Strategic Internal Communications Lead (Content)

CamWebDir; Cambridge, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 12%

Life assurance

Enhanced parental leave

Volunteer days

Job summary

Royal Society of Chemistry is seeking a Senior Internal Communications Specialist (Content) to join our Internal Communications team in a 12-month fixed term contract. The role supports delivery of effective communications strategies to realise the RSC's vision, with a refreshed approach to content creation across written, audio and visual formats.

You will partner with leaders, shape joined-up communications, and drive data-informed content strategy while embedding accessibility and best

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a strategic communications role, designing, delivering and measuring campaigns.
• Proven track record of strategic content planning and governance.
• Hands-on experience creating written and digital content for multiple formats (articles, scripts, stories, GIFs, infographics).
• Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, adaptable to diverse audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to distil complex information into clear, engaging content.
• Collaborative mindset; experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Meticulous attention to detail and editorial rigour.
• Proactive, curious and comfortable with ambiguity in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as an internal communications business partner to key business areas.
• Partner with leaders and senior managers to shape joined-up communications that tell a compelling story of our impact, building skills across teams and working closely with the other Senior Internal Communications Specialist to keep support consistent organisation-wide.
• Champion effective change communications.
• Help colleagues understand what organisational change means for them, using frameworks such as Weick's theory of sense-making to ensure change communication is rooted in human behaviour.
• Develop an Internal and Change Communication content strategy.
• Draw on survey and focus group insights from our communications review to build a data-informed content strategy that strengthens everything we produce, from written to audio to visual.
• Contribute to positive team culture and ways of working.
• Plan our work so it is joined-up and sequenced for maximum engagement, share learning openly and help shape a team culture that lives out our values.
• Inclusion and accessibility.
• Embed best practice in accessible communications and run regular audits of published content for bias, jargon and readability.
• Measurement and continuous improvement.
• Test content, track content KPIs and use the insights to keep refining our content strategy.

Skills

Strategic communications

Content planning

Governance

Written and digital content

Storytelling

Stakeholder management

Distill complex information

Collaboration across teams

Editorial rigour

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Royal Society of Chemistry is seeking a Senior Internal Communications Specialist (Content) to join our Internal Communications team in a 12-month fixed term contract. The role supports delivery of effective communications strategies to realise the RSC's vision, with a refreshed approach to content creation across written, audio and visual formats.

You will partner with leaders, shape joined-up communications, and drive data-informed content strategy while embedding accessibility and best