Communications Advisor

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Communications Advisor

About The Role**
- Take multichannel briefs and deliver on brand, message and budget for key stakeholders across the business
- Work on multi channel external brand campaigns, corporate reports and marketing activity (in print and digital)
- Create content for external and internal audiences; with experience of audience personas, accessibility, and channel management
- Brief and oversee the work of internal and external agencies, such as designers, animators and printers
- Be the brand guardian to raise brand awareness, educate colleagues and protect reputation. Ensure that our brand and identity is adhered to in campaigns and across all communication channels
- Write, edit and proofread copy for external and internal channels. Take the initiative to find stories and consider suitable channels.
- Work on editorial scheduling of content, content creation and storytelling
- Seek out new channels and ways to reach diverse and hard to reach audiences
- Maintain budget control and regular measurement of the ROI of campaigns based on channels
- Ensure accuracy of marketing materials and provide formal sign off if necessary
- Collect and use data to inform new campaigns and the evaluation of existing campaigns
- Regularly update the website, social media and other digital channels
- Support event organisation, materials, and logistics
- Support webinars and podcasts, creating, deploying and measuring
- Develop video content and support other creative ways to deliver key messages and content
- Understand data management and GDPR compliance
- Competitor analysis; support the team with understanding industry changes and progress
- Systems and process management - ensuring processes are followed and developed to meet the needs of the team and business
- Keep abreast of current trends in marketing and maintain awareness of social media and digital channels

This role will also support corporate reporting; planning, content gathering, copy writing, data validation and proofreading
- Support design and layouts including imagery and photography
- Act as the liaison between the function and external reporting agency from quotation process through to production; delivering on time and budget
- Produce engaging online content, turning report messages into digital and social content
- Support report planning with key stakeholders, understand sign off processes and success measures

**About You**

We're looking for individuals with the following skills & experience:

- Educated to degree level with demonstrable professional development.
- Professional Marketing, Communications, or equivalent professional qualification
- A strong communicator with experience of delivering multichannel marketing campaigns
- Able to manage and prioritise complex, competing communication issues - maintaining high standards and alignment with business strategy at pace and with mínimal guidance
- Analytical thinker with the ability to draw together and synthesise many different information sources and come to logical conclusions
- Articulate interpersonal communication skills across all media and in all contexts, with true gravitas and an easy manner when working with senior stakeholders
- Excellent written communication skills. Good visual sense and design awareness
- Experienced in working with design agencies and printers
- High level of understanding of the utilities sector
- Highly articulate and persuasive communicator, across all media
- Project Management skills; as a manager of multiple marketing communications campaigns, your ability to prioritise and manage to tight timescales is essential
- Proven experience of working within a multi-stakeholder environment. Ability to explain marketing concepts and guide the business towards successful communications outcomes
- Proven track record in delivering measurable multichannel marketing communications campaigns, delivering ROI for both B2B and B2C
- Respect for others and an understanding of working with diverse and hard to reach audience groups both internally and externally
- Well organised individual able to manage a diverse and complex workload

**What's In It For You**

We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:

- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects delivered through our Training Schools, our Learning and Development team and through funded learning options
- Pension Scheme - double match up to 12%
- Opportunity to earn an annual bonus
- Generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance and healthcare packages, plus much more
- Flexible working requests supported from first day - #FlexFrom1st
- My Offers membership card - offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- Support with financial wellbeing
- Access to our Occupational Health Services
- Paid 2 volunteering days per year
- Gym Membership

We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexiblestart/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.