NSMC Regional Development and Support Manager (2 posts)

Fixed Term Contract (Initially 2 years with possibility to extend subject to funding)

Salary: £38,000 - £45,000

Would you like to help make people healthier? Could you change behaviour and influence people to give up smoking, lose weight, eat more healthily and cut their alcohol intake? Are you a good all-round communicator? This is your chance to make a difference.

Social marketing is becoming an increasingly effective way to ensure that health messages are understood by the right people helping them to make positive lifestyle changes to improve their health.

The National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC) is looking to appoint two Regional Development and Support Managers to expand Social Marketing across the country. The appointments will work alongside Communications and Public Health teams at the Strategic Health Authorities and Regional Government Offices in the South West and South Central regions.

The successful candidates will work with Primary Care Trust staff to help deliver, develop and evaluate the growing number of Social Marketing programmes targeting priority individuals and populations to improve their lifestyles.

You will have excellent communication skills and be good at dealing with people at all levels. Ideally you will have an understanding of Social Marketing, particularly relating to health improvement and health inequalities, but we will provide on-the-job training for the right candidates.

For more information about these posts please contact Priya Clement on 0207 881 3050 by 28th July 2008. The NSMC, based at the National Consumer Council (NCC) is a strategic partnership between the Department of Health (DH) and the NCC. The NSMC was officially launched in December 2006 and was established to build capacity and skills, allowing people to integrate effective Social Marketing approaches into their work.

To discuss either of these posts contact Priya Clement, HR Recruiter on 020 7881 3050.

For a full job specification or for the option to apply online please visit www.ncc.org.uk clicking on the ‘About us’ section or www.nsmcentre.org.uk clicking on the ‘Your work & skills’ section. Alternatively, please email Priya Clement.

An application form must be filled in if you wish to apply for these posts. Click here to download it.

Closing date for applications is Friday 1st August 2008.

Interviews for South West post will be held on the Friday 22nd of August 2008 in Bristol.

Interviews for South Central post will be held on either the 12th or 13th of August 2008 in Newbury