Senior Communications Manager
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Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Communications Manager for an initial 5 month contract, with potential to extend, on a rate between £239 – £289/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid working.
Responsibilities:
– Work alongside a communications manager to act as a key source of communications support to the organisation. You will work to proactively increase the promotion, awareness and understanding of sentencing across Scotland using a variety of approaches.
– You will be responsible for helping to produce a comprehensive and wide ranging communications and engagement strategy and to develop key metrics to evaluate and measure the success of this strategy. You will work proactively and positively with the media, justice partners, and other stakeholders to promote awareness among the public as well as practitioners, policymakers and those with experience of the criminal justice system.
– This will involve proactive media and social media campaigns; initiating and drafting news releases and features; and populating the organisation’s blog page. You will be responsible for helping to provide a comprehensive media service including handling media enquiries, tracking relevant news items, reporting on analytics, and being on-call out of hours.
– You will be responsible for contributing to ongoing social media work relating to the various platforms: X, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. This will include creating posts such as ‘Friday Facts’ and other informational or aware-raising material. This will involve designing and creating new resources on an ongoing basis, including social media clips, reels, and other innovative footage or images. This may involve filming interviews with Council members and a creative and pro-active approach to other filming opportunities.
– You will have lead responsibility for website content and expansion including procurement exercises, improving accessibility, and the design and development of educational material such as: lectures and school resources; online presentations; infographic sheets and images; videos; and interactive resources including quizzes and case studies.
– You will have responsibility in planning and running online and in-person events or conferences and fully support Council members with presentations at such events.
– In collaboration with other team members, you will work to identify and progress new opportunities to promote the Council and its work in a variety of ways.
– You will provide support to the Council’s dedicated Communications Committee, helping to set meeting agendas, producing meeting papers, and ensuring actions points are progressed timeously.
You will contribute to relevant research projects, for example a planned national survey looking at public perceptions of sentencing.
– You will form part of the Council’s secretariat team which includes the secretary, legal officer, policy officers, research officers, communications manager, and business manager. Line-managed by the Principal Policy Officer (engagement) you will work with the communications manager to ensure the communications and engagement strategy is fully implemented. You will also work collaboratively with other members of the team and, as such, there will be opportunities to develop wider skills, for example in terms of strategic and financial management.
Essential Skills:
– Experience of leading proactive social media campaigns
– Excellent interpersonal skills to support productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
– Experience and knowledge of website development or content management systems, media handling, events handling, and a solid working experience of social media management
– Ability to proactively shape objectives and manage priorities productively with innovation and creativity
– Excellent oral and written communications and engagement skills including experience of drafting or presenting a wide range of material and resources for the media, social media, stakeholders, and the public
– Ability to offer constructive challenge in a productive way where appropriate, including with senior office bearers
– Ability to work both autonomously and with colleagues to ensure a high volume and range of work is completed timeously
– Political acuity and an understanding of the criminal justice system- Be able to quickly develop strong collaborative relationships within the scrum team, the lab teams, and to our users and stakeholders
Desirable Skills:
– Experience of supporting a committee, or Board or similar
– Project management skills
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Work alongside a communications manager to act as a key source of communications support to the organisation. You will work to proactively increase the promotion, awareness and understanding of sentencing across Scotland using a variety of approaches.
– You will be responsible for helping to produce a comprehensive and wide ranging communications and engagement strategy and to develop key metrics to evaluate and measure the success of this strategy. You will work proactively and positively with the media, justice partners, and other stakeholders to promote awareness among the public as well as practitioners, policymakers and those with experience of the criminal justice system.
– This will involve proactive media and social media campaigns; initiating and drafting news releases and features; and populating the organisation’s blog page. You will be responsible for helping to provide a comprehensive media service including handling media enquiries, tracking relevant news items, reporting on analytics, and being on-call out of hours.
– You will be responsible for contributing to ongoing social media work relating to the various platforms: X, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. This will include creating posts such as ‘Friday Facts’ and other informational or aware-raising material. This will involve designing and creating new resources on an ongoing basis, including social media clips, reels, and other innovative footage or images. This may involve filming interviews with Council members and a creative and pro-active approach to other filming opportunities.
– You will have lead responsibility for website content and expansion including procurement exercises, improving accessibility, and the design and development of educational material such as: lectures and school resources; online presentations; infographic sheets and images; videos; and interactive resources including quizzes and case studies.
– You will have responsibility in planning and running online and in-person events or conferences and fully support Council members with presentations at such events.
– In collaboration with other team members, you will work to identify and progress new opportunities to promote the Council and its work in a variety of ways.
– You will provide support to the Council’s dedicated Communications Committee, helping to set meeting agendas, producing meeting papers, and ensuring actions points are progressed timeously.
You will contribute to relevant research projects, for example a planned national survey looking at public perceptions of sentencing.
– You will form part of the Council’s secretariat team which includes the secretary, legal officer, policy officers, research officers, communications manager, and business manager. Line-managed by the Principal Policy Officer (engagement) you will work with the communications manager to ensure the communications and engagement strategy is fully implemented. You will also work collaboratively with other members of the team and, as such, there will be opportunities to develop wider skills, for example in terms of strategic and financial management.
Essential Skills:
– Experience of leading proactive social media campaigns
– Excellent interpersonal skills to support productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
– Experience and knowledge of website development or content management systems, media handling, events handling, and a solid working experience of social media management
– Ability to proactively shape objectives and manage priorities productively with innovation and creativity
– Excellent oral and written communications and engagement skills including experience of drafting or presenting a wide range of material and resources for the media, social media, stakeholders, and the public
– Ability to offer constructive challenge in a productive way where appropriate, including with senior office bearers
– Ability to work both autonomously and with colleagues to ensure a high volume and range of work is completed timeously
– Political acuity and an understanding of the criminal justice system- Be able to quickly develop strong collaborative relationships within the scrum team, the lab teams, and to our users and stakeholders
Desirable Skills:
– Experience of supporting a committee, or Board or similar
– Project management skills
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.
