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Communications strategy and planning

Planning communications and campaigns that meet organisational goals, using insight about audiences, and evaluating their effect.

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Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain the aims of a communications plan you are working on
2. Working

You can:

  • write communications plans for projects, with audiences, messages, and channels
  • measure the results of communications activity
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • plan campaigns that change behaviour, such as encouraging patients to use a digital service
  • use audience insight and evaluation to improve campaigns
  • plan communications for incidents and service outages
4. Expert

You can:

  • set the communications strategy for the organisation
  • lead crisis communications
  • advise the board on reputation and stakeholder engagement

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Senior communications officerCommunications officer5Working
Communications leadCommunications officer6Practitioner
Communications managerCommunications officer7Practitioner
Head of communicationsCommunications officer8bExpert