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The Marketing and Communications Officer works as part of the communications team to raise awareness of our work within the UK in order to attract new supporters and develop relationships with existing supporters, while ensuring the values of the organisation are upheld and promoted in all communications activities.

The role includes responsibility for developing dynamic content and engaging with different target audiences, including supporters, donors and people new to Mary’s Meals.

You will work closely with supporter engagement colleagues to ensure a consistently integrated approach.

Principle duties include:

• Utilise a range of digital platforms to grow fundraising and awareness for Mary’s Meals, including social media channels, email marketing and website – including content production for all channels.
• Plan, develop and produce compelling supporter resources, including appeal letters, information booklets, magazines and posters.
• Increase engagement with new and existing supporters through the creation of meaningful content and marketing activities (all in keeping with Mary’s Meals’ distinct storytelling and fundraising style).
• Contribute to the creation of creative campaigns and content that tell the Mary’s Meals story and build support for our vision.
• Liaise with colleagues in Mary’s Meals International (MMI) on the implementation of global campaigns and to secure content from our school feeding programmes for communications activities.
• Support development of potential new marketing activities, including advertising, Google AdWords and tailored communications to supporters.
• Regularly monitor and review data across the various communications channels and contribute to evaluation reports.
• Perform ad hoc duties as required to support the department.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.

SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.

Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

For Scotland’s Mental Health

This is an exciting new role within SAMH to lead investment in innovative new mental health services and supports within Scotland’s communities.

SAMH is participating in a national partnership with MIND, Inspire and The Co-op. The partnership’s aim is to bring communities together to improve mental wellbeing and support the resilience of those communities across the UK. Resilience is not simply the ability to ‘bounce back’, but the capacity to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances and find a new balance, whilst maintaining wellbeing.

This role supports the Programme Manager to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the resilience services, funded by the Co-op partnership. Maintain and establish information reporting systems relating to service delivery and provide accurate reporting to funders demonstrating a high level of competence. The role will also ensuring outcomes and objectives set by funders and management partners are delivered and will be responsible for ensuring all administrative and reporting including implementation and co-ordination of service systems and processes.

This is a significant national partnership for SAMH and the Programme Manager will support the lead SAMH contacts with MIND for the funded services and projects.

We are looking for a self-motivated and organised individual to provide administrative support to our Regional Relationships Managers in order to help maintain and grow our network of supporters across the UK. Our Regional Relationships team manages our community fundraising networks, which provide a crucial income stream to fund life-saving research and support for people affected by blood cancer. The Regional Relationships Manager plays an important part in enabling us to raise money to fund life-saving research and support for the blood cancer community.