Corporate Communications Manager

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Investment Communications Manager

Business Unit: Corporate Affairs

Location: London

Contract type: Fixed Term – 12 Months

As investment communications manager, you will be integral to producing compelling, engaging narratives tailored to target audiences across a range of channels to promote USS Investment Management’s capabilities, approaches, achievements and performance, and protect its standing as a major, responsible sovereign investor.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the principal point of contact, internally and externally (including media), for all investment-related communications, including Responsible Investment and Public Affairs.
• Promote strategic media and stakeholder engagement opportunities to build and enhance relationships with key contacts.
• Lead on internal relationship management to proactively support the delivery of first class communications on investment issues and activities, securing input and sign-off.
• Translate expert investment inputs into compelling easy to understand narratives and content, tailored for different channels and audiences.
• Identify best practice amongst global asset managers/pension schemes of similar standing and support the evolution of communications activity across the business.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experienced in corporate communications across a wide group of internal and external stakeholders.
• Media management experience, including national publications and broadcast.
• Asset management knowledge