Communications and / or Public Affairs Director

• Title: Director
• Team: Communications and Public Affairs Team and Management Team
• Salary: Competitive
• Location: Central London (but with a flexible working policy)

About us

Fleetwood Strategy provides an integrated service across communications, public affairs and opinion research to help organisations protect, grow and measure their licence to operate. We harness tried and tested methods from successful campaigns around the world, so that our clients can effectively meet their reputational and regulatory challenges.

We support clients across three primary service pillars:

• Communications
• Public affairs
• Opinion research

We advise a wide range of organisations, from start-ups and scale-ups to the world’s biggest companies. We work across sectors, from tech to healthcare, infrastructure to sport, non-profits to businesses, disruptors to incumbents.

Our team brings together a diversity of professional backgrounds, perspectives and opinions. We have specialists in communications, advocacy, policymaking, opinion research and data analytics.

About the role

This role will involve both communications and public affairs work.

Responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with other members of the Management Team to ensure that the company achieves its goals.

• Leading the development and execution of communications and public affairs strategies that secure positive outcomes for clients.

• Building strong relationships and regularly communicating with clients.

• Proactively and reactively providing sound advice and counsel to clients on an ongoing basis.

• Project managing client accounts, overseeing the production and delivery of high-quality materials and activity for clients.

• Managing junior colleagues to ensure the highest standard of client servicing, checking team performance against objectives and deliverables.

• Using your network to gather intelligence for clients, determine upcoming opportunities and potential risks, and help secure opportunities / manage risks.

• Playing a leading role alongside the rest of the Management Team with new business efforts, including networking, sourcing and generating leads and opportunities for new work, writing proposals, project managing pitches, and thinking creatively.

• Driving a culture of learning, development and performance across the company.

About you

• Communications and / or public affairs professional
• Extensive experience working at an agency / with clients
• Strong ability to manage multiple accounts, projects, workstreams and people with competing priorities and deadlines
• Strategic thinker
• Understanding of the UK’s media, political and policy landscape
• A strong, relevant network
• Strong verbal and written communications skills

Worth knowing

• We offer competitive salaries
• Our office is based on Regent Street in the heart of Soho
• We have a flexible working policy
• We have an annual bonus scheme
• We also have a new business bonus scheme
• We offer comprehensive private health and worldwide travel insurance
• We offer at least 25 days of holiday leave per year in addition to England bank holidays

How to apply

Please submit your CV and a one-page cover letter to talent@fleetwoodstrategy.com by 9.00am on Monday 13 July.

Any applications submitted via Easy Apply on LinkedIn will not be considered.