BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS TEAM
For over a decade, the Behavioural Insights Team and Nesta have worked at the frontier of social change and in December 2021, BIT was acquired by Nesta. This role is part of a group communications team employed by Nesta that supports both organisations, but which is solely focused on BIT.
About the role
As the Senior Manager for Strategic Communications at BIT, you will use marketing and communications to plan and deliver activities that are directly in support of BIT’s social impact and business goals. Please note that this role will be formally employed by Nesta and subject to Nesta terms and conditions.
You will provide professional guidance to BIT on all marketing and communications issues, and act as a trusted partner to senior staff across the organisation. This might, for example, mean working strategically with our business areas to establish how marketing and communications can support their growth and development priorities, then managing the delivery of communications activities that support their goals. Or it might mean advising our global leadership team on how best to build BIT’s brand through a programme of thought leadership activity and coordinating the rollout of thought leadership campaigns.
This is a demanding role, using communications to deliver on a range of objectives, from generating leads for new business in target sectors to targeting policymakers with insights and recommendations from BIT’s research. It combines overseeing the tactical delivery of communications activities with the strategic planning and development needed for impactful communications.
Key to success is the ability to form strong and productive working relationships with people across BIT, Nesta and beyond; an approach that combines strategic thinking with the creativity and flexibility to move fast and jump on opportunities for communications as and when they present themselves; the organisational skills needed to stay abreast of all the work happening across BIT globally and project manage communications campaigns effectively; the insight to recognise what is newsworthy and help the organisation leverage its content to best effect; and the gravitas required to land expert strategic communications advice among senior leaders.
Responsibilities:
Skills and experience
What Nesta offer
Salary: £60.5k-£73k plus array of benefits, including private medical insurance, dental insurance, the ability to buy and sell annual leave, eyecare vouchers and more
Location: This role is based in Blackfriars, London, hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of two days in the office
Term: Permanent
Hours: This is a full-time role but we offer a range of flexible working arrangements and encourage our people to take advantage of them. Many do.
Reports to: Group Executive Director for Communications
Line management: None (Dotted line responsibility for the Communications Executive, BIT)
Making an application
To apply for this role, please submit your application before 8:00am on the 13th of November 2023.
Interviews will take place w/c the 20th of November 2023.
At Nesta, we believe that a diverse workforce leads to an organisation that is more innovative, more creative and gets better results.
We want our workforce to represent the diversity of the people and communities we serve. We also want our workplace to be one where different experiences, expertise and perspectives are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to grow and develop.
This means that when we are recruiting, we actively seek to reach a diverse pool of candidates. It also means that we are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that potential employees may need to in order to be successful.
We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements.
Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process (and beyond) if these are options you’d like to explore.