Senior Strategic Communications Manager
Senior Strategic Communications Manager
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 balancing strategic thinking with high-quality delivery in a complex and fast-paced environment.
Salary
Salary
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.
In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.
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.
This is a varied, high-impact role where you’ll shape how people experience communication across the organisation—from major moments to everyday interactions.
Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.
Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.
Closing date:13th May 2026#LI-HM1
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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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.
Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible.
Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.
If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here
https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org