Senior Strategic Communications Manager
Marie Curie UK
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £45,000 - £50,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Shape how the charity tells its story to the world.
- Ensure messages, campaigns, and content align with mission and resonate with audiences.
- Work across the organisation to turn complex priorities into compelling narratives.
- Guide teams to communicate with clarity, consistency, and purpose.
- Ensure external communications are cohesive, impactful, and aligned with organisational strategy.
- Develop, manage and optimise Marie Curie’s external communication strategy.
- Lead strategic communications planning, translating organisational goals into actionable, audience-led communications plans.
- Manage the Strategic Communications Manager and lead matrix teams on key projects.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in a senior external communications role.
- Strong track record of delivering integrated, high-impact strategic communication campaigns from start to finish.
- Experience translating organisational strategy into compelling structured key messages for our audiences.
- Experience advising and influencing leadership and stakeholders at all organisational levels.
- Proven track record of leading projects across teams and managing agency partnerships.
- Confident and persuasive communicator with excellent writing, planning, and leadership skills.
- Highly capable of prioritising tasks and managing multiple projects and campaigns to meet deadlines.
- Experience managing agencies and overseeing high-profile campaigns.
- Confident working in changing environments.
- Passion for purposeful communication that makes a measurable difference.
- Experience working in a charity, not-for-profit, or health-related organisation (desirable).
Benefits
- Flexible working.
- 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays).
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%).
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets.
- Continuous professional development opportunities.
- Industry-leading training programmes.
- Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes.
- Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits.
- Access to Blue Light Card membership.
- Subsidised Eye Care
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
strategic communicationscampaign managementcontent developmentmessage translationproject managementstakeholder engagementagency managementnarrative developmentcommunications planningaudience analysis
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationplanningprioritizationpersuasivenessclarityconsistencyinfluenceadaptabilitycollaboration