Salary: £34,847 per annum

Location: Birmingham

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

The Vacancy

Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) is a faith-based humanitarian relief and development organisation working to save and transform the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Established in 1984, with an active presence in over 45 countries, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those affected by poverty, conflict and natural disasters.

IRW’s Global Family Development Division is recruiting for the position of ‘Growth Marketer’ to join its dynamic team based out of its offices in Birmingham, UK. The organisation is currently operating to a hybrid working model.

The growth marketer is responsible for administering and evolving all websites that are managed by the Global Family Development Division (GFD) as well as conduct all digital marketing activities to generate visitors to the websites and increase donations.

The successful candidate must have:

• A marketing or web related qualification

• Experience of using Google Adwords and Analytics

• Experience within a content development role

• Understanding of the charity sector and the fundamentals of digital marketing

• Experience of working within a Wordpress environment

• Have a good understanding of popular digital marketing platforms

• Have a keen interest and understanding of trends and regular changes in the digital landscape

• Have a good understanding of performance advertising

• Have a good understanding of analysing data and metrics to improve performance

• Excellent writing skills, particularly for web

• Excellent verbal and communication skills

• Strong understanding of service delivery and what it takes to deliver successfully to a customer

• Ability to work effectively under pressure to tight deadlines and balance competing priorities

• Planning and organisational skills, and the ability to prioritise and plan work, set and achieve deadlines

• Good communication and interpersonal skills and good team-working with an ability to work in a collaborative manner

• Ability to develop digital engagement strategy, working with in-country offices

• Results focused – ability to deliver objectives and targets with a positive drive to achieve results

• Sound understanding of the audiences that Islamic Relief communicates with

For more information, please click on the Documents tab above to view the full Job Description.

If you are talented, reliable, service-minded, resilient and a highly motivated professional looking for a meaningful career, with a strong commitment to IRW’s mission and values of sincerity, excellence, compassion, social justice and custodianship, please apply by completing our online application form.

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What we offer UK colleagues - Islamic Relief Worldwide

PLEASE NOTE: Interviews are expected to take place on an ongoing basis until a suitable appointment is made. We therefore may close the advert sooner than the advertised date.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

• screening clearance

• proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK

• receipt of satisfactory references

Please note, for UK-based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

IRW is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom IRW engages. IRW expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. IRW also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer

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