Creative Content Specialist / Designer

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire (Hybrid/Smart Working)

Salary £30,685 - £32,000 Per Annum Plus Benefits

Permanent, Full Time

37 hours per week (Monday – Friday, flexibility negotiable and part-time hours considered)

Thrive Homes is seeking a passionate Creative Content Specialist to develop high-impact content that engages and inspires both internal and external audiences.

In this dynamic role, you’ll be instrumental in shaping the future by developing internal training materials that empower our team. You'll also be our storytelling hero, weaving captivating messages across every platform – social media, websites, emails, blogs, news pieces, and case studies.

Thrive is proud to deliver flexibility through our SMART working policy. This allows you to take full control of your productivity by offering a choice between working at our state-of-the-art offices, at home or out and anywhere that sparks your creativity.

Other Responsibilities:

• Interpret stakeholder briefs into creative concepts, content and training materials that engage internal and external audiences.
• Create, own, and update engaging content like how-to guides, explainer videos, eLearning modules, and infographics to educate users on technical systems across the business.
• Conduct audience research to understand learning styles and behaviours that leverage content development.
• Use data-driven insights to inform content strategies and optimise performance.
• Optimise written content to captivate audiences, with application of SEO.
• Monitor industry trends, competitor activities and audience preferences to identify opportunities for content creation and differentiation.
• Use data-driven insights to inform content strategies and optimise performance.
• Provide guidance to internal teams on best practice for content creation, storytelling and brand voice to ensure consistency across all communications.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively, ensuring alignment with business project plans and the central marketing calendar.

Requirements:

• Have demonstrable experience of working in a content development-based role with a portfolio of creative content.
• Excellent written, design, video recording and editing skills for creating multimedia content.
• Proficiency in using Adobe Creative Suite (Premier Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Captivate) and other editing tools like Canva.
• Skilled in video recording and photography.
• A working knowledge of copyright legislation.

Benefits:

Thrive’s Top 10!

• Annual Leave - 25 days per year increasing by length of service (up to 30 days).
• Buy or sell annual leave
• Generous family friendly provision
• Pension - Thrive Homes will pay double your contribution (up to 10%).
• Discretionary Bonus
• Life assurance - a payment of 3x your salary
• Health Cash Plan - facility to claim cashback for dental, optical and physiotherapy costs, alongside wellness services.
• Virtual GP Service (available 24/7)
• Wellbeing reward scheme (earn vouchers through a health app)
• A range of engagement activities aimed at building team morale, supporting both physical and mental health, and celebrating all things that make us different!

All roles at Thrive are subject to a basic DBS check.

Closing date: 10th June

Interviews to be confirmed

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.

About Thrive

Thrive Homes is an award-winning housing association with a strong track record and ambitious plans. Thrive exists to provide good quality affordable homes and services enabling the development of communities where people enjoy living. We manage over 5,000 properties and are continuing to build new homes each year.

Thrive’s Approach

Thrive is an exciting place to work. We challenge ourselves and others to deliver results and think differently. We share positive experiences and messages, with trust and respect at the core of every relationship. Our leaders adopt a coaching and mentoring approach - enabling and empowering others to deliver. We embrace change and encourage a strong focus on positive outcomes. We value agile working arrangements from our offices in Apsley, Hertfordshire and we pride ourselves on looking on looking after our colleagues by offering progressive careers and a full range of modern benefits, as we continue to grow as an organisation and aim to attract the very best people. 

Thrive homes are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This commitment is at the core of our understanding the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. We actively encourage all applicants that are suitable for the role, from diverse career paths and backgrounds and from all sections of the community. 

As committed members of Inclusive Employers and a Disability Confident Committed employer, we remain steadfast to a fair recruitment process. If you have any accessibility needs and require reasonable adjustment, please contact us.