External Communications Associate
Location: London, UK
Length: 4 months
Duration: 15/01/2026 – 15/05/2026
Rate: £35.58 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 40 hours per week (Hybrid)
Job Description
As an External Communications Associate, you complete work streams related to external communications activities and develop clear, concise, and differentiated external communications to publicize and promote external communications programs, facilities, events, or objectives among external audiences. You demonstrate working knowledge of our external communications ecosystems and media relations principles. You leverage your proficient knowledge of strategic communications, information synthesis, stakeholder management, and business acumen to refine key messages, report results, and manage comms programs for external events, agencies, and our reputation
Responsibilities include:
* Gather, synthesize, and draft responses to editorial inquiries and requests for information release.
* Track effectiveness of communications campaigns and manage feedback channels, using the information to support recommendations that improve the external communications strategies with minimal guidance.
* With minimal guidance, create clear, concise and differentiated comms plans and materials (e.g., emails, press releases, pitches, marketing copy, announcements, presentations articles, social media content) to publicize and promote communications and public relations programs, facilities, events, or objectives amongst external audiences.
* Represent a business or product area, acting as a spokesperson with minimal guidance.
* Analyze, synthesize, and derive trends from our corporate, PA, and business objectives, promotional policies, and needs to build communications strategies that shape our reputation, influence public opinion, and promote products, ideas, and services.
* Collaborate with agencies on projects by supporting objectives, driving key tasks or work streams, and providing content.
* With minimal guidance, design presentations, comms, and visuals for marketing and communications events.
Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
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o Executive management
o Crisis comms
o Strategic communications
o Current landscape
o External landscape
o External stakeholder management
o Industry trends
o Agility
o Information synthesis
o Business acumen