Settle is a charity that supports young adults as they leave the care system and move into their first home. We provide intensive one-to-one support addressing practical life skills, sustaining a tenancy and managing emotional wellbeing. Our preventative approach to homelessness helps care experienced young people to make long-lasting changes and thrive.
As Communications Officer at Settle, you'll play a crucial role in raising awareness about Settle's life-changing work, and providing a platform for young care-experienced people to share their stories and promote change in the care system long-term. You’ll be full of content ideas and keen to make them happen in a small team and growing community.
This role is key to our success in communicating with our core audiences – whether that’s young people who’ve taken part (or would like to take part) in the Settle Programme, or potential partners and supporters of our organisation.
This role is for a communications all-rounder, who might have some experience working with social media, digital communications, and content creation, either in the third sector or beyond.
You don’t need to consider yourself an expert in every area of comms – in fact, we’d love to find someone with interest and potential across a broad range of communications areas, from social media storytelling to press and PR, with room to develop and grow as Settle expands.
It’s an exciting time to join Settle as a Communications Officer. We’ve just launched our Settle Advocacy forum as a vehicle for young people to be at the centre of our comms activity, where we’re developing a campaign and platform for our community to raise their voice and change the system using their lived experience. We’re also about to launch a new three-year strategy and will be aiming to almost double the number of young people we support in this time. In order to do so, we’ll need new delivery partners, a bigger team, and increased funding, and communications will play a significant role in helping us to achieve all of these goals. By working alongside the Senior Communications Manager to create and deliver our content strategy, you’ll be helping us to reach more young people through our innovative coaching programme and spark change across the care system.
In joining Settle, you’ll be joining a fast-growing and truly impactful organisation with lots of opportunity for progression and development within our friendly team. We are proud to have been voted one of Escape the City’s Top 100 companies to ‘escape’ to in 2021. We’re also keen to hear from people with lived experience of the care system and can offer a guaranteed interview to these candidates; see the careers page on the Settle website for full details on how to apply.
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