Description
Communications Officer- Remote Opportunity- ASAP to 29 October per day via an umbrella- Inscope of IR35SmartSourcing are currently recruiting for a highly skilled Communications Officer to join a prestigious Government sector client. Ideally looking for someone with Public sector or Public affairs experience. We are looking for someone who is a good all-rounders and have the ability to use a variety of different communication skills.
The successful applicant will need to combine, being an all-rounder with a level of specialist knowledge in their chosen communications specialism.
Key Responsibilities:
-Work with Corporate Communications, Insight, and Policy Officers to develop activities with strategic communication components.
-Support Head of Strategy and Marketing and colleagues on best practices as it relates to strategic communications.
-Provide technical direction to strategic communications-based activities, including approving deliverables and assisting in evaluating results.
-Be able to work directly with government to identify and develop potential strategic communications activities.
-Support the evaluation of strategic communications initiatives.
-Work with External Communications Officers to develop a strategy for project communications, including reporting and social media usage.
Essential Skills and Experience:
-Experience in a role delivering stakeholder relationship management, providing support and organising stakeholder events.
-Good project management skills.
-Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
-Ability to effectively assess stakeholder influence and sentiment using analytical tools and techniques.
-Good understanding of how alliances with partners can be formed and benefits can be delivered.
-Some understanding of how government operates at the parliamentary and ministerial department level.
-Excellent time management skills, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales for self and others.
-Outstanding personal leadership, able to advise at all levels of the organisation with confidence and credibility.
-Ability to listen effectively both to critics to feedback corporate intelligence and to supporters to develop advocacy.
-Awareness of the main stakeholder channels (digital/social) for listening and communicating.
Proposed Interview Dates: W/C 02 August 2021.
Looking to get someone on board quickly after. For further information please apply online in the first instance. Deadline for this opportunity is Tuesday 27th July 2021
- SmartSourcing provides services as an Employment Agency and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of age, race, religion, disability, age, gender or sexual orientation.