Strategic Communications Officer Inside IR35 (REMOTE)

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My client is looking for a Strategic Communications Officer to work on a major programme inside IR35.

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, and other ALB counterparts 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.

Duration: Initial 3 months

Location: Fully Remote

Pay £160pd-£180pd inside IR35

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