Reference: 98440
Date Added: 26 January 2026
Closing Date: 14 February 2026
Job Title: Senior Communications Adviser
Working For: Spotlight on Corruption
Location: London
Salary: £50,672 per year, plus 6% pension contribution, enhanced sick pay
Length of Contract: Permanent
Job Details
We are looking for a highly motivated and gifted communicator to craft Spotlight’s messages and help us achieve real change.
You will be joining a small dedicated team of anti-corruption experts and campaigners for this busy, varied and multi-skilled role. We have a full programme of work for the year ahead with projects on illicit finance, political integrity, and corporate accountability for financial crime.
Candidates should be exceptional all-round communicators, with significant experience in achieving impact through a range of channels from digital and social media to print, broadcast and events.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and proactive, a strategic thinker, an excellent writer and able to apply their skills and experience across a range of different communications channels.
About Spotlight
Spotlight on Corruption is a UK based charity which aims to end impunity for corruption, promote political integrity within the UK, and ensure the UK acts as a global leader on fighting corruption.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deliver Spotlight’s day to day communications and public messaging to ensure we achieve real reforms and impact in tackling corruption and protecting UK democracy.
- Secure strategic and influential media coverage by developing and maintaining relationships with journalists, developing ideas for stories, and identifying key communication opportunities to get Spotlight’s messages across
- Build Spotlight’s reach and influence online with target audiences (politicians, civil servants, journalists, civil society, and funders) by maintaining Spotlight on Corruption’s website, social media accounts and mailing lists, and working with colleagues to develop engaging content.
- Develop newsletters, press releases, website copy, social media posts, and other communications materials, including scripts for, as well as filming, videos on Spotlight messages that appeal to different audiences.
- Develop a communications strategy for the organisation to implement its three year strategy which builds and secures Spotlight’s reputation as a leading anti-corruption organisation.
Closing Date: 14 February 2026
Interview/Start Dates
Short-listing will take place w/c 16th February.
Interviews for short-listed candidates will take place via Zoom (first round). There will then be in-person interviews in London following that (for those who progress to the second round).
Application Details
Applications must be made via https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/spotlight-on-corruption/senior-communications-adviser/1051708
Further details on the role including the person specification are also available at the above link
Website: https://www.spotlightcorruption.org/