Director of Strategic Communications and Brand

Fixed Term Contract

Salary is commensurate with experience

Living Planet Centre Woking, Surrey, GU21 4LL

Career opportunities that are extraordinary as this role with WWF UK are rare indeed. We are implementing a bold new strategy to ensure we are more visible and relevant to the UK public. We want them to be inspired to fund and influence systemic change to save our planet. We now need a Strategic Communications and Brand professional of the highest calibre to take up the challenge of delivering this mission on a fixed term basis.

Join us and you will become a key member of the senior leadership team in the world’s leading independent conservation organisation. As Director of Strategic Communications and Brand you will head integrated strategy development and planning and work to ensure external audiences see us as one strong WWF with a clear mission and inspiring brand.

You will manage and inspire your department to deliver organisational planning on external affairs, set the core narrative and drive our brand reach and engagement as well as maximise communications impact through our partnerships.  We will look to you to drive high awareness and engagement with the brand as well as support high impact campaigns and corporate partnerships. Your remit will be to grow support, mobilise the public and influence political and business audiences.

You will also guide and manage relationships with external agencies, drive creativity and innovation, oversee prioritisation and supervise the evaluation of our communications strategy as well as work with insight team to inform strategy development and execution.

The successful candidate will:

• be an experienced senior leader with a track record motivating and building high performing teams operating at the highest level
• comfortable working at pace and in an integrated way
• be a senior communications professional with strategy experience devising and implementing communications campaigns and activities that support advocacy and fundraising
• have well developed marketing and communications skills and an excellent understanding of performance metrics and KPIs for communications, campaigning and engagement
• be able to foster high-level relationships with our network, across the organisation and with partner organisations
• be comfortable managing external suppliers and influencing stakeholders
• be effective at managing budgets, including the brand budget

Of course, you will be able to demonstrate a commitment to the natural world and WWF’s core mission too.

How to Apply

If you have the skills to contribute to the integrated development of our communications and brand strategy to build a movement in defence of nature, please click on the link and apply via our website. Complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up to date CV with cover letter highlighting what makes you a good fit for us. If you would like to discuss the role further please contact Lisa Lee, Executive Director of Communications on 01483 412456.

Closing Date : 25/08/2019

At WWF-UK we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and there is equality of opportunity. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community and we offer a range of benefits to encourage a work life balance.

Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.