Senior Communications Manager

Overview

This role will lead and coordinate Women in Prisons' external communications, platforming the voice of women with lived experience of the criminal justice system to raise the organisation's public profile and awareness of the criminalisation of women.

• Lead and develop comprehensive communications strategies to raise WIP's profile for influencing, fundraising and impact and that align with our vision and mission.
• Build public engagement and awareness, leading on campaign development and delivery
• Oversee the production of Women in Prison's publications.
• Platform the voice of women with lived experience of the criminal justice system in all external communications.
• Manage WIP's Spokesperson network
• Develop, build and contribute to high quality and authentic partnerships and relationships with stakeholders including journalists.
• To be a member of the extended leadership of Women in Prison, modelling feminist leadership, anti-oppression and empowering, values-led, collective leadership for the organisation.

• Is restricted to women only as a genuine occupational requirement
• Requires the right to work in the UK
• Is subject to a Basic DBS check
• Requires that the post holder is not automatically disqualified by (or can obtain a waiver from) the Charity Commission

• Salary: £48,750 per annum (inclusive of £3,990 South East weighting)
• Location:
  
  Hybrid: need to be available to work from London Office and occasional national travel
• Working hours:
  
  Full time: 35 hours per week
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Annual leave: 30 days plus statutory bank holidays (if full time). All Women in Prison staff also receive an additional 3 days of leave between Christmas and New Year.
• Pension:
  Women in Prison provides an auto-enrolment pension scheme with 5% contributions from the employer and 3% from the employee.