• Hybrid working with up to 80% of your time from home
• Join a purposeful role where you can make a real difference through coordinating charitable giving and volunteering activities
• Develop your marketing and communications skills

Giving back to the community and supporting our people to help good causes is something very important to our team at NFU Mutual. In 2020, we made exciting changes to our community support. This included the creation of an Agency Giving Fund to provide emergency relief during the Pandemic for frontline charities nominated by our Agents in over 295 offices across the UK.

Our Community Engagement programme forms part of our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy and is something we are very proud to continue. The Agency Giving Fund is now in its fourth year of operation providing charitable donations, alongside our NFU Mutual Charitable Trust’s support for national organisations, to help build resilience in our communities. We also partner with organisations to raise awareness of key issues affecting rural lives and livelihoods and offer volunteering and fund-raising support to our employees wishing to make a difference.

To help support our team, we are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Assistant on a 12-month fixed term contract to manage the administration and coordination of our charitable giving initiatives and assist with the promotion of our community-led activities. Duties include undertaking the delivery and co-ordinating the communication of NFU Mutual’s key community support initiatives; the Agency Giving Fund, employee volunteering programme and Community Champions Scheme.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written
• Experience of delivering exceptional customer service
• A real self-starter who is motivated, ambitious and passionate about charitable giving and community support
• An individual who can create rapport and build trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Marketing or communications skills desirable
• Takes great care with the attention to detail, demonstrates integrity and follows due process in all tasks
• Solid experience successfully working with Microsoft Office packages

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary £23,000-£27,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 10% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan – cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering – volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies and proud to be Which? Insurance Brand of the Year 2023. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and are one of only 39 companies across the globe, and the only organisation with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2023 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021 and the Glassdoor Best 50 Workplaces List 2023.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.