Deputy Exports Strategy Comms Lead


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£42,391 - £50,282
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Birmingham
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Aug 2026
Closing date:	15 Aug 2026

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Summary

The Department for Business, Science, Innovation, and Trade (BIST) is responsible for driving sustainable economic growth and connecting investment, trade, innovation and place to create opportunities for people and communities across the whole of the UK. The Department works closely with partners across government, devolved government, industry bodies, and businesses to deliver the UK’s trade and economic priorities.

The Domestic and International Markets and Export (DIME) Group within BIST plays a vital role in advising, supporting, and promoting UK businesses to grow and export, delivering economic growth through our services and policy interventions across the UK and overseas.

The Exports Strategy team, within DIME, works closely with policy, ministerial, and delivery colleagues to translate complex policy into accessible and compelling messaging for a range of audiences, including businesses and trade associations. Through targeted engagement activity, the team builds and maintains relationships with key stakeholders across the UK and internationally, ensuring that BIST’s work is informed by business insight and that stakeholders are equipped to benefit from government support. The team also contributes to cross-government communications, ensuring alignment and coherence in messaging on economic growth and trade.

By combining strategic communications with proactive stakeholder engagement, the team supports the Department in increasing awareness, understanding, and uptake of its services, ultimately contributing to the UK’s economic growth, global competitiveness, and trade ambitions.

Strategy: Support a communications strategy for the Exports Directorate, and ensure this is supported by monitoring and reporting of stakeholder comment.

Proactive communications leadership: Identify and drive forward strategic communications opportunities, anticipating upcoming announcements or policy developments and ensuring the team is well-positioned to maximise impact.

Relationship building: Establish and maintain a network of external stakeholders in the comms space, ensuring effective delivery of Exports messaging through the right channels.

Creative communications: Lead the development of innovative communications approaches, using insight and judgement to shape how complex policy and departmental priorities are translated into clear, compelling narratives for target audiences.

Content development: Draft and oversee the development of clear, compelling, and high-quality communications products, including maintaining Exports Strategy's core lines, strategic briefings, lines to take, stakeholder communications, and campaign materials, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with departmental priorities.

Campaigns: Contribute to cross-cutting communications campaigns, ensuring Exports narrative is included in the planning and delivery to reach the end audience.

Collaboration: Work collegiately across the Department to maximise resource and initiatives where appropriate, ensuring communications activity of Exports is aligned with other comms teams, particularly DIME’s Briefing Hub, DBT’s Comms Directorate, and Post.

Continuous improvement and innovation: Drive improvements in communications outputs and processes, championing new ideas, tools, and ways of working to enhance the effectiveness and reach of the team’s activity.

Undertake continuous personal development, including 100% compliance with Minimum standards and mandatory learning, office attendance, and the DBT learning academy to meet role-specific requirements but keep abreast of wider economic, political and other environmental factors. To champion learning, value diversity, respect colleagues, and drive delivery of DBT and HMG objectives at all times. Have full responsibility for driving personal performance conversations and leading team members where applicable.

Participation in wider-BIST corporate activities and be an active and energetic member of the BIST community, both more widely and in the hub location where you are based and have a vested interest in the leadership and success of the organisation and teams more widely as well as your own team.

Additional duties may also be required in line with business need, these can include but are not restricted to assisting with local or national events, accompanying customers or Ministers on visits domestically or overseas, and attending events as BIST ambassadors, upholding professional standards and embodying a positive experience of the department internally and externally.

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