Role: Communications Manager PART TIME (see below for an idea of what we do)
Location: Bournemouth or remote
Employment type: Part time, with opportunities for flexible working – likely 5 – 7.5 hours a week (would suit someone looking for school hours)
Salary: £45,000 – £50,000 FTE (depending on experience) (pro-rata)
Calculations based on £45,000 salary. PT – £6,000 = 5 hours per week / £9,000 = 7.5 hours per week (minus 3% employee pension contribution)
Calculations based on £50,000 salary. PT – £6,667 = 5 hours per week / £10,000 = 7.5 hours per week (minus 3% employee pension contribution)
We are looking for a motivated, experienced person to join our team as a Communications Manager to support on all of our comms and digital content. Based in the UK, perhaps with occasional trips to our Bournemouth office if you are not local, the post will be on a part-time basis and involve managing our online presence, creating brilliant content, engaging and increasing our audience and implement our brand guidelines throughout the company.
With an office in the UK and in Ireland, we are a small team of technical experts putting sustainable policy and market requirements into practice. We facilitate dialogue with public and private sector, monitoring impacts on trade patterns often on complex, sensitive, confidential and high-profile issues around deforestation-free agricultural and forest risk commodities (such as timber, soy, coffee, cocoa, and palm oil).
We work closely with private and public sector actors to deliver positive impact at scale through mass market solutions. We analyse, monitor and evaluate data, conduct research, facilitate industry roundtables, engage with and present at industry and government meetings, carry out interviews, plus lots more. We are at the heart of exciting initiatives such as the UK Soy Manifesto, and the UK Sustainable Commodities Initiative. We are the Support Team for the Broader Market Recognition Coalition (BMRC), a group of tropical timber producing countries including Cameroon, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Liberia, and Republic of Congo.
We are B Corp certified, a UK Living Wage employee, and are committed to Race to Zero. Additionally, we are a Tropical Forest Alliance partner, a World Economic Forum preferred supplier, and an Accountability Framework initiative coalition member.
You are an experienced Communications Manager seeking a part-time role, ideally aligned with school hours or childcare commitments.
You have a strong background in a wide range of communications activities, including content creation – transforming information into engaging, social media-ready copy and graphics. You are confident managing and updating websites, as well as writing blogs and articles with minimal support.
You have experience developing and enhancing PowerPoint presentations, producing high-quality visual materials, and planning and delivering communications campaigns. You are knowledgeable in brand management and protection, and may have experience delivering training on brand guidelines and visual identity.
In addition, you are organised and proactive, with experience supporting administrative and operational processes, including liaising effectively with external providers such as IT teams and website developers.
Successful candidates will need to demonstrate the following attributes.
Essential:
Desirable:
If you are enthusiastic, willing to work independently but also work well in our small team, and want a job where the HQ office is just 15 minutes’ walk away from the sea, send in your CV with a cover letter, telling us why you would like to work for us.
This is a part-time position – likely 5 hours a week to start with, possibly increasing to 7.5 hours a week. At Efeca, whilst full-timers work 37.5 hours a week, we do not work on a Friday afternoon. So let’s discuss when you would work your 5 hours, but knowing it won’t be on a Friday.
For a 5 hour week, you have 4.5 days of leave including bank holidays (full year equivalent)
For a 7.5 hour week you have 6.75 days of leave including bank holidays (full year equivalent)
We give you your birthday off because, well, it is your birthday.
We encourage ‘walk and talk’ internal meetings – get out and about in the fresh air. Looking after our mental wellbeing is so important, so we give our employees the opportunity to take wellbeing days (duvet days) if they need them.
You will have access to the industry-leading health and wellbeing platform, which helps you track wellness, improve mental health and has structured counselling available whenever needed.
All Efeca staff are allowed up to 30 hours of work time within each financial year to volunteer. You can decide what to do as long as it fits with Efeca’s values and ethics. Working part‑time, you will receive a pro‑rata equivalent.
A series of internal and external lunch presentations to help everyone learn something new.
Each year, we all head down to the beach and spend a very happy afternoon cleaning the streets and the beach. We love it!
Your salary will be competitive based on experience. Let’s talk details when we meet.
We contribute 5% of your salary to a pension each month for you. The company pension has an Ethical Fund option. You need to contribute 3% of your salary.
For this position, please send your CV and cover letter to Lucy Cullinane at info @ efeca.com. Applications will be reviewed and interviews held on a rolling basis – early application is therefore encouraged. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK. It is hoped the successful candidate will start as soon as possible. Further information on Efeca please refer to our website: www.efeca.com.
Please also look at our DEI Application Guide on our website which outlines how we aim to ensure every applicant has the opportunity to demonstrate their potential regardless of their gender, racial or ethnic identity, or socioeconomic background.
If you want to know more, please contact us.