Overview

What’s the role

Strategic Communications and Brand is an integrated team of communications, employee engagement, and brand professionals that combines compelling storytelling, creative content and data-led insights with media, campaign, and reputation strategy. The team engages employees to drive performance and tells Shell’s story to priority audiences, helping them understand the investment case, culture, values, decisions, and actions of the company. The Editor/Speechwriter is an experienced senior writer and editor within a cross-platform, multi-media Group Content team that produces creative ‘hero’ and day-to-day news-flow content for Shell’s corporate channel mix, campaigns and publications. You will support a single, core narrative for Shell, with a focus on integrating across teams to share a consistent story amplified across platforms and campaigns. This is an exciting time to join as we test new opportunities, foster a learner mindset, and embrace new ways of working.

What you’ll be doing

• Reporting to the Head of Group Content, the Editor/Speechwriter writes and edits content capable of delivering maximum impact across a wide range of media.
• The Editor/Speechwriter writes flagship speeches for Executive Committee (EC) members, aligning with the corporate narrative and maintaining a consistent tone of voice.
• The Editor/Speechwriter will be assigned to various EC members – including potentially the CEO – to write other external, cross-platform content. They’ll be required to adapt their writing style to suit a variety of voices across different mediums.
• The Editor/Speechwriter will be responsible for researching, planning and developing compelling content in support of external corporate campaigns and communications, or editing content developed by colleagues. They’ll work closely with the wider Group Content, Campaigns, Financial, Business and Internal Communications teams, and with agency support when required.
• The Editor/Speechwriter also helps develop the team’s capabilities, through mentorship of more junior colleagues and by supporting the delivery of internal courses to increase standards across the company.

What you bring

• Significant experience of writing and editing corporate and regulatory content, with a track record of high-quality, high-profile work often to tight deadlines.
• Significant experience of speechwriting for senior leaders in a corporate or government setting.
• Significant experience of working with senior stakeholders to research and distill complex topics into engaging, accurate content suitable for a variety of mediums and audiences.
• Highly collaborative, with extremely strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-starter able to operate amid ambiguity, and to be front-footed and proactive.
• Strong strategic-thinking skills and an ability to exercise sound judgement.
• Courage to try new initiatives and ways of working, to enable Shell to deliver content that cuts through.
• Demonstrate a learner mindset: role-model curiosity and reflection and encourage people to learn from their mistakes and successes.
• Enable the best possible performance by collaborating and working across teams to achieve maximum commercial value for Shell as a whole.

What we offer

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. To know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

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