Head of Communications

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Communications to join a global effort to influence investors, governments and banks to shift capital to climate change solutions.

The successful candidate will be responsible for communications and marketing activities that support:

• increased institutional investor engagement
• continuing rapid growth in global green bond issuance
• fast take-up of Climate Bonds certification
• public sector adoption of prescriptions for mobilising capital

Key Tasks

• Planning, co-ordinating, executing and tracking the performance of marketing and communication campaigns
• Managing the communications team
• Working with the wider team to ensure consistent messaging across all channels
• Leading traditional and social media efforts including:

• Managing media activity: media stories; press enquiries, the expansion of the journalist network, pitches to journalists, nurturing of media relationships and reporting on media coverage via a monthly media digest
• Supervising social media: the management of Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, the regular production and update of website content, and managing technical team to deliver website enhancements
• Providing actionable insights and sharing these with the wider team

• Managing the internal communications pipeline
• Contributing to CBI’s programmes by delivering fit-for-purpose communications, including co-ordination of speaking engagements
• Acting as the brand guardian and making sure the brand is represented well in all externally facing communications.

Requirements

Essential

• Extensive experience in planning and execution of communications and marketing plans
• Confidence in managing a global team, and building relationships with colleagues in other countries
• B2B experience, ideally within the institutional investor segment
• Ability to turn complex scientific and financial subject matter into accessible and interesting content.
• Experience creating engaging social media content
• Ability to communicate concepts to a range of target audiences
• Ability to spot data trends and articulate key findings
• Flexible and able to multi-task, prioritise and work to tight deadlines
• Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal
• Eligible to work in the UK

Useful

• Interest in and knowledge of finance and of climate change issues.
• Ideally experience of working in an international, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• Proficiency in a second key language, such as Chinese, Spanish, French, Bahasa Indonesian or Japanese

Next Steps

Applications or enquiries to recruitment@climatebonds.net

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