Interim Reputation & Communications Project Manager
£350 to £600 per day DOE (Ltd company or Umbrella)
London | Hybrid (4 days in the office) | Initial 3 month contract
Our client is seeking an experienced communications and reputation professional to join a fast-moving team. This role sits at the centre of a complex reputation programme, coordinating legal, communications and digital workstreams to drive progress across a broad portfolio of reputation issues.
The successful candidate will:
- Own the day-to-day management of a complex reputation management workstream.
- Maintain and proactively drive progress across a substantial portfolio of priority media, social media and digital reputation issues.
- Coordinate activity across multiple external stakeholders.
- Ensure every issue has a clear action plan, owner and timeline, proactively following through until resolution wherever possible.
- Identify creative opportunities to improve reputation outcomes, including platform engagement, content review, search visibility strategies and other appropriate digital approaches.
- Monitor traditional media, social media, search results and AI platforms for new developments, ensuring emerging issues are identified and assessed quickly.
- Produce clear reporting, dashboards and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Support wider strategic communications and reputation initiatives as required.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience coordinating complex communications, reputation or issues management programmes.
- Excellent project management and stakeholder management skills.
- A genuine understanding of today’s digital information ecosystem, including Google Search, AI search, social media platforms and online reputation management.
- Experience coordinating multiple external advisers and managing competing priorities.
- Strong judgement, organisation and attention to detail.
- The ability to work with highly confidential and sensitive information.
- Crisis communications or reputation management experience would be an advantage, but we’re equally interested in candidates with the right mindset and appetite to learn.
This isn’t a traditional press office role. It’s an opportunity to coordinate a sophisticated reputation management programme spanning communications, legal, digital and technology disciplines. We’re looking for someone who is genuinely digitally native, proactive, organised and able to hit the ground running.
Apply today to support a leading organisation during a critical period.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants. In line with the Equality Act 2010, we strive to create and maintain a working environment in which everyone is able to make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.
Due to a high number of applicants, we are only able to respond to successful candidates.
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