Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We are looking for Campaign Specialist (1 post) to join our External Affairs & Communications Team.

A new post to the team, you will support senior colleagues in the External Affairs & Communications team in providing strategic communications advice and support across the business and colleagues to deliver impactful external facing campaigns and events. You will deliver external media, including social media, plans and content and monitor and advise in relation to all external media, political and other sources of relevance to the business. You will focus on campaigns which cover areas of customer; property; social & environmental impact; and external affairs.

Whilst supporting production of high quality content in order to deliver business objectives, you will enable colleagues in the business to communicate more effectively with external stakeholders, by providing them with communications and campaigning advice and support.

It is essential you have experience of delivering impactful campaigns in at least one of the following disciplines: political and local campaigning; consumers; property; social & environmental impact; and external affairs. You should have evidence of a client, consumer or voter focused approach to communications, with strong speaking skills, with an ability to win trust and confidence. Your experience of delivering media programmes, including preparing media releases and building relationships with journalists, will demonstrate your strong written skills, producing high quality copy, quickly and consistently.