We’re hiring: Communications Associate – now closed

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Job title: Communications Associate

Proposed salary: £55,000 depending on skills and experience, plus a generous benefits package.

Location: Flexible location within the UK, with the expectation of attending our central London office at least two-to-three days a week, including Mondays.

Reports to: Strategic Communications Lead. 

If you are interested in this position, but salary or location is a barrier to you applying, please get in touch with our team to discuss as we may be able to offer some flexibility based on individual circumstances.

For any questions, please send an email to: hiring@longtermresilience.org

Full Details:

About CLTR

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) is a UK-based, non-profit and independent think tank with a mission to transform global resilience to extreme risks. We achieve this by working with governments and institutions, offering targeted, evidence-based advice designed to enhance understanding, decision-making and governance.

At CLTR, we focus on three prioritised policy areas that, when addressed effectively, can substantially reduce both present and prospective catastrophic threats: i) biosecurity, ii) artificial intelligence, and iii) improving how governments manage extreme risks.

What You’ll Do

The Communications Associate will play a key, hands-on role at the heart of CLTR’s communications function. Around 70% of your time will be focused on the strategic communications function — supporting audience engagement, digital content and media monitoring — with the remaining 30% contributing to CLTR’s wider organisational communications to engage key policy and fundraising stakeholders.

Your role will include:

• Contributing to the management of CLTR’s communications and advocacy calendar, ensuring activity is well-planned, coordinated and on-brand.
• Implementing and managing CLTR’s social media strategy across platforms — tracking engagement, optimising content performance and scaling digital reach.
• Producing high-quality written and multimedia content, including social media posts, graphics, short-form video and written copy.
• Leading CLTR’s bespoke media monitoring service — producing weekly reports and analysis capturing relevant news and social media activity, with recommendations for engagement and tracking the impact of key voices. Over time, this service will expand to support the broader UK AI safety and biosecurity ecosystem.
• Monitoring the media landscape for key moments, launches and emerging trends, sharing insights to inform team decisions.
• Serving as champion and guardian of CLTR’s refreshed brand and brand guidelines across all channels, ensuring guidelines are adhered to and updating and leading training and support on brand toolkits. 
• Liaising with teams and partners to share learnings and help policy unit teams engage their target audiences more effectively.
• Analysing and reporting on audience, channel and impact metrics across CLTR’s communications — including executive communications, social media and stakeholder engagement.
• Contributing to a vibrant CLTR team culture, providing and welcoming clear and constructive feedback.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in a communications agency, in-house communications team, or a communications-related role.
• Strong digital literacy and fluency across social media platforms, content management systems and AI tools, with the ability to learn new software rapidly.
• Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills — including a talent for translating complex technical and policy material into clear, compelling content for a range of audiences.
• Experience using AI tools to support work efficiencies — including building custom prompts and working with tools such as Claude, Gemini, Midjourney and WordPress.
• Outstanding attention to detail and strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• A proactive, ownership-driven approach — you follow through on commitments, adapt quickly, and don’t wait to be told what needs doing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to to communicate clearly, kindly and directly — giving and receiving feedback openly, and building strong relationships across teams and with external partners.
• A genuine commitment to CLTR’s mission, and to reducing extreme AI and biological risks.

Salary and Benefits: £55,000, depending on experience. However, we would be open to considering a higher salary for a truly exceptional candidate. If you are interested in this position, but the salary is a barrier to applying, please get in touch with our team to discuss.

In addition to your salary, CLTR offers a generous benefits package which includes:

• 30 days annual leave, plus public holidays;
• £5,000 (before tax) annual wellbeing budget, for you to spend at your discretion on items such as gym membership, therapy, meditation, etc.;
• £3,000 annual learning and development budget, plus up to five days paid work time;
• £2,000 onboarding grant for equipment and supplies;
• A pension contribution scheme (up to 7% employer-matched contribution);
• Private health insurance;
• Group life insurance;
• Generous parental leave benefits; and
• Paid office lunches twice a week including on Mondays.

Working with CLTR also comes with a commitment to caring deeply about your wellbeing, career development and overall experience working with our team, and to respect your preferred working patterns, including flexible working hours as agreed with line managers, wherever possible.

Location and Travel Requirements

Flexible location within the UK, with the expectation of attending our central London office at least twice-to-three times a week, including Mondays. However, we may be open to exploring remote working arrangements in exceptional circumstances for a limited period of time.

Application Process

Joining our team at CLTR involves a thorough but straightforward and transparent application process. Here is what a successful candidate is likely to experience and do:

Initial: Submit your application before Friday 15 May. 

Stage 1: Complete a timed remote work assessment.

Stage 2: Interview, after which we’ll conduct a reference check.

Email invitations and any process updates will be sent to all candidates who progress at each stage. If we decide to make adjustments during the hiring process we will keep candidates well-informed via email. Our goal is to complete all stages and make an offer by Monday 8 June 2026.

If you’re on the fence about applying or have further questions about the role or process, we strongly recommend getting in touch with us at hiring@longtermresilience.org. 

As an employer we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also warmly welcome applicants returning to work after career breaks.

Reasonable Adjustments

It’s really important that all candidates who have the potential to succeed at CLTR are provided with an equitable experience in the application process. So if you require adjustments to provide you with the best opportunity to succeed through our hiring process, please feel free to contact hiring@longtermresilience.org at any stage.

Please be assured that adjustments are seen as part of creating a fair environment at CLTR, and will not influence decision-making in our selection process. Adjustments may include (but aren’t limited to!): compensation for travel expenses to attend interviews, additional time or accessibility support for tasks in the selection process, or other adjustments in the way the hiring process is run.