About Social Finance

We are an ambitious not for profit organisation that helps to design, fund, and scale better solutions to complex social problems. Our vision is a fairer world where together we unleash the potential of people and communities. We do this by working in partnership with local and national governments, funders, communities, and the social sector to tackle complex and enduring social problems in the UK and across the world.

Our skills include financial analysis, data and digital insight, outcomes-focused partnerships, strategy, research, and design. We combine these specialisms in diverse ways to address specific social challenges. We create effective solutions that blend the expertise of communities and professionals to deliver better outcomes in issues such as homelessness, domestic abuse, children’s services, health, employment, and skills.

Ready to make your own impact on these issues? Then come and join us.

Our multi-skilled team of over 120 people come from diverse backgrounds in the public, private and charity sectors, all sharing a passion for making change happen. We provide a high-quality training and development programme in-house with great opportunities for career progression. We are a friendly and intellectually curious bunch, always up for a debate. Read more about what it’s like to work here

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to expand the IPS Grow team, aimed at helping health systems deliver high quality evidence-based employment practice. We are a well-established service, led by Social Finance and are funded by NHS England and DWP to support the expansion of IPS services across mental health and drug and alcohol teams.

We are looking for a Marketing Executive to work in collaboration with the Marketing and Recruitment Lead to create and edit content for offline and/or digital marketing channels, such as website, social media, marketing materials, blogs or newsletters. This is a varied role where you will have creative input and commitment to telling the inspiring stories within IPS and carrying out creative communications which have real impact.

The Team

IPS Grow is a national programme designed to support the expansion of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services in mental health and drug & alcohol teams across England. It is funded by NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). A core element of the programme is the expert assistance provided by a team of IPS experts, known as IPS Grow Leads, to support providers to improve their fidelity to the IPS model and achieve better employment outcomes for their clients.

Responsibilities

The key requirements of the role are:

Marketing & Communications:

• Provide support with the development and design of content to be distributed externally including newsletters and direct marketing campaigns

• Assist in the development and execution of email marketing campaigns using Mailchimp

• Write and edit content for web and digital platforms

• Daily monitoring and management of social media communications including the creation of engaging social and digital assets using Canva

• Generate and format marketing materials, such as brochures, presentations, and proposals, as requested

• Generate digital analysis reports from social media, Mailchimp and Google Analytics/4 and suggest improvements

• Competency in using the website content management system, to publish web articles and news stories on the website and other platforms and increase web traffic

• Establish and maintain effective day to day relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support marketing activities

• Assist in maintaining and updating marketing databases and records and team calendar

• Provide support for ad hoc projects related to internal and external communications

• Support the Business Manager to produce and distribute reports to stakeholders, including document formatting and collation of input from multiple parties

• Attend team meetings, take notes, and facilitate information dissemination

• Monitor team mailbox and act as a first line response for queries

Events and Webinars:

• Provide support to develop and execute in-person and virtual events, including promotional activities, event management and post-event follow-up

• Research and book meeting rooms/event space

• Book travel (e.g., trains, hotels) for the team where appropriate

• Arrange for materials and equipment to be available as required for internal and external meetings, e.g., printed materials, IT equipment, circulation of papers

• Support IPS Grow Leads to schedule complex meetings in their regions

Any other duties commensurate with role

About You

You will need to show competency, potential or interest in the following areas. You are not expected to arrive with a full skillset, as you will be supported to develop in the role.

Shared Values:

• We are looking for people with a passionate belief that helping people to achieve appropriate employment can transform lives. We hope you will share this, as well as our other core values. Team work: You are a team player and also have the ability to work independently, are receptive to feedback and use it to continually improve. You will work closely with the team to support them on a communications front e.g. translating complex information into informative comms. You will be able to work effectively in a remote large, cross-functional team.

Organisation and Reliability:

• You will be highly organised. You will be able to manage multiple tasks and requests, prioritising them effectively and ensuring they are responded to in timely with exceptional attention to detail.

Proactivity:

• You will be proactive as well as reactive. You will look for opportunities to improve our marketing and communications using your creative, written and design skills.

IT and software skills:

• You will be skilled in using core Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and using a website content management system. You will have skills in Google, Hootsuite, Mailchimp and Canva. Experience using SharePoint, MS Teams, Zoom and Slack is desired.

Communication:

• You will have excellent communication skills. Act as an ambassador for the IPS service in conversations with local and national stakeholders and be committed to telling its inspiring stories in a sensitive, diplomatic and responsible way.

Experience:

• You will have had prior experience in a marketing role with proven experience in producing online marketing content and event planning and management. Sector experience is not necessary however experience in a team managing complex programmes or working in primary or secondary care would be beneficial.

Our Commitment to You

Social Finance offers a range of training and development support, using both in-house expertise and external partners to develop and deliver our training programmes. Alongside the Project Managers you work with day to day, your Line Manager will support you in your career planning and personal development. All new staff have a buddy in place to help them learn about life at Social Finance.

The fixed salary for this position is £35,000 per annum. We offer a generous holiday allowance plus bank holidays and corporate leave between Christmas and New Year when the office is closed. We also offer a contributory stakeholder pension scheme, season ticket loans, bike to work schemes and Give as you Earn via salary sacrifice.

Encouraging community and wellbeing is important to us. We have a health and wellbeing plan to encourage better working practices for individuals. Social Finance is a disability confident committed employer as well as a founding signature of the UK social investment sector’s Diversity Forum manifesto.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

We actively encourage applications from under-represented and minoritised groups, including those with lived experience of the social issues we are working to address. We are an equal opportunities employer. We support a range of flexible working options and welcome UK based applications from outside of London/the Southeast so far as they can meet the in-person meeting requirements for the role. We can also accommodate secondments and part-time working. Read more about our approach to equity, diversity and inclusion on our website.

We work on some projects where our clients may require various levels of DBS checking for our employees. Candidates deemed suitable for a role after interview will be asked to declare any unspent convictions to ensure that we are able to resource them to projects appropriately.