Senior Communications Manager

Senior Communications Manager - 6 months - Inside IR35 - Edinburgh
Day Rate - Circa £280
Harvey Nash's public sector client are currently looking to recruit a Senior Communications Manager to join their team based in Edinburgh for an initial 6 month period.
As a senior communications manager, you will work alongside a communications manager to act as a key source of communications support to the organisation. You will work to proactively increase the promotion, awareness and understanding of the organisation across Scotland using a variety of approaches.
Main Duties
You will be responsible for helping to produce a comprehensive and wide ranging communications and engagement strategy and to develop key metrics to evaluate and measure the success of this strategy.
You will work proactively and positively with the media, justice partners, and other stakeholders to promote awareness among the public as well as practitioners, and policymakers.
This will involve proactive media and social media campaigns; initiating and drafting news releases and features; and populating the organisations blog page.
You will be responsible for helping to provide a comprehensive media service including handling media enquiries, tracking relevant news items, reporting on analytics, and being on-call out of hours.
You will be responsible for contributing to ongoing social media wo...