Job Description for MMHA Everyone’s Business Campaign Manager

Job Title: Campaign Manager

Job Purpose: Manage and implement the MMHA campaign, Everyone’s BusinessPhase 2

strategy on behalf of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance

Reporting to: Campaign Director

Posts that this job manages: Campaign Communications Officer, Campaign Assistantand

supervision of campaign consultants

Terms and conditions:

  • Annual salary is £45k, plus pension contribution (pro rata for 3 days a week, potentially rising to 4 days, with an annual increment based on inflation rise).
  • The post holder will be required to work from home.
  • The contract is initially fixed term until 30 September 2018, with potential for extension – subject to funding confirmation - up to 2019.
  • 25 days holiday pro rata plus public holidays
  • The Campaign Manager will be employed by Action on Postpartum Psychosis, host organisation for the Everyone’s Business Campaign.

Main responsibilities:

  • Lead the implementation of the overall Everyone’s Businesscampaign strategy as identified through the Phase 2 proposal and in agreement with the Campaign Director
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key local / regional stakeholders in England, including Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs)
  • Alongside Campaign Director, develop / maintain relationships with key national stakeholders in England
  • Manage the work of the Campaign Communications Officer and Campaign Assistant
  • Manage the contracts of and provide overall supervision for the work of consultants (including Evaluators and Communications / Design agency)
  • Review campaign communication tools for internal and external use, ensuring products are coherent within the campaign strategy and overall communications plan
  • Manage the planning, execution and evaluation stages of the campaign project
  • Report progress on planned activities for wider Alliance group and funders
  • Manage the budget of the campaign project
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders, including the MMHA Campaign Working Group (CWG), wider MMHA membership (via MMHA members’ meetings and Learning & Evaluation workshops) and MMHA Chair and Vice Chair
  • Work with the Campaign Director and Department of Health in England to ensure a Ministerial Maternal Mental Health Roundtable takes place each year in England, hosted by the Minister and attended by key national stakeholders
  • Work with the Campaign Director and NHS England to ensure 4 Regional Maternal Mental Health Roundtable discussions take place in England each year
  • Work with the Campaign Director and other team members to ensure a Learning & Evaluation workshop is held each year for MMHA members
  • Work with the Campaign Director to explore establishingand implementing a new360 degree feedback / appraisal system for team members
  • Provideoccasional cover for the work of other team membersas and when necessary

Skills and experience:

  • Experience of implementing campaigns relating to health and other social justice issues, and the ability to lead innovative and creative approaches to rights-based campaigning
  • Strong project management skills and ability to evaluate campaigns and projects and to report progress against stated objectives; experience of managing budgets and reporting against expenditure
  • Understanding of perinatal mental illness, including the range in type and quality of treatment experienced by women in the UK
  • Experience of managing staff
  • Excellent presentation, influencing and negotiation skills and ability to liaise comfortably with a wide range of stakeholders, including media and government officials
  • Experience of managing conflicting demands, meeting deadlines and adjusting priorities
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; experience of writing motivating and inspiring awareness-raising and campaign materials for a diverse range of target audiences
  • Excellent team working skills as well as ability to work on own initiative with minimum supervision
  • Knowledge about the potential roles of service-user organisations and individuals, as well as clinical professionals and campaigning organisations in the mental health/child development/maternity fields
  • Experience of managing large budgets with multiple income sources and experience of preparing financial and narrative reports for external funders

Desirable:

  • Experience of working from home and managing work / time, and communication with team members accordingly
  • Based in or close to London to enable easy access to London based meetings, and travel to other parts of the UK
  • Willingness / ability to travel to other parts of the UK, with occasional evening meeting / need to stay overnight

Further information

Further information about the Everyone’s Business campaign, the Maternal Mental Health

Alliance and Action on Postpartum Psychosis, can be found at:

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