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On behalf of DSIT, we are looking for a Senior Campaigns Manager - (Inside IR35) for a 2 month contract working on a hybrid basis with 2 days per week (Westminster, London)

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) brings together the relevant parts of the former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the former Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The responsibilities for the DSIT are:

• Positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement.
• Driving innovations that change lives and sustain economic growth.
• Delivering talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure, and regulation to support our economy, security, and public services.
• R&D funding.

DSIT offers stimulating, challenging, and engaging work that makes a difference and that has a direct impact on the quality of people's lives, as well as the opportunity to progress your career.

As a Senior Campaigns Manager - (Inside IR35), your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop and deliver insight-led campaigns that lean into non-news opportunities, working closely with social, digital and press colleagues in the wider team. Ensure delivery against clear and SMART communications objectives through a variety of communications channels (digital/social media, advertising, PR and partnerships).
• Proactively set the direction of your team, focusing on tangible results and ensuring all work delivers against clear objectives, based on policy goals, market research, insight and stakeholder intelligence. Set targets and evaluate impact.
• Build effective relationships with the wider communications team and stakeholders across your areas of responsibility. Collaborate with policy teams to generate content.
• Support the management of campaign budgets; driving the performance of external communications agencies (media planners, buyers, creative and research agencies), ensuring suppliers deliver value for money and deliver high quality work on time.

Skills and Experience

• We are looking for a tenacious communicator with a proven track record of developing, implementing and evaluating creative, impactful communications campaigns. You should:
• Have experience of paid-for marketing. We expect you to have experience of managing multiple agencies concurrently.
• You should also be adept at developing insight and data driven strategies across the entire marketing mix, including social media, as well as being confident working with partners to support the delivery of campaigns.
• Be good at problem solving. You will be able to find a route through complicated structures and/or policy areas, always keeping audiences and insight at forefront.
• Be able to work at pace, managing competing and sometimes changing priorities.
• Be confident and skilled at working with people at senior levels and building alliances with stakeholders to support story generation and campaign delivery.
• Be able to turn complicated information into clear and engaging communications, navigating risks and capitalising on opportunity. Able to coach others to do the same.

Essential:

• Marketing experience
• Experience of managing multiple external agencies concurently
• Public Sector experience
• Experience of working at pace
• Excellent Communications skills
• Stakeholder engagement experience

Desirable:

• Experience of using Google analytics

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DSIT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

DSIT guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".