Senior Content Manager (maternity cover)

About us
At CharityJob, we help charities find people who share their purpose, faster and more easily. We re passionate about fair and effective recruitment and listening to our candidate and recruiter customers to improve our products, content and marketing.

We re the number one job board in the UK for charities. And we provide leading technology to support our recruiters, including an applicant tracking system, as well as our sister networking platform, CharityConnect.

We re motivated by the belief that great people power great causes. We re a mission-led, commercially sustainable business that balances social impact with innovation, collaboration, and high standards of service. We have around 30 employees working for us across marketing, product, sales, software development and finance.

Our team cares deeply about the sector we serve and the experience of everyone who uses our platform. Working here means contributing to a product that helps charities thrive, while being part of a supportive, inclusive workplace where ideas are valued and personal development is encouraged.

About the role

We re looking for a Senior Content Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. You ll lead on all content across the organisation, including two blogs (our Career Advice blog for candidates and our Recruiter Insights blog for recruiters), our email and e-newsletter copy, sales collateral, product messaging, PR campaigns and anything else needing an expert editorial eye.

Annual leave: 25 days (+ bank holidays)
Reporting line: you ll report to the Marketing Director and be part of the Marketing team.
Hours: 9am-5.30pm (with reduced hours of 9am 5pm in December and August). Flexibility will be considered.
Working arrangements: this is a hybrid role, with two fixed days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) working in the office.
Job application process: to apply, please send your CV and answer a few short screening questions.
We can only accept applications for this role from applicants who live in the UK.

Job description
What you ll be working on:

• Regularly planning and producing content for the CharityJob blogs.

• Updating the content calendar with article revisions and new content in line with business needs, seasonal trends and sector updates.

• Continually monitoring and maintaining our existing blog content, including optimising performance, working with our external agency to fill content gaps and conducting keyword research to improve organic content reach.

• Leading on SEO across the organisation, including managing our relationship with our external agency, acting on their recommendations and liaising with our in-house development team.

• Working closely with the Senior CRM Manager to write copy for promotional and service emails and trigger campaigns.

• Working closely with our external agency to manage digital PR campaigns to raise awareness of CharityJob and our products with trade, local and national press.

• Editing product copy to make sure that the right messages and prompts appear in the right places and in the right tone of voice across our website and products to help achieve business objectives.

• Producing supporting or customer-facing documents for our sales team.

• Writing guides and other long-form content, and briefing designers to deliver a finished product.

• Managing content produced for and with CharityJob s partner organisations.

• Copyediting and proofreading copy and documents across the organisation.
  

This job is for you if:

• You understand the role of content marketing in the overall marketing strategy and customer journey.

• You have excellent copywriting skills, particularly for email campaigns and landing pages.

• You have a good knowledge of SEO and Google Analytics (AI search would be a bonus)

• You can highlight key feature benefits in new software products and distil these into engaging content and copy.

• You have excellent proofreading and copyediting skills and a keen eye for detail.

• You re used to successfully juggling multiple projects, working calmly under pressure and managing tight deadlines.

• You have some experience of working with and managing third-party suppliers.