Marketing and Communications Manager; FTC), GUY'S & ST THOMAS Foundation

Summary

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Marketing and Communications Manager to lead marketing campaigns, communications and design projects from brief to evaluation across our three NHS charity brands:
Evelina London Children’s Charity, Guy’s Cancer Charity and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity.

Working within the busy Charities marketing and communications team, you’ll work with a wide range of stakeholders to create and deliver high quality marketing materials and campaigns to deliver on awareness, engagement and income goals.

We’re looking for an excellent communicator who can build strong relationships quickly while offering outstanding account management support. You’ll need to be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a can‑do, delivery‑minded and proactive attitude. This role would ideally suit somebody who is happy to ‘dot the do’ as well as think and understand strategy.

We think this is an incredibly exciting time to join the Foundation as we embark on the start of our ambitious ten‑year fundraising plan to grow our impact for patients and NHS staff. There’s a huge amount of potential and opportunity for you to help shape our future direction and be a key part of our ambitious strategy for growth.

At Guy’s and St. Thomas’, care never stands still – so neither can we. So come join a team that is supporting the transformation and innovation of care for patients, families and staff across Lambeth, Southwark and beyond.

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, Guy’s Cancer Charity and Evelina London Children’s Charity are part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation. Our collective mission is to build the foundations of a healthier society.

As part of our team, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part‑time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.

There is more information about working with us on our website, where you can read about:

• how we approach recruitment, our team, culture and values
• the benefits of working with us
• our approach to diversity, equity & inclusion, health & wellbeing, and learning & development

The purpose of this role is to manage great quality, high‑impact marketing, brand and communications to support our funding, fundraising and supporter goals liaising with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

To effectively project‑manage the marketing and communications outputs across one or more of our three charity brands:
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, Evelina London Children’s Charity and Guy’s Cancer Charity – amplifying our need for charitable funds and the impact of these for the patients, families and staff of Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Project manage a number of marketing, design and communications activities from brief to evaluation that support the delivery of our ambitious ten‑year fundraising plan.

Contribute to income generation in support of the fundraising objectives and fundraising targets.

Contribute to increasing the number of supporters, increasing levels of awareness, reaching and engaging new audiences and existing audiences in fundraising and funding.

To build excellent working relationships with Trust Communication team, Fundraising team and other key stakeholders by developing an in‑depth understanding of their work, working collaboratively, acting as a key point of contact within the Charity Marketing and Communications team, ensuring all communications and marketing activity support the Charity and Trust’s brand and reputation.

Champion the three Charity brands, acting as brand guardian, providing expert guidance and supporting fundraising colleagues, to ensure the brands and messaging are applied consistently across all activities.

Line manage one Marketing and Communications Officer and oversee matrix management of one Senior Media Officer (employed by NHS…