# Deputy Director - Head of Communications

**Company**: Government Legal Department
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 86,000 per year
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Government

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## Description

We are seeking a Deputy Director - Head of Communications to lead a fundamental transformation in how the government informs and connects with citizens. As the most senior communications advisor in the department and a member of the cross-government communications leadership group, you will actively lead and embrace change and innovation.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

- Seeing the big picture

- Changing and improving

- Leadership

- Communicating and influencing

- Delivering at pace

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide decisive, expert counsel to the Attorney and Solicitor General on the communication of departmental priorities and reputation management

- Lead and develop a high-performing, multi-disciplinary communications team

- Shape the senior leadership of Government Communications across the profession

- Partner with policy and delivery colleagues to integrate communications thinking into the policy-making and delivery process

- Develop compelling narratives that connect government priorities to real-world citizen stories

The role requires:

- Marketing and storytelling mindset with demonstrable experience of audience-led, insight-driven campaigns

- Senior advisory and influencing skills

- Demonstrable experience leading digital transformation in communications

- Proven crisis management and transformation leadership

- Exceptional leadership of multi-disciplinary teams

Security Clearance Level: Security Check (SC) clearance

Salary: GBP 86,000 per year

## Skills

### Required
- marketing
- storytelling
- communications
- leadership
- influencing
- digital transformation
- crisis management

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