Location: TBC, site within 15 miles of Oxford. Main office Eynsham
Hours: 15 Hours (0.4 FTE)
Salary: £27,000 (FTE) pro rata
Contract: 3 years fixed term
Reports to: CEO
Reports: None
Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays (pro rata)
FarmAbility is a local independent charity that is committed to improving the quality of lives through access to meaningful activities for adults who have a learning disability. We deliver farming and horticultural-based programmes in partnership with community-based and local farms and gardens. These programmes offer people who have a learning disability the opportunity to engage in daily purposeful activities that not only improve physical and mental health and wellbeing, but also foster a sense of community, and allow the development and strengthening of their skills and abilities.
Are you a keen storyteller? Do you know how to showcase and raise awareness of issues, activities and events? Are you organised with great attention to detail and a great eye for visually interesting communications? If so this may be the role for you!
We are recruiting to a new, national lottery funded role of Communications and Events Officer. This role will be central to our publicity and social media strategy going forward. The postholder will support us to develop a coherent, data compliant approach to sharing our news, updating our platforms (website, social media) and developing hard copy materials such as leaflets and easy read information to share with our growing community. They will also take on the planning, preparation and delivery of our community facing events, working collaboratively with the rest of the team to ensure we are able to deliver at least 2 seasonal family friendly activities each year and at least 2 community fundraising activities. They will collaborate closely with the Fundraising Officer to ensure that we also produce materials to enable people to fundraise and awareness raise for us in their own communities. They will be outward looking, helping us to connect with colleagues from other organisations and collaborate on issues of joint concern and enable us to take part in national focus days around social farming, nature restoration and learning disability support.