Member Engagement and Advocacy Manager - Maternity Cover

Member Engagement and Advocacy Manager – Maternity Cover

Salary: £50,000 - £53,000 per annum depending on experience

Fixed-Term Contract for up to 12 months (Maternity Cover)

Full time - 35 hours per week

Hybrid Working – Home Based/Princes Risborough

We’re Association for Project Management (APM). We’re a professional membership organisation that sets the standards for the project profession. As a registered charity, we reinvest our surplus for the benefit of our members and the profession. We deliver education and develop qualifications. We conduct research and provide knowledge and resources. We run events and share best practice. We give people the opportunity to connect and provide community for our individual members and corporate partners, wherever they are. Above all, when doing so makes a difference, we challenge the status quo.

Job Role Overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Member Engagement and Advocacy Manager to join our Influence and Advocacy team on a Maternity cover basis.

The successful candidate will contribute to improved membership retention through targeted face-to-face (in-person or digital) and verbal campaigns and initiatives.

You will strengthen APM’s influence and advocacy by engaging and mobilising members, Fellows, students and early-career professionals as ambassadors for the profession. The role leads targeted, insight-driven engagement programmes that improve retention and support the organisation’s wider policy and thought leadership objectives.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role we would love to hear from you.

Experience and knowledge

•           Experience in membership recruitment and retention activity

•           Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills, able to communicate              effectively with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and at all levels

•           Experience of using and reporting in CRM systems

•           Business and financial acumen

•           Commercial awareness

Skills  

•           Excellent relationship management skills

•           Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

•           Excellent PC skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and CRM tools

•           Ability to analyse data

Why APM?

We’re Association for Project Management (APM). We’re united in our aim to help project professionals around the world deliver better projects, setting the highest standards for the industry. Ask our people what’s great about working here and the views are unanimous. You’ll be joining a community that’s friendly and caring. We believe that good communication creates a culture that’s open and fair. We ensure everyone at APM, regardless of their role, has a voice and knows they’ll be listened to and treated with respect. We see everyone as individuals and champion diversity and inclusion, both within APM and across the wider project profession. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that’s thoughtful, considerate and positive. You’ll be supported by your team and across departments so, together, we meet the high standards we set ourselves.

If you are interested in this opportunity and feel you have the necessary attributes, skills and expertise for the role, please send your CV and covering letter to apply.

At APM we are open to talking about flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments please reach out to discuss further.

Main benefits at APM:

• 25 days holiday (excluding all public holidays). This increases after four years’ service.
• Private healthcare and dental cover is available after completion of six-month probationary period. APM pays the premium for the employee. This becomes a 'benefit in kind’.
• Pension scheme offered in line with auto enrolment with up to 8% contribution from APM.
• Company sick pay scheme.
• Life assurance at four times the salary.
• Salary sacrifice schemes – pension, cycle to work scheme, additional annual leave (up to 10 days).
• Free parking on site.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Performance Related Pay (PRP) scheme. The discretionary bonus will take account of individual performance as well as APM’s overall financial performance.
• One paid volunteering day per year.
• Hybrid/flexible working options are available dependent on job role. However, there is a requirement to come into the office 4 days per month.