Communications and Operations Co-ordinator

Overview

Afield Environmental is a brand new charity responding to environmental injustice. We do this by working with communities to rewild disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods; and bysupporting artists to undertake ecological research. This exciting and challenging role will beright at the heart of making everything happen.

We are looking for a creative and community-minded Communications and OperationsCo-ordinator to help develop Afield over the next 12 months. This is a varied roleencompassing communications and operational support for the grants programme and thecharity more generally. You will help us develop our communications strategy, support our grantees, and develop our systems and processes as a new charity.

As we are a new charity we have created this as a fixed-term appointment - we are still working out the longer-term roles for the charity.

We are looking for someone who is organised and self-sufficient, a skilled communicator, and a connector of people and ideas. We welcome applications from those early in their career. Where a candidate needs time to grow into aspects of the role, they will be helped to do so through management support and training.

Key Responsibilities

Communications
Help deliver Afield s communications strategy aligned with our mission
Make Afield s Wilding and Arts grants visible, accessible, and compelling to key
communities and audiences
Manage Afield's digital presence across website, blogs, and social media, creating
compelling content written, visual and including graphics
Monitor, evaluate, and report on Afield s communications activity, to continually
improve our reach and resonance
Help document Afield-related events through photography and video.

Support for grants programmes
Support grantees in documenting, editing and communicating project outputs and
outcomes, including video content, for a variety of audiences
Support the Grants and Cohorts manager as required, including setting up cohort
meetings, helping manage selection panels and providing event support, preparing
materials etc
Provide communications skills support as appropriate to grantees / cohorts.

Other
Provide administrative and operational support to the founders as required
Provide support to the organisation s broader evaluation activities
You might occasionally be asked to support our grantee programmes in other ways
such as helping at events or workshops

Requirements

Essential
An excellent communicator, with experience of running workshops, presenting
information to audiences, or developing relationships with partners
Proven experience running and creating content for social media channels or websites
Excellent writing and editing skills for different audiences, with examples of published
content (including for example social media posts)
Empathetic, with a positive attitude and a desire to help our grantees. You should be
able to provide evidence of supporting a group of people
Organised and energetic with a self-sufficient attitude, and with the ability to
independently manage a busy workload, multiple deadlines and priorities
Demonstrable commitment to ongoing development and learning
Evidence of an interest in arts and/or the environment.

Desirable:
Strong understanding of digital content strategy, with experience of using a CMS
platform, and social media analytics
Experience of arts-related documentation and/or archiving
Ability and comfort in creating structure out of ambiguity
Ability to identify challenges and opportunities, and express proposals for change
Experience working with or supporting artists, grantees or cohorts.
Video editing.

For more information, please see the Job Description attached.