Communications and Campaigns Officer

We are looking for a Communications and Campaigns Officer to join the Birth Companions Institute staff team. 

The Communications and Campaigns Officer will play a key role in raising awareness of our work and the issues we are seeking to address; influencing policy and public opinion; and amplifying the voices of the women we support. 

They will help shape public narratives around inequity and disadvantage, and contribute to Birth Companions’ mission to lead systemic change.

Job purpose

The Communications and Campaigns Officer will sit within the Institute’s team, which currently comprises the Director and a Policy and Influencing Manager. 

They will work closely with our Director of Engagement, our Engagement Officer, and members of the services team. The Communications and Campaigns Officer will play a key role in raising awareness of our work and the issues we are seeking to address; influencing policy and public opinion; and amplifying the voices of the women we support. 

You will help shape public narratives around inequity and disadvantage, and contribute to Birth Companions’ mission to lead systemic change.

Key areas of responsibility
 

Campaigns and advocacy

− Support the development and delivery of campaigns aligned with strategic priorities.
− Coordinate campaign activities including digital actions, events, design, and stakeholder engagement.
− Monitor relevant news and policy developments and contribute to campaign messaging.
 

Communications

− Create compelling content for social media, newsletters, blogs, and press releases.
− Help maintain and update the Birth Companions website.
− Shape responses to external events, reports and publications, centering Birth Companions and the Birth Companions Institute in conversations relevant to our strategic goals.
− Support the development of communications plans for projects and partnerships.
− Support our fundraising work through planning and delivering communications, helping to capture impact, and effective storytelling.
− Support internal communications across teams and volunteers.
− Assist in producing reports, presentations, and promotional materials.
− Help ensure staff across the organisation use core messaging and have appropriate materials to use in presentations/ events/ stakeholder meetings.
− Write and distribute regular newsletters for our subscribers and supporters.
− Build and maintain relationships with partner organisations and collaborate on communications and campaigns across the sector.
 

Media and public relations

− Manage and grow Birth Companions’ profile across mainstream, professional and social media.
− Build and maintain relationships with journalists and media outlets.
− Draft and distribute press releases and response statements, and respond to media enquiries in close collaboration with the Policy and Influencing Manager and the Director.
− Support the development of case studies and storytelling materials, working with the Lived Experience Programme and services teams.

Administration, monitoring and evaluation

− Track engagement with and the impact of communications and campaigns.
− Produce regular reports and insights to inform strategy and provide updates to funders and partners.
− Support on administrative tasks for the Birth Companions Institute.
− Help produce our yearly impact reports.
 

Expectations

− Carry out all duties with full regard to Birth Companions’ values.
− Attend monthly team meetings (at least once a quarter these will be in-person), bi-weekly online staff meetings, bi-monthly in-person staff meetings in London, monthly staff supervision sessions, and other meetings in London, or elsewhere as required
− Attend training, conferences, and other opportunities for professional development.
− Work always in accordance with all policies, including our confidentiality and safeguarding policies
− Maintain and model the organisation’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, anti-racism and anti-discriminatory practices.
− Carry out other reasonable tasks as requested.
 

The job description sets out the duties of the post at the time when it was drawn up and will be reviewed as necessary. Duties may vary without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot of themselves justify a reconsideration of the level of the post.