Head of Visual Images
Salary:£51,821 - £55,479
Contract:Two Year Fixed Term Contract. Interviews to be held during the w/c 2nd of December
Location:London
Closing date:November 20th 2013
At ActionAid we are delivering a bold strategy to provide sustained improvements to the poorest and most excluded people in the world. It means we’re creating fantastic career opportunities for experienced sector professionals who want to be part of an organisation that is making a real difference. Join our action to end poverty now and be part of something truly amazing.
Working with the Director of Communications you will lead the development of a new visual images communications strategy including stills, film and other audio-visual products that increase our public profile, inspires people to donate and helps us address the underlying causes of poverty and deliver long term change.
As part of our cross-organisational leadership team you will help drive the strategic development of our communications department, helping to align its work to our mission. This will involve ensuring film and visual output is reaching and effectively engages target audiences, developing partnerships and relationships as well as delivering innovative ways of collaborating with members of the wider ActionAid federation. You will also play a lead role on cross-functional visual communication projects in the UK. Vital will be the ability to develop a high performing team by providing leadership, direction and guidance.
You will already be an experienced television, video or broadcast professional with a number of credits to your name and proven experience of working at a senior level to develop a range of content. You will have excellent editorial judgment and creative vision and an ability of see films from the original idea through a production phase and then to delivery. You will have experience of a range of different styles of film making.
Your ability to increase audience engagement with our film and visual images will be supported by exceptional understanding of trends in digital video and photo distribution as well as channels and platforms. Critically, you will have a history of creating motivated and high performing teams and your people management skills will be complemented by the ability to get the best out of team members and supplier partners. An excellent communicator, you are comfortable taking difficult decisions, willing to challenge the status quo and keen to model new ways of working.
If you are the senior level team builder who can make a significant difference to our organisation we would be delighted to hear from you.
How to apply
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To apply for a role, please email your CV, covering letter (2 sides maximum) and your completed equal opportunities monitoring form tojobs@actionaid.org
Please ensure that you state your full name and the title of the job you are applying for in the subject title of the email.
To assist us in monitoring the effectiveness of where we choose to advertise our vacancies, please state in your email where you saw this role advertised.
If you are unable to apply via email, please send a postal application to:
The HR Team
ActionAid UK Head office
33-39 Bowling Green Lane,
London
EC1R 0BJ
United Kingdom
The information you provide to us in your job application will only be shared with relevant members of the recruitment and selection process and will be treated confidentially in line with Data Protection legislation.
ActionAid UK has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its UK based employees have the legal right to work in the UK. Therefore if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to ActionAid verifying that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.
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