Comms and Content Senior Manager Parental Leave Cover

Contract: Fixed term (12 months).
Hours: Full time preferred.
Location: London / Hybrid, able to attend in-person meetings in London when as and when needed on an ad hoc basis.
Office-based colleagues are expected to be in the office two days per week. This is a UK-based role; you must have the right to work in the UK to be considered.
Salary: £45,500 FTE gross per annum. Team members who come into the London office 2+ days per week are entitled to an additional office allowance of £2,000 FTE per annum.
Travel: There are no specific travel requirements for this role, though we do ask all team members, wherever possible, to be available to support two key youth events each year, including overnight stays.
Benefits: 30 days annual leave, flexible working environment, enhanced sick pay, 5% employer / 3% employee pension contribution, bike to work scheme.
Reporting to: Head of Communications.
Please note: Owing to the nature of this role, any offer of employment with Bite Back will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
Do you want to work with a vibrant, dynamic and youth-driven organisation that is committed to creating healthy futures for British children by improving the food system?
Be part of the creative, agile and growing team behind Bite Back 2030’s exceptional teenage activists. Join us as our Communications & Content Senior Manager (parental leave cover) and contribute to our journey to help make the food system healthier and fairer. See below for more details about the role and how to apply.
At Bite Back 2030 we are committed to ensuring our staff is representative of the diverse world around us, and therefore we encourage candidates with a range of lived and professional experiences to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. We will use positive action under the Equality Act 2010 to appoint from these underrepresented groups if two candidates are equally qualified.
About the Role
We are seeking a confident, experienced and mission-driven Communications & Content Senior Manager to join Bite Back on a fixed-term parental leave cover contract.
This role will take on the leadership of Bite Back's content and communications function during a critical and exciting time. You'll be stepping into an award winning, insight-led, youth-centred organisation that is transforming the way food system campaigning is done in the UK.
This role requires a bold and dynamic communicator who can lead storytelling, oversee content strategy, and guide a high-performing team to deliver integrated campaigns across our owned and earned channels.
We’re looking for someone with a strong editorial eye, people management skills, and the confidence to lead in cross-organisational settings. You’ll work closely with our campaigners, young spokespeople, and senior team to ensure we continue delivering creative, culturally relevant and impactful communications.
The Comms & Content Senior Manager will be responsible for leading our creative storytelling. They will oversee the production of high-quality content for all of Bite Back’s channels and communications moments. They will be a strong leader, serving as a guardian for our brand narrative and upskilling the team to deliver high-quality content tailored to the channels and audiences that will advance Bite Back’s impact. They will support the Head of Communications with the execution of Bite Back’s overarching communications strategy, ensuring our content and media coverage consistently contribute to our brand and campaign objectives.
Purpose of the Role
To lead Bite Back’s content and communications delivery during a period of parental leave. You will hold strategic oversight of content creation, campaign narrative development, and help maintain a dynamic, values-driven team culture across the DigiComms function.
Responsibilities
The Communications & Content Senior Manager is responsible for:
Strategic Content Leadership
- Lead and implement an agile content strategy aligned with Bite Back’s campaign priorities, integrating youth storytelling and insight-led planning.
- Shape and deliver high-impact content plans across Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, Bluesky and emerging platforms.
- Collaborate with the Digital Senior Manager and Head of Comms to align digital mobilisation and supporter growth strategies.
- Serve as editorial lead across campaigns, ensuring consistent tone of voice and messaging coherence.
Campaign Delivery & Storytelling Innovation
- Develop messaging, content formats, and storytelling arcs that centre young people and drive public engagement.
- Supervise video-first, social-led content creation tailored to audience behaviours and trends.
- Maintain a rolling editorial calendar that responds to cultural, policy, and campaign moments.
- Support reactive content production and media opportunities, managing real-time workflows and risk considerations.
People Management & Team Culture
- Provide strong line management for the Communications Executive and Digital Content Producer. Support their development and workload prioritisation.
- Foster collaboration across the wider DigiComms, Design, and Brand teams.
- Lead team-wide learning activities, workshops or retros to maintain cohesion.
Media & Public Relations Support
- Contribute to our press function: help draft media lines, shape press assets, and build journalist relationships.
- Liaise with external agencies or freelance media support where needed.
- Help drive a proactive and youth-anchored press strategy.
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Collaborate with Public Affairs, Brand, and Research team leads to ensure alignment on messaging and content delivery.
- Work with the Youth team to ensure young campaigners are fully briefed and supported ahead of media appearances.
- Continue fostering a joined-up culture between Design, Digital and Comms functions.
System & Workflow Optimisation
- Maintain and evolve the AV library, content planning systems and Slack comms processes.
- Safeguard knowledge retention and effective workflows during transitions (staff leave, turnover).
Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate would have the following:
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in leading content strategy and production across multiple social platforms.
- Experience managing communications teams and working cross-functionally.
- Strong editorial and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt tone and format.
- Comfort working at pace and in reactive media environments.
- A collaborative mindset with strong relationship-building skills.
- Familiarity with analytics and insight tools to inform content development.
- A commitment to Bite Back’s values: Fresh, Resilient, Respectful, Energetic, Real.
Desirable
- Experience in a youth-facing or campaigning organisation.
- Understanding of UK food systems, public health, or policy comms.
Working at Bite Back
We offer a hybrid, flexible working culture grounded in trust and impact. Our team values resilience, creativity, and community. We believe in honest reflection, shared learning, and supporting each other to thrive. You’ll be part of an ambitious, joyful and youth-powered organisation making serious waves in the public health and advocacy space.
About Bite Back
We’re surrounded by junk food. From the moment we're born, every second of every day, children are being targeted. Giant companies manipulate them with colourful, cuddly, clever marketing, deceive them with packaging claims and pump products at them that are full of junk. It's become the cultural wallpaper. Now, it risks destroying the health of a generation.
In the UK, nearly a third of children aged 2-15 are now at future risk of developing food-related conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
The good news is, it's totally preventable. And we're biting back.
Bite Back is a youth activist movement challenging a food system that's been set up to fool us all. We do this by:
- Calling out the manipulation of the junk food giants.
- Demanding higher standards from food marketing and from everyday food itself.
- Mobilising and equipping young people in the fight for better food.
We do all this so we can bite back against a global epidemic of food-related ill health.
How to apply
Please apply with a CV and a statement answering the following questions:
- Tell us about a media strategy you’ve designed to get coverage for a key moment. What was your strategy and how did you measure its impact? (250 words max)
- Tell us about a content strategy you’ve developed. What audiences were you trying to reach? How did you deploy different channels and content styles to engage them? (250 words max)
- Tell us about a complex, nuanced topic you’ve had to develop a communications strategy for? How did you create engaging storytelling on the topic? And how did you avoid misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the issue? (250 words max)
- How would you improve Bite Back’s brand recognition as a Communications & Content Senior Manager? (250 words max)
If you have any questions about the role or the application process, do contact us on recruitment@biteback2030.com and we’ll be happy to help. We will only accept applications submitted via the CharityJob website. This is because CharityJob automatically anonymises all applications to reduce bias in the shortlisting process.
Timelines
- Applications close at 5pm (17:00) on 31st August 2025.
- Initial interviews are expected to take place week commencing 8th September.
- Second interviews will happen at our London Victoria office week commencing 15th September.
If you are in receipt of means-tested benefits and cost is a barrier to attending a London-based interview, please let us know, and we can help with booking your travel.