Communications Specialist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Communications Specialist to join the Atlantic Institute based at the Rhodes Trust. The Communications Specialist will act as the hub of the Communications team, ensuring that activity is strategically prioritised and that effective systems are in place to enable delivery. They will hold knowledge of all activity in the Communications portfolio, ensure that communications plans are developed and delivered, play a key role in content production and gather feedback. Working with colleagues across the Institute, they will facilitate effective collaborations to ensure the Atlantic Fellows community's contribution to equity impact grows., Coordinator for Communications Team

• Organise and maintain information sources to support comms content and roll-out planning and delivery, including Asana calendars and spreadsheets.
• Organise, facilitate and record action points for team meetings, ensuing follow-through of agreed activity and tacking of carried-over agenda points
• Manage the team's shared inbox, triaging and prioritising requests for support, working closely with all members of the Communications Team to ensure awareness of workloads and facilitating timely completion of priority projects
Please see the job description for more responsibilities Content production and promotion
• Support the production and posting of content, and monitoring platforms for engagement, comments and messages. Contribute to content planning, and create ad-hoc posts for the Institute.
• Community newsletters, and other promotional email pieces: collation and curation of content, creating draft pieces for sign-off, ensuring mailing lists are up to date, and distributing to an agreed calendar.
Please see the job description for more responsibilities Other
• Support colleagues to facilitate meetings and events with existing and prospective partners, drafting briefings, and preparing slide decks where Institute staff are speakers.
• Manage databases of contacts and suppliers, logging interactions on Salesforce.
• Monitor stock levels of branded materials and reorder or retrieve from storage as required to support colleagues across the Institute. Source new products when needed., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.
  
  Essential
• Experience in a communications or marketing role, having worked on content development and promotion of some sort, in either a professional or volunteer capacity
• Experience of working collaboratively across teams, with the ability to build positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• A strong attention to detail, along with being proactive, reliable, and accurate.
Desirable
• Basic video editing skills are desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations., A self-starter with a positive and professional approach.
• Confident and professional manner in dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Team player with a positive approach to new challenges, proven ability to learn quickly, and ability to adapt efficiently to changing situations.
• Use your skills, experience and knowledge to attract and inspire others; bringing people together in a community
• Show courage, resilience and creativity in approaching problems and decisions
• Take responsibility and act with integrity based on strong self-awareness and continuous reflection
  
  The Atlantic Institute is a partnership programme of the Rhodes Trust and was established in 2016 with the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Atlantic Institute is part of an ecosystem of Atlantic Fellows Programs which was established with a shared mission: to empower catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more equitable societies. We do this by providing Atlantic Fellows and Atlantic Fellows Program staff with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity - locally and globally.
  
  30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
• Competitive pension scheme
• Generous family leave schemes
• Private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Personal development opportunities
• Additional benefits, such as free access to the University's gardens, parks, libraries and museums, and University staff discounts in shops across Oxford.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric car scheme