Head of Media and Communications

Job title: Head of Media and Communications (interim)

Salary range: £48,032 - £54,268

Type of contract: 12 months Fixed term contract (maternity cover)

Location: London, Hybrid

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Are you passionate about women’s health and the power of communications to advocate, inform, and influence? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join us as interim Head of Media and Communications.

In this role, you will play a vital part in the RCOG’s mission to improve the lives of women and girls around the world, through the delivery of creative communications campaigns and high-impact media stories. You will promote our guidelines, research and reports to support their use around the world to deliver high quality, safe and compassionate care for women.

Leading our busy press office, you will have opportunities to shape the media agenda on critical women’s health issues and champion the voices of women and girls through creative story-telling. Your social media expertise will ensure we are effectively listening to and engaging our members, partners and the public.

You will enjoy building and managing relationships with stakeholders to deliver opportunities for partnership working - including national health organisations, other Royal Colleges and women’s health charities. You will have excellent strategic judgement and be confident to advise senior College stakeholders on high profile and sensitive issues.

Reporting to the Director of Communications, you will line manage our Senior Media and Communications Officer and work closely with colleagues in our policy, public affairs and marketing teams to help ensure the College’s external affairs work is integrated, coherent and impactful.

• Lead the delivery of our annual media and communications plan, including priority campaigns in partnership with marketing, policy and public affairs colleagues

• Oversee our busy press office, ensuring we maintain strong media relations and are achieving high impact coverage on College priorities

• Deliver proactive external communications to promote awareness and impact of RCOG programmes, projects and products

• Ensure we are effectively using our social media and digital channels to listen, engage and influence, including production of videos, podcasts and webinars, etc.

• Build strong relationships with partners and stakeholders to gather intelligence and identify partnership opportunities

• Lead on ensuring the RCOG maintains effective communications and media processes, including forward planning tools, media logs, activity summaries, and evaluation reports.

This position is well-suited to an experienced communications professional who is passionate about women’s health, and the role that creative communications and campaigns can play to advocate, inform, and influence.

Requirements:

• Experience leading the development and delivery of integrated communications campaigns

• Excellent news sense and experience leading a busy press office covering high profile issues

• Ability to lead on and manage sensitive/ emotive/ ethical issues in a sensitive manner

• Creative and technically excellent writing skills

• In-depth experience to use digital channels to listen, engage and share information

• Confident in building partnerships and being a trusted advisor to senior colleagues

• Ability to work independently to meet deadlines, with a proactive and efficient working style

The College offers an agile working policy meaning staff are able to work from home or in our stunning office in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Agile and flexible working

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January

• Up to 10% employer pension contribution after probation

• Enhanced occupational Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave policies

• Interest-free bike, season ticket and technology loans after probation

• Tailored Learning and Development and study leave

• Affinity staff networks

• Free lunch (onsite only)

• Employee Support Service counselling

• Life Assurance Scheme

• Lifestyle discounts

For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site, www.rcog-careers.org.

• To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button, to download the full Job Description.

• Closing date: 10.00am on Tuesday 28 May 2024

• Interviews to be held in person in week commencing 3 June 2024

We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We are therefore looking for candidates whose backgrounds, experience and identity enhance the diversity of our existing team. We are particularly encouraging applications from underrepresented groups at the College such as those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and those with a disability. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.

We are only accepting applicants with a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.