Harris Hill is excited to be working with the National Union of Students to find their next Director of Communications, on an initial 6-month contract.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Providing leadership, direction and development of NUS' communications strategy
• Playing a key role in developing NUS' brand to maximise its influence and impact
• Developing and delivering NUS' internal and external communications strategy, taking full advantage of available tools to effectively communicate with a wide variety of audiences
• Providing a strategic framework for the effective management and delivering of the annual operating plans for the Communications and Campaigns teams
• Ensuring a proactive approach to communications across the wider organisation, with a particular emphasis on digital media
• Occasional travel requirements throughout the UK and Europe.

This position sits within NUS' Executive Team, and thus requires a seasoned communications professional with extensive experience of delivering communications and/or campaigns strategies at a senior level. You will also have significant experience of representing an organisation to wide range of audiences and a diplomatic approach to communications.

This is an excellent opportunity for an impact-focused and decisive communications professional to make a tangible difference to lives of students from a wide variety of ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. BAME applicants are particularly encouraged to apply.

http://www.harrishill.co.uk/Jobs/HM/HQ00037547/Permanent/Director-of-Communications