Marketing and Campaigns Coordinator
Employment Type: Full time maternity cover for 12 months
Location: London Bridge / hybrid – 2 days in the London office, 3 days at home
Reporting to: Marketing Manager
Direct Reports: None
About In Kind Direct
For nearly 30 years, In Kind Direct has been at the forefront of product redistribution in the UK, ensuring that no one misses out on life’s essentials. Founded by HM The King, we partner with leading brands and retailers to channel everyday goods—hygiene items, household products, toys, clothing and more—to over 6,000 community groups. Every week, we help more than half a million people in need. Yet, poverty and exclusion remain as key challenges within the UK, and we’re on a mission to reach even more people with more products.
Our values
We work with kindness, togetherness and integrity, driving innovation.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced and proactive Marketing and Campaign Coordinator, to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract, who will be integral to delivering our 5 year strategy to raise awareness of hygiene poverty and ensure In Kind Direct is the thought leader on hygiene poverty within the sector. They will play a key role in planning and implementation of our new strategy, supporting the Marketing Manager, focusing on coordinating brand / partner campaigns throughout the year, supporting on larger scale integrated campaigns and being the day to day contact for our social media agency- ensuring our channels are performing well and co-creating new content ideas. Whether a period poverty campaign with Bodyform, or a learning through play event with Lego, this role will be involved in truly exciting front line activity.
The role is based out of our London Bridge office. We operate a hybrid working practice and expect the individual to be in the office for 2 days and working from home three days a week.
You will understand how to connect the purpose and priorities of our partners with those of In Kind Direct’s – You will be creative and share our vision for storytelling, finding opportunities to share the positive, hopeful stories from end users within our large network of charitable organisations.
You will understand how to identify different audiences and target communications. Crucially, you will have experience coordinating and multitasking, managing different projects with different stakeholders at any given time. You will be used to working to and upholding brand guidelines and tone of voice.
Key Responsibilities:
Partner Campaigns
Work closely with the Marketing Manager, Corporate Partner Team and relevant corporate partners to plan and execute several joint campaigns throughout the year.
- Build strong working relationship with internal and external teams
- Provide regular campaign updates
- Attend relevant corporate partner meetings both virtually and in person to plan activity
- Create campaign reports after each joint campaign to highlight impact, metrics, and learnings for presenting back to the wider team.
- Create new webpages and blog posts to help with SEO.
Social Media and CRM
- Work closely with the social media agency to provide briefs for social content, reviewing and signing off social content daily, and creating ad hoc social content using Canva.
- Write briefs for user generated social content to support our storytelling objective.
- Build and schedule monthly newsletters to our network and any ad hoc email marketing required using Dotdigital, working closely with the eCommerce Coordinator.
PR Support
- Proof read press releases and draft spokesperson quotes for PR ahead of campaign launches.
- Work closely with our PR agency and Partnerships and Impact Team to source and secure regional quotes and spokespeople to support PR opportunities.
- Create engaging PowerPoint decks for the wider team to use for upcoming campaigns to garner support from our partners.
Daily and weekly tasks
- Ensuring social media is briefed well in advance and content is signed off using Airtable planning tool.
- Leading on partner / brand campaigns with support from the Marketing Manager
- Supporting Marketing Manager on a wide range of activities and campaigns
- Design ad hoc collateral like leaflets or posters for events.
- Ensuring campaign trackers are up to date.
- Attending internal meetings to keep team updated on wider marketing activities
- Acting as brand guardian by reviewing marketing material on behalf of the wider organisation, to ensure tone of voice and brand language is adhered to
- Identifying sector awards which we can apply for to help raise the charity profile
- Day to day responsibility for data protection within the Marketing team
To succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:
To succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:
- Well organised and able to prioritise a busy workload
- Good communication skills, comfortable speaking and presenting to different audiences
- Action focused and able to get things done at pace to a high quality
- Strong copywriting and written communication skills
- Canva or Illustrator design skills (or similar)
- A collaborative working style, adaptable to different team styles
- Ability to take responsibility for agreed objectives and targets
- Experience of developing presentations, reports and analytics using Powerpoint and Excel
- Demonstrable interest in the charity sector, corporate responsibility, social enterprise and In Kind Direct’s area of work
- Aligned with IKD values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation
Working at In Kind Direct
Our team receives excellent training and development, and team benefits include an interest-free travel loan, volunteering days, 28 days holiday each year (including 3 days between Christmas and New Year, excluding public holidays) and a generous pension scheme entitlement. We are an equal opportunity employer and support our team to succeed in their roles through training, adaptations, flexibility in working, access to our Employee Assistance Platform, and a range of policies to support people in their personal, family and care responsibilities.
We are an accredited Great Place to Work – and have additionally been recognised as a Great Place to Work amongst small Charities and a Great Place to work for Women.
We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to our values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation. We are on an organisational journey to achieving our EDI vision and welcome any questions about our progress and aspirations. We especially welcome applications from anyone with lived experience of being on a low income or working with smaller charitable organisations. We will meet all reasonable expenses and will support anyone invited to interview to be able to participate.
How to apply
The deadline for applying for this role is 26th September 2025. We ask all applicants to complete an Equal Opportunities Monitoring form, either through our website or our online application process.
To apply, please submit your CV and a brief supporting statement (max. 500 words) through our online application portal.
Applications submitted without a supporting statement may not be considered.
