Description
A major global financial services organisation is looking for a Communications Coordinator to join a large global team.
Working within a Global Communications team the role will involve drafting, proof reading and editing content relating to multiple initiatives. Content produced may include, summary project reports, board papers, news articles, bulletins and email communications. The target audience will vary - some content will be technical in nature and designed for a Technology audience. Other content will need to be adjusted for non-Technology departments, and be fit for publishing to the organisation as a whole. As a communications writer you will bring new ideas to the team on how best to deliver communications, help develop the communications calendar, and will ensure that all communications adhere to the style, brand, values and behaviours. You will of course be able to take content that is very technical in nature and specific to the financial services and asset management business, and produce communications that can be accessed by all.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborating and working with other departments and teams globally to create innovative content ideas
- Creating concise, eye-catching, and innovative headlines and body copy
- Consistently brainstorming and collaborating with the communications team for new ideas and strategies
- Conduct interviews on subjects of interest and write creative articles from scratch
- Researching markets and industries to compare and create content that is innovative and original
- Tracking analytics and coming up with new ideas to increase readership
- Contribute to the Communications Strategy
- Engage with stakeholders across the department
- Create innovative content for internal campaigns/programmes to generate traffic to our SharePoint site
- Actively manage and promote newsletters
- Edit content produced by other members of the team
Candidates must have:
- Recent experience within a Communications role
- Experience working within a major global blue chip organisation, ideally within financial services
- Excellent writing skills, as well as the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively
- Creative and innovative thinker
- Confident in producing work across multiple platforms
- The ability to adapt writing style to audience
- The ability to recognise deadlines and consistently meet tight deadlines
- The ability to write accurately, clearly and concisely to a UK commercial standard. Candidates may be asked to complete a written test.
- Strong and proven analysis skills: the ability to research, understand, distil and collate information (obtained verbally and from multiple sources)
- Some experience of graphics and web design skills would be useful
- Good experience of SharePoint 2013
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with people of all levels and to understand and communicate complex messages
- Strong software skills will be required, particularly in Outlook and Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. It is a company within the Allegis group of companies, the fourth largest staffing group in the world, (collectively referred to as the "Allegis Group"). TEKsystems, Aston Carter and Aerotek are trading names of Allegis Group Limited. If you apply, your personal data will be processed as described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Statement. Please note when you give us your data, we will share it within Allegis Group and this involves the transfer of such data outside the European Economic Area, subject to the protections described in the Allegis Group Online Privacy Statement.