Associate Director of Communications, Nest Insight

London, England, United Kingdom

1/24/2025

Role Overview
We’re seeking an Associate Director to lead our communications, engagement and public affairs work, developing and implementing a communications strategy to deliver our impact objectives and to deliver high-impact dissemination and engagement campaigns and programmes. This is a leadership role, reporting to the MD, leading our communications team of c5 and helping to lead the wider Nest Insight team as part of our management team. We’re looking for someone who will help the entire organisation to be brilliant at communicating internally and externally, role modelling exceptional communications skills and building capacity.

This is an exciting role joining at a critical time. Over the last few years, we’ve grown our team, programme and impact significantly. In parallel we’ve grown our communications team. The team has been under interim leadership for the past year, during which time we’ve developed a new comms strategy and made significant progress in increasing the reach of our work. We’re now looking for a permanent leader for the team to help us to take the next step in truly maximising our impact and influence. There is a lot of scope to be creative and try new things, in a highly supportive and collaborative environment. This is a highly-motivated and passionate team, and the role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to maintain involvement in delivery as well as stepping up to or maintaining a leadership role. 
 
We are open to discussing working patterns.
 
Please download the candidate pack once redirected to our website to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
 
Reward and recognition

• A discretionary bonus scheme
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Enhanced auto enrolled pension – your contributions start at the default 5% while ours are higher at 8%. If you up your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%.
• Income protection scheme – is an insurance benefit that provides you with income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity.

 
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required) 
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share

Directorate/Department Overview
The Nest Insight team comprises about 25 people, working across strategy, programme delivery, communications, managing our strategic and funding partnerships and managing our day-to-day operations. We have a mix of permanent and fixed-term colleagues according to our portfolio of projects at any given moment.

Our team is drawn from all sorts of backgrounds including research agencies, academia, charities, think tanks, consultancies and the public sector – as well as one person who used to help run the London Jazz Festival! We’re a diverse group, connected by our shared passion for improving financial security and a comment to working collaboratively and supporting each other. We’re proud of the culture that we’ve built, but also committed to continuously building on and improving it. We strive to be a work environment that people genuinely enjoy and where they can grow and develop.

Organisational Overview
We launched Nest Insight in 2016, and in the time since we’ve grown considerably as a team, and in the scope of our ambition and impact. We are a public benefit research and innovation centre, and we exist to find ways to support low- and moderate-income workers to be financially secure, both today and into retirement.
We believe that we can do that by building the evidence base that others can use to implement change at scale. Our ambitious research and impact programme focuses on building the evidence for what really works to help improve financial security. In the process, we also work to understand how those solutions can be implemented at scale, across public policy, regulatory and market spheres.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles and we particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnicity, LGBTQ+, and disabled candidates.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you’re applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
 
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. 

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.