Digital Project Manager (вакансія неактивна)

Start date: w/c 13 March
Job type: 4 or 5 days a week (your choice), permanent
Salary: up to $2,000/month FTE
Application deadline: 20 February 2023, but we may appoint sooner for the right candidate.

About the job

We are looking for a Digital Project Manager to support one of our digital and creative team on web-related projects across both our core policy-focused business and our secondary agency-focused business.

This will involve supporting on the initial strategy work (user research, information architecture development, etc.) through wireframing and design, and into development.

The goal from our side is to coach you into a place where you are managing and leading these projects from start to finish, and starting to own client relationships. You’ll work closely with our teams in both London and Lviv, Ukraine.

You’ll be someone who can quickly build relationships (clients and colleagues), has a keen eye for detail, and is able to anticipate issues before they become problems. You’ll have a sense of urgency about you, and not be afraid to muck in to the most mundane of jobs.

You’ll also know what you are talking about when it comes to website development. While we don’t expect you to be a developer, we are looking for someone that understands dev chat and knows WordPress well. You will need to be able to translate client requirements into specific developer tasks, and vice versa, be able to translate a technical consideration into language a client can engage with.

You should be able to answer like these questions (without having to Google them):

• What is ACF?
• How straightforward would it be for a developer to install Yoast, and why would you?
• What is CSS minifying and why would you do it?

Working at Cast From Clay is about more than just client work. You’ll be someone with ideas. Someone who thinks outside the box.

At a philosophical level, you’ll care about democracy and be hungry to change the way policy experts perceive their role in society. You won’t be someone that is content with the status quo, whether your politics are on the right or the left.

We couldn’t care less what your political views are, as long as you have some. It is important that you are comfortable being challenged on your politics — we debate constantly.

What we are looking for

Must haves:

• Excellent English;
• 3+ years of digital project management experience;
• An intermediate knowledge of WordPress;
• Understanding of HTML, CSS and PHP;
• Good knowledge of Google Analytics;
• Experience working in an agency or other fast-paced environment;
• Demonstrable client management skills;
• Experience coordinating and working with dev teams;
• Good writing skills and eye for design;
• Diligent, proactive, excellent attention to detail, a strong work ethic;
• Ability to meet deadlines whilst not letting the ball drop on other projects;
• Working self-sufficiently and as part of a team.

Nice to have:

• Interest in current affairs and desire to challenge status quo;
• Degree in communications, advertising, marketing or journalism;
• Project management software or ticketing (Monday, Trello, Asana, Zendesk or similar)
• SEO and PPC;
• Testing and QA experience;
• Interest in emerging AI technologies (ChatGPT, Midjourney etc).

About us

We’re a London and Lviv-based communications consultancy that helps public policy experts shape conversations that strengthen democracy.

We want to see robust democracies, with people better engaged with the decisions and policies that affect them. Using data, strategy and design, we build powerful campaigns that give big ideas the impact they deserve.

We work with NGOs, think tanks, and university research centres to better connect policy expertise to the audiences that matter — to craft policy ideas into human-shaped stories, and breathe life into them.

We are active in our support for Ukraine in light of Russia’s invasion. We’ve raised and donated some £20,000 for Ukraine, and our colleagues have appeared on BBC, ITV, and on various websites (here for example) to talk about their experiences and help shape the narrative towards Ukraine in the UK. Our CEO is currently training to cycle the 2,000km fromLondon to Lviv in 14 days in May 2023, hoping to raise another £20,000 that will fund landmine removal in the east. You can read more about that here.

What we offer

• Competitive salary with an opportunity to grow;
• All expenses annual work trip to London (when possible);
• Flexible working hours and opportunity to work in an office one day per week;
• Friendly, supportive working environment, and budget for team activities;
• Company laptop and $200 contribution towards kitting out your home workspace;
• An annual professional development allowance to support your growth;
• 25 paid days off per year plus Ukraine bank holidays;
• Enhanced parental leave after you’ve been with us for 18 months.

How to apply

Please email your CV with a cover letter and links to your 3 most recent projects to [email protected].

If you’d like to have an informal chat about the role, please get in touch with [email protected].