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Price & Myers is hiring a communications coordinator to join its team in London.

We’re on the hunt for an enthusiastic communications coordinator to help share the Price & Myers story, both externally and internally. Based in our London studio, you’ll need a friendly outlook and a service-driven approach. You’ll be an important member of our four-person team with key business-support responsibilities, including supporting our job-winning efforts and events logistics.

This is a great opportunity to work with an experienced and tight-knit Communications team, learn and grow your career, and help a well-established engineering practice meet our ambitions.

Price & Myers is a structural engineering practice, established by Sam Price and Robert Myers in 1978. Over nearly five decades, we’ve completed a huge range of projects, from Stirling Prize winners to the more modest, and everything in between. We are designers who help architects and clients bring their vision to life with elegant and efficient engineering. There are about 150 of us across our five studios in London, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol.

The role of Communications Coordinator is a key position within the Communications Team and within the Practice as well. It requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, a team-focused mindset and a willingness to use personal initiative to help tell the Price & Myers story.

The principal qualities and responsibilities of the Communications Coordinator are:

Communications planning:

• work with the communications team, partners and associates to identify significant projects and collate and produce material including literature and photography for use on our website, social media channels, award entries, bids, CVs, and our internal and external newsletters – all information needs to be stored on our central CMAP and Open Asset systems

Bids:

• help to search for and identify new work opportunities
• help collate and update relevant information and documentation for bids, competitions and other submissions
• after suitable training, be responsible for putting together smaller bids, with minimum oversight from the Manager

Public relations:

• work with communications manager to coordinate the social media programme
• monitor social media platforms and press mentions
• create engaging social media content, schedule posts and analyse performance metrics to inform communication strategies
• direct press enquiries to communications and bid managers
• provide wider design teams with information to support their project PR campaigns
• record and report on press coverage

Business development:

• updating the Practice-2-Practice Presentation as required
• organising and executing the Practice-2-Practice Presentation schedule
• ensuring that outcomes of the P2P events are recorded in our CRM system
• ensuring that follow-up actions are recorded and executed
• liaising with partners, associates and the head of communications to identify suitable practices and contacts, and book ongoing appointments

Events:

• we host a series of internal, and occasionally external, events and networking initiatives. These can be both professionally and socially focused events
• the communications coordinator will play a key role in organisation and logistics to ensure success and maximum impact for our events
• this will include follow-up for attendees where relevant
• the communications coordinator will assist, and sometimes lead, the organisation of virtual events

Networking:

• related to the P2P and events programmes is the need to assist with broader networking for the practice. This includes identifying opportunities for the P&M team to attend, encouraging attendance, assisting with briefing where relevant, and assisting with follow-up
• ideally, the Communications Coordinator will also occasionally attend such events

Awards:

• ensure that technical staff are aware of deadlines for award submissions
• assist in preparation of award submissions
• ensure all award entries, shortlists and wins are recorded and publicised appropriately internally and externally

Note

Hours for the role are standard practice hours – 9am to 5.30pm. There is some flexibility with start/finish times, and work from home days. There will be occasions where extracurricular time may be needed (bid deadlines, or industry events) but it’s anticipated that these will be uncommon.

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