Salary: £53,500 (non-negotiable)
Hours: Full-time – 35 hours per week (includes one hour paid hour weekly for wellbeing; flexible working available)
Contract: 12 months
Location: Centre for Mental Health offices and remote
Closing date: 17 July 2025 at 09:00
Centre for Mental Health is seeking a dynamic and experienced communications professional to join our team as Associate Director of Communications (Maternity Cover), starting in September 2025 for 12 months. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to lead our communications work, ensuring all of our written and visual outputs support our mission to drive mental health equality.
As the lead on our media, publications, website, social media and marketing work, you’ll manage the development and delivery of impactful content that engages our key audiences and supports our influencing, marketing and fundraising goals. You’ll oversee the production of high-quality publications, infographics, and multimedia materials. You will coordinate our publications and content schedules, overseeing the launch of a range of content to maximise impact and meet the needs of funders and partners.
You’ll be part of the Centre’s Leadership Team, helping to shape the organisation’s strategic direction, working on organisation-wide improvements and championing equality and anti-racism.
The role will supervise a small communications team, providing support and leadership to ensure excellence across our communications. It involves liaising with a broad range of stakeholders including funders, partners, people with lived experience, suppliers and wider sector colleagues.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with outstanding communication skills, a strong track record in media and digital communications, and a deep understanding of the mental health landscape.
You will have a breadth of experience across digital and traditional communication channels and a keen eye for detail. We’re looking for someone with strong project management skills, capable of balancing competing priorities and deadlines to deliver the high-quality resources and analysis which define the Centre’s reputation.
If you’re passionate about mental health and skilled in strategic communications, we want to hear from you. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the conversation around mental health and drive change for those who need it most.
Centre for Mental Health wishes to increase our diversity and we particularly welcome applications from people from racialised communities and LGBTQ+ applicants. All our shortlisting is done without reference to personal details.
What we offer
We offer wellbeing support including generous annual leave, flexible working, and a comprehensive employee assistance programme. We support your career development with relevant training and offer up to 12% employer pension contributions.
How to apply
CharityJob is hosting our recruitment, using an anonymised shortlisting process: apply here.
If you have any questions, or require this information in a more accessible format, please contact Alethea Joshi at alethea.joshi@centreformentalhealth.org.uk
The deadline for applications is 17 July 2025 at 09:00.
Interviews will be held on 28 and 29 July.
Please note that we may choose to close this job earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. Early applications are encouraged.
