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Strategic Communications Manager, Ref 18/086

Employer
The National Lottery Community Fund
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£34,000 - £41,000 per annum + generous benefits
Closing date
31 Aug 2018

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Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent

About us

The Big Lottery Fund (the Fund) distributes around £650 million of National Lottery Funding across the UK each year supporting health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects. We are fortunate to be able to support around 12,000 projects each year with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi million pound programmes. By funding good causes, the Fund makes a real difference to local communities all over England.

The Fund is committed to putting people in the lead – it is our official vision and our top priority. To that end we are taking significant steps to embrace a user-centred, iterative culture of digital development at the heart of how we work.

The Role

Are you a great story-teller? Do you have the commitment, vision and skills to help us build our profile and showcase the work of the amazing community projects we fund? Would you relish the chance to tell the inspiring story of how National Lottery good cause money is helping communities across the UK to deliver the changes they want to see?

We are looking for an ambitious and proactive communications professional to join our busy strategic communications team in London as a manager.

You will be responsible for protecting and enhancing the reputation of the Fund. You’ll play a key role in the running of our busy press office while also helping to develop and deliver integrated communications campaigns in line with organisational priorities.

Using your excellent people, time and project management skills you will get the most out of our team of communications officers

You will lead in the setting of team targets and in measuring the impact of activity to inform future strategies.

Our team takes an account management approach to communications across the Fund’s departments. This means that you will operate across the organisation to ensure that strategic communications supports the Fund’s ambitions and delivers a consistent and coherent narrative whether at a national, regional or local level.

You will be comfortable working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and will be a key player in helping to ensure our strategic communications activity is well-planned and joined up. 

A strong and supportive team player, you will work closely with colleagues across Engagement – including digital, social media, brand and Public Affairs. You will help to ensure activity is targeted and fully integrated, making best use of our platforms to successfully reach our audiences. 

Confident and unflappable, you’ll also be called upon to provide expert guidance on risk and crisis communications management, including developing a cross channel responsive strategy.

You’ll also need to work within the Fund’s policies and procedures and in a way that is in line with our vision and principles.

The Person

As a manager you’ll need to demonstrate that you have the following:

  • Highly developed writing, editing and communications skills
  • Experience of working with local and national media, building relationships, actively selling in news stories  and handling media enquiries
  • The ability to build positive relationships and networks, both internally and externally, to support the delivery of the Fund’s objectives
  • Previous line management experience, or experience of mentoring staff
  • A strong understanding of public policy and the policy context in which the Fund operates, with demonstrable experience of interpreting complex policy ideas and objectives into effective communications activity with clear and concise messages
  • Strategic communications thinking and experience, with the ability to set strategies based on audience analysis and understanding of communication and engagement channels
  • The ability to shape communication activities around influencing objectives and target audiences
  • Experience of using digital and social channels to engage audiences
  • Developed planning and resource management skills
  • An ambitious and proactive approach to communications planning which supports story-telling and influence
  • The ability to engage in horizon scanning in relation to the context in which we operate and understanding of policy imperatives – with a strong and considered response in terms of communications approaches that strengthen our position and that of grant-holders
  • Strong issues management skills, e.g. handing sensitive issues with media/ other external stakeholder audiences

Closing date:  31 August 2018 at 11.59 pm

First stage interviews will be held week commencing 3 September 2018

The Fund is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are committed to increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities and will respond positively to meet individual needs throughout the recruitment process. Once in post, the Fund will ensure that any appropriate reasonable adjustments to our workplace are made, in order to support colleagues with any form of disability.

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