Internal Communications Executive

Internal Communications Executive

Location: London , South East Salary: From 25,000 to 27,000 per annum Benefits + Discretionary Bonus Date posted: 31/03/2012 14:00 Job type:Permanent Company: FTSE Contact: Will Vane Ref: Totaljobs/65712 Job ID: 53243576

Internal Communications Executive

Background

FTSE is a fast growing, high profile independent company owned by the London Stock Exchange Group. Its mission is to provide investors globally with the best index and benchmarking solutions and decision making support tools. The strategic intent of the company is to create an index business valued in excess of $ 3 billion by 2014, occupying a leadership position in all major developed and significant emerging markets.

FTSE is a leading provider of index data for institutional investors worldwide with over $ 3 trillion of assets benchmarked to FTSE indexes. Growing at over 20 each year, and working from a position of market leadership in the UK and Europe, FTSEs strategy is to increase FTSE brand awareness globally and to continue to grow its business worldwide through acquisitions and partnerships as well as organic growth.

FTSE is relied upon by financial markets globally, running the FTSE 100, FTSE MIB (Italy), Straits Times (Singapore), FTSE/JSE (South Africa) and FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI. The company is at the forefront of indexes for the emerging market in China, operating the FTSE China A50 which supports the leading A Share ETF in Hong Kong. FTSE also works with the worlds biggest asset owners such as CalPERS, OMERS, AP2, PGGM, AP3, AP7, ABN Amro, UBS, MPF and the Futures Fund, as well as the worlds largest passive fund managers, including Blackrock, State Street, Legal and General and UBS.

FTSE operates from three major centres in London, New York and Hong Kong. The company also has satellite offices in San Francisco, Paris, Milan, Dubai, Tokyo and Sydney. FTSE also has a presence in China and India as part of its strategy to establish a leadership position in major emerging markets.

BUSINESS NEED

FTSE has become a significant and influential part of financial markets worldwide and has strong relationships within the financial service industry and with government and regulatory agencies worldwide.

As a member of the Internal Communications Team, the Internal Communications Executive is at the hub of the business, responsible for supporting the implementation of the internal communications strategy.

Key Functions and Responsibilities

The individual will be involved in a range of activities relating to internal communications and Marketing. Key areas of responsibility are:

To work as part of the communications team to implement the internal communication strategy;

Supporting the delivery of a monthly staff newsletter;

Supporting the delivery of a quarterly client newsletter;

Supporting the delivery of effective FTSE stakeholder communications, including the FTSE Board and FTSE Partners

Monitoring FTSEs coverage in the media

Helping to maintain and monitor the media database

Supporting the development and introduction of an updated intranet which will be actively used.

Key aspects of the position are:

producing a monthly newsletter which will involve liaising with colleagues across the company for content, drafting content where appropriate and providing support assistance where needed;

producing a quarterly client newsletter which will involve liaising with colleagues across the company for content, drafting content where appropriate, managing the relationship with FTSEs design agency to oversee the design delivery of the newsletter, and providing support assistance where needed;

Produce weekly summary of press coverage

Undertake initial research to produce the new FTSE intranet;

supporting internal communications initiatives e.g. arranging in-house events; collating feedback/analysis of events, implementing improvements so that initiatives are effective, updating the intranet;

Maintenance of the internal communications calendar which should be aligned with the external marketing calendar;

Supporting the communications/marketing team as appropriate;

Supporting the Company Secretary in connection with internal/stakeholder communications, including the production of Board packs and Governance Board packs and meeting preparation

Monitoring the effectiveness of communications e.g. confirming with managers how they communicate with their teams.

Qualifications/Experience

It is expected with limited supervision the candidate will be able to deliver each of the key objectives of the role identified above. It is therefore expected that he or she will have:

educated to degree level

ability to act as an internal champion for the internal communication function

Type of Person

hands-on person with a focus on delivery and results

good writing skills

ability to meet deadlines

excellent networking skills

good organisational skills

ability to apply creative and imaginative solutions to situations as appropriate