Content Coordinator (Maternity Cover)

Content Coordinator (Maternity Cover)

Mary’s Meals serves nutritious school meals to children living in some of the world’s poorest countries. The promise of a meal attracts these hungry children into the classroom, giving them the energy to learn and hope for a better future.

Mary's Meals International is recruiting for an enthusiastic Content Coordinator. Our Digital Content Library (DCL) is a key global resource for Mary’s Meals and an online record of all of our best stories, photography, videography and case study content. This role will give you the opportunity to work closely with this content and ensure that it is used effectively across the whole global family. 

As Content Coordinator, you will have responsibility for ensuring the highest quality content is uploaded, carefully catalogued and easily searchable. You should be confident and comfortable working with a wide range of staff and volunteers, providing training and resources, answering enquiries and proactively seeking opportunities for development of this key resource. You will also be responsible for the development of your own regular communication activity including our monthly newsletter for regular donors, The Next Chapter. Another key area of responsibility is the coordination of essential content reporting for our flagship campaign Sponsor A School and our Philanthropy reporting needs. 

We are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, in a way that best supports your work life balance. We also have an office near Glasgow city centre for those who live nearby and would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis.

Please note this is a 12-month fixed term position only.

Reporting to the Senior Content Manager, your duties will include: 

• Reviewing photography from our programme, identifying what content should be added to DCL, in consultation with Senior Content Manager (SCM)
• Uploading, tagging and cataloguing resources (inc. photography, videos, case studies and other copy) on DCL
• Administration of DCL, sorting content into relevant collections, ongoing maintenance and proactively seeking opportunities for development of existing structure and search functions
• Supporting international teams with their own content requirements, making recommendations from existing material
• Providing ongoing training for DCL users, e.g. written resources, video tutorials and online workshops
• Management of relationship with DCL platform provider, Montala
• Regular analytics reporting on DCL and online content use and engagement, utilising this to inform future DCL development
• Supporting the Marketing department with campaigns, using the DCL to share content effectively and to tight deadlines
• Working with Mary’s Meals’ international communications teams to coordinate monthly reporting schedule and content requirements for Sponsor A School and all Philanthropic reports
• Managing our monthly newsletter for regular donors – sourcing stories, coordinating content, copy editing written pieces and communicating this with relevant international communications teams across Mary’s Meals family.
   

With strong IT skills, relevant cataloguing experience and a deep understanding of the impact of great imagery, you will be self-motivated individual who enjoys working independently when required and brings a positive organised approach to managing a varied workload. 

Please see the job description below for further information.