Communications Consultant
Location: These are hybrid roles working from home and our office in Cheltenham
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: Dependent on Experience
As a Change Consultancy, at Clarion Insight we help organisations, teams and individuals to successfully embrace complex business change, by putting people at the centre of everything we do.
We are seeking a talented and motivated Communications Consultant to join our dynamic team working primarily with clients in the National Security and Defence domains, which is dynamic, fast paced and extremely rewarding.
About The Role
As part of our Strategic & Creative Communications team, you will contribute to providing comprehensive communications and engagement support to our clients from design, to development, to delivery. You will be working on a combination of client and Clarion corporate work, focused on delivering communications which have a measurable behavioural audience impact aligned to change and transformation priorities. We want our communications to be impactful, creative and based on a real insight into our audiences’ behaviour, opinions and motivations.
Key Responsibilities
Working with client stakeholders to develop and implement effective communications plans, with the support of senior Communications colleagues.
Collaborating with Visual and Graphic Designers and our Communications and Content Executive to create content. This includes: branding / identity, publications, website and SharePoint content, briefs, presentations, animations, and other collateral that communicates clients’ activities, products and/or services.
Maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally.
Supporting the Strategic & Creative Comms team to deliver Clarion’s internal and external communications plans.
Supporting the planning and coordinating events as required.
Evaluating communications outcomes and analysing data for continuous improvement.
About You
We are looking for an individual who brings knowledge, skills and experience ideally in change and transformation, in some or all of the following capabilities:
has experience working in a communications role, ideally within the context of business change and transformation.
has experience in stakeholder engagement, and comfortable communicating and engaging with stakeholders at all levels of an organisation.
is able to develop C-SMART (Challenging, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound) communication objectives, and understands communications insight and evaluation methodology.
can develop and deliver communications plans, with support from senior colleagues.
writes clear, engaging copy on complex subjects, often to tight deadlines.
knows how to brief design teams, and work collaboratively with change and communications colleagues to deliver results.
can think creatively, looking for new and innovative ways to engage audiences.
We recognise that the level of experience you have in any of these capabilities will vary, and at Clarion we also have a desire to support our employees to remain current, be business focused and develop their change consultancy knowledge and skills.
About Us
Clarion Insight is a specialist consultancy focusing on improving organisational, team and individual performance through the transformation of relationships and ways of working. We have an enviable track record of successful delivery of both small and large-scale change and transformation programmes in exacting and sensitive environments.
We believe that the greatest competitive advantage for any business is in the quality of their people and how they work with each other. That’s why people are at the heart of everything we do. We are passionate about helping clients improve the quality of their relationships at all levels of the organisation.
We adopt these same principles for our own teams. Our core values of Trust, Tolerance and Teamwork are at the heart of how we work. We encourage and empower our people to lead, take responsibility, and make optimal use of their skills and expertise - all whilst working together as one integrated team.
Clearance
SC clearance is preferable and DV clearance would be ideal.
All successful applicants must be eligible & willing to obtain an SC clearance and be prepared to progress this to eDV level. For further information on the criteria to obtain this please visit - United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Application
If you are interested and want to join a dynamic and growing team, please apply through our Careers page. Successful candidates will be interviewed by video call followed up with a second interview at our offices in Cheltenham. We will look to accommodate any individual requirements to ensure our selection process is inclusive.
Our values and company ethos are very important to us, and we strive to live these through everything we do. We are committed to equality of opportunity for our team and encourage all applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion / belief and marriage / civil partnership.