- Pay Rate:
Competitive Market Rate
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 6 months
- London
QAD/1314/3108
Role: Strategic Communications Officer
Contract Length: Anticipated 6 months
Location: Hybrid: London 2-3 days a week
Pay Rate: Competitive Market Rate
Our client is looking to hire a Strategic Communications Officer for approximately 6 months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the implementation of the communications strategy, including updating core communications assets and channels such as briefing packs, newsletters, virtual platform events and our website.
- Provide strategic communications consultation services for the internal team, including soliciting, collating and reporting feedback from partners and stakeholders to inform workstreams engagement approach and develop a forward-looking programme.
- Liaise and engage with the departmental embeds and communications colleagues to ensure clear and consistent communications across the unit and its partner and develop opportunities to contribute on wider communication platforms.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong communications expertise, with knowledge and experience of the cross national security landscape
- Previous experience in developing and improving communications assets and implementing these.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to understand the developing strategic context and implications to desired outcomes.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships with a wide range of organisations and people and using those relationships to achieve desired outcomes.
- Experience of working in central government is beneficial
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Security Clearance: SC highly desirable; candidates with active SC clearance will be fast-tracked.
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