Role Profile

Job title:                               Strategic Communications Manager

Location:                              HEY Smile Foundation, Hull (providing support across the East Riding)

Reports to (Job Title):           Head of Business & Communications

Salary scale:                         £26,000 – 28,000

Working Hours:                     37.5 hrs per week

Contract Duration:                12 months with potential for extension subject to funding and business needs

Closing date:                        Midnight – 20th June 2021

There has never been a more exciting time to join the HEY Smile Foundation team. Our work spans across the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE), as well as connecting opportunities with the private and public sector.

We are connected, joining assets to community knowledge, creativity and inspiration. We are helping VCSE organisations of all shapes and sizes be heard and play a part in solutions, not just highlight community problems.

We have grown significantly in the last 11 years but are still agile enough to respond to the community’s needs, not prescribe the same methodology ‘because that’s what has always been done’.

We are sustainable in our own right. Whilst developing others, we have ensured we had one eye on our own platform, securing £3m in assets and generating an average of £800k turnover a year in earned income to be masters of our own destiny and focus on the Wow not Woe in our communities across the Hull and the East Riding.

Covid 19 has provided us with an opportunity to share our way of working further and in the East Riding we are seen as a community lead and the Go to Charity, now more than ever.  We are proud to say we have the strongest charitable board in the region and we have a team of highly skilled and proactive charity leaders.

Communication is paramount to what we do, from celebrating the little things to demonstrating our impact on large and far-reaching pieces of commissioned work.  This role sits within the Business and Communications team and focusses on the development of strategy and the delivery of plans, which are tailored to our varying network of stakeholders.  By focusing on the whole, you’ll be supporting our incredible wider team and ensuring that their work across our diverse group of charities, projects, funds and campaigns does not go un-noticed.

For an informal discussion about the role contact Ann Newlove, Head of Business and Communications. 

To view the full job description, please click here. 

To apply for the role, please submit your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification and detailing why you would like to take up this role to here. Please make sure you put the name of the vacancy you’re applying for in the subject box.