Events and Communications Officer

Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 (including travel expenses and bring your own device) 

Location: Birmingham, remote with some travel to Essex and London

Hours: 36.5 hours - Monday – Friday, including occasional weekends 

Contract type: Fixed Term – 30 November 2025 – Job share will be considered 

The Active Wellbeing Society is a community benefit society that works cooperatively to develop healthy, happy communities that live active and connected lives. 

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources, and skills to become the architects of their destiny, where our well-being is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other, and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference—whether at an individual level or more widely. 

By working collaboratively with communities, we aim to bring about sustainable change on a social, environmental, and economic level, to do the social knitting required to create more robust and resilient communities, and to support communities in identifying, mitigating, and removing the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives. 

• To coordinate a series of events and promotion activities which have political, policy and influencing dimensions across various system including active travel, health & wellbeing and community development.
• The role will require a highly motivated and committed person who can champion TAWS values ensuring tenacious delivery.
• To support business development/Comms projects and priorities over a 12-month period.
• To coordinate a series of BD events – from concept stage through to delivery.
• To expand and amplify national outreach.

1. Support the National Cycle Lead to deliver a programme of activities.
2. Work flexibly and collaboratively, often at pace to deliver the event series with a strong focus on attention to detail.
3. Be able to deploy a variety of communications skills and techniques to reach target audience.
4. Ability to communicate with delegates including organising delegate information/packs, delegate lists and disseminate information within tight deadlines.
5. Liaising with speakers and event logistics
6. Work closely with other team members to ensure the effective co-ordination of all projects within the programme work streams.
7. Collaborate with the National Cycling Lead and Head of Comms and Marketing to review and plan work streams, outcomes, priorities and associated budgets.
8. Liaise with Head of Strategy to conduct and support regular policy scoping and research, scanning policy developments on health, transport, community, sustainability, public health and related areas of social policy and feeding this back to the organisation
9. Assist with the communication of the findings of our work to a range of audiences, including policymakers, academics and the media 
10. Help build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders relevant to our policy portfolio
11. Support all aspects of event planning and related communications (e.g. email/phone/digital channels).
12. Use project management techniques and tools to approach the tasks in a systematic and coherent fashion.
13. Manage risks including developing mitigation strategies to ensure that events are delivered in a way that manages and minimises risks.

MarComms

1. To join a fast-paced organisation and support the growth of TAWS, and maximise opportunities for national delivery.
2. To help widely raise the profile of TAWS across all areas of work.
3. Support marketing requests and administrative tasks (e.g. updating website, monitoring marketing inbox, responding to marketing requests).
4. Track record of working autonomously and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced, and challenging environment.
5. Skills in identifying problems early and developing effective solutions.
6. Highly organised.
7. Ability to make informed decisions on their own and also know when to escalate an issue/problem to their line manager. 

• 3 years of relevant experience
• A sound understanding of the UK social and political landscape and inequalities.
• Proven track record of providing administrative support for complex projects or programmes of work.
• Proven track record of events coordination and delivery.
• The required soft communication skills to liaise with multiple stakeholders and also to help get the best or what you need from people in support of advancing projects/work streams.
• Substantial digital skills that supports word processing, spreadsheet technology, online project management systems (Monday.com), website content creation, Eventbrite, outlook and share point file system.
• Demonstrate knowledge and some experience of policy research and analysis
• Excellent time management skills: ability to plan, multi-task and prioritise work to ensure that all activities are completed within deadlines
• Able to work effectively and collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Awareness of political landscape and emerging new Government priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to manage projects/workstreams and prioritise accordingly
• Knowledge of co-design and/or Asset Based Community Development principles (desirable)
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative
• Able to use Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Project Management (Desirable)
• A sound understanding of public affairs/external relations.

We offer a generous staff benefits package that includes: 

• Nest Pension – 8% employer contribution - 3 % employee contribution. 
• Heath Cash Plan –discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more. 
• Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day) 
• Life Assurance – x4 your salary paid to the beneficiary. 
• Annual Leave – 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus five wellbeing days 
• Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month

Application Details 

Important info—Please read. Please send a CV with a cover letter demonstrating how you meet the Events and Communications Officer competencies below (please respond to each of the questions below in your cover letter). 

1. Minimum 1 year experience either in event management, public policy or communications
2. Experience of events, comms or project management.
3. Must be confident in communicating with a wide variety of audiences.
4. Can provide proof of developing relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
5. Interest in public affairs, political communications. or social justice

Closing date:  30/08/2024

Interview date:  30/09/2024

Due to the high number of applications we received for our job vacancies, we may close application windows early, so we would encourage you to submit your application ASAP 

We will provide all applicants with an outcome on your application, usually within one week of the application window closing. 

Successful applicants will be required to be DBS checked before starting. 

Our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we; in recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring. The Active Wellbeing Society is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer. We recruit based on capability, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. At The Active Wellbeing Society, we are searching for people who share the passion for what we do with different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, collectively making a difference. 

 If there is anything we can do to assist you in your application or preparations to be interviewed for one of our job vacancies, please let us know. We can ensure you have a positive and comfortable experience. 

I appreciate your interest in working for The Active Wellbeing Society; we look forward to receiving your application. 

If you have any questions after reading the Job Description or would like to discuss us and the role informally, please contact [email protected], and we will be happy to help.