View Vacancy - VNM - Communications Manager, B3 (L) (Maternity cover)
Main purpose of job:
This is a fixed term contract to provide maternity cover.
The Communications Team works with teams across the UK’s network in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) to communicate the UK’s activities and advocacy to audiences in Vietnam with the intent to positively influence thinking and perceptions of the UK.
The role is acting for the Vietnam Network and so travel to Ho Chi Minh City will be a core part of the job.
Roles and responsibilities / what will the jobholder be expected to achieve?:
- Communication strategies and implementation: Working as part of a core team of two in order to plan and implement communication strategies on a range of UK objectives encompassing social media, mainstream media and direct/viral messaging depending on the audiences we need to reach.
- Creating comms materials: Design and implement videos/graphics for use on social media. Producing and distributing high quality communications materials (banners, backdrop, greeting cards) as needed.
- Sharing, coaching and mentoring: Building a strong communication network sharing information, coaching and mentoring non comms colleagues about comms work and how to create effective communications plans.
- Press Officer: Acting as a press officer, drafting press statements and press lines, contributing to speeches, arranging press conferences/events and accompanying senior Embassy staff and UK visitors to press events/interviews. Monitoring and sharing summaries of the media to inform colleagues of important developments.
- Internal Comms: Designing and sharing information to Network colleagues via electronic notice boards and the full range of corporate as well as policy issues and activity by the team.
- Translating: Translating communication materials in to Vietnamese / English for use on social media
- Proven experience in developing and managing digital and social media channels
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
- Able to work to tight deadlines and multi-task effectively
- Good team-working skills and the ability to develop productive relationships with other teams around the network
- Relevant tertiary qualification and/or relevant experience
- Familiarity with implementing a digital/social media strategy
- Familiarity with the Vietnamese media environment
- Experience in using website content management system and social media management applications
- Experience in producing audio-visual content for social media
This position being advertised is for a maternity cover of eight (8) months.
The British Embassy is committed to being a learning and development organisation and encourages all staff to pursue continued learning and development in the workplace. We offer a supportive and friendly working environment where staff work to the values of: integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. Everyone is encouraged to take responsibility, be innovative and work together.
The British Embassy offers a competitive remuneration package including salary, leave entitlement, flexible working patterns, medical package for staff and dependants, and opportunities for learning and development.
Employment offers are subject to the successful clearance of pre-employment checks.
Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy Hanoi is subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law.
All applications must be received before 23:55 on the day of the deadline indicated above.
Incomplete application forms will not be taken into consideration, so please ensure you provide the information requested. We regret to advise that we will only be contacting short-listed candidates. Applicants called for an interview will be assessed on the core competencies listed above.
The successful candidate should be able to start as soon as possible subject to successful security clearance.
This opportunity is closed to applications.
