Marketing and Communications Manager

Key Candidate Profile

• Experienced marketing and communications manager with a motivational, engaging style who can draw out information and ideas from others.
• Lively and enthusiastic, outgoing, with a collaborative approach to achieving goals through knowledge-sharing and effective delegation. Excellent at building rapport and developing good working relationships.
• A multi‑tasker with a sense of urgency for goal achievement – works at a faster than average pace, delegates effectively with thorough follow‑up, and learns quickly.
• An innovative, practical and creative problem‑solver – a big‑picture thinker who responds quickly to varied activities and changing conditions. Experience in developing and delivering communication and media strategy.

This Best Companies Top 50 mid‑size company and Top 10 charity is looking to appoint an experienced Marketing and Communications Manager to lead and deliver marketing campaigns that will drive awareness of Rainbow Trust and support fundraising activity to strengthen our position as experts in children's palliative care. This is a broad and exciting role which includes creating, developing and delivering the brand campaigns and communication strategies.

Rainbow Trust Children's Charity enables families who have a child with a life‑threatening or terminal illness to make the most of time together, providing expert, practical and emotional support where they need it for as long as it is needed. For families living with childhood illness, time is everything. Right now, there are too many families coping alone with no support, no time to think, no time to make memories and no time for each other.

We believe that no family should go through this alone, so we are here to change that.

We are a Best Companies Two‑Star rated organisation, an outstanding place to work.

Applications will be particularly welcome from those in the charity/not‑for‑profit sector with a marketing, PR and communications background.

• Flexible working hours to balance home and working life
• Employee Assistance Programme with access to remote GP, counselling, physiotherapy, resources to support your mental health and financial wellbeing, as well as a 24/7 helpline via Help@Hand
• 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays – rising to 26 days after 1 year, 27 days after 5 years and 30 days after 11 years, with an additional 5 years to use in your 10th or 20th year of service (pro rata for part time)
• Time off in lieu of out of hours working
• Access to the Blue Light Card Scheme, and other rewards and discounts
• Bike to work, season ticket loan and payroll giving schemes
• A recommend‑a‑friend recruitment bonus scheme
• Family‑friendly policies, focused on employee wellbeing, and an active cross‑organisational wellbeing group running a number of initiatives throughout the year
• Pension scheme where we contribute 5% of your salary and you contribute at least 3%
• The option to buy/sell annual leave, as well as additional leave for your birthday, wedding/civil ceremony and an extra half day off for Christmas shopping
• Robust training and development programmes to support your learning and growth