Editorial/Communications Manager - Contract Opportunity

You will be expected to contribute to the clients strategy:
- Build corporate awareness, reputation and relationships with stakeholders
- Build reputation, relationships and support growth with existing and potential customers

Your responsibility:

* As part of the marketing and communications team, proactively support the development of ideas and create powerful material that effectively communicates the clients story, value proposition and key messages to targeted audiences.
* Provide editorial support and guidance to media relations, stakeholder and marketing communications initiatives that require high-level written outputs. Assist with ensuring synergistic messaging and brand consistency across all communications channels.
* Produce written communications across all channels for CEO and executive staff, including articles, speech writing, presentations and regular communications to high-level audiences.
* Ensure relevant economic, governmental, industry, or policy issues are reflected in communications, and maintain and disseminate a core messaging database of updates, including communicable/signed-off statistics, for staff to communicate to stakeholders.
* Take primary responsibility for development of the Intranet and staff surveys, as well as regular written communications to staff and staff engagement; to be done in conjunction with HR and support from head of digital communications.
* In conjunction with the head of digital communications, directly contribute to and help coordinate relevant staff input to website or social media channels and provide editorial training.
* Set and apply industry standards for departmental editorial outputs: content, style, consistency and tone according to communication vehicle, and provide guidance as necessary.
* Working with the head of media relations, write articles for national and international press and Whitehall outlets as appropriate, and potentially customer or stakeholder channels.
* Maintain a corporate communications/reputation threats risk register, and ensure appropriate supporting communications material is prepared for management.
* Measure quality and effectiveness of outputs with media monitoring analytics, stakeholder feedback and research and senior staff satisfaction surveys.

Skills required:

* Impeccable writing skills across all writing disciplines and proven ability to translate complicated concepts and technical subjects into creative and compelling language and messaging for all audiences. * Experience, credibility and people skills to deal at the senior level both within the department and across all stakeholder groups..
* Creative, proactive, detail-oriented and highly organised; entrepreneurial in attitude, self-motivated and opportunistic.
* Strong team player with experience of working in multi-disciplinary environment and understanding of marketing.

Location: London
Length of contract: 3 months initially
Start date: ASAP

Spring Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Spring Technology is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.