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Closing Date:

3 June 2026

Closing Date:

3 June 2026

Annually:£48,748 - £54,164 plus allowances (£200 hybrid working allowance, or £3,336 London weighting)
Region:Nationwide or Remote
Location:Nationwide
Department:Brand & Marketing
Vacancy Type:Fixed Term
Working hours per week:35
Duration of Fixed Term:12 months
Closing Date:3 June 2026

Are you looking for a role within an organisation where the work you do makes a real difference to children's? Might our Associate Head of Strategic Marketing vacancy (12-month FTC) be the opportunity you're looking for?

At the NSPCC, we believe every childhood is worth fighting for. With over 100 years of experience, and the collective strength of our staff, volunteers, supporters, and partners, we're working to end child abuse and neglect for good. Our Brand and Marketing team plays a vital role in promoting the NSPCC's work. We're the voice of our mission, and every message we share reflects our commitment to protecting children and preventing abuse.

What is the purpose of the Associate Head of Strategic Marketing (12-month FTC)?
In this role, you could play a vital part in delivering our communications strategy and supporting our wider goals. You'll oversee, support and develop a team of six motivated and high performing marketing experts, and contribute by:

Planning and implementing marketing strategies across various channels and audiences, working collaboratively across teams
Ensuring an integrated and coordinated approach to high level marketing, enabling us to attract, engage and retain a variety of audiences (particularly children/young people, professionals and volunteers)
Developing and owning media/implementation schedules across these audiences
Maximising the impact of our most visible marketing, driving (and measuring) our target audiences' affinity, relevance and understanding of our impact, alongside the belief that we need financial support
Driving forward our brand profile and perception, helping us to reach more people, engage more supporters, and ultimately protect more children.
Offering strategic consultancy to support NSPCC teams meet their business goals through marketing activity, also sharing market specific knowledge, customer insight and new communications techniques
Developing and maintaining internal and external stakeholder and supplier relationships, identifying and incorporating the best industry-wide standards and establishing best practice.

Please note, although this role can be carried out remotely, occasional travel to workshops and team days in London will be required, approximately every 2-3 months.

What skills do I need to be an Associate Head of Strategic Marketing (12-month FTC)?

Strong leadership and stakeholders skills are essential due to the need to engage a diverse range of key stakeholders, to work collaboratively across the organisation and to manage external agencies. We're also looking for somebody with the resilience and determination to deliver campaigns effectively, plus the analytical skills to define insights/results and refine activities to continually improve performance. Does this sound like you?

Evidence of a substantial track record of success in working in strategic marketing, dealing with a wide range of marketing disciplines.
Highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and people at the highest level in a range of disciplines, successfully problem solving, decision making, influencing and advising.
Excellent copywriting and presentation skills with the proven ability to communicate clearly to senior management level and external audiences.
Substantial experience of marketing/media budget management and financial planning.
Knowledge of the media and regulatory environment and ability to deliver marketing strategies and campaigns at a high level of execution.
Excellent ability to plan, monitor, and implement major projects to agreed deadlines often with conflicting priorities.
Corporate and strategic thinker with excellent proven ability to contribute to the delivery of a communication strategy, ensuring cooperative working and maintaining vision.

Why join the NSPCC?

Generous annual leave- 29 days per annum plus bank holidays for full-time employees (pro-rata for part-time). 32 days per annum after five years' continuous service.
The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)- an independent, free, personal support service. It can provide information, support and advice to support your health and wellbeing.
Pension- building up a good pension is something we want to help you achieve with our flexible, tax-efficient pension schemes.
Life assurance scheme- All employees will be given life assurance of one times their salary, unless they join the NSPCC Group Personal Pension Scheme, where members are given life assurance of five times their salary.

Ready to apply?

Think this might be the role for you? Please click the button ‘apply' to start your journey. You can find more information on all recruitment stages on the Career page.

If you are interested in applying for this role, we encourage you to apply early. To help us manage the process we may close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a strong response to the role.

In keeping with our values and our policies, if any individuals who are regrettably at risk of redundancy apply for a role and meet the minimum essential criteria they will be given priority consideration. We hope that you understand our position on this and that this will not discourage from applying. We cannot predict who, internally, will apply for a role, or whether they will meet the minimum essential criteria. Where no at-risk candidates meet the minimum essential criteria, all applications will be considered as normal.

Supporting Documents

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

At the NSPCC we are on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed organisation for the children, young people and families that we work with, as well as our staff and volunteers. To be trauma-informed is one of the guiding principles that shape and guide our 2021-2031 Strategy. This means understanding the nature of adversity, trauma, and resilience so that we can work towards reducing and preventing further harm and promoting recovery and healing. Coming to work at the NSPCC will provide the opportunity for you to join us in our commitment to becoming a trauma-informed organisation.

NSPCC is that the NSPCC highly embraces,

encourages and promotes diversity and

inclusiveness of staff.

Siobhan Walters / Children's Services

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Associate Head of Strategic Marketing