Communications Assistant

Founded 24 years ago, Theirworld has grown to become a leading global children’s charity committed to the best start in life for children and young people by ending the education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation. If you care about issues like climate change, gender equality, inclusion, helping refugees and ensuring the voices of young people are represented at all levels of decision-making, then education is the key to unlocking big change in these areas. If you want to make change happen, join us! We believe in unlocking big change from a supportive and inclusive environment. This is why we now have an innovative 4-day-working-week which sees all employees working Monday to Thursday with the office closed on most Fridays. This is in addition to hybrid working with most staff taking at least one day a week based in the office.

Other benefits include:

• Regular in-house training
• Travel
• Central London location: 5 mins from Liverpool St Station and Shoreditch High Street
• Highly competitive salaries, plus more
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home office expense allowance
• Life Insurance
• Season ticket loan scheme

About the role

We seek a Communications Assistant to support our busy Marketing and Communications team. Based in London and reporting to the Director of Communications, you will work across our campaigns, events and project trips, and provide essential administrative support to in-house team members as well as external suppliers and agencies. You will support the delivery of communications across our brand channels — including websites, email and social media — helping us to ensure our content is delivered on time, on brand and with impact. This is an excellent opportunity for someone at the start of their communications career who wants to gain hands‑on experience and build skills across a wide range of disciplines. The ideal candidate will be a highly organised communications professional eager to apply their skills within a global children’s charity dedicated to ending the global education crisis.

Main responsibilities

The Communications Assistant will support communications, media, content, projects and events including:

• Providing essential support to ensure the smooth setup and running of communications, marketing projects, content production and events.
• Project and administrative support: Assisting with multiple projects at once, scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and notes, organising shared documents and files, helping draft briefs, tracking actions and supporting internal and external stakeholders to keep work moving.
• Content coordination: Supporting the gathering, organisation and creation of content in‑house, with partners and at events. This includes managing content folders, logging and tagging assets, preparing copy or visual materials for review, coordinating approvals, and ensuring content is ready for use across digital and offline channels.
• Brand channel support: Helping maintain our busy websites, email communications and social media channels by uploading content, drafting posts or newsletters, updating pages, and ensuring information is accurate, timely and consistent with brand guidelines.
• Event support: Assisting with the setup and delivery of a year‑round programme of events, including venue research, branding and collateral preparation, invitations, supplier liaison, on‑site support and general logistics.
• Team‑wide coordination: Acting as a central support to the Marketing & Communications team by managing shared inboxes or workflows, assisting with procurement and supplier management, processing invoices, organising assets, and ensuring smooth day‑to‑day operations.

Experience, skills and character

The Communications Assistant will provide essential all‑round support to ensure the smooth setup and running of communications, marketing projects, content production and events. Responsibilities include:

• A determined, enthusiastic and proactive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Strong organisational and time‑management skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Experience with Monday.com is a plus.
• A problem‑solving mindset and the initiative to anticipate needs and keep projects running smoothly.
• Familiarity with digital communications, including social media, website content management and email creation and the Microsoft Office Suite, including Microsoft Teams.
• Confident communicator able to work with a variety of internal teams, suppliers, partners and agencies.
• Comfortable supporting the administrative backbone of a busy team — from scheduling and file management to content organising and supplier coordination.
• Collaborative, hands‑on and eager to learn across a wide range of marketing and communications activities.
• Up to a year or more of experience in communications, marketing, production or events (in‑house or agency) is desirable.
• Experience supporting project management or team operations is a plus.

Starting at £27,000+ based on qualifications and experience.

Apply for this role

Please submit your CV and a cover letter to jobs@theirworld.org including the name of the role of interest in the subject line of your email. Only open to applicants with the right to work in the UK. Applications close 18th January 2026. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make any reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend any interview, please let us know.