Hear Me Out

Job vacancy – Communications Manager

Our Communications Manager is taking maternity leave from mid-June and we are looking for someone to cover the role for approx 9 months.

Communications Manager job pack

The role

We are a small team and this is the only communications role in it. So the Communications Manager has a lot to do, including:

· Running our whole comms operation – social media, website, event marketing, PR.

· Developing and delivering our communications strategy

· Creating stories and content for different channels

· Working on communications projects with people with lived experience

· Working with our individual giving lead on fundraising campaigns

This will be a temporary (9-month) contract, for 2 ½ days’ work a week (0.5 FTE), at a salary of £40,000 per year pro rata (ie £20,000 per year).

Lived experience and professional experience

Professional experience and lived experience are both valuable for this role. We want to bring people with personal experience of immigration detention, or the asylum process, or immigration enforcement into our team, so if you have this kind of experience then we would really love to hear from you. We need is someone who can help us deliver. That means understanding the people we work with, and knowing how to deliver organisational communications that meet their needs.

If you have lots of professional experience, together with strong understanding of our kind of work and the needs we address, but not the personal experience specified above, then we would also love to hear from you. We want people with all kinds of backgrounds and experience to apply for this job. We very much encourage applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds, disabled or neurodivergent applicants, and people of different ages, gender, sexual orientations and socio-economic backgrounds.

To apply

If you’re interested in this role, please download the job pack below and read it carefully.

Communications Manager job pack

To apply you will need to send us:

· Your CV and

· A letter of no more than two pages, or a voice note/video of not more than 6 minutes, telling us why you are interested in the role and how you fit the selection requirements.

Please send all applications to john@hearmeoutmusic.org.uk

The deadline for applications is 1.00pm on Monday 14th April. Interviews will be on Wednesday 7th May. We need the successful applicant to start work in the week beginning Monday 9th June.