Permanent Contract
Reporting to – Chief Executive Officer
Direct reports – None
Working hours – 5 days a week
Location: Remote with one day a month in our Bristol office
About Progress Together
Financial Services has the highest class pay gap of all sectors. Evidence shows that employees from non-professional backgrounds progress 25% slower than peers, with no link to job performance. Employer’s social mobility efforts have largely focused on outreach and access at junior levels, with little attention to progression and retention. This is despite evidence showing that 89% of senior managers are from professional backgrounds, compared to 47% at junior levels and 52% of UK CEOs economy wide. Employees report they are wasting energy conforming to dominant cultures, impacting productivity.
To level the playing field, we need to create a financial services sector in the United Kingdom in which everyone working in it, from all socio-economic backgrounds, are both enabled and have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential. Therefore, building on the work of the Government commissioned Taskforce, which runs until November 2022, we have created this very important new membership body, Progress Together, which was formally launched on 20th May 2022 by the Lord Mayor of London and the City Minister.
Our measure of success will be greater levels of socio-economic diversity at senior levels, across our membership. Leading to better business outcomes; increased productivity, greater innovation, improved decision making through diversity of thought, better consumer outcomes, and being sector where talented people choose to work.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and manage the Marketing Communications Strategy to create, deliver and manage high quality communications for Progress Together, including PR, internal and external marketing and events.
- Develop and maintain the website for the organisation.
- Create high-quality content for use on a wide range channels, e.g. website and social media, in press releases, in government briefings, in articles and in newsletters and member communications.
- Support the delivery of events – both those run by Progress Together and where Progress Together is represented
- Create collateral and the growth of toolkits, guides and case studies from events and from what shared with Progress Together from stakeholders
- Create, manage and maintain the contact database ensuring compliance with data protection requirements.
- Establish and grow relationships with key journalists and stakeholders as well as colleagues in the partner organisations and founding partners and members.
- Work with colleagues to secure new members and help retain existing ones.
- Member management – including managing member agreements, maintaining a database of information about members and prospects, supporting member prospecting and outreach.
- Act as an ambassador for the Body and, where relevant, attend events and summits to represent the work of Progress Together
- Play an active role in the operation of the Body alongside other employees and in support of the Chief Executive carrying out other duties as reasonably instructed.
Skills & Experience
- Experience or a personal passion for developing socioeconomic diversity at all levels.
- Experience in marketing communications, PR and/or marketing role including developing and implementing a range of communications across various channels.
- Events management experience desirable.
- Knowledge of best practice with the ability to recognise business needs and organisational goals, applying and developing marketing ampaigns and events around these.
- Experience of website administration and maintenance (WordPress corporate) and software and applications for design and online communications (Twitter, LinkedIn, Survey Monkey, Mailchimp, Word Press, Canva) desirable
- Experience of managing contact databases, mailing lists and distribution, including utilising data from different sources and mail merges.
- Experience of or ability to analyse engagement with communications activity (website, LinkedIn, Twitter etc) to ensure that the most effective activities are prioritised and delivered, using analysis to inform and improve ROI for future events and marketing campaigns.
- Experience of working with and building relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, including with media and senior figures, essential.
- Excellent written and verbal communication is essential, including the ability to draft engaging and impactful communications that contain a compelling narrative and persuasive arguments.
- Effective at planning, organisation, and time management, self-starter, prioritises tasks, attention to detail, takes responsibility and ownership
- Interpersonal, teamwork and influencing abilities
- Ability to identify, create and drive communication and marketing opportunities with minimal direction and drive delivery forward.
- An understanding of the Financial Services sector and the challenges of socioeconomic diversity within financial services organisations or a keen interest to learn.
What’s in it for you?
- Flexible and remote working.
- Salary £45,000
- Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave
- An opportunity and a voice to be part of a founding membership body that will shape the Financial Services industry in the UK by diversifying both the pool of talent and senior leaders in the UK.
TO APPLY: Please send your CV to recruitment@progresstogether.co.uk
