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.