Community Engagement Executive

Community Engagement Executive

Rustington Centre with regular UK travel

About Us

We’re Blind Veterans UK, a charity that helps vision-impaired ex-service people from every generation rebuild their lives after their sight has been affected. Founded in 1915 by Sir Arthur Pearson to help the many veterans losing their sight during the First World War, we have over a century of experience providing the very best care and support.

Since then, we’ve supported tens of thousands of vision-impaired veterans, helping them regain their independence and providing the tools, skills and confidence they need to lead fulfilling, active lives.

We’re one transformational team that believes every vision-impaired veteran should be able to lead the life they choose.

We are now looking for a Community Engagement Executive to join us on a permanent, part-time basis, working 21 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £21,538 per annum pro rata (full-time equivalent £35,596)

- Generous annual leave with the option to buy additional days

- Pension scheme with generous employer contributions

- Healthcare cash plan

- Life Assurance

- Access to legal services and mental health support

- Employee assistance programme

- Paid professional subscriptions and discounts

- Professional and personal development

- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption pay

This is a fantastic opportunity for a communications, events, marketing, or social media professional with experience creating engaging content and gathering stories to join our dedicated charity.

Joining us, you'll have the chance to become part of a passionate team making a real difference to the lives of vision-impaired veterans, whilst developing your own expertise and experience across communications and community engagement.

What's more, with a commitment of just 21 hours per week and primarily home-based work, you'll enjoy the flexibility to balance a rewarding role with your other commitments.

The Role

As a Community Engagement Executive, you will support the relationship between our centre in Rustington and the local community, showcasing our work and ensuring we have strong ties throughout the area.

Taking responsibility for the Centre's Facebook page, you'll create, schedule and monitor engaging, accessible content, whilst gathering stories and images that highlight the experiences of veterans, families and volunteers.

You'll also support the Community Engagement Lead with local events, activities and initiatives, working closely with Centre colleagues and the wider Communications Team to promote our work and build positive relationships with the local community.

Additionally, you will:

- Identify and develop human-interest stories

- Monitor Facebook engagement and performance

- Assist with planning, promoting and delivering Centre events and community activities

- Prepare updates, captions and other content for internal and external communications

- Maintain accurate records of stories, permissions, images and content plans

About You

To be considered as a Community Engagement Executive, you will need:

- Experience or qualifications in communications, events, marketing, social media or a related field

- Experience creating engaging content for social media, websites, newsletters

- Experience of using Facebook or other social media platforms on behalf of an organisation, including planning, posting and monitoring content

- An understanding of permissions, consent, confidentiality and safeguarding

- The ability to identify and gather human-interest stories sensitively

- Strong written communication skills

- Good organisational and time-management skills

- The confidence to work with veterans, families, volunteers, colleagues and community contacts in a professional and respectful way

- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, including Teams

The closing date for this role is 31st October 2026.

Other organisations may call this role Community Engagement Officer, Communications Officer, Social Media Executive, Social Media Officer, Community Engagement Co-ordinator, Communications Executive, Marketing & Communications Executive, or Community Relations Officer.

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