Senior Communications Strategist

4 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Department for Culture, Media & Sport Full time
Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced communications professional to join the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as a Senior Communications Strategist. The successful candidate will have a strong background in delivering press and media strategies in a news team or press office role, with sound judgement and the ability to lead.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement the media strategy to communicate the aims and activities of the organisation.
  • Manage the press office function and a small press team to deliver an accurate, high-quality media relations service.
  • Provide expert communications advice to senior colleagues.
  • Provide editorial control across the team, ensuring appropriate and consistent content and messaging.
  • Utilise a range of media channels to deliver strategic and creative communications plans that are fully evaluated to ensure they reach our audiences.
  • Lead the development and delivery of the internal communications strategy for the organisation.
  • Participate in the out of hours duty rota.
Person Specification
  • A proven track record of delivering creative and targeted media strategies that use a range of different channels.
  • A proven track record of delivering a timely and accurate service to the media and leading responses to reactive news enquiries.
  • Experience of advising senior people on all aspects of communications and media handling.
  • Experience in effective line and/or team management.
  • Evidence of driving creativity and innovation and supporting new communications approaches.
  • Evidence of using evaluation to inform their media work.
Desirable Skills
  • Experience of working in sports administration or financial regulation.
  • Proven experience of delivering against organisational priorities and managing change.
Behaviours
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
Technical Skills
  • Ideas - Government Communication Service Technical Skills
  • Implementation - Government Communication Service Technical Skills

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a talented team and contribute to the development of the organisation's communications strategy. If you are a motivated and experienced communications professional looking for a new challenge, please apply for this exciting opportunity.



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