Senior Consultant – Strategic Communications, Advocacy
Future Advocacy
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £45,000 - £60,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead and contribute to client projects
- Design and implement strategic communications strategies
- Drive forward media relations:
- Spot news hooks and craft stories that land and secure media coverage
- Work on high-impact opinion pieces with our champions
- Secure broadcast opportunities for key spokespeople
- Develop and execute UK and global government relations strategies, and meet with decision-makers
- Help to maintain extremely high writing quality across the organisation including on social media
- Line-manage team members, supporting their growth, development, and impact while fostering a positive, collaborative, and empowering team environment
- Oversee our monitoring platform subscriptions and support colleagues who regularly use them
- Contribute to business development, including writing proposals and budgets for new projects
- Contribute to modelling and strengthening our culture
- Undertaking additional tasks as needed
Requirements
- At least 5 - 10 years of proven success in strategic communications
- A flair for storytelling, with proven excellent media relations skills and connections with UK and/or international media
- A sharp political nose and strong political literacy, with an excellent grasp of key UK political actors, power dynamics and how narratives shift.
- Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, in a fast-paced environment, while also being a generous and collaborative team member
- Enthusiasm, flexibility, and ability to manage competing priorities
- Strong capability to represent the organisation to high-level individuals and clients
- Experience in line managing and nurturing team members
- Experience in effectively managing projects
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent
- Nice to Have: Experience in designing and delivering government relations and advocacy strategies - including engaging with decision makers
- Experience working in international development
- Experience using media monitoring tools
- Proven experience in managing client relationships, acting as a trusted point of contact and ensuring work is delivered to a consistently high standard
- Experience in, and enthusiasm for, using AI tools ethically for advocacy, campaigns, communications, and research
Benefits
- 35 days leave per year (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Right to work from any location for up to 25 working days per year
- Discretionary annual bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
strategic communicationsmedia relationsstorytellingwriting proposalsproject managementgovernment relations strategiesadvocacy strategiesclient relationship managementmedia monitoring toolsAI tools for advocacy
Soft skills
verbal communicationteam collaborationflexibilityenthusiasmindependenceleadershipnurturing team membershigh writing qualitypositive team environmentability to manage competing priorities
Certifications
undergraduate degree