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About the Role

RUSI Europe is looking for an outstanding and enthusiastic Communications Assistant to provide communications and administrative support across our projects. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal and organisational skills and have the ability to multi-task and prioritise workloads to meet time-critical delivery. Proactivity, innovation and drive are critical. You will possess excellent written and verbal communication with a good eye for detail. Excellent administrative skills are essential as is experience and familiarity in maintaining website posts and creating content for social media platforms. Whilst English remains the commonly used language, a good command of French and/or Spanish is desirable.

Ultimately, your goal will be to help support consistent and clear communication across all project activity whilst maintaining and enhancing project and programme visibility with our internal and external partners and stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain and update website posts across all projects;
• Assist with the creation of posts and other supporting communication visibility;
• Help maintain social media attributable to each project;
• Research and promote new ways of enhancing project visibility;
• Assist with day to day project communication and visibility strategies;
• Actively support project teams to develop and hone their visibility strategies;
• Through innovation, identify opportunities to better enhance overall communication;
• When required, adapt to assist project teams with other unique challenges.

Person Specification

The job holder should be able to demonstrate the following essential knowledge, skills and experience:

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience;
• Excellent writing skills - English and ideally French and/or Spanish;
• Experience of (or skillset aligned to) working within the field of communication and visibility;
• Able to use Microsoft Office programmes, in particular Word and Excel;
• Knowledge of social media and conversant with Twitter;
• Motivated, pro-active, reliable and willing to maintain a flexible approach to tasking;
• Able to work well as part of a team, but also able to work independently.

The above list of duties is not exhaustive. The post holder will be rquired to undertake such duties that may reasonably be expected within the scope and grade of the role.

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