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Head of Comms and Public Affairs: 18 month contract starting January – house building affiliate organisation

Ref 5468
Salary Competitive salary
Location Remote, access to London
Job Type Contract


Are you an Associate Director or in-house Senior Comms Manager with some public affairs experience looking to step up to a more senior role?

  • Is your advice really listened to?
  • Too many senior people at your current workplace making it impossible to move up?
  • Do you wish you had more opportunity to hone in on strategic planning and focus less on firefighting?
  • Find commuting stressful?


If so, this could be the opportunity you have been looking for:

  • Newly created role to shape the comms strategy and messaging for members, government and consumers
  • Reporting to the COO you will be one of the most senior people in this not-for-profit house building affiliate organisation
  • You will lead on all communications - develop, integrate, and implement PR activities to increase and enhance brand awareness as well as mentor a junior member of the team
  • This is a fully remote role with occasional travel into London, perhaps just once a week


What we are looking for:

  • Must have both corporate comms experience and public affairs/policy experience to get the stakeholder engagement tone right
  • Bring your housebuilding knowledge to the table - having property press contacts is essential
  • Likely to be currently working in a corporate and public affairs role at Associate Director level, ready to lead OR working in-house at a Senior Manager/head of a department level ready to lead the direction of travel


To be considered for this Head of Comms and Public Affairs role please click to apply.

For more details on this role and similar roles, contact Rebecca Haroutunian on 020 8050 9293 or rebecca@the-works.co.uk