Senior Communications Specialist

7 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom CIPD Full time

Senior Communications Specialist

Up to £45,000 + benefits

Fixed Term Contract - 6 months

35 hours per week (happy to talk flexible working)

Wimbledon (hybrid working)
We're the CIPD — the professional body for HR and people development.

We are the voice of a worldwide community of nearly 160,000 members committed to championing better work and working lives.

We've been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years, helping members build their professional expertise and organisations build their HR and leadership capability.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us.

We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days' holiday with an option to buy and sell days, £125 personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme.


The Role


As Communications Specialist, you will develop and deliver engaging campaigns and communications that support the CIPD's customer positions and raise awareness of key topics that affect work and working lives.

You will lead on project managing communications that strengthen the CIPD's brand reputation and maximise our external impact and voice.

The Communications Specialist will work closely with a range of stakeholders and partners so the ability to build strong relationships is key.

This is an integral role within the Communications & Campaigns team and an exciting time to join the CIPD.

The world of work is changing and the CIPD is at the heart of important debates on key workplace issues.

Our brand is evolving, and you will have an opportunity to play a key role in ensuring we have a clear and consistent narrative in our communications.


What You'll Be Doing

  • Developing and executing communications that raise the CIPD's voice and impact on key work and working lives topics including inclusion and diversity, wellbeing, skills and technology.
  • Leading on the overall project management of communication campaigns from start to finish.
  • Working closely with the wider Brand & Communications team and external agencies to deliver campaigns.
  • Liaise with content, social media, press and stakeholder engagement teams to deliver outputs.
  • Using data and insights to evaluate communication success, ensuring benchmarks and learnings are reflected in future work.
  • Leading creative brainstorms by facilitating discussions to help generate ideas.
  • Measuring the effectiveness of our communications and present success to the business.
  • Ensuring communication outputs are delivered to time and budget.
  • Planning, developing and managing regular communications with CIPD members.
  • Writing and editing newsletters, news articles and blogs.
  • Championing CIPD house style and work with colleagues across the business to ensure it is reflected across all our content and channels.
  • Supporting the daytoday activities of the Communication Managers as required.

What You'll Need To Be Successful

  • Experience in a similar level role
  • Demonstrable experience in developing and delivering multichannel communication strategies.
  • Experienced writing copy for a wide range of external communication channels e.g. newsletters, articles, website copy, social media and press releases etc.
  • Versatile and competent communicator with experience in leading meetings, delivering presentations and liaising with colleagues, including senior management.
  • Experienced in working with external partners e.g. agencies, charities and corporate partners.
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to develop new and engaging ways to communicate with customer groups.
  • Experience creating compelling copy for a wide range of audiences and communications channels.
  • Analytical skills and experience reviewing data
  • Proven ability to measure and evaluate communications activity/campaigns outputs and impact.
  • Highly organised individual with ability to handle multiple demands and deadlines.

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, then click APPLY.



CIPD:

valuing everyone as an individual

The CIPD define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual - we value all our employees, customers and clients as people.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.


We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.



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