Work with us: Programme Manager for External Affairs and Communication
Posted by See Me, 7 August 2024
Do you have expertise in leading external affairs and communication activity?
Are you passionate about ending stigma, discrimination and inequality?
If so, there is a great opportunity to join our team!
Location: Glasgow – Hybrid
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £41,375 - £48,049
Contract: Full time, permanent
This is a rare opportunity to join the leadership team in See Me and to work alongside colleagues and partners who are passionate about doing all they can to reduce mental health stigma, discrimination and inequity that too many people continue to experience.
The role combines two main areas of work:
• Working with the director, your peers and the See Me team to lead an effective, coordinated approach to our external affairs and communications activity to ensure we tackle stigma and discrimination at individual, public, and structural levels through targeted engagement, campaigns and digital communication that empower more people to act.
• You will lead the communications, policy and public affairs team in See Me to take forward a programme of work that combines policy influencing, lived experience participation, and external, internal and digital communication, to support the delivery of With Fairness in Mind and heighten See Me’s profile, reach and impact overall.
We are looking for a confident and experienced leader to maximise relationships, network and communicate effectively with ‘change agents’ to support action at multiple levels.
You will be comfortable engaging with a range of contacts including Ministers and parliamentary officials, civil servants, contacts in the media and digital sources and national and local partners from different services, settings and communities, influencing them to act.
Tackling stigma and discrimination is both challenging and rewarding key to the success of our approach to external affairs and communications is partnership working and being able to adapt and respond to different opportunities, in different contexts, as they arise.
Designing, implementing and evaluating issue-based campaigns and communication strategies which apply a range media and digital channels and/or targeted stakeholder engagement to tackle stigma and discrimination.
Partnership working, competent and confident when working with stakeholders from across the public, private and third sector.
Working sensitively with community members and people with lived experience of inequity, engaging and empowering them to act.
Safeguarding people with lived and living experience to facilitate their leadership and/ or engagement in projects and programmes.
Programme management, working collaboratively and flexibly with partners, managers, peers and direct reports to scope, deliver and evaluate work.
Project management, confident when managing complex and dynamic projects.
Line Management, support orientation, growth and success for individuals, within the work stream team and as part of wider programme.
Team working, success leading collaborative approaches to achieve common goals.
Communicating with multiple audiences, excellent communication skills with an ability to adapt complex policy and social issues and theoretical concepts for different audiences.
More information and applying
Closing date for applications will be Monday 19th August 2024 at 12 noon.
It is anticipated interviews will take place in Glasgow on Wednesday 28th August in Glasgow.
To apply and for further information, including the full role description, please visit samh.org.uk/information/work-with-us.