Communications Manager

• Impact on Urban Health is part of Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation
• This role involves creating communications for influence

About Our Client

Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation is an independent foundation, investing partnering, engaging and influencing to come at big health challenges from all angles. Through our family of forward-looking organisations, At Impact on Urban Health, part of Guys & St. Thomas' Foundation, we take a place-based approach to improving urban health. This helps us understand how the local environment affects people's health and to find solutions that work in practice. To drive better health in cities, we pay particular attention to the context in which people live and the wider determinants of their health, from finance and employment, to access to nutritious food and air quality. We have four programmes that each focus on one of the following health issues: childhood obesity, multiple longterm conditions, the health effects of air pollution and adolescent mental health, we also have a research and development team to support our innovation within our programmes

Job Description

Reporting to the Head of Communications for Impact on Urban Health, the Communications Manager is responsible for delivering in-depth, insight driven communications around urban health programmes to engage and influence local, national and international audiences.

• Plan and deliver engaging communications tactics that contribute to the impact of our work, focused on informing and influencing key audiences, initially focusing on our childhood obesity programme.
• Lead the development, delivery and evaluation of a targeted communications plan for our childhood obesity programme. Ensure the plan is audience-led and uses a range of communications approaches and channels to amplify our work
• Plan, write and edit content at pace for both own and external channels.
• Build and nurture key relationships within the organisation, and with external partners.
• Working with colleagues, identify communications opportunities to demonstrate the impact of funded projects.
• Project manage communications projects from start to end, ensuring high quality and timely outputs.
• Provide other colleagues with sound advice and support to ensure outstanding communications outputs.
• Proactively seek and secure opportunities, including (but not limited to) speaking platforms, events and targeted media coverage to raise the national and international profile of Impact on Urban Health.

The Successful Applicant

• Able to translate complex ideas into engaging and persuasive communications.
• Has an audience-first mindset, with a passion for creating innovative and engaging communications that engage, inform and influence.
• Brings a strong news sense and ability to identify the stories that are worth telling from a varied and rich pool of opportunities.
• Able to react quickly to external opportunities.
• Thrives working with multiple projects and deadlines.
• Project management experience - managing multiple deadlines and projects.
• Strong copy writing and editing experience.
• Experience in a busy communications environment.
• B2B communications and stakeholder communications experience.
• Experience delivering audience-focused campaigns.

Experience: Desirable

• Experience in a managerial role in communications
• Experience of communicating to influence

What's on Offer

The salary for the Communications Manager is £40-£45K plus great benefits.

This role is based in London and will be based from home and from the office.

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

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How to apply
Email your application to: RochelleGeorge.92071.7383@pageuk.aplitrak.com