STUDIO / PROJECT MANAGER   JOB SPECIFICATION   

Reports to: Senior Communications Manager  Contract: Permanent   Benefits: Unlimited annual leave, Healthcare cash plan, 6% pension contribution, discounted gym membership  Based: London Waterloo  Salary: Competitive   Work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration    

ABOUT CALM  The Campaign Against Living Miserably, CALM, is leading a movement against suicide, currently the single  

biggest cause of death for men under 45 in the UK. On average, 16 people take their own life each day. Our  

free, confidential, and anonymous helpline and webchat service operates every day of the year, 5pm to  

midnight, for anyone in the UK who is feeling down or depressed. Through our campaigns and engagement  

activities, CALM aims to change culture so that people feel able to seek help before they reach a point of  

crisis, and family and friends feel better able to support each other.  

 

ABOUT THE ROLE  Our ambition at CALM is to continue to develop and deliver award-winning, highly impactful, engaging  

communications. As one of our greatest assets in the fight to stop suicide, we have built a team capable  

of bravely communicating in a new way to a massively growing audience. The successful applicant will  

be a born do-er, with a thirst to organise, meet deadlines and solve problems.   

 

We have set up an agency-like studio to enable us to produce a wide range of creative and  

communication work in-house. We’re looking for someone to manage this studio and some of the  

projects that sit within our busy marketing and communications team.   

 

There are many competing priorities and projects from across the organisation and beyond, we’re  

looking for someone who is diligent enough to manage these, plan these and find ways of meeting  

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deadlines, whilst maintaining a personable approach to lead and nurture the most creatively e�ective  

work possible from the team.   

 

 

WHO YOU ARE  - Someone who likes to get shit done   

- You’ll know what it’s like to work in a busy, vibrant o�ce  

- A real team player - able to manage your own work alongside the team deliverables  

- Adept at managing and building great professional relationships   

- You’ll be great at understanding briefs, asking the right questions and relaying this understanding to  

help shape great work  

 

KEY FOCUS  - Being a pivotal player in a great team, making things tick  

- Work with all areas of the organisation to manage comms team workflow, production and time,  

balancing competing priorities internally and externally  

- Enabling people to do amazing things for CALM, empowering them to do so with great e�ect   

- Managing other projects as required, adapting to di�erent outputs but maintaining a focus and ability  

to ensure great and e�ective delivery of ambitious projects

   

RESPONSIBILITIES  

- Be the main point of contact for some external partnerships, ensuring knowledge of all deadlines and  

responsibilities of various team members, resulting in bomb-proof delivery  

- Take the lead when planning studio time amongst team, ensuring productivity (along with creativity  

and intellectual rigour) is maximised   

- Take briefings from other members of other teams, asking the right questions and managing  

expectations as well as pushing for great work  

- Really get to understand the priorities of the business and its stakeholders to ensure the best work is  

produced on time.  

- Manage additional freelancers / agencies when work is produced out of house   

- Support team and organisation on partnerships, talent outreach, event management, research,  

campaigns and more  

- Take the lead on varied projects, being the client / partners main point of contact, ensuring  

expectations are managed and met as well as ensuring projects are well communicated internally,  

have relevant buy in and are well delivered   

- Be adaptable and dependable to plan projects properly, foreseeing roadblocks and ensuring the right  

processes are in place to deliver   

 

 

- General assistance at events where CALM has a presence, occasionally on evenings and  

weekends.   

 HOW TO APPLY  Please submit your application here: https://www.tfaforms.com/4677804 by 15:00 13th October 2019.