Senior External Communications Manager

3 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Places for People Full time

We are Places for People, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community. 
We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with can do people, collaborative people and supportive people. Our people live and breathe our values

**More about your role**

We are now looking for a Senior External Communications Manager to join us as part of a newly created role reporting directly to the Head of External Communications. You will be responsible for co-leading with another Senior External Communications Manager in the development and delivery of an effective, proactive and reactive media relations function.

You will manage any news and thought leadership gathered across the Group and liaise with the stakeholders to ensure we are sharing relevant stories and content across different channels in ensuring we are sharing our story in a truly integrated way.

You will also be responsible for responding to press enquiries, including out of office hours, on a split basis with the other Senior External Communications Manager
- For more information, please download our job profile available on our website._**

**More about you**

To be successful in this role you will have an understanding of crisis communications within different sectors ideally from a housing, healthcare or similar background. You will be resilient with a positive outlook on any situation with a one community mindset. Most importantly you will be an excellent communicator with the ability to communicate with people of all levels.

You will have previous management skills of a communication or public relations team and experience of developing and implementing effective public relations communication strategies, plans and campaigns and press enquiries desk.

**The benefits **

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:
- Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
- Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
- Bonus
- Training
- Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

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