Digital and Media Officer

Background 

The Diocese of Blackburn represents the Church of England in most of Lancashire and part of Wigan Metropolitan Borough, covering an area of 878 square miles with a population of 1.3 million. The Diocese is made up of two archdeaconries, Blackburn and Lancaster, with a total of fourteen Deaneries. There are 281 Churches, comprising around 226 parishes, with around 250 clergy (c. 200 stipendiary) and 230 licensed Readers.

Summary

In line with our Vision 2026 aims, the person fulfilling this role will coordinate and produce digital content for the DBF, as well as creating ways to engage digitally with people across the diocese; helping those who work in churches to make disciples, be witnesses, grow leaders and inspire children and young people. This digital evangelism work will include the development of creative content; enhancing existing digital channels and creating new opportunities online for engagement with the Christian message. You will be expected to be able to innovate in creating ways to connect with people and partner organisations across the diocese through social and digital media platforms; with the confidence and ability first to suggest and then to trial fresh ways of working digitally to appropriately enhance all our existing communications work.

Some Key Responsibilities 

1. To develop, oversee and assist in the development of fresh and compelling social media and digital resources and content for engagement with churches and church leaders in the Diocese of Blackburn and to support them in promoting their activities to the wider world. 
2. Review key metrics and analytics around engagement across the digital channels used by the diocese and contribute to the ongoing effectiveness of our work, suggesting ways to continually improve our digital offering.
3. Promote and support events and training delivered by the diocese through digital channels linked to the Events page on the Diocesan website and our office SharePoint calendar
4. Assist with the review of websites; ensuring pages are up-to-date and feature relevant and engaging news stories, information, resources and events.
5. Generate original and creative ideas for social and digital content and ensure our social media and digital resources meet KPIs and reflect wider missional goals
6. To oversee our engagement with and on all our social media platforms; optimising proactive and reactive content to build engagement and interaction; alongside the effective scheduling of social posts

Some Key Skills and Knowledge required: 

 - Educated to a Degree or Diploma level or currently working towards this
 - Understanding of how to develop a digital media campaign 
 - Working knowledge of and competency in WordPress, adobe packages or similar e.g. Davinci/Final Cut Pro
 - Working knowledge of and competency in InDesign or similar
 - Understanding of and proficiency with web design software and Adobe creation software
 - Knowledge of how to use social media for an organisation and how to increase user engagement through analysis of data
 - Self motivated and able to think creatively, generate ideas, and a willingness to act on own initiative

For full details about the role, please see the job description: Blackburn Diocesan Board of Finance Ltd (anglican.org) 

For an informal chat about the role please contact Stephen Whittaker at stephen.whittaker@blackburn.anglican.org 

 

Closing Date: Wednesday 9th October 2024
Interview Date: Friday 18th October 2024
Contract type: Permanent 

Diversity - The Diocese of Blackburn believes that diversity enables us to thrive and develop and is committed to race equality, welcoming applications from UK Minority Ethnic/ Global Majority Heritage backgrounds

The Diocese of Blackburn is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.
 

Please only apply via the Diocesan Website.