Head of Strategic Communications & Engagement

Description:

You will be leading Wellcome’s strategic communications & engagement team ensuring Wellcome’s strategic programmes, have communications, campaign and engagement strategies and long-term plans in place that work alongside one another to further Wellcome’s mission and tell a cohesive Wellcome story.

You will also be establishing new strategic communication practices and processes and creating an inclusive, collaborative, creative environment for your team and others across the organization.

In practice this means that you will need to:
 

• Ensure Wellcome’s four strategic programmes and other programmes as required have high quality communications, campaign and engagement strategies in place, briefed according to priority and resource availability.
• Be accountable for the monitoring, reporting and learning of these strategies, reporting to Corporate Affairs leadership and other members of Wellcome’s senior leadership team.
• Mange the Strategic Communications & Engagement team, ensure integration with the wider Strategic Communications, Planning and Insight team and be responsible for the Strategic Communications & Engagement offer to the organisation.
• Work with the Associate Director of Strategic Communications, Planning & Insight to ensure Wellcome’s programme of communications, campaign and engagement work is focused on our most important needs and opportunity areas.