Pb6b, Assistant Director External Relations, Grade

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Charity Commission Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 358461**Salary**:

- £68,355- A London weighting allowance of £4245 is payable in addition to the advertised salary range.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CC - Communications and Policy**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- City of Westminster, London (region), SW1H 9AJAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Are you a senior press and public affairs professional, able to communicate sensitive issues to achieve understanding and impact?Do you know how to successfully engage with stakeholders, government and the media to ensure an organisation’s position is well understood?
- Are you motivated by communicating complex, sensitive and high profile issues about a vital area of national life?
- Can you lead a team to deliver joined up communications across media, political, stakeholder and events?

You will work directly with the Chair, CEO, Directors, Board and senior leaders across the organisation in order to project the Commission’s visibility and influence. You will develop and communicate our messages to ensure that we are clear and confident about our role and take a lead role in managing the organisation’s reputation. This is important both to achieving impact from our policy and case work and to achieving progress in delivering our new strategy. You will have a strong personal role as one of the key ‘faces’ of the Commission, critically influencing our relationship with important stakeholders. In this role, you will have a significant impact on external awareness and understanding of the organisation and its work and therefore on public trust, ultimately supporting charities’ ability to thrive.

Reporting to the Director of Communications & Policy and a member of the Directorate’s senior leadership team, you will occupy a key leadership role for the Charity Commission as we build our wider visibility as an expert, regulator that is fair, balanced and independent, to support the achievement of our strategic objectives. You will have diverse areas of responsibility - representing the organisation and influencing relationships across the media, Parliament and key stakeholders, increasing the extent and quality of our engagement and proactively shaping and driving media coverage on often contentious and complex issues, to grow our impact and reputation and extend our reach.

To succeed in this role, you will be expert in your field in order to lead and shape the External Affairs, Media and Events teams’ activities; driving and monitoring performance across key internal and external stakeholders, including the media and Parliament. You will be politically aware, understanding the external operating environment and have a direct and close working relationship with the Chair and Executive to maximise the organisation’s impact and reputation.

**Job description**:

- Innovating how we use our expert voice confidently as independent regulator, to influence outcomes in the charity sector and beyond, in order to influence behaviour grow confidence in the sector.
- Ownership of the Commission’s narrative, ensuring it supports the Commission’s strategy, remains relevant and impactful, and is consistently delivered to external audiences. Ensuring high quality speechwriting support for the Chair and Chief Executive, both through the effective leadership of other experts and playing a hands-on personal role.
- Ensuring strong, personal and internal relationships are built at senior levels and engaging actively with regulatory and other colleagues to ensure that collaborative approaches are agreed and reputational issues are fully considered, amplifying the Commission’s overall impact. This will involve considerable, complex negotiation and influencing skills, to effectively bridge divergent and conflicting views. Outlining, developing and coordinating engagement with key stakeholders, playing a substantive personal role, influencing at senior level.
- Acting as an influential and credible senior spokesperson for the Commission, with the media (both in print and on broadcast interviews), and with senior stakeholders (to CEO level with sector and sector bodies, and to MP, senior government official and sometimes Ministerial level).
- Overseeing expertise within the team to develop external positions, targeting priority outlets and journalists, and proactively creating, shaping and placing media stories, articles and interviews which help support the achievement of our strategy and position the Commission as a fair, balanced and independent regulator. Ensuring media activity effectively supports Commission products, campaigns, events and reports, that the press office anticipates and plans effec

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