Marketing & Communications Lead
Eastbourne
Lead a team to design and implement a marketing & communications strategy.
UCEP provides primary education. There are 20 million children not in school in Nigeria alone - exposed to poverty, violence, exploitation.
What will you be doing?
• To formulate a marketing and communication strategy for UCEP, engaging volunteers, and Trustees in the process.
• To develop the UCEP website as a primary point of reference and regular news features.
• Establish and maintain a bank of accessible marketing materials to engage a cross section of stakeholders.
• Implement a programme of social media communications about UCEP, promoting its charitable purpose, impact, and events calendar.
• Establish and maintain a supporter data base of contacts and key relationships, co-ordinating this with the Fundraising Manager and administrator to avoid duplication of effort.
• Deliver a monthly newsletter to UCEP supporters and timely website news features.
• Communicate with local media on events and charity achievements, raising the profile of UCEP.
• Advise and help to draft communication materials for the charity, ensuring compliance with the charity's values and ethics.
• Provide written reports on marketing and communication activity and outcomes on request and no less frequently than monthly.
What are we looking for?
Skills and experience in:
• Leading a team to formulating a marketing and communication strategy, engaging volunteers, and Trustees in the process.
• Working with the design and IT teams to maximise the effectiveness of our website as a primary point of reference and regular news features.
• Leading a creative team in implementing a programme of social media communications about UCEP, promoting its charitable purpose, impact, and events calendar.
• Directing a team to maintain a supporter data base of contacts and key relationships, co-ordinating this with the Fundraising Manager and administrator to avoid duplication of effort.
• Lead the delivery a monthly newsletter to UCEP supporters and timely website news features.
• Advising and helping to draft communication materials for the charity, ensuring compliance with the charity's values and ethics.
• Providing written monthly reports on marketing and communication activity and outcomes.
What difference will you make?
Having established a successful model of delivery we now need your help to raise more funds grow the charity so we can:
• Extend the roll out of the initial pilot in a phased approach to 18 villages in 6 clusters, sponsoring many more pupils, supported by co-ordinated coaching and mentoring.
• To ensure village schools have the infrastructure they need to support the wellbeing and education of pupils and for the benefit of the village communities - teaching materials and books.
• To progress local and diaspora partnerships, co-ordinating activities with like-minded charities and individuals.
• To be able to demonstrate the impact secured from the project activities, in the short, intermediate, and long term and sustain ongoing investment in the charitable purpose.
In the longer term our strategy is to:
• Grow the charity into a lead enabling organisation to reduce the numbers of children deprived of a primary school education in the villages in Nigeria.
• To extend our sponsorship to pupils who progress to secondary, vocational and university education.
• To provide ongoing mentoring and coaching support to our children, demonstrating the acquisition of life skills and diversion from poverty, exploitation, and gangs.
• To provide an evidence base in support of further investment in sponsored education.
• Stem the dangerous emigration exodus of the future generation of young Nigerians through the Saharah and the Mediterranean sea to the UK, Europe and beyond, creating future community leaders and agents of change.
Before you apply
Please apply through Reach. Interviews will be by Zoom with the Chair.
About Uwakaneme Community Education Project (UCEP)
Causes
• Children / families
• Education
• Poverty relief
• Young people
Organisation type:
Charity
UCEP is a registered UK, not for profit, charity set up to pay school fees and provide additional support for children from disadvantaged families in very poor communities in West Africa.
