Senior Strategic Communications Manager

Marie Curie; London; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Marie Curie as a Strategic Communications Lead, where you'll shape high-impact communication strategies for one of the UK's leading end-of-life care charities. This newly created role requires an experienced professional to manage strategic communications planning, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while engaging diverse audiences and guiding cross-functional teams. Enjoy a flexible hybrid work environment with generous benefits including a competitive salary, continuous professional development, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme

Loan schemes for bikes, computers, and season tickets

Continuous professional development opportunities

Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes

Enhanced bereavement and family friendly benefits

Subsidised Eye Care

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior communications role.
• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders.
• Experience in the charity, health, or non-profit sectors is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the Marketing Communications strategy.
• Lead strategic communications planning and oversee key messaging frameworks.
• Monitor and report on performance against strategy and KPIs.

Skills

Audience Segmentation

Crisis Communications

Stakeholder Engagement

Performance Monitoring

Job description

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Job Description

Marie Curie is the UK's leading end of life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end of life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end of life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they're likely to die from.

Want to apply your strategic communications skills for a good cause? Join one of the UK's best known charities, Marie Curie, as we sharpen our communications to be more strategic, integrated, and insight-driven.

In this newly created role, you will lead the charity's approach to strategic communications, ensuring alignment with our wider organisational strategy. You will utilise your experience, knowledge, and influencing skills to advise senior leaders and key stakeholders. Additionally, you will guide cross-functional teams and oversee high-impact projects. Your passion for audience insights will shape how audiences understand and engage with Marie Curie.

Join our ambitious, motivated and welcoming department.

Main responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and optimise the Marketing Communications strategy, ensuring alignment across channels, teams, and priorities.
• Lead strategic communications planning, translating organisational goals into actionable, audience-led communications plans.
• Develop and oversee key messaging frameworks and thematic narratives based on insight and research.
• Manage cross-departmental audience insight initiatives, including segmentation, message testing, and establishing a shared insights repository.
• Monitor and report on performance against strategy and KPIs, using data to support continuous improvement.
• Advise and work closely with senior management, internal communications, teams across the income, innovation and engagement directorate and external agencies.
• Act as operational lead for crisis communications, coordinating responses and ensuring preparedness through robust planning and documentation.
• Oversee external agencies and ensure strategic alignment and delivery of contracted work.
• Line manage the Strategic Communications Manager and lead matrix teams on key projects.

Key Criteria:

• Extensive experience in a senior communications role, with a strong track record of developing and delivering integrated, high-impact strategic communication strategies.
• Confident and persuasive communicator with excellent writing, planning, and leadership skills. Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all organisational levels.
• Expertise in audience segmentation, insight analysis, and message testing to ensure communications are targeted, relevant, and effective.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing issues and crisis communications.
• Experience leading relationships with external agencies to ensure alignment and quality delivery.
• Skilled in managing agency partnerships and working across teams. Highly capable of prioritising tasks and managing multiple projects and campaigns to meet deadlines.
• Previous experience in the charity, health, or non-profit sectors is advantageous.

Please see the full job description HERE.

Application & Interview Process

• As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and Cover Letter. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
• Close date for applications: June 15th, 2025. We recommend submitting applications early, as the application process may be closed once a sufficient number of qualified candidates have applied.

Salary: £44,550 - 49,489 per annum + £3,500 London Weighting Allowance if applicable

Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week)

Based: Hybrid. Home-based and 1-2 days a week in the Embassy Gardens office in London.

Benefits you'll LOVE:

• Flexible working. We're happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
• 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• Industry-leading training programmes
• Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
• Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
• Access to Blue Light Card membership
• Subsidised Eye Care

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to [e-mail]

About Us

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 3,500 staff and 5,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left

Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.