Content Officer - Remote

Salary: £29,291 plus benefits

Mary’s Meals International is delighted to be recruiting for a brilliant Content Officer to join our international communications team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a creative and challenging environment and who wants to use their skills, talent, and energy to create positive change in the world.

We are looking for someone who understands exactly what makes a great story and has strong skills in collecting and curating all those component parts. We need you to be an excellent writer and understand how to create copy of the highest quality, tailored for different audiences and for use across a range of digital and offline media platforms, helping to grow the global movement.

It’s important that you have great relationship building skills, and experience of working with people from different countries and cultures, as you’ll be collaborating regularly with a variety of our programme partners and affiliates to source and curate strong content. You’ll also have the opportunity to plan, organise and undertake visits to programme countries yourself as and when required, using your honed photography, videography and interviewing skills to capture the stories at the heart of the programme.

You must be able to demonstrate first class organisation and time management skills and the ability to influence a range of key stakeholders including senior staff and key partners.

 We offer the opportunity to support our movement in a dynamic, inclusive, values driven environment with a real focus on personal development and flexible working.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. Today, we provide life changing meals to more than 2.4 million children in 17 countries around the world.

Other key duties include:

• Assist in the development and implementation of Mary’s Meals’ communications calendar.
• Identify new opportunities and develop ideas and proposals for content and stories across a wide range of communications platforms.
• To develop and foster positive relationships with programmes colleagues and partners around the world, to support their collection of impactful and engaging content.
• To ensure that stakeholders understand the communications strategy of MMI and how their support is essential to its success.
• To provide regular feedback to our global network of partners and colleagues about the content being shared, providing training and guidance where required.
• To plan international content collection trips and travel overseas as required to collect compelling content.
• To be responsible for photography, videography and interviewing while on programme visits and production of this content on return.
• To be accountable for all content produced because of these visits, completing full de-briefs and evaluations.
• To make recommendations for key media visit opportunities and support the development of story ideas for these visits.
• To work closely with the Content Coordinator to ensure all high-quality content is added and tagged on the Digital Content Library in a timely manner.
• To develop and implement the podcast strategy for MMI communications, supporting national affiliates with implementation of this in their respective countries.

We have a remote-first approach to work and are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, in a way that best supports your work life balance, we also have an office near Glasgow city centre for those who live nearby and would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis.

We believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding. Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.

To apply please click APPLY and tell us why Mary’s Meals and this role would be a great fit for you.

Content Officer JD

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Closing date: Thursday 4th July

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Benefits

• 8% non-contributory pension contribution - after 3 months (for international candidates the 8% pension contribution will be paid as a part of salary)
• 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year, to a maximum of 39 days (+ option to buy another week)
• Flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme, including perks and cash back opportunities
• Life assurance