Marketing Manager

at  Community Foster Care

KEY DRIVERS OF CONSIDERATIONS

As a Marketing Manager, you will at all times:

• Work consistently with Community Foster Care’s values and contribute to achieving its mission.
• Promote Community Foster Care’s reputation and protect its ability to achieve its mission.
• Ensure a good understanding and ability to work to the policies and procedures of the Agency.

WHAT WE REQUIRE FROM ALL OUR EMPLOYEES

A commitment and alignment with Community Foster Care’s Values.

• A commitment to make effective use of critical reflection, utilising the various for a to do this with others.
• A tenacity and commitment to resolve and develop our ability to enable children to thrive.
• A willingness to embrace challenges and actively seek constructive feedback.
• A willingness and ability to be a highly functioning team player.
• A commitment to anti oppressive practice, underpinned by an understanding and promotion of equality and diversity.

It is the nature of work of Community Foster Care, that tasks and responsibilities are unpredictable and varied. All staff are therefore expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion arises where tasks are not specifically covered in the Job Description and have to be undertaken.
Community Foster Care is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosures Barring Service clearance at enhanced level.
CVs will not be accepted under any circumstances; all applicants must complete an application form via our website. If you apply via Indeed, you will be contacted to complete our Application via our website.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £40,055.00-£45,826.00 per year
Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Flexitime
• Free flu jabs
• Gym membership
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Gloucester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Gloucester GL1 3BD
Application deadline: 31/01/202

ROLE SUMMARY

You will need to be a flexible and versatile marketer who will be wholly responsible for Community Foster Care’s Marketing Strategy, leading the way in growing the number of Foster Families in our community. You need to take a strategic lead in the promotion of Community Foster Care’s brand and fully embed yourself into Community Foster Care’s values and approach. You will develop and lead diverse marketing and communication activities, (traditional and digital marketing and social media,) with responsibility for the entire marketing proposition including designing and implementing marketing strategies. Ultimately you will be responsible for telling Community Foster Care’s stories and supporting others to do this, so that likeminded individuals are drawn to us and want to work together with us.
Critical to success in the role and to Community Foster Care will be the ongoing successful recruitment and retention of foster carers, in which your Marketing Strategy will support with the potential to grow skilled and resilient therapeutic parents, who are able to provide, a safe loving and nurturing home to the children in our care. You will need to be tenacious, ambitious and creative in these endeavours.
Community Foster Care is a therapeutic fostering agency; we are developing a reflective culture where our community is encouraged to be curious about themselves and each other and are helped to be so. It is critical that workers are committed and prepared to actively engage in this approach.

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

To manage effectively the marketing budget to support these endeavours.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Line Management of the Engagement and Content Officer. Overseeing their workload, ensuring 1-2-1’s, supervisions and appraisal are completed. To be an active member of the Wider managers forum. Working closely with other wider managers in the organisation to support delivery and cooperation.