Role: Communications Officer

Please read this role descriptor carefully - have you got the essential skills or experience that we need?

What does this role do? 
The communications team here at ReportOUT play a vital role in highlighting the important and valuable work of our major Human Rights Reports, as well as raising awareness of events and articles. Your role will therefore involve creating engaging social media and other communications content, which will be used to cascade key messages and developments that the charity will be sharing with the public and internally. You will:

 

• Listen carefully to othet teams at ReportOUT and update comms to reflect their work.

• Encourage external people and ReportOUT members to write blogs, and post them on our website.

• Create and schedule engaging content across our social media platforms.

• Monitor and respond to comments and messages in a timely manner.

• Develop and execute social media campaigns to raise awareness and drive action.

• Write and distribute our monthly newsletter.

• Track and analyse social media metrics to optimise performance.

• Stay updated on social media trends and best practices.

• Update our intranet, ReportIN, on SharePoint.

• Collaborate with the communications team to ensure cohesive messaging.

• Use our branding guidelines to create visual content on Canva.

Essential skills, experience, or qualifications you need for this particular role:

 

• Confidence and experience with using software platforms for communications (training can be provided). 

• A laptop is needed, as only using a phone is not suitable.

• Strong writing and communication skills.

• Creativity and a knack for storytelling.

• Experience with scheduling software (for example, Later - though we have a guide for this).

• Ability to analyse data and adjust strategies to boost engagement.

• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as using your own initiative.

• Experience working as part of a remote team, including maintaining frequent and regular communication with the rest of the team.

Desirable skills, experience, or qualifications:

• Some graphic design experience using software such as Canva.