Strategic Comms Officer - £200p/d Inside IR35 - Fully Remote

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Overall Purpose:

The client is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The benefits that their work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated communicator who is enthusiastic about external communications to make a positive impact in citizens lives.

We are currently recruiting for a Strategic Communications Officer in our External Communications Team in our Corporate Communications Branch.

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 support to strategic communications-based activities, including approving deliverables and assisting in evaluating results.

*Be able to work directly with government, and other arm's length body (ALB) counterparts to identify and develop potential strategic communications activities.

*Support the evaluation of strategic communications initiatives.

*Work across the External Communications Officers team to develop a strategy for project communications, including reporting and social media usage.

*Any other duties as part of external communications activity (campaigns, PR and media, external affairs) as required by team demands and priorities.

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.

*Awareness of the main stakeholder channels (digital / social) for listening and communicating.

*A team player with a collaborative and "can-do" attitude.

*Experience in a public affairs role is desirable.

Ways of Working:

This is a working from home position, with an expectation that the successful candidate will be able to work full time, from 9am to 5pm. We also expect the successful candidate will be able to work from a personal, windows device, from which an official desktop experience (following a security check) can be accessed via the Citrix Access Gateway. We are also expecting the use of a personal smart phone.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.