A great opportunity has arisen for an Internal Communications Officer for an animal related charity in order to produce a range of timely and informative communications for the charity s staff and volunteers that promote key events, projects or partnerships. This will be a temporary contract for approximately 2-3 months.

Key Responsibilities will include:

Deliver a range of internal communications to keep Battersea staff at all three centres informed of latest developments at the Home.
Contribute to and issue the charity s weekly internal Bulletin to go out to all staff and Trustees at the charity.
Provides key communications support to charity s centres and campaigns, working with colleagues in Marketing and Public Affairs to reach target audiences using a broad range of communications channels and tailoring messaging accordingly.
Supports the Communications department with photography and filming
Monitors and evaluates the success of internal communications activity, providing monthly information to the Head of Media & PR
Responds to all media enquiries swiftly and efficiently, providing factually correct and on message information to the journalists deadline and signing off quotes and copy with relevant senior staff.
Briefs and supervises spokespeople, agents, and photographers or camera crews ahead of media interviews, photo calls, and events.


In order to apply you should have the following skills and experience:

Sound knowledge of marketing communications functions particularly Internal Communications.
Excellent written and verbal skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail and the ability to adapt your communication style for different groups
Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritising a high workload and multiple tasks and deadlines in a busy office environment
Proven experience of working constructively and collaboratively with colleagues from different teams including senior managers
Experience of suggesting and taking the initiative about new ways of working that have been successfully implemented
IT literate with good experience of MS Office and additional experience of using CMS, media databases and using social media programmes regularly on behalf of an employer
Photography and photo editing skills.
Experience of positively embracing and adapting to change