Senior Manager, Social Impact

Weber Shandwick; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communications firm in London seeks a Senior Manager for its Social Impact team. The role involves managing integrated campaigns for global organizations, focusing on global health and environmental issues. The ideal candidate will possess strong media relations skills, creative writing ability, and project management experience, with a proactive approach to client engagement and strategy execution. Competitive benefits and a hybrid work model are offered.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Flexible working with a hybrid model

25 days annual leave plus extras

Qualifications

• Experience delivering communications strategies across global health or environmental issues.
• Strong writer with creative flair.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and draft media strategies and press releases.
• Oversee media outreach and relations strategies.
• Manage budgets and ensure execution of activities.

Skills

Integrated communications strategies

Media relations

Creative writing

Project management

Analytical skills

Tools

Microsoft programmes

Digital/social media platforms

Job description

Who is Weber Shandwick?

At The Weber Shandwick Collective, you are welcomed, valued and empowered to grow. We create cultural value and help brands navigate the ever‑changing age of earned, where consumers actively say no to advertising, everyone is a potential influencer, and content becomes commercial opportunity. Our team builds brands by finding real‑world connection points, energising talent, and using the right platforms and technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses.

What’s happening?

Weber Shandwick is looking for a talented Senior Manager to join the Social Impact team in our London office. The Specialist Social Impact division supports organisations that drive positive global change, including foundations, NGOs, and purpose‑driven companies. We work across global health, development, humanitarian and environmental issues, with deep expertise in food security, climate adaptation, gender, ocean conservation, education, infectious and non‑communicable diseases, women’s health, and more.

The role

The Senior Manager will work on a portfolio of impactful global organisations, executing integrated campaigns involving strategy, earned media, creative, social and digital. Responsibilities include leading day‑to‑day project management, developing campaign and media strategies, managing budgets, and ensuring strong execution of activities.

Client and Work

• Develop and draft media strategies, press releases, reactive media statements, talking points, FAQs, memos, crisis plans, and other deliverables.
• Oversee proactive media outreach and reactive media relations strategies.
• Drive the development of tactical plans, translating strategies into tactics, ensuring deliverables align with strategies.
• Lead and manage multiple integrated work streams, partnering with clients to deliver on time and on budget with minimal supervision.
• Serve as the day‑to‑day client contact, flagging, triaging and managing client issues.
• Maintain overall account tracker and other project trackers.
• Proactively support and suggest ideas and improvements to exceed client expectations by leveraging sector knowledge and experience.

Self‑Leadership and Talent Management

• Demonstrate creative problem solving and teamwork.
• Build and lead productive relationships internally, with inter‑agency teams, and a diverse array of agency colleagues.

Growth and Business Development

• Participate in brainstorms and planning.
• Support new business pitch content creation and organic business growth efforts.
• Hone presentation skills, participating in pitches when possible.

Business Acumen

• Develop budgets, support budget and time‑entry analysis, and account invoicing.
• Assist in financial management for clients, including invoicing and activity reports to maintain profitability.

Ideal Experience

• Experience delivering integrated communications strategies across global health, development, humanitarian or environmental issues.
• Insatiably curious, analytical, proactive and open‑minded.
• Strong writer and media‑relations operator with creative flair to bring stories to life.
• Fluency in media relations with instinctive understanding of what makes a good story and how to shape stories from our clients’ activities.
• Strong awareness of media in top‑tier and specialist UK/global/African outlets (FT, Economist, Guardian, BBC World Service, etc.) and an understanding of how journalists operate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of digesting complex information and turning it into crisp, compelling copy.
• Mastery in copywriting a range of external and media materials including press releases, key message documents, pitches, social media content, etc.
• Experience working in a fast‑paced environment, juggling multiple projects and deadlines, adapting approaches when client needs change.
• Experience working with multiple disciplines and specialists to deliver integrated campaigns.
• Strong presentation skills and a desire to be involved in new‑business pitching.
• Proactive approach to identifying opportunities for the client, practice and team.
• Attentive to detail and delivery of high‑quality work.
• Fluency in Microsoft programmes and digital/social media platforms, tools and solutions.
• Positive, problem‑solving attitude and ambitious with an entrepreneurial streak.

Join us and help make an impact.

Together, we’ll set the bar, cheer each other on and multiply your potential.

Core Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Group life assurance
• Group income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Buy or sell holiday
• Additional life assurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Travel insurance
• Health screening
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plan
• Flexible working with our 3:2 hybrid work model
• Equivalent of $250 USD for new joiners on 6 month+ contract to support home‑working setup
• 25 days’ annual leave (in addition to public holidays) plus 2 volunteering days, birthday day off work and discretionary festive closure
• Flexible public holidays
• Dedicated Business Resource Groups including Women of Weber, Decoded (Global Majority network) and PRISM (LGBTQIA+)
• Sweets and snacks in the office
• Exclusive shopping discounts and perks
• Season ticket loan
• Long service bonus
• Enhanced family leave
• Inclusive and invisible health policies

Note from the Talent Team

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. Applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships are encouraged.

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