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Job Title: Communications Manager
Hours of work: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: £34,803
Holidays: 36 days, including public holidays
Location: Flexible, ability to travel between Waverley Care locations
Reports to: Head of Corporate Services
Closing Date: 5pm, Monday 1 February 2021

We are recruiting a Communications Manager to help us build awareness and support for our work across Scotland.

The successful candidate will join us at a crucial time in our history as we work towards hepatitis C elimination, zero HIV transmissions and improved sexual health education for all in Scotland.

Leading a small Communications Team, you will be responsible for developing and delivering a new communications strategy to effectively tell our story to stakeholders, including service users, supporters, funders, professional partners and media.

You will also work closely with the Chief Executive and Senior Management Team to ensure the charity has highly effective internal communications systems, ensuring all staff are well informed about all aspects of our work.

The role sits within the charity’s Corporate Services function which brings together our Fundraising, Finance and Head Office functions. You will line manage our part-time Communications and Public Affairs Officer.

We’re looking for a dynamic, creative and experienced communications professional, who thrives on challenge. You’ll have an eye for a story and an ability to work with colleagues to help tell it with impact.

If that sounds like you then we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a supportive and valuing work environment with encouragement to develop personally and professionally.

Application Pack

• Job Description and Person Specification
• Waverley Care recruitment and your data 

To apply for this role, please send a C.V and personal statement, explaining why you are interested in this role, and outlining the qualities you can bring to it, to recruitment@waverleycare.org.

The closing date for applications is 5pm, Monday 1 February 2020

For enquiries related to this role, please contact Rachel Hughes (Head of Corporate Services) on rachel.hughes@waverleycare.org

We are recruiting a team of volunteers to join a new Young People’s Panel, to help us smash sexual health stigma, improve services, and support young people to enjoy sex and relationships safely.

Our panel will be involved in developing Waverley Care and Wave Highland services, specifically designed to support young people, under 25, as well as having input into other areas of our work.

Panellists will also get the chance to work with key partner agencies, and support us to influence policy and planning within sexual health services across Scotland, through their participation.

Joining the panel will give you the chance to:

• Learn new skills and get involved in running projects
• Gain professional experience – perfect for your CV!
• Make sure young people’s voices are heard within services

We are looking for young people from all over Scotland to get involved. If you are aged 16-25, live in Scotland and are passionate about young people’s voices being heard, we want to hear from you!

For more information about the role, check out the recruitment pack here.

For enquiries related to the role, please email hello@wavehighland.com. 

Closing date for applicants is Friday 5 February 2021.