Head of Brand and Content

SALARY: £50,557 – £54,126pa
LOCATION: London EC1R 0BJ
CLOSING DATE: Thursday July 26th 2012

Are you passionate about making a real difference? Help shape ActionAid's future.

As part of the global ActionAid family, we work with local people in 43 countries to fight poverty and injustice and to build a fair and just world where everyone can claim their human rights.

You are a skilled brand strategist who knows what high quality, impactful content can achieve. We are looking for a new brand leader to develop and embed a strategy which will help us build brand awareness and support.

Working across ActionAid UK you will align our communications to ensure our audiences know who we are, know what we stand for and, most importantly, want to support us in our fight for fairer world.

Managing a team of creatives, schedulers and freelancers you will oversee content gathering and scheduling to ensure it is high quality, engaging and effective.

You will also ensure our brand identity is coherent, flexible and clearly understood by more than a quarter of a million staff, supporters and volunteers in the UK. There is also the chance to lead a light touch brand refresh based on verbal identity.

Your substantial experience of leading the development and delivery of insight driven organisational brand strategies will be complemented by high levels of brand, marketing and production skill.

With a track record of increasing levels of brand awareness and support you are known for delivering projects on brief, in time and within budget.

Comfortable influencing change in large complex organisations, you have a collaborative approach, whilst being commercially astute and a strong people manager.

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To apply

Please email your CV, covering letter and equal opportunities monitoring form to jobs@actionaid.org

About your application:

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we will not be able to respond personally to applicants who are not short-listed. If you have not heard from us within two weeks from the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ActionAid is an equal opportunities employer. We warmly welcome applications from all sections of the community and aim to promote diversity.

Recruitment consultancies / agencies should not approach ActionAid with regards to open vacancies. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.

All interested applicants must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK.