External Communications Officer

Our Communications team is responsible for meeting the external and internal communications needs of the SRA.

There is an exciting opportunity to join the team as an External Communications Officer on a permanent basis within the External Affairs directorate.

The External Communications Officer is responsible for:

• providing media relations and media management support and advice as part of a busy press office team;
• promoting the SRA effectively through proactive, targeted media activity, pre-empting and managing issues in order to uphold corporate reputation effectively;
• ensuring senior management is fully informed on emerging communications issues and is briefed and prepared in responding to those issues;
• promoting the SRA using different communications channels effectively, both across, and targeted at, different audiences, and producing detailed communications plans where required;
• ensuring core corporate messages are uniformly embedded into all external communications approaches, activities and materials by providing a dedicated communications resource to internal departments;
• upholding the SRA brand and maintain tone of voice in producing and managing content and design across all medium;
• ensuring media issues can be monitored and measured through time-specific recording of media enquiries and responses; and
• taking responsibility for updating the External Affairs high level communications plan and events log, ensuring activities are co-ordinated across teams.