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Position: Communications and Campaigns Manager
Salary: £37,000 - £40,000 depending on experience
Contract: 12 months FT - fixed (with possibility to extend)
Start date: January 2027
Location: UK, London-preferred (Hybrid)
Who We Are
The British Palestinian Committee (BPC) is an organisation of Palestinian professionals based in the UK. Our focus is on shifting the policy landscape and public discourse in Britain towards justice and accountability.
The BPC is an independent, donor-funded non-profit. We are not affiliated with any individual political party, religion, or ideology in Palestine or the UK. While we make no claim to represent British Palestinians as a whole, our members represent a broad and diverse range of British-Palestinian experiences and perspectives.
More information can be found on our website: www.britpalcommittee.co.uk
Where you fit
Reporting to the Director and working across the organisation with all members of our small dynamic team, you will lead on developing and implementing an effective campaigns and communications strategy around our work.
A multi-talented professional, you will have the depth of knowledge to draft commentary and produce analysis on matters relating to British policy towards Palestine. You will have the strategic foresight to ensure outputs are integrated into the BPC’s overall work and disseminated for maximum reach, and the digital skills to manage the BPC’s website, newsletter, and social media presence. You will be responsible for supporting media and public discourse engagement during key moments, pre-empting media opportunities, drafting top lines, talking points for senior staff and short public outputs (e.g. website statements, X threads, press releases etc), liaising with media partners and directly with journalists to circulate written quotations, pitch for interviews, opinion pieces and so on.
You will help to maintain and build the BPC’s presence in Parliament and policy spaces, developing, coordinating and advancing campaigns that centre Palestinian voices in decision-making spaces.
Responsibilities
Developing and project managing specific campaigns around the BPC’s workstreams and policy priorities.
Ensuring and overseeing clear communications and dissemination plans for all BPC campaigns, projects, outputs
Adapting parliamentary briefings into concise analysis, statements and engaging commentary for the BPC’s website and social media (X, Instagram, LinkedIn)
Drafting and tailoring the BPC lines and positions, often in a responsive and time sensitive environment, for different uses (blogs, statements, social media posts)
Creating assets for various social media platforms; video clips (talking head videos and clipping and subtitling parliamentary debates)
Building and maintaining relationships and potential collaborations with journalists, media partners and staff at partner organisations around BPC campaigns.
Monitoring media and political landscape to propose new or ad hoc content, including amplification of content from other sources in line with the BPC’s mission and organisational focus
Drafting and formatting regular email communications through mailchimp, managing and updating mailing lists and contact lists
Supporting the BPC’s media and public discourse engagement at key moments including drafting of top lines and talking points for senior staff, liaising with media partners and directly with journalists to circulate written quotations, pitch for interviews, opinion pieces etc
Developing of an image bank of appropriate and relevant visuals for the BPC’s website, written publications, social media posts
Support in the creation of fundraising materials.
Maintaining and updating the organisation’s communications guide including tone, language, branding in order to ensure a clear coherent organisational voice and presentation
Skills and Experience Required
A track record of delivering communications projects or campaigns
Excellent writing skills
Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise across various tasks
Deep knowledge of - and commitment to - Palestine and Palestinian affairs
Digital communications experience
Proactive, self-reliant and responsive approach to identifying and proposing communications outputs and campaign targets
Excellent knowledge of in social media platforms (X, instagram, linkedin)
Demonstrated creative design skills (including ability to work with Canva, simple video editing softwares such as CapCut)
Strong ability to work with website and mailing list software (Squarespace, Wordpress, Mailchimp)
Experience of working to house editorial styles and branding, adopting organisational voice
Meticulous attention to detail
Arabic language proficiency a plus but not required
Experience of working within a small, self-motivated and dedicated team
How to apply
This is a hybrid position, with colleagues normally expected to come into our offices in Chancery Lane at least once a week. While this is advertised as a full time position, we are open to discussing other options and flexible working arrangements for the right candidate.
To apply for this role, please send a CV (2 pages max - including the name and contact information for one referee who will only be contacted if your application moves forward) and cover letter (1 page max) to: info@britpalcommittee.co.uk
We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview and asked to undertake a set of brief tasks as part of the process. Early submissions are strongly encouraged.
