Circa £30,000 depending on skills and experience per annum
Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent
Location: Huntingdon & Home Working
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role offers you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your based location would be Lancaster House in Huntingdon
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Corporate Affairs Executive to join the team!
As a Corporate Affairs Executive, you will be instrumental in developing and delivering communications that align with our overall Corporate Affairs strategy, aimed at protecting and enhancing the company's image and reputation. Collaborating closely with the Corporate Affairs Planning Manager and the broader team, you will support efforts to interpret reputational opportunities and challenges, generate innovative ideas, and coordinate communication plans across the department. Your role will also involve managing administrative tasks, timelines, and team inputs to ensure critical deadlines are met.
A passion for nature and sustainable solutions is desirable, as much of what we will be showcasing includes our work to enhance the environment and adapt to climate change. You will have the opportunity to travel around the region gathering content of these great schemes.
As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:
- Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- Opportunity to volunteer to do unpaid work in the community
- 25 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Paid time off when you're physically and mentally unwell
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
- Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay
What you'll be doing:
- Create engaging content for social media, website, and press releases.
- Support the development and coordination of strategies to mitigate reputational risk, ensuring alignment with internal stakeholders.
- Engage with key stakeholders and agencies.
- Manage and optimise social media content to enhance reach and engagement.
- Update and monitor campaign activities against the timing plan.
- Assist in the administration of reputational risk governance processes.
- Use a document and action tracking system to manage Reputational Risk Committee and Working Groups.
- Conduct research and analysis to identify and mitigate potential reputational risks.
- Monitor social media channels, identifying and flagging emerging issues.
- Monitor media, political, and public sentiment to proactively address potential issues.
- Manage media relations, monitor company media coverage, and share press cuttings with the business.
- Support the development of crisis communication plans.
- Assist in creating and managing key departmental documents to ensure consistency and governance in communications.
What does it take to be successful?
- Educated to Degree level (or above)
- Excellent communication and creative skills
- Experience (and confidence) of senior stakeholder management in a media/PR or Corporate Affairs context
- Experience of project/campaign management
- Experience creating content for multiple audiences and channels in a corporate context
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in a busy newsroom or agency,
- Familiar with reactive reputational issues
- Experience of the Utilities sector is desirable
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.
Closing date: 30/06/2024
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