The contract recruitment specialists
Communications and Engagement Manager
Where: South Wales (homeworking with some travel to site)
Contact length: 6 months
Reference: 7105760
Hourly rate: up to £27 DOE (via umbrella company)
Venn Group is currently recruiting for a Communications and Engagement Manager to join our highly esteemed client in South Wales on an interim basis for 6 months.
Duties will include:
- Developing pro-active media approaches to promote the good work of the organisation with the aim of enhancing and protecting reputations
- Monitoring media activity, to take a proactive and/or reactive media handling stance depending on the issues, including encouraging fair, accurate and balanced reporting and proactive rebuttal of inaccurate media content
- Respond to media enquiries, establishing whether and how the organisation should respond, identifying appropriate spokespeople, arranging interviews, briefings, supporting and accompanying spokespeople, as necessary
- Manage communications projects from end-to-end, including the production of high-quality communications campaigns and packages
- Oversee the day to day management of the website, to ensure it is up to date, meets accessibility and best practice requirements
- Work with programme and project teams to act as the lead specialist for communications and engagement for specific topics as required
- Provide strategic advice and lead and manage the day-to-day delivery of communications and engagement activities and initiatives to deliver highly complex, sensitive and challenging messages which result in behaviour change, proposing changes to communications policies and approaches for programmes/projects
- Advise senior leaders and project teams to identify communications and engagement methods required and develop and implement appropriate delivery plans
- Frequently exercise judgement and make informed decisions on the appropriate communications and engagement around the delivery of priorities
Essential Requirements:
- Relevant Masters’ Degree (e.g. Media, Journalism, PR, Marketing or English) or the equivalent level of knowledge and experience
- Specialist knowledge and experience in Communications, Engagement and involvement, Media handling, Public relations, Developing and running campaigns, Evaluation, Official visits and events, Social media and digital, Crisis communications, Political handling
To apply for this role or to find out about other Communications jobs, please contact Cameron O’Donnell or Riley Garnett on the South West Communications Recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or alternatively email codonnell@venngroup.com