Christian Aid works in over 100 countries around the world, helping people to build better lives for themselves and their communities. Its main areas of work focus on:
- Emergency relief: providing emergency assistance to people affected by natural disasters, conflict, and other crises.
- Long-term development: helping people lift themselves out of poverty by providing access to education, healthcare, clean water, and other essential services.
- Advocacy: campaigning for changes in policies and practices that can help to reduce poverty and inequality.
- Climate change: working to address the root causes of climate change and to help communities adapt to its impacts. It also works to raise awareness of the issue and to advocate for action on climate change.
The Digital Lead is a critical role for Christian Aid and will lead on its ambitious goals for digital fundraising and supporter engagement.
The role reports to the Head of Communications in a newly established team within the Fundraising and Supporter Engagement department.
This role works across the whole organisation, especially with colleagues in policy and advocacy, enabling digital to be the beating heart of Christian Aid’s engagement with its supporters.
About the role
As Digital Lead, you will:
- Lead on website development, social media, digital marketing and content
- Lead and develop a direct team of 4 managers (wider team of 11), ensuring team growth is in line with organisational aims
- Develop and implementof a creative digital strategy that matches ambition and growth of the department
- Ensure digital channels and content are able to respond quickly and efficiently in line with emergency response or critical campaigning issues
- Be responsible for a budget of c.£240,000 and agency management
About you
Ideal skills and experience:
- An experienced digital leader with demonstrable results across digital channels. Candidates from outside of the charity sector or from third sector digital agency will be considered
- Ideally working at Head level (or equivalent). Those looking to develop their career and step up from a senior management level will also be considered
- Expertise in digital marketing is of interest, as this is an area Christian Aid is looking to develop
- Experience of delivering complex digital campaigns, with an eye for improvement and development
- Ambitious and with a results-orientated approach
- Excellent relationship building skills with a collaborative attitude
Employee benefits
Benefits include:
- 25 days pro-rata annual leave, rising to 28 days after 5 years service, and 31 days after 10 years service
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution
- Career break option of 3 months to a maximum of 12 months unpaid leave, after 2 years service
- Enhanced maternity/adoption leave pay of 16 weeks at 100% and 18 weeks at 50% salary
- Up to 18 weeks’ parental leave (2 paid weeks and 16 unpaid weeks)
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)