Job Advert: New roles at INTO Head Office

The Irish National Teacher’s Organisation is currently recruiting for two roles:

• Senior Official in the Communications Section.
• Senior Official in the Finance, Membership and Operations Section.

Details of the positions are detailed below.

Role: Senior Official (Communications Section) 

INTO’s communications team ensures members and employees are kept up to date with union developments, promotes the voice of the membership externally and delivers high-profile campaigns and events. The Senior official will have a strategic role developing, managing and implementing an organisational communications strategy for INTO in the Republic of Ireland.

This is a senior position reporting to the Assistant General Secretary/ Director of Communications.

This key strategic role will involve:

• Managing, developing and editing the production of a wide range of internal communications, including INTO’s magazine InTouch.
• Developing, driving and monitoring INTO’s online presence across a range of platforms and overseeing the production of content for online communication.
• Promoting a positive image of the INTO and the primary teaching profession in the media locally and nationally.
• Creating informative and interesting press releases, press kits, newsletters, and related marketing materials.
• Public affairs monitoring and engagement through fostering and developing positive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Producing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual activity reports for the communications section.
• Managing communications aspects of major INTO events and campaigns.
• Managing personnel assigned in the communications section to ensure successful delivery of objectives.
• Such other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the General Secretary.

The successful candidate will have:

• A strong academic background and appropriate professional experience.
• Proven success in writing in a variety of media with the ability to convey complex information in a user-friendly way.
• Strong analytical, reporting and project management skills and ability to work on own initiative.
• Strong social media skills.
• People management experience.
• A thorough understanding of current issues in education and industrial relations.
• Ability to manage a diverse team and to collaborate across the Organisation.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of external and internal communications management.
• A result driven approach with evidence of being innovative, energetic and flexible in advancing strategy.

The successful appointee will enter into a detailed contract of employment with INTO.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning 23 March 2020. Letter of application (max. 2 pages) and curriculum vitae, together with the names and contact details of two referees, should be submitted by email only by 12.00p.m. on Friday, 13 March 2020 to gen.sec@into.ie

General Terms and Conditions are available on request from bmchale@into.ie

Role: Senior Official (Finance, Membership and Operations Section)

The Senior Official position, in the Finance, Membership and Operations  Section of INTO Head Office will have a diverse role operating across Finance, Pensions, Procurement, Facilities, IT and project management. The successful candidate will work closely with the Assistant General Secretary/Director of Finance  and Operations in delivering the Section objectives.

This key role will involve:

• Internal Pensions administration relative to INTO staff pension schemes.
• Finance, including involvement in reporting, preparation of financial statements, internal/external audits, budgets and management accounts in INTO.
• Risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Management of procurement of INTO Services.
• Property projects and facilities management.
• Project management.
• Operating/managing across diverse teams.
• Such other operational functions as the General Secretary may assign.

The successful candidate will have:

• A strong academic background and appropriate professional experience
• Strong IT skills.
• A proven track record in writing/revising in a variety of media with the ability to convey complex information in a user-friendly way.
• Strong analytical, reporting and project management skills and the ability to work on their own initiative.
• The ability to manage a diverse team and to collaborate across the Organisation.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• A results-driven approach with evidence of being innovative, energetic and flexible in advancing strategy.

Interviews will be held during the week beginning 23 March 2020. Letter of application (max. 2 pages) and curriculum vitae, together with the names and contact details of two referees, should be submitted by email only by 12.00p.m. on Friday, 13 March 2020 to gen.sec@into.ie.

General Terms and Conditions are available on request from bmchale@into.ie