Interim Opportunity: Head of Marketing, Communications and Advocacy (3-6 Months)

As the Head of Communications, Marketing, and Advocacy, you'll oversee our marketing, PR, and advocacy initiatives, ensuring Kent Wildlife Trust is a leader in conservation communication. This pivotal role will shape strategies, drive campaigns, and lead a talented team while ensuring we achieve impactful connections with audiences across Kent. You will be instrumental in developing sector-leading systems, processes, and infrastructure that ensure KWT's messages resonate with diverse audiences, strengthen our advocacy, and boost our visibility. What you'll be doing:

• Wilder Kent Campaign Development: Design and lead an ambitious, integrated marketing and communications plan to inspire
engagement with our vision for a Wilder Kent.
• Team Leadership and Partnership Development: Support and mentor a high-performing team including staff and freelancers to
deliver our full range of marketing and communications activity.
• Maintain and develop partnerships that maximise our reach to a broader audience.
• Campaigns & PR: Deliver innovative sub campaigns that drive public and media support, strengthen partnerships, and influence
decision-makers.
• Digital & Traditional Marketing: Oversee impactful, multichannel communications, ensuring consistency of brand, tone, and
messaging.
• Advocacy: Amplify our best-in-class advocacy efforts to influence policies and secure the future of Kent's wildlife.
  
  approach over the next 5 years to inspire action, increase engagement, and drive our vision for a Wilder Kent., Experience: Substantial senior-level experience in communications, marketing, PR, and advocacy, with a track record of
delivering successful campaigns and leading high-performing teams.
• Track record: Of delivering transformative results that drive engagement and enhance organisational impact.
• Leadership: Proven ability to inspire and manage diverse teams to deliver on ambitious targets in fast-paced environments.
• Skills:
• Exceptional strategic and creative thinking.
• Strong negotiation and influencing abilities.
• People and partnership development
• Expertise in media and digital platforms.
• Passion: A deep understanding of conservation and alignment with Kent Wildlife Trust's mission.
We are unable to recruit anyone who does not have a right to work in the UK.

The Kent Wildlife Trust Group is Wild About Inclusion. To us, this means inspiring, empowering and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities, to change the natural world for the better. It also means cultivating inclusive workspaces that are free from discrimination, where differences are celebrated, everyone can be themselves and flourish, just like nature!


• Impactful Role: Be part of a pioneering strategy that shapes the future of wildlife conservation.
• Collaborative Team: Work with a passionate, innovative team committed to making a difference.
• Flexible Working: We support a work-life balance with hybrid and adaptable working options., Interim role (3-6 months) (Permanent recruitment for a Head of Marcomms and Advocacy will open from January 2025 and we encourage
those who are interested in both to make it known) Next steps