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Strategic Communications Consultant
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Strategic Communications Consultant
3 days per week | £24,000 per annum (£40,000 full-time equivalent)
We’re looking for a Strategic Communications Consultant to join our growing agency and work across a portfolio of ambitious B2B organisations.
We help businesses build reputation, shape perception and become known for the things that matter to their growth.
We’re looking for someone who can help us do exactly that.
You’ll need to be curious about businesses and the industries they operate in. You’ll want to understand where a business is going, what it’s trying to achieve and what makes it interesting; then help turn that understanding into clear, effective communications.
You’ll be as comfortable researching and developing ideas as you are writing the communications that bring them to life.
This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to develop their strategic communications skills while working closely with experienced communications professionals and senior client stakeholders.
The role
You’ll work closely with our MD and wider team to support the development and delivery of strategic communications programmes across our client portfolio.
You’ll get underneath the business behind the brief, understanding its objectives, priorities, expertise, challenges and opportunities and help identify the stories, themes and conversations that can strengthen its reputation.
You’ll contribute to the development of narratives, messaging and communications that bring this positioning to life across different channels.
That could mean corporate communications, thought leadership, earned media, campaigns, social content, case studies, expert commentary, video or leadership communications.
The channel comes afterwards. The strategy comes first.
You’ll have the opportunity to work across the full communications process, from research and insight through to ideas, strategy, content and delivery.
What you’ll be doing
- Supporting the development and delivery of strategic communications and reputation programmes for B2B organisations.
- Researching businesses, industries, markets, audiences and wider conversations to uncover useful insights and opportunities.
- Developing an understanding of clients’ commercial objectives and translating them into relevant communications opportunities.
- Helping identify what organisations need to be known for and the conversations they have credibility to lead.
- Supporting the development of positioning, messaging frameworks, narratives and key communications themes.
- Identifying stories, expertise, evidence and proof points that strengthen a client’s positioning.
- Writing high-quality strategic content and communications across client accounts.
- Turning complex, technical or corporate subjects into clear, compelling communications.
- Supporting PR, expert commentary, case studies, campaigns, video and thought leadership activity.
- Developing clear briefs for PR, video and creative teams.
- Ensuring communications across different channels reinforce the same strategic narrative.
- Supporting leadership communications and helping bring senior voices into wider company communications.
- Monitoring communications performance, audience insight and wider industry developments to identify opportunities to improve our approach.
- Building strong and trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
- Supporting client meetings and presentations and communicating ideas clearly and confidently.
- Bringing new ideas, questions and opportunities to client briefs.
- Working collaboratively with the wider team to deliver high-quality work to a consistently high standard.
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Who we’re looking for
You may currently work within strategic communications, corporate communications, PR, reputation, brand strategy or another strategically led communications environment.
You’ll be:
- An excellent writer with a strong instinct for clear, engaging and purposeful communications.
- A strategic thinker who is interested in understanding the bigger picture, not just delivering individual pieces of content.
- Commercially curious and interested in how businesses operate, compete and grow.
- Naturally curious and able to get underneath unfamiliar industries and subjects quickly.
- Good at simplifying complexity and finding the clear story within complicated information.
- Confident working with clients and comfortable communicating with different levels of seniority.
- Proactive, with a natural instinct to spot stories, insights and opportunities.
- Organised and dependable, able to manage multiple projects and priorities.
- Comfortable moving between thinking and doing; from research and strategy through to writing and delivery.
- Collaborative, with a willingness to learn from others and contribute ideas.
- Someone with high standards for both thinking and execution.
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Experience working with B2B organisations or complex industries would be advantageous, but we’re ultimately looking for someone with strong writing skills, intellectual curiosity and the potential to become an outstanding strategic communications practitioner.
Why this role?
This is an opportunity to join a growing agency at an exciting stage and work across a varied portfolio of ambitious B2B organisations.
You’ll get exposure to different industries, senior client stakeholders and a broad range of communications challenges.
Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to develop beyond simply delivering communications and learn how to understand a business, identify what it should be known for and turn that thinking into communications that build reputation and support growth.
If you’re curious about business, passionate about communications and want to develop your strategic thinking alongside your writing, we’d love to hear from you.
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