Working closely with the marketing campaigns team to ensure that opportunities for campaign activity identified through partnerships are effectively progressed.
• Willingness and ability to travel, spend time away from base, and work weekends or bank holidays as required.

About NHS Blood and Transplant

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference – Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we\’ll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the