Senior Communications Manager

Senior Communications Manager – 6 Months – Inside IR35 – Edinburgh

Day Rate – Circa £280

Harvey Nash’s public sector client are currently looking to recruit a Senior Communications Manager to join their team based in Edinburgh for an initial 6 month period.

As a Senior Communications Manager, you will work alongside a Communications Manager to act as a key source of communications support to the organisation. You will work to proactively increase the promotion, awareness and understanding of the organisation across Scotland using a variety of approaches.

Main Duties

• You will be responsible for helping to produce a comprehensive and wide ranging communications and engagement strategy and to develop key metrics to evaluate and measure the success of this strategy. You will work proactively and positively with the media, justice partners, and other stakeholders to promote awareness among the public as well as practitioners, and policymakers.
• This will involve proactive media and social media campaigns; initiating and drafting news releases and features; and populating the organisations blog page. You will be responsible for helping to provide a comprehensive media service including handling media enquiries, tracking relevant news items, reporting on analytics, and being on-call out of hours.
• You will be responsible for contributing to ongoing social media work relating to the organisations various platforms: X, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. This will include creating posts such as ‘Friday Facts’ and other informational or aware-raising material. This will involve designing and creating new resources on an ongoing basis, including social media clips, reels, and other innovative footage or images. This may involve filming interviews with members and a creative and pro-active approach to other filming opportunities.
• You will have lead responsibility for website content and expansion including procurement exercises, improving accessibility, and the design and development of educational material such as: lectures and school resources; online presentations; infographic sheets and images; videos; and interactive resources including quizzes and case studies.
• You will have responsibility in planning and running online and in-person events or conferences and fully support members with presentations at such events.
• In collaboration with other team members, you will work to identify and progress new opportunities to promote the organisation and its work in a variety of ways.
• You will provide support to the organisations edicated Communications Committee, helping to set meeting agendas, producing meeting papers, and ensuring actions points are progressed timeously.

Essential skills:

• Excellent oral and written communications and engagement skills including experience of drafting or presenting a wide range of material and resources for the media, social media, stakeholders, and the public
• Excellent interpersonal skills to support productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
• Ability to offer constructive challenge in a productive way where appropriate, including with senior office bearers
• Ability to work both autonomously and with colleagues to ensure a high volume and range of work is completed timeously
• Experience and knowledge of website development or content management systems, media handling, events handling, and a solid working experience of social media management
• Ability to proactively shape objectives and manage priorities productively with innovation and creativity
• Political acuity and an understanding of the criminal justice system

Desirable Skills:

• experience of supporting a committee, or Board or similar
• project management skills

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.