WaterAid

Communications Manager – Strategic Partnerships

WaterAid

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £44,168 - £46,493 per year

About the role

  • Manage the delivery of WaterAid’s corporate partnership marketing communications strategy to maximise influence and income-raising potential from the private sector.
  • Lead a cross-functional delivery group and collaborate across WaterAid’s Communications and Fundraising directorate to deliver integrated corporate advocacy and partner communications activities, primarily targeting a private sector audience.
  • Act as the primary communications contact for partnership managers, advising on communications opportunities, strategic messaging, content and tactics that deliver value for WaterAid and partners.
  • Champion in-sight led and on-brand messaging and creative which resonates with target audiences.
  • Advise on best use of project budget to meet objectives.
  • Monitor and evaluate the impact of communications activity, fostering a proactive and positive approach to learning and improvement within delivery teams.
  • Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience in developing, leading and executing high impact communications strategies for corporate partnerships, ideally for a non-profit organisation.
  • Expertise in business-to-business or corporate advocacy communications, and an understanding of trends in corporate sustainability and social responsibility.
  • Experience working in, or in partnership with, the private sector, advising on communications approaches to engage a range of audiences and delivering communications plans with shared objectives.
  • Highly collaborative and able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Excellent time management skills, able to drive projects forward while navigating competing priorities.
  • Ability to generate and develop creative and innovative ideas, with a good eye for brand, design, film and photography.
  • Experience of international development issues and/or working in the voluntary sector in a communications role preferred.
Benefits
  • 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
  • Option to buy an extra 5 days’ annual leave
  • Employer pension contribution up to 10 %
  • Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
  • Season ticket loan
  • Free annual eye tests
  • ‘Give as you Earn’ charitable giving scheme
  • Enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption/surrogacy, shared parental and paternity)
  • Sabbaticals
  • One paid volunteer day each year
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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