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Job description

Job title:  Breadwinners Comms Officer - London, Part-Time

Reporting to: Managing Director 

Remuneration: £28,000 (Pro-rata, part-time, 0.5FTE)

Days and Hours: 0.5FTE, 2.5 days a week (18.75 hours), Flexible hours, availability to occasionally support a minimum of 4 hrs over the weekend. Wednesday the teamwork at our coworking space in Brixton, and Breadwinners training sessions run on Wednesday evenings. Ideally, the working pattern would be Mondays and Wednesdays, with occasional work on either Sat or Sun.

Duration: Permanent contract.

Location: London, Coworking Space in Brixton several central areas and expanding reach.

Start: Jan 2025 / Apply ASAP, Deadline 31/12/24

Wellbeing Pack: Employees have access to enhanced Holidays, Flexible Working, Coaching Sessions and monthly wellbeing expenses. Check our Wellbeing Pack.

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Breadwinners is growing, and we are delighted to offer an amazing opportunity for a Part-Time Comms Officer to deliver the communications strategy on social media, the website, via our newsletter, printed materials, press and events, with the aim to grow and inspire the ‘Breadwinners Community’, and support refugees into their first UK jobs. 

We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and innovative Programme officer with a passion for supporting young refugees and young people seeking asylum. We are a small and ambitious social enterprise, so a can-do attitude and the drive to work within a small focused team and deliver a huge impact is essential, together with an ability to occasionally assist our young people at the market stalls over the weekend.

The role will be to run our Comms platforms: Instagram: @wearebreadwinners / Facebook:@wearebreadwinners/ Twitter: @webreadwinners / LinkedIn: breadwinners / Youtube: @wearebreadwinners / Website & Blog: www.breadwinners.org.uk/blog / PAR Reports 

You will have the chance to see the impact your work has, meet amazing people who deserve better opportunities, work together with them and learn every day in a fun and positive environment.    

Please apply as soon as possible, by submitting your cover letter and CV to martin@breadwinners.org.uk. Please use “Breadwinners Comms Officer Application” as the email subject. We will arrange interviews for great applicants as they come in and might offer the position before the deadline. No more applications will be taken after the 31st of December 2024. 

We actively welcome applications from people with lived and relevant experience. If you have any questions or want an informal chat about the role please call Martin Cosarinsky Campos at 07783996918.

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Highlighting the skills and positivity of refugees and people seeking asylum with positive stories and images
• Planning and creating engaging digital content for social media, website and email (this includes writing, photography, videography and editing)
• Updating and managing content marketing on the website
• Designing a digital strategy for both outreach as a charity and to grow our sales
• Managing our social media community including customer service through these platforms
• Taking ownership of branding, design and digital asset management 
• Support the people on our programmes to tell their stories and gain new skills in writing, communications and photography
• Monitoring and improving web performance through SEO techniques, content marketing, Google Analytics and Google Ads (including using the Google Ad Grant)
• Collaborate on and launch fundraising campaigns 
• Managing young people and volunteers who contribute to blogs and social media 
• Using key platforms and software: Canva, Hootsuite, Google Analytics, Squarespace, Salesforce, Xero.
• Ensuring safeguarding and GDPR best practices are followed on all communications. 
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The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the below points:

• Passionate about supporting refugees and young people seeking asylum, with either personal, professional or volunteering experience.
• Effective use of content through a variety of platforms including social media.
• Strong communication skills, planning and creating content, dealing with a variety of people, and different communication styles and forms (Face to face, email, WhatsApp). 
• Experience in running comms tasks with attention to detail, using online platforms. 
• A simple approach, finding quick solutions to problems, and setting up new processes. 
• Energetic and self-motivated, able to work by yourself, and as part of a team.
• Capacity to produce a long-term comms strategy, and execute it.
• Computer literate with good knowledge of all Social Media channels, Squarespace, Canva, and Google platforms including email, calendar, drive, sheets, docs, slides. Comfortable using Chatgpt, Salesforce and Xero.
• Excellent English.
• Marketing experience desired. 
• Wholesale experience desired.

Key details:  

• Salary -  £28,000 pro rata to 2.5 days a week (20 hours).
• 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), adjusted pro rata. Increased 1 week in your second year, and another one in your 3rd year.
• Flexible time and work locations (Currently the team work in the office on Wednesdays, and delivery of Breadwinners training sessions are on Wednesday evenings.) 
• Opportunity to work directly with young people and volunteers, and make a difference in their lives and yours. 
• Contribution to the growth and direction of a new, ambitious, award-winning charity.
• Working directly with the Managing Director and programme managers alongside a supportive and passionate Board of Trustees.
• The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK by the start of their employment.
• Appointment subject to DBS Checks. 

About Breadwinners (watch video)

Breadwinners is an ambitious grassroots charity set up in April 2016. We provide customers with the best organic artisan bread while empowering refugees through employment, work experience, training and mentoring. 

Today, Breadwinners sells the highest quality organic artisan bread on farmers' markets across London and Brighton, and through our wholesale model sourcing socially responsible corporations, restaurants and cafes. We are the first stepping stone for unemployed refugees and young people seeking asylum into a safe and supportive working environment, where they can gain the skills, confidence and experience to move into long-term work and improve their well-being. 

• We have built relationships with high-quality bakeries including, Celtic Bakery, Flour Pot and Flint Owl, who support our social cause and provide us with bread at discounted prices, allowing us to have a cost advantage. 
• We work in partnership and take referrals in London from Refugee Council, DOST, Young Roots, Voices in Exile, Hummingbird Project, Colleges and social workers. 
• We currently run 9 markets across London and 4 in Brighton. We have supported over 604 young refugees to do their first UK work experience with Breadwinners, with 91% reporting an increase in well-being after participating. 
• We have plans to grow in London, starting new markets to offer more opportunities for work experience and in the future to take the model to other UK cities.
• We adapted to COVID-19 and started a wholesale business, allowing us to provide further IT training on a new programme called “Proofers”, providing work as online sales representatives.
• We have consistently won several Social Enterprise and Charity awards for our Impact!

People love our bread, brand and our social mission. What makes us a unique charity is the fact that we sell something people want, and this allows us to tackle the barriers refugees face to finding employment directly, by providing amazing people with the opportunity to work. You will have the chance to help scale Breadwinners to further young people across London. If you're looking for a job which you can own, which will challenge and excite you every day, while meeting incredible people and making a big difference - you've found it here. 

“We believe refugees have extraordinary potential as entrepreneurs, employees and members of local communities. We sell the best artisan organic bread to support them to build a fresh start, providing self-employment, training, and business opportunities, to become an active part of the community”

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Application information

Please apply as soon as possible, by submitting your cover letter and CV to martin@breadwinners.org.uk. Please use “Breadwinners Comms Officer Application” as the email subject. We will arrange interviews for great applicants as they come in and might offer the position before the deadline. No more applications will be taken after the 31st of December 2024. 

We actively welcome applications from people with lived and relevant experience. If you have any questions or want an informal chat about the role please call Martin Cosarinsky Campos at 07783996918.

 

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