Communications Assistant

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Job description

Just a Drop is an international development charity working to bring safe water, hygiene and sanitation to communities, transforming lives. Our safe water projects have benefitted over 1.8 million people across 32 countries since we began in 1998.

We're looking for a confident, positive self-starter motivated to take the initiative across a varied and interesting workload. Working in the small, highly committed and professional Fundraising and Communications team, the role will carry out a variety of tasks and through necessity liaise closely with the Projects team - it will be necessary to attend Projects team meetings.

The role is offered on a temporary contract basis. It is envisaged this will be an important and valued role within the organisation, with the opportunity to make a huge impact on the charity's development. The coming year is a challenging but exciting time for the organisation, as we continue to build a sustainable future in the context of coronavirus.

This is a great opportunity for those looking to start their career in the charity sector, at a positive, professional and passionate organisation making a real difference to people's lives.

Job Description

Work with the communications team to create a portfolio of films for use across communications
With the communications team, provide content for social media and other digital spaces such as our newsletter and the website, for example infographics
Create impact reports, covering the impact of our work for social media and partners e.g. showing the full impact of our work in Kenya
Project reports for funders - collate formal reports for project supporters from local partner updates and look to develop this function
With the communications team, prepare Just a Drop's quarterly Highlights, researching the highest quality images from our projects
Support our image bank, to ensure it has the best available images for communications purposes
Provide support to update our project statistics and statistics relevant to our work, for example, updating our website

Make updates to the website, e.g. ensure partner pages are all fully up to date and provide relevant tags for images

Awards - help us research opportunities to enter Awards, thus building our profile
Research potential Charity of the Year opportunities for Just a Drop to apply for
Respond to requests received through the website
Any other duty considered appropriate to the role

Person specification

Skills and abilities:

Excellent writing skills
Excellent verbal communication skills
Ability to liaise with a wide variety of stakeholders, with excellent interpersonal skills
Ideally, experience of film editing
Ideally, some experience of using Canva

Personal attributes:

An ability to use initiative, a self-starter, with a can do attitude and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
Strong organisational and workload management skills
Positive and friendly outlook
Confident
Motivated
Flexible attitude to working on a variety of projects and different areas

The role is based in our offices in Richmond, Greater London, with some home working at present.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter of no more than 2 pages, thank you.