Communication Manager at Summit Recruitment and Search

Key Responsibilities

• Translate organisational strategy, influencing priorities and audience needs into integrated communications strategies and plans for key initiatives, publications, events and influencing moments.
• Support the Head of Communications in translating strategic priorities into coordinated team activity, identifying opportunities to strengthen the organisation’s profile and external positioning.
• Lead and coordinate communications delivery across strategic communications, media, editorial, digital and multimedia, managing workflows, timelines, dependencies and priorities to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Develop and maintain organisational messaging and narratives, ensuring communications are accurate, consistent, audience-focused and aligned with strategic priorities and positioning.
• Provide editorial and brand oversight across written, creative and storytelling outputs, ensuring consistency with the organisation’s messaging, tone and visual identity.
• Manage, support and develop Communications Team members, providing clear direction, prioritisation, feedback and performance support while fostering collaboration across communications disciplines.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams, members, partners and external stakeholders, ensuring communications is embedded in organisational and influencing initiatives from the outset.
• Oversee communications monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement, using performance and audience insights to strengthen communications processes, planning and future delivery.

Key Qualifications

• University Degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in communications, strategic communications, advocacy communications or public affairs, ideally within the not-for-profit, international development, social impact or related sectors.
• Proven ability to translate organisational and influencing priorities into effective communications strategies and plans that engage and influence target audiences.
• Strong track record of developing and delivering integrated, multi-channel communications campaigns and initiatives across digital, media, editorial and multimedia platforms.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, with experience managing complex communications projects, competing priorities, deadlines, dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership and people-management experience, including developing, mentoring and coordinating high-performing teams across multicultural and/or remote environments.
• Excellent writing, editing and editorial judgement, with the ability to review and quality-assure communications across different formats and channels.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and coordinate effectively across teams and external partners.