Communications and Digital Marketing Officer

Reports to: Senior Digital Marketing Manager

Salary: £34,200

Contract: 2-year fixed term (potential to extend)

Location: Central London or Hybrid*(see below)

Closing date for applications: Monday 24th March 2025

Interview dates: week commencing Monday 31st March

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.

The Public Affairs and Communications Team is crucial for effectively communicating and promoting YEF’s ideas to a wider audience and driving demand for the evidence about what works to prevent violence amongst children and young people.

We can only hope to achieve our mission if those working in our sectors hear from us about what works, trust our research and put our guidance into practice. We need policymakers, politicians and people in charge of services to listen and act, but also youth-workers, police, social workers, headteachers and young people to believe in our movement for change on the ground. We want to continue being a leading voice in the national conversation about preventing violence.

Your job will be essential to this. You will support the Public Affairs and Communications team to communicate our work as thoughtfully, impactfully and creatively as possible through engaging media communications and PR campaigns, video-led social media content and strategic digital marketing.

We would be especially interested to hear from if you: 

• Are interested in applying research to understanding and solving social problems affecting people in British society.
• Are passionate about telling human stories that use creative writing, design, photography and videography to engage diverse audiences.
• You have experience of using WordPress, Mailchimp or other digital marketing tools, this can be used strategically to get people outside of an organisation to pay attention to and engage with its work.
• You have experience creating social media assets (using software such as Canva or Adobe Illustrator) and increasing audience engagement on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.

When applying for this role, please ensure that your cover letter can answer, within a maximum of 500 words per question, the following questions:

Application Questions

1. Can you share an example of a creative idea you have worked on that helped secure press coverage?

2. Describe a time you had to increase engagement on a social media platform for a campaign or client. What strategies did you employ, and what were the results?

3. Why is preventing violence amongst children and young people important to you, and how can storytelling help to achieve this goal?