1st-stage interviews will take place on 1st and 2nd October
2nd stage interviews will take place from w/c 6th October
Corporate Partnerships Executive
Title: Corporate Partnerships Executive
Contract: Perm- Full time Monday-Friday
Location: London hybrid
Reporting to: Head of Business Development
Salary: £29,000
About In Kind Direct
For nearly 30 years, In Kind Direct has been at the forefront of product redistribution in the UK, ensuring that no one misses out on life’s essentials. Founded by HM The King, we partner with leading brands and retailers to channel everyday goods—hygiene items, household products, toys, clothing and more—to over 6,000 community groups. Every week, we help more than half a million people in need. Yet, poverty and exclusion remain as key challenges within the UK, and we’re on a mission to reach even more people with more products.
Our values
We work with kindness, togetherness and integrity, driving innovation.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a talented individual to support the work of our high achieving and target driven Corporate Partnerships team and ambitious five-year growth strategy. Working closely with the Head of Business Development and Head of Corporate Partnerships this role will serve as a vital administrative and operational support function within the Corporate Partnerships (CP) team enabling them to focus their energy on cultivating and strengthening key partner relationships and work closely across our ecommerce, network and marketing functions to bring impact to life. They will also get the opportunity to learn about charity/corporate partnerships, manage their own smaller scale corporate relationships and new business opportunities with targets against them.
The aim is to enable growth and efficiencies across the corporate partnerships team to unlock more product donations from our corporate partners, which directly support the charitable organisations in our network.
This is a varied and interesting role, and a great development opportunity for someone looking to start their career in the charity sector.
Crucially, you will have experience coordinating and multitasking, managing different projects with different stakeholders at any given time. This really is a chance to make real change and impact the lives of so many people.
The role is based out of our London Bridge office. We operate a hybrid working practice and expect the individual to be in the office a minimum of 2 x days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
• Supporting bulk email outreach to smaller scale donors as part of campaign engagement
• Responsible for generating circa £100k per annum of income through product and/or fundraising donations.
• Monitoring the inbound donations inbox—declining unsuitable offers and directing relevant requests to the appropriate team member.
• Leading Corporate Partnerships donation pipeline meetings and maintaining an accurate, up-to-date pipeline based on weekly/monthly incoming donations.
• Keeping the fundraising pipeline up to date, ensuring financial donations are recorded accurately and flagging outstanding items for follow-up.
• Assisting with performance tracking and related reporting for campaigns and ongoing activity.
• Supporting the collection, oversight, and outreach needed for quotes and feedback used in impact reports.
• Developing tailored case studies that demonstrate In Kind Direct’s impact across different stakeholder groups.
• Coordinating bespoke requests for content creation, volunteer opportunities and charity visits for Corporate Partners.
• Managing CRM housekeeping to ensure data accuracy and effective team use.
• Coordinating calendar management, meeting invitations, and recurring Corporate Partnerships team project meetings.
• Providing ad hoc administrative support to the Corporate Partnerships team and Commercial Director as needed.
• Ensuring products are correctly identifiable and searchable within the catalogue, including verifying descriptions and defect information.
• Identifying relevant external events that could unlock new business opportunities.
To succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:
Skills and knowledge; to succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:
• Strong administrative skills, ideally experience of using databases
• Excellent written communication skills
• Well organised and able to prioritise a busy workload
• Strong communication skills, comfortable speaking and presenting to different audiences
• Ability to build relationships and ability to work with a variety of stakeholders
• A collaborative working style, adaptable to different team styles
• Ability to take responsibility for agreed objectives and targets
• Experience of developing presentations, reports and analytics using PowerPoint and Excel
• Some experience with CRM databases
• Demonstrable interest in the charity sector, corporate responsibility, social enterprise and In Kind Direct’s area of work
• Aligned with IKD values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation
Why In Kind Direct?
As well as having the chance to work in a charity that helps thousands of people each year, our team benefits include volunteering days, 28 days holiday each year including 3 days between Christmas and New Year, excluding public holidays), an interest-free travel loan, and a generous pension scheme entitlement. We are an equal opportunity employer and support our team to succeed in their roles through training, adaptations, flexibility in working, access to our Employee Assistance Platform, and a range of policies to support people in their personal, family and care responsibilities.
We are an accredited Great Place to Work – and have additionally been recognised as a Great Place to Work amongst small Charities and a Great Place to work for Women.
We seek to challenge discrimination and are committed to our values of kindness, togetherness, integrity, and innovation. We are on an organisational journey to achieving our EDI vision and welcome any questions about our progress and aspirations.
We especially welcome applications from anyone with lived experience of being on a low income or working with smaller charitable organisations.
We will meet all reasonable expenses that will support anyone invited to interview to be able to participate.
If there’s anything such as a disability or other circumstance that might affect your ability to take part in any stage of the application or interview process, please don’t hesitate to contact us at people@inkinddirect.org. We’ll do our best to provide any support or adjustments you may need to take part fully and comfortably. Sharing this information will not affect your application in any way.
How to apply
The deadline for applying for this role is 9am on Monday 5th January 2026. We ask all applicants to complete an Equal Opportunities Monitoring form, either through our website or our online application process.
To apply, please submit your CV and a brief supporting statement (max. 500 words) through our online application portal. Please note, supporting statement is required for all applications.
Applications submitted without a supporting statement may not be considered.
• 1st-stage interviews will take place week commencing 12th January 2026
• 2nd stage interviews will take place from week commencing 19th January 2026