Charity People is thrilled to be supporting Commonweal House to find their next Communications Assistant. The charity's mission: to fight social injustices with housing-based solutions; by supporting research and projects, to provide bespoke housing that enables partners to test and evaluate how housing can solve social injustices. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to build a career in communications and public affairs in the third sector.

You will work with a team dedicated to providing excellent communication of the charity's key messages, project learnings, as well as helping to highlight social injustices in the UK. You will gain invaluable experience in strategic communications, and your work will be instrumental in forwarding the fight against social injustices through housing-based solutions.

Spanning communications, policy, events, and administration, this is a varied role that includes the following core responsibilities:

• Ownership of all social media channels, ensuring audiences are reached through regular, clear and targeted content
• Updating the organisation's website in line with other communications activity as well as brand and style guidelines
• Monitoring key publications and topics daily and provide daily updates to the Policy & Communications Manager and weekly updates to the team
• Editing and distributing newsletters and other regular communications
• Writing articles, press releases and prepare briefing notes to support media activity, as well as sourcing and showcasing successes and case studies on social media, and monitoring social media more widely for opportunities
• Monitoring and reporting on communications activity where possible, and providing monthly communications reports to the team
• Support the Policy & Communications Manager in monitoring for influencing opportunities, and in drafting policy-based briefings for the organisation and its website
• Readily monitor political updates at local, national and industry levels, updating relevant stakeholder databases
• Proactively seek event, conference, award and speaking opportunities for Commonweal and its partners to share learning

Ideally, you'll have demonstrable experience in marketing or communications; perhaps having worked in the not-for-profit sector; but, most importantly, you must have a willingness to learn! An interest in and understanding of policy is essential to the role, as is:

• Proven ability to write engaging content for different audiences and channels
• Experience of using WordPress or similar website management tools
• Demonstrable experience of using social media as an organisational tool
• An eye for detail in both written and graphic communication
• Strong planning and organisational ability

The primary working location will be based on Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London, SE1. Commonweal Housing is happy to offer flexible working with a hybrid working base of home and office. Part-time working will also be considered, with a minimum of three days per week.

Salary: £22,000--£24,000 (DPE).

Closing date: 7th October, but please apply ASAP if you're if you're interested in hearing more about this great opportunity. Please send your CV to Alice at Charity People in the first instance.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.