Regional Communications Manager

Regional Communications Manager

Regional Communications Manager

Hybrid working: two days a week in an onside office combined with home-working and travel across our youth zones Network (including those in development) plus occasional other travel as required.

£40 - £45k per annum

Full-time (37.5 hours/week)

Permanent

Agile working with flexibility in working hours; 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to a maximum of 30 days); birthday leave, additional annual leave purchase scheme; company matched pension; company sick, maternity, paternity & adoption pay;
Employee Assistance Programme, active and engaged networks to join (including Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) and access to Charity Worker discounts.

12 noon on Monday 13 July 2026 (We may close this role early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.)

Thursday 16 July 2026

Thursday 22 July, Location TBC

With 19 Open youth zones, supporting 60,000 young people, the organisation is moving into a period of steady growth towards thier long-term goal of 35youth zones by 2035. This role will take sole responsibility for communications activity across live and established projects including Thurrock, Wakefield, Burnley and Wrexham.

This is a key role within the communications team that will see you create understanding and awareness between the charity and the key local and regional audiences that matter to us as.

This role will involve managing a portfolio of end-to-end integrated communications and PR programmes across multiple youth zones at various stages of development. You will work closely with the teams, each youth zone’s relationship managers and fundraisers, as well as its CEO, and Trustee Board, and Young People’s Development Group, acting as their trusted communications advisor. You will also collaborate with local stakeholders including Local Authority communications leads and supporters, to help establish the new youth zones as independent charities.

It is important to note that this role lays the foundations for each new youth zones’ ongoing communications approach. For each project you will be required to effectively and smoothly handover to the youth zones full time communication resource once in place while continuing to provide light touch ongoing support - so some experience mentoring or coaching and supporting others is beneficial.

We will be looking for someone that can demonstrate a broad range of communications skills from brand development to working with local media to place newsworthy, positive stories around the youth zone development, to supporting the development of new youth zone websites and the launch of social media channels.

You will have experience of:

• Communications, either in agency or in house
• All-round integrated communications experience, including PR, copywriting and digital
• Building relationships with journalists and working with the media
• Advising internal and external teams and stakeholders at all levels
• Working directly with young people.
• Using digital platforms and tools such as Mail Chimp, Hootsuite, Word Press and Google Analytics
• Managing creative/design/digital agencies and briefing design and print teams

If you are as confident pitching a story to media as you are managing a branding project or overseeing an event, then this could be the role for you.

A national charity that believes all young people should have the opportunity to discover their passion and their purpose that fund and build state-of-the-art, multimillion-pound youth centres called youth zones in the country’s most economically disadvantaged areas. The organisation trains the amazing people that run them and offers continuing support to youth zones nationwide through a national network of independent youth charities.

It’s about opportunity.

Working for an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from under-represented groups; in particular from Black, Asian, Mixed Race & other ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of LGBTQ+ communities.