Senior Strategic Communications Manager
Application Deadline: 13 May 2026
Department: Marketing & Communications
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Reporting To: Sarah Ross
Compensation: £50,380 / year
Description
Are you an experienced communications professional looking for a high-impact role where you can shape how an organisation communicates with its people and closest stakeholders?
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is looking for a Senior Strategic Communications Manager to lead how we communicate with colleagues, trustees, volunteers and key donors ensuring every interaction is clear, engaging and aligned to our strategy.
Working closely with the CEO, Senior Leadership Team and People function, you’ll play a key role in translating our organisational narrative into meaningful communications that build trust, strengthen alignment and support delivery of our strategy.
You’ll lead a small team and oversee key corporate communications, including the Annual Report, leadership messaging and major organisational moments. This role will balance strategic thinking with high-quality delivery in a complex and fast-paced environment.
The salary for this role is £50,380 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and lead our strategic communications team, ensuring communications are clear, engaging and aligned across colleagues and key stakeholder audiences.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO and senior leaders, shaping messaging that is clear, confident and resonates with diverse audiences.
- Oversee the delivery of the charity’s Annual Report as a flagship corporate communication.
- Lead comms for all-staff events and support organisational priorities.
- Champion storytelling and design that bring our work to life, ensuring communications are both engaging and accessible to a wide range of audiences.
- Oversee our internal communication channels, ensuring they are intuitive, inclusive and effective making it easy for people to find, understand and act on information.
- Provide leadership on risk and sensitive communications, ensuring clear and aligned messaging during complex situations.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Proven experience developing and delivering organisation-wide communication strategies.
- Experience leading high-profile corporate communication programmes and corporate outputs, such as annual reports, events and organisational updates.
- Strong experience advising senior leaders, with the ability to shape clear, confident messaging at Executive level.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Sound understanding of reputation management, including risk and crisis communications.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at senior levels.
- Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information with clarity, sound judgement and diplomacy.
- Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to connect communications to organisational priorities and outcomes.
- A collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
- Ability to balance creativity with clarity—bringing ideas to life while keeping messages simple, inclusive and accessible.
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A flexible approach to working arrangements.
- Access to our enhanced pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.
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