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Interim Strategic Communications Lead
Location: London
Length: 3 months initially
IR35 Status: Inside
Type: Hybrid working
On behalf of our client, we are looking to recruit an experienced Interim Strategic Communications Lead to sit within the senior management team and oversee the entire environmental change brief.
The key components of the role:
- To lead on the strategic campaign planning and delivery in support of at least two council’s main corporate priorities, providing key account support to senior stakeholders through regular meetings and updates, responding to change and offering challenge where appropriate
- Manage multiple projects and subsequent officers to deliver high quality, engaging content and campaigns across a range of traditional and digital channels including the corporate website, microsites, social media and print publications
- Act as the main point of contact for the executive councillor member leading on environmental change
- To create clear and informed briefs for the communications and content team, ensuring that campaign activity is grounded sufficiently in insight; those appropriate messages and creative are developed in support; that delivery is planned and delivered across the appropriate channels/stakeholders to budget and deadline; and that activity is properly evaluated at the end of the campaign
- Provide a strategic overview of all projects under the environmental remit; including but not limited to Net-Zero, recycling, green spaces, wellbeing and parking
- Ensure that activity is appropriately targeted and positioned to engage relevant audiences and encourages behaviour change where applicable
Experience and skills required:
- Demonstrable experience in a similar role within a local authority
- Experience of covering key environmental council campaigns
- Strategic oversight of previous communications campaigns
- Significant experience of managing campaigns
- Experience of developing behavioural change campaigns with a focus on environmental impact
If you have experience to match the requirements of the Interim roles, or if you would like more information on the role, please contact Jake Powell, Niki Holdich and Matthew Ring on
020 7557 7667 and email your CV tolocalgov@venngroup.com
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