Communications Coordinator

Are you passionate about news and the media and looking for a fantastic communications role where you can learn and develop as part of a motivated team of experts? Do you love to write, enjoy hearing people’s stories and are highly organised? Are you excited at the prospect of working for a renowned, well-loved national brand? If so, this could be the role for you. 

Salary

The salary for this position is £32,974 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

• We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Communications Coordinator to be part of GOSH Charity’s busy and ambitious Communications team.
• This permanent, full-time role is vital to the successful functioning of the Communications team. We are looking for someone who is highly organised and who will enjoy working as part of a fast-paced team.
• This role sits mainly within the press team (known internally as the External Communications team) and Family Stories team, but will also provide vital administrative support to the overall Communications directorate.
• Day to day responsibilities include working closely with GOSH patients and families to help tell their inspiring stories and helping to deliver impactful press coverage on key campaigns, working closely with the rest of the press team to develop skills in this area.
• The role will also involve ensuring the smooth running of the Communications team as a whole, through administrative support, coordination of meetings and events and enhancing collaboration across teams.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We're looking for a highly efficient organiser who is enthusiastic and willing to get stuck into the team’s busy day-to-day work. A natural relationship builder with a keen eye for detail, you’ll be comfortable interacting with people who work both inside and outside the charity and be able to prioritise your time, balancing it between essential administrative support and specific project work.  

Skills required:

Skills required:

• Demonstrable interest in the news and media
• Worked in a Communications role or had other relevant experience in Communications
• Previous experience of working in an office environment, demonstrating experience of managing and maintaining administrative systems to support the smooth running of the team
• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of personal data
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor content for a variety of channels and audiences
• Attention to detail and providing high-quality and precise work, including ability to work well under pressure
• The ability to work independently, using initiative and sound judgement
• Strong time management skills and ability to prioritise workload, planning and organising daily and weekly activities in order to meet deadlines
• The ability to use initiative and understanding of when to ask for support
• Preferably, experience of working in a not-for-profit organisation, though this is not essential.

How to apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing Date:25th March 2026

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Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status. 

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org

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