Strategic Media and Communications Specialist

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom National Grid Full time
Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Media and Campaigns Manager to join our Corporate Affairs team within National Grid Ventures.

This role is based out of our Strand or Warwick office, with a requirement to be in the office at least two days a week. We're happy to discuss additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that could make this job work for you.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work with colleagues in media teams across the National Grid divisions to source and capitalize upon proactive media opportunities.
  • Manage all reactive media handling, including horizon scanning, issues management, and taking ownership for lines to take/key messages.
  • Build National Grid's reputation and influence key stakeholders externally through strategic corporate campaigns.
  • Monitor and measure National Grid's external media successes on issues and campaigns, and help identify lessons learned.
  • Work across the business to proactively develop and/or shape media lines and in line with overall company narrative and advising the wider business on the style, tone, and content of messaging.
  • Work with the NGV Corporate Affairs team to proactively advise senior leaders on political intelligence and insight that will impact the business to support business development.
  • Work effectively within a highly matrixed environment with reporting lines into the NGV business units and the National Grid Corporate Affairs team.
  • Maintain a network of external contacts, including journalists and other stakeholders, to promote company interests and proactively share intelligence from this activity back into the business.
  • Support the delivery of corporate strategic campaigns, working with Corporate Communications & Brand to tailor message development and stakeholder mapping and engagement.
  • Contribute to the running of the Corporate Affairs function, supporting corporate affairs activity grid, and fully utilizing project and stakeholder management tools to ensure that duplication and overlap of activities with other parts of the function are minimized.
  • Anticipate and identify current and future strategic issues and trends of commercial interest, working closely with the wider Corporate Affairs, Business Development, IR, and Corporate Strategy teams, and proactively provide this insight and intelligence to senior leaders to help shape business commercial decisions.
Requirements
  • Education to degree level in a relevant discipline, with demonstrable professional development.
  • Track record of building and maintaining positive and constructive relationships with journalists of different types.
  • Proven experience of successful campaigning at a senior level within a regulated, multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Desirable experience and knowledge of key external industry and non-industry stakeholders that relate to and impact the energy sector.
  • Experience of successfully working and influencing internal stakeholders in a large complex organization, working in a collaborative manner to plan and deliver integrated campaigns.
  • Able to prioritize and manage competing issues, working with and through others – maintaining high and consistent standards and alignment with National Grid, working at pace and with minimal guidance.
  • Understanding of the role of digital in delivering campaigns, providing intelligence and insights, anticipating, identifying, and managing issues and risks, and assessing outcomes and impacts.
  • Highly organized and strong attention to detail.
  • Results-oriented, able to manage timely delivery in a challenging environment, and able to deal with rapid change, complexity, and ambiguity.
  • Ability to deliver results through others.

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