Responsibilities

• Develop and lead our strategic communications team, ensuring communications are clear, engaging and aligned across colleagues and key stakeholder audiences.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO and senior leaders, shaping messaging that is clear, confident and resonates with diverse audiences.
• Oversee the delivery of the charity’s Annual Report as a flagship corporate communication.
• Lead comms for all-staff events and support organisational priorities.
• Champion storytelling and design that bring our work to life, ensuring communications are both engaging and accessible to a wide range of audiences.
• Oversee our internal communication channels, ensuring they are intuitive, inclusive and effective making it easy for people to find, understand and act on information.
• Provide leadership on risk and sensitive communications, ensuring clear and aligned messaging during complex situations.

Requirements

• Proven experience developing and delivering organisation-wide communication strategies.
• Experience leading high-profile corporate communication programmes and corporate outputs, such as annual reports, events and organisational updates.
• Strong experience advising senior leaders, with the ability to shape clear, confident messaging at Executive level.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Sound understanding of reputation management, including risk and crisis communications.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at senior levels.
• Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information with clarity, sound judgement and diplomacy.
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to connect communications to organisational priorities and outcomes.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• Ability to balance creativity with clarity—bringing ideas to life while keeping messages simple, inclusive and accessible.
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Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.