Strategic Communications Manager

Marie Curie Hospice, Glasgow; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health charity in the UK seeks a Strategic Communications Manager to develop and deliver impactful communications plans. The successful candidate will support senior management in aligning team and departmental strategies and will monitor performance against KPIs. This role requires strong experience in external communications, project management, and the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the organization. The position is crucial for refining the charity's messaging and ensuring it resonates with the target audience.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in an external communications role with a track record of developing and implementing communication plans.
• Ability to prioritize campaigns based on organizational objectives.
• Experience in building relationships and influencing change across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Strategic Communications Manager in aligning strategies.
• Develop and deliver strategic communications plans.
• Monitor performance against strategy and provide recommendations.
• Evaluate communications activity for continuous improvement.

Skills

External communications expertise

Project management skills

Relationship building

Communication plan development

Influencing and change management

Job description

As part of our Communications Department, the Strategic Communications Manager supports the implementation and optimisation of our communications campaigns in line with our organisational strategy. This is a unique opportunity to shape this new role as you develop and deliver communications plans, helping us refine our corporate story with engaging messages that are consistently integrated, aligned, audience led and prioritised to achieve our objectives. In this newly created role, you'll develop and deliver communications plans that bring together key organisational priorities, ensuring Marie Curie's external communications are coordinated, compelling, and impactful. You'll help shape the charity's story, refine its messaging, and ensure that communications are aligned, consistent, and tailored to the needs of our audiences. You will be responsible for:

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Senior Strategic Communications Manager and department Heads to ensure team, channel, campaign and product strategies are aligned and support the dept, directorate and organisational strategy.
• Developing and delivering strategic communications plans including the production of key messages, Q&A and stakeholder maps.
• Coordinating prioritisation and planning of strategy delivery, monitoring of actions/interventions, with the Senior Planner.
• Evaluating communications activity and using those insights to adapt and shape impactful campaigns.
• Monitor performance against strategy, KPIs, and objectives, providing insights and recommendations.
• Support risk and issue communications in collaboration with PR and senior colleagues.
• Evaluate and report on communications activity to inform continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in an external communications role with a track record of developing and implementing communication plans from start to finish.
• Experience prioritising campaigns, projects and products based on organisational objectives and make recommendations to senior managers.
• Strong ability to build and maintain effective relationships across all levels of an organisation, with the confidence to influence and drive change.
• Skilled in translating research and insights into clear, compelling, and audience-specific messaging.
• Highly organised with strong project management capabilities, adept at working collaboratively across cross‑functional teams and with external partners.
• Experience working in a charity, not-for‑profit, or health‑related organisation (desirable).