Community Content and Communications Executive

Job information Community Content and Communications Executive from the Company Badminton England, this latest Community Content and Communications Executive job vacancy is located in the city Hybrid work in Milton Keynes. This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate . Job Vacancies in this Engineering field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Badminton is a sport for everyone.

Our 10-year strategy for badminton in England is focused on young people and inclusion.

We want everyone to pick up a racket and hit a shuttle, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, background, or circumstances, proud to be part of a thriving community and develop a lifelong passion for our sport.

We aim to deliver inspirational moments as we strive to become a top badminton nation in the world, by supporting our players and coaches to be successful at World, Olympic and Paralympic level.

We will continue to deliver the most prestigious badminton event in the world, the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships - a truly exhilarating and memorable festival of badminton that showcases the best in the world, bringing together the global badminton community and inspiring the next generation.

We will connect more with everyone in our community to enhance everyone's experience when they pick up a racket.

Role summary:

This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of Badminton England's new 10-year strategy launched in September .

The role will be crucial in shaping and implementing a creative and transformational community content strategy that will be integral in engaging our existing badminton community and growing our connected audience, celebrating and promoting the badminton community.

We are seeking to appoint a proactive, innovative, self-driven content creator. This newly developed role will proactively lead in the development and execution of the content strategy to support the growth of the sport in England. The ability to build strong relationships within the organisation and across the sport is key, alongside an up-to-date knowledge of the latest developments and innovations within the industry.

The successful candidate will have some proven experience of developing creative and engaging digital content to support story-telling through our social media and digital platforms as well as experience in capturing, editing, producing and publishing video content to support our community engagement strategy.

They will be crucial in building connections across the sport, helping to shape and implement an engagement strategy that will inspire more people to get involved in badminton as a player, coach, volunteer or fan.

They will also have responsibility for helping to build and deliver a content plan that supports our ambitious strategy to engage the 1m playing badminton regularly through innovative and engaging digital content supported by a wider digital platform strategy.

Key responsibilities:

• You will create and publish compelling content, driving engagement and supporting campaigns through visual story-telling.
• Responsible for proactively sourcing the stories within our badminton community to shine a light on the work we do.
• Working closely with the development team to develop a communications and content roadmap for the community game - ensuring consistent storytelling across all owned channels, leading on narratives for community campaigns and building communications and PR plans to ensure these stories are shared as widely as possible.
• Development and execution of detailed communication and content plans to meet the needs and objectives of internal stakeholder groups, such as the game development, safeguarding, EDI and legacy.
• You'll develop your experience in community-facing content and communications and develop grassroots communications and marketing campaigns.
• Strong focus on extending our reach and driving engagement with our youth audience.
• Reporting in to both the Digital Manager and Communications and Content Manager, you will help shape and execute Badminton England's overall content and distribution strategy to maximise engagement with key audiences and ensure the wider business objectives are met.
• Responsible for ensuring growth in reach and engagement across all web and social channels in order to achieve targets. Use analytics and key insights to monitor, measure, develop and report on performance of content and channels.
• Creation of new content ideas and formats as well as the implementation of new technologies in order to establish Badminton England as a leader in digital media communications.
• Work with the Digital Manager to identify digital infrastructure improvements to support our content engagement strategy.
• Work with the Digital Manager to identify and source content to fit the e-communications calendar and make our ecomms more engaging and purposeful to our audiences.
• Work with sponsors to develop activation strategies to deliver contractual rights and help demonstrate clear ROI.
• Execute event-specific content strategies and planning across major Badminton England competitions from a community and legacy development perspective.
• Have a ‘big picture' approach to plan and capture content with multiple usages across different platforms to maximise the value of assets.

Other Duties

• Attendance at Badminton England and community events (weekdays, evenings and weekends).

Successful Candidate:

• Experience or demonstrable proficiency working within the community sport environment, with a strong understanding of the sporting landscape.
• Desirable higher education qualification in a relevant subject.
• Excellent practical skills and knowledge in video production with publishing software such as Adobe Premier Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, Canva etc.
• Must have an extremely strong creative flair with the ability to identify opportunities and translate these into meaningful and engaging content and storytelling
• Excellent experience or evidenced proficiency in developing content to support the promotion of community sports products.
• An interest in what makes our sport unique - showcasing the diversity and accessibility of badminton, attracting players of all abilities, and demonstrating how sport can make an impact on wellbeing, mental health and young people.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of digital media with working knowledge of how to create and deliver content to drive engagement, recruitment and retention in sporting environments.
• An understanding of KPI metrics specialising in digital and social campaigns and analysing the performance of content.
• Highly organised, ability to prioritise workload in an often busy department and effective at driving projects forward while working to deadlines.
• Be a great team player, to be able to collaborate with other team members for the good of the game but also work on their own initiative.
• Good communicator and must be able to communicate with a range of key stakeholders, including the Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team and build strong relationships across the sport.

Key Information:

We're all about output so we have Hybrid working and flexible hours in place - it's a full-time role (35.58 hours per week), but we understand that people have lives outside of BE - please talk to us about what you need. We can't promise anything, but we're open to a discussion about how we can support you. The current hybrid working arrangements are at least 3 days a week on the office (with the core day being Thursday).

Salary: £21,500 - £23,000 Depending on experience

Application Process:

Please send us your CV via our careers hub. The closing date for applications is Friday, 28 June .

Please send your application as soon as possible.

We reserve the right to close or withdraw the vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

“We positively celebrate Diversity & Inclusion at Badminton England. Our aim is to become the UK's most inclusive National Governing Body - for our staff and members, reflecting and connecting with the diverse communities that we serve. We want people from all walks of life to feel valued for their individuality, thrive in our business and share a sense of belonging. To find out more about D&I at Badminton England, head over to our website to read out Inclusion Strategy.”

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £21,500.00-£23,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Work from home

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Milton Keynes