Digital Communications Specialist

Permanent Full Time

Closing Date: Monday 28 April 2025

Interviews: WC 5 May 2025

Second Interview: WC12 May 2025

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the UKs independent regulator of advertising across all media. Together with the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) who write the Advertising Codes we work to make sure ads are responsible. The ASAs Communications team promotes the ASA and the regulatory system to a wide range of audiences including the public the advertising industry government and the media.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Communications Specialist to join us working alongside our Digital Communications Executive the wider communications team and across the organisation to build our online presence through regular meaningful content that engages our key stakeholders and helps us achieve our ambitious targets to raise awareness of the ASA and the work we do.

You will support the ASA and CAP by identifying and leading developments in our digital communication capabilities policies processes and standards taking ownership of our digital communications strategy and leading an exciting project to redesign/build our website planned for 2026/2027.

About you

We are looking for a dynamic digital communications professional with indepth experience of working in website management and digital marketing either inhouse or through agency work.

You will have experience of managing complex websites and using digital communications channels includingwebsites email search social media and database marketingto reach and engage target audiences. Youll be up to date with trends and technologies and ever looking to develop our digital output accordingly.

Project management organisational and administrative skills are essential and you will have the ability to collaborate and work effectively across all levels of the organisation includingwith seniormanagement. You will alsohave a customer focussed approach and strong relationship management skills.

What can we offer you

We are a welcoming open friendly and collaborative organisation. We offer a flexible hybridworking environment (working 40 of your time per month from our office in Shoreditch London).

Holiday entitlement starts at 25 days and builds up to 30 days after five years service with an option to buy or sell up to five days each year. We offer an extensive range of benefits including Life Assurance interest free season ticket loan membership of our contributory pension scheme childcare vouchers and membership of our Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential support and advice. We also have a number of other flexible benefits such as dental insurance and critical illness cover which you can choose to buy annually through our flexible benefits provider.

We are committed to supporting individual career development and all vacancies are advertised internally to give staff the opportunity to develop their careers.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age disability gender reassignment gender identity or expression marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity race (including colour nationality ethnic and national origin) religion or belief sex or sexual orientation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community so if you would like an interesting and varied career in media regulation and have the passion and drive to help us achieve our goal to make sure every UK ad is a responsible ad we look forward to hearing from you soon.

INDHIGH

We are the UKs independent frontline regulator of ads by legitimate businesses and other organisations in all media including online. We are authoritative and influential on ad regulation; the centre of expertise. The rules we administer and enforce are contained in the UK Advertising Codes written by the industry Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP). To help maintain our independence from the industry that funds us we are primarily funded at arms length by the Advertising Standards Boards of Finance(Asbof). Together the ASA CAP and Asbof make up the ASA system.

Our purpose is to make sure ads are responsible. Ourambition is to make sure every UK ad is a responsible ad. Our values are to be proactive collaborative accountable transparent and decisive. We want external stakeholders to find us to be: independent in administering the Codes; evidencebased proportionate targeted and consistent; and reflective of society not a social engineer.

We are passionate about what we do because responsible ads are good for people good for society and good for business. They entertain and inform us helping us to choose products and services. They fund the media sport and culture we all enjoy. They can be a force for social good encouraging us to contribute to good causes make more responsible choices and stay safe. And they help deliver competition and power theeconomy. By making sure ads are responsible we protect people from being misled harmed or offended helping them feel more confident in the ads they see and hear.