We’re looking for a talented communications professional to join our busy External Relations Team in our head office. The External Relations team develops and implements our communications strategy, including our brand, media, public affairs, content development and digital activities.
About Think Ahead
At Think Ahead, we want to see a society where everyone with mental health problems can flourish. That won’t happen unless people can improve their social circumstances. To drive positive change, we created the Think Ahead programme: a new route into mental health social work for talented graduates and career-changers. It has quickly become one of the country’s most competitive graduate schemes, with over 23 applications for each place on the programme.
Over the past two years our External Relations team has worked on a variety of high-profile projects, including:
- Working with 10 Downing Street on endorsements and inclusion in a major policy speech by the Prime Minister;
- Getting news stories covered across BBC TV and radio, and newspapers including The Times and the Guardian;
- Working with film and radio crews to produce innovative pieces showing mental health social work first-hand;
- Developing a recruitment brand, website, and campaign that has led to Think Ahead being voted into the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers list.
As a charity we aim to:
- Attract talented people into mental health social work;
- Train our participants to improve outcomes for people with mental health problems;
- Support services to unlock the potential of social work.
For more information on our aims and achievements so far, download our Impact Review.
About the role
This is a varied communications role with lots of opportunity for growth and development. Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
- Building our external profile - including working with the media to generate positive coverage, developing our recognition and influence amongst policy officials, and creating compelling and engaging content;
- Contributing to our communications strategy and set up – including communications research and planning, and leading projects;
- Managing day-to-day digital activities - including website, social media and online newsletters;
- Managing communications events – including stakeholder engagement events;
- Embedding Think Ahead’s brand approach within the organisation – including advising colleagues on messaging and tone of voice.