Communications Manager, Evidence & Heritage

Job ID:41052
 

Communications Manager, Evidence & Heritage

Lloyd’s Register Foundation

Location: United Kingdom – London

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What we’re looking for

This is an exciting opportunity to provide communications support for Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s two centres: the newly launched Global Safety Evidence Centre (GSEC) and the Heritage Centre.

The new Communications Manager will support the Head of Communications for Evidence & Heritage in raising awareness of the two Centres, their aims and capabilities, to ensure they are visible and influential with a wide range of relevant stakeholders. The role holder will be responsible for delivering communications activities for the Centres and their outputs, including but not limited to the World Risk Poll and key programmes of heritage-focused activity, using a broad suite of communications mediums and channels to attract, engage and retain interest from organisations who can help the Foundation achieve its mission.

This role would suit applicants with experience managing communications across a range of mediums including media, digital and events. They should be confident working in busy/complex environments and used to engaging and liaising with a wide range of stakeholders including intergovernmental organisations, research/academic institutions, other NGOs, professional and trade associations and the private sector. Knowledge and/or interest around evidence-based policy/practice, and/or heritage would be an advantage.

The role sits within the Foundation’s Strategic Communications team and reports to the Head of Communications for Evidence & Heritage. The role holder will work closely with GSEC’s team of analysts and researchers, as well as the Heritage Centre’s archivists and maritime heritage experts.

About the Global Safety Evidence Centre

Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s mission to engineer a safer world is underpinned by the use of robust and credible evidence to better understand the nature and scale of global safety challenges, and what is needed to address them. While we know this evidence is critical to informing decision-making and improving safety, it often does not yet exist or is not easily accessible. Responding to this need, the Foundation has established GSEC as a hub for anyone who needs to know ‘what works’ to make people safer, collating the best safety evidence from our partners and other sources and communicating it in an understandable and actionable form. GSEC also hosts the Foundation’s own evidence outputs, such as our flagship World Risk Poll.

About the Heritage Centre

The Foundation’s strategy is also strengthened by our heritage. For more than 250 years, Lloyd’s Register has been ensuring that ships, their crews and cargoes are safe to go to sea. This puts us in a unique position to learn from the past to inform and inspire a safer, more sustainable and resilient ocean economy. The Foundation’s archive is a unique research resource which offers a unique perspective on the evolution of maritime safety and the complex factors that drive it. Our collection of over 1.1 million documents shows the construction, maintenance and development of ships and maritime trade from the 1830s onwards, and is freely available to all, both online and in-person at our new Heritage Centre in London. Our heritage team works with a diverse range of partners across the globe to unlock the value of this archive and to support a ‘learning from the past’ approach to maritime safety and sustainability challenges more broadly.

What we offer you 

• Generous Pension Scheme – Up to 15% employer contribution
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules with an appreciation for work-life balance.
• Working in a global company with the ability to work with different cultures and diverse people

• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs

The role 

Communications management for the Foundation’s two Centres

• Planning: for both GSEC and the Heritage Centre, develop and deliver communications plans for a range of different reports and initiatives, in line with the relevant Centre communications strategies.
• For GSEC, these plans should ensure the findings and recommendations of our research reach and influence relevant stakeholders – including UN bodies, governments and industry bodies, as well as other researchers and NGOs – who can use this evidence for action to improve safety. Simultaneously, they should help build awareness of, and respect for, GSEC as a go-to source for robust and credible safety evidence.
• For the Heritage Centre, these plans should similarly ensure that outputs from our ‘Learning from the Past’ programmes grow recognition among stakeholders – particularly in and around the maritime sector – of the value of historical insights in informing a safe and sustainable maritime economy in the present. Simultaneously, they should build awareness and encourage wide use of the Foundation’s archive as a unique research resource.
• Digital communications: create, curate and maintain engaging Centre content on the Foundation’s website and social media channels, including news stories, blogs, videos and infographics, working with the digital team to continuously improve its accessibility and usability.
• Media relations: draft and disseminate press releases and other media content, including comment and opinion pieces, working both directly with journalists and via the Foundation’s media agency.
• Stakeholder engagement: support the Head of Communications to identify and engage with new stakeholders, passing these relationships on to the Centre teams for ongoing development and management as and when appropriate.
• Events: work with the Foundation Events Manager to deliver engaging events – including report launches, panel discussions and roundtables – in support of Centre objectives, as well as supporting involvement and speaking engagements at external events.
• Monitoring and evaluation: monitor the performance of communications activities against KPIs within the Centre communications strategies, and report on this internally.

Teamwork and collaboration

• Be an integral and active member of the Foundation’s communication team, sharing updates and activities from the Centres to ensure joined-up communications planning across the organisation.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues in the GSEC and Heritage Centre teams – as well as their partners and grant-holders – to ensure understanding of their work, engage them in communications activities, and encourage a communications-informed approach to creating Centre outputs.

Professional development  

• Stay up to date with developments in communication strategies, tools and platforms, particularly as they relate to the translation of research evidence into accessible and impactful outputs.
• Build and maintain knowledge and professional networks in the safety, evidence and heritage fields.

What you bring 

• Significant experience in communications-focused role(s) (essential)
• Experience of developing and delivering communications plans (essential)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential)
• Experience writing and editing content for press, web and social media (essential)
• Experience using website CMS, media monitoring and distribution platforms (essential)
• Statistical literacy and ability to understand technical and scientific content and translate this into accessible, engaging, plain-English content (essential)
• Experience managing and/or supporting events (essential)
• Experience within an international/global organisation, working with stakeholders and partners across countries, cultures and time zones (desirable)
• Interest in, knowledge of and/or experience within research and/or heritage sectors (desirable)
• Experience/skills with desktop publishing software e.g. Adobe InDesign (desirable)

About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

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