Communications Manager

Lead key communications projects, strengthen our brand and help bring new organisations to life.

We are looking for a Communications Manager to join Purposeful Ventures for 12 months of parental leave cover. You will take on significant responsibility from day one, overseeing marketing, brand and internal communications while contributing to our vision of a fairer society where all young people thrive.

You will lead the completion and launch of our new website, help set up our new incubation organisations and act as Purposeful Ventures’ brand guardian. You will also lead internal communications, helping colleagues stay informed and connected.

Working closely with the Head of Communications, you will combine strategic advice with hands-on delivery, line manage our Marketing Executive, commission and manage freelancers and work with colleagues across the organisation as well as with our partner organisations.

We need a resourceful communicator with sound judgement, excellent attention to detail and the confidence to make decisions independently. You will enjoy managing competing priorities across communications and seeing projects through to completion.

Charity sector experience is not essential. What matters is your commitment to our mission, your ability to deliver high-quality work and your enthusiasm for working in a collaborative team.

At Purposeful Ventures, you’ll join a collaborative and ambitious team, as well as a wider culture that balances pace and impact with colleague wellbeing and caring deeply about the organisations we support.

This is a fixed-term position, ideally starting in mid to late January 2027.

Please download thefull job descriptionon the Purposeful Ventures website.

Job Description

Responsibilities and duties

Digital:

Website:

• Play a leading role in project managing the completion of Purposeful’s website redesign, including managing the web agency, internal stakeholders and approvals, copy, design and content creation, and delivery to budget.

  • Create visual content and compelling copy.

  • Own the use of our internal content management system.

  • Oversee website analytics, ensuring that these are reported on and used to optimise our audience engagement.

  • Build continuous understanding of UX and audiences.

LinkedIn:

• Oversee our growth and engagement strategy so that we are an ambassador for our partner organisations and funders.

• Responsible for content planning and overseeing approval processes with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring our content is relevant and meaningful for our target audiences.

• Draft content for posts, along with the Marketing Executive.

• Oversee analytics and reporting, prepare quarterly engagement analysis for Management Team and CEO.

• Work with the Head of Communications, wider team and Management Team, and partner organisations, on adhoc external announcement strategies and communications plans for launching new partnerships, funding, projects, and research reports.

Support our Incubations:

• Alongside the Head of Communications, oversee our core communications support in setting up new incubations, project managing the communications timelines, processes, set-up requirements, tracking progress and overseeing ownership within the comms function.

• Delegate communications tasks (e.g. brand development, key messaging, website/microsite development, social media presence, copywriting, event planning, announcement planning) where required, including to freelancers, Marketing Executive and Head of Communications.

• Play a hands-on role in the delivery of communications tasks.

Content:

• Project manage our Annual Report process.

• Responsible for ensuring our key messaging materials are accurate, up to date, and are used consistently internally.

• Brief in and manage external agencies and freelancers when needed for philanthropy and comms content creation, including tenders, writing briefs, scopes of work, contracts, timelines, and budgets.

Brand Management:

• Act as Purposeful Ventures’ brand guardian internally and externally, including embedding our tone-of-voice and brand guidelines to ensure consistency and clarity.

• Support partner organisations with external communications where needed, including advising on key messaging, reviewing press releases and coordinating announcements.

• Support the People team with employer brand communications where required, including reviewing recruitment materials where relevant.

• Ensure our core messages remain accurate, up to date, relevant for our key audiences, internally user-friendly, and reflects our theory of change.

• Support the Head of Communications to develop a strong audience understanding across Purposeful Ventures.

• Support the Head of Communications and Philanthropy team with adhoc event organisation as required.

Internal Communications and management:

• Own our all-staff meetings and internal events planning and content.

• Line manage the Marketing Executive.

• Task manage the Philanthropy & Communications Coordinator for Comms tasks including staff events, all-staff meetings, PhilComms team meetings and internal communications responsibilities.

• Support the People team to continue to build our team culture and communicating activities.

The job description is subject to change and the postholder may be required to undertake tasks not specifically referred to above. Such duties, however, will fall within the scope of the job description.

Who we are looking for

Key requirements

Essential:

• Genuine alignment with Purposeful Ventures’ charitable vision and mission.

• Strong, collaborative decision-maker who is confident and robust in communicating rationale.

• Initiative and owner mindset to suggest best-practice, new ways of working.

• Demonstrable experience and success as a Communications Manager or Senior Manager with a focus on website development, content creation, external communications, brand management, and stakeholder management.

• Technical proficiency in using CMS tools (e.g. WordPress, Sanity, Wix), design tools (e.g. Adobe, Canva), LI analytics/GA (and using data to inform decision-making).

• Proven ability to craft compelling copy and adapt messaging to different platforms and audiences, and gain stakeholder approvals.

• Skilled in managing social media platforms with a particular focus on LinkedIn audience engagement, creating content in various formats, metrics analysis and managing growth and engagement strategies.

• Experience managing external freelancers and/or agencies to commission and deliver high-quality projects.

• The ability and confidence to work independently and take ownership of marketing and communication initiatives.

• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex information clearly and effectively and to persuade senior stakeholders.

• Exceptional attention to detail, particularly in proofreading and maintaining brand consistency.

• Demonstrable commitment to Purposeful Ventures’ vision of a fairer society where all young people thrive.

• Demonstrable experience and success as a Communications Manager with a focus on website development, content creation, external communications, brand management, and stakeholder management.

• Technical proficiency in using CMS tools (e.g. WordPress, Sanity, Wix), design tools (e.g. Adobe, Canva), LI analytics/GA.

• Skilled in managing social media platforms with a particular focus on LinkedIn audience engagement, creating content in various formats, metrics analysis and managing growth and engagement strategies.

• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex information clearly and effectively and to persuade senior stakeholders.

• Proven ability to craft compelling copy and adapt messaging to different platforms and audiences.

• Exceptional attention to detail, particularly in proofreading and maintaining brand consistency.

• Ability to use data and analytics (including LinkedIn and Google Analytics), alongside wider evidence, insights and perspectives, to inform decisions, evaluate effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Demonstrable project management skills, with the ability to plan and coordinate multiple workstreams, manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work through others.

• Experience commissioning and managing external freelancers and/or agencies.

• Experience of managing or supporting others, providing clear direction, constructive feedback and opportunities for development.

• Sound judgement and confidence in making decisions, seeking input where appropriate and communicating rationale clearly. Ability to build effective working relationships, collaborate with colleagues and external partners, and bring different perspectives together to achieve shared objectives.

• Initiative and owner mindset, with demonstrable experience of sharing best practice and identifying opportunities to improve ways of working.

• Ability to work independently, take ownership of marketing and communication initiatives and see them through to completion.

Desirable:

• Proficient in ChatGPT and/or Microsoft CoPilot.

• Design/InDesign/PPT, graphic visualisation and image editing experience.

• Experience in digital asset creation or PR.

• Proficiency using social media monitoring platforms (e.g. SproutSocial, Hootsuite or others).

• Experience working with, or alongside, organisations within the charity, education, or non-profit sectors.

• A strong Marketing or Communications generalist who can represent Purposeful Ventures to colleagues, incubations, partner organisations and other external stakeholders.

• Broad knowledge and experience across marketing and communications, beyond the specialist skills required for the role.

• Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, establishing yourself as a trusted adviser who provides sound advice and guidance.