Crisis Communication Manager

Witt O'brien's LLC; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global crisis communications firm based in Central London is seeking a Crisis Communication Manager. This role involves managing responses, coordinating training drills, and providing media training. The ideal candidate has excellent writing skills, crisis communications experience, and is prepared to travel internationally. Join us in helping clients navigate challenging situations effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering senior level media training programs.
• Ability to manage client liaison and internal communications.
• Confident in high-pressure environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage initial responses and man the incident line.
• Coordinate emergency response drills.
• Provide high-quality media response training.

Skills

Excellent writing

Public speaking

Crisis communications experience

Social media management

Business development

Job description

Crisis Communication Manager page is loaded## Crisis Communication Managerlocations: England - Londontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R3173**Crisis Communications Manager Central London****If you can name a ship, it’s probably because it sank. We work to keep our clients’ vessels off the list of ships you’ve heard of.**Navigate Response, a Witt O’Brien’s company, is the strongest global crisis communications network specializing in the international shipping, port and offshore industries; headquartered in London, Houston and Singapore, we operate a global network of 47 offices in 31 countries around the world.We provide expert advice, counsel and hands-on support at the scene of an incident, from our clients’ offices or from our offices to ensure that our clients’ side of the story is presented to the outside world in a coherent and professional manner. Preparation is key to successful crisis communications, and we provide annual planning, testing, exercising and training services to all of our clients.**The role:**Based at our London headquarters, you will be an integral part of the crisis communications team including managing initial responses and manning our incident line some evenings and weekends. You will coordinate emergency response drills using our in-house media and social media simulation platform, Triton, and will work with our senior trainers (and on your own) to provide high quality media response training to our clients at all levels. Day-to-day duties will include client liaison, internal and external comms advice and support, copywriting, media management, business development and much more.**You:*** Excellent (and we do mean excellent) writer* Confident and polished public speaker* Knowledge of commercial shipping and/or crisis communications experience* Experience delivering senior level media (or other relevant) training programs* Willing and able to travel internationally (sometimes on short notice)* Highly organized with abundant common sense and the ability to muck-in and get the job done* Work well under intense pressure and show initiative during slow periods* Social media management and monitoring experience would be a significant asset* Business development experience would be an assetEqual Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled**With you when it counts.**Witt O’Brien’s is one of several companies within Ambipar Group, a global leader in integrated environmental and emergency management solutions. We help communities build resilience in a changing world. We advise our clients on how to mitigate risk, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Our highly skilled experts protect lives, communities, and businesses in both the private and public sectors. We do this with innovative services that combine decades of front-line disaster experience with out-of-the-box thinking, to generate the best outcome for our clients. As the threat of disruption from both human-made and natural disasters increases, our solutions have never been in greater demand.