Douglas Keith Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Pandemic Response Unit - Adult Social Care - Directorate for Social Care and Mental Health• Managing and supporting pandemic social care work programmes, eg. roll out of Covid-19 testing and engagement with national and local stakeholders.• Leading and directing the activity of the Core Briefing and Correspondence team.• Producing high quality briefing packs for Ministers on a range of subjects often at short notice to tight timelines.• Respond to enquiries from members of the public, adult social care workers, businesses, MPs and MSPs on a wide-ranging area of matters relating to adult social care.• Work closely with Scottish Government Communications colleagues, ensuring that lines provided to the media accurately reflect current adult social care policy.• Liaise with many areas of Government to provide the best possible information to those who request it.• Managing and ensuring the quality of the daily SitRep and core brief on behalf of the Care Home Division.• Drafting Ministerial responses to Parliamentary Questions.• Carrying out detailed and thorough investigation of Freedom of Information requests.• Provide line management and support to junior colleagues.

Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

• Coordinate Network Rail’s response to parliamentary questions and ministerial correspondence – ensuring consistency and protecting the organisations reputation. • Lead on the development of Network Rail’s post-Covid-19 stakeholder communication and engagement strategy.• Developed a program of virtual MP and MSP drop-in sessions and site visits.• Supporting the Senior team and other departments to liaise and network with key stakeholders and elected representatives by providing research and briefings, attending meetings/events and recording follow-up actions as required.• Organise and provide secretariat support to the Cross-Party Group on Rail.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Lead on VisitScotland’s contribution to PQs, Ministerial correspondence and briefings in order to facilitate a positive relationship with the Scottish Government.• Manage VisitScotland's contribution to parliamentary projects including Parliamentary Committee work, the Cross Party Group on Tourism, and programme of communication, including briefings for Parliamentary debates and production of quarterly e-newsletter.• Lead on the development of VisitScotland corporate policy statements by identifying issues and by working in consultation with key departments and stakeholders and ensure that these are communicated effectively to key corporate audiences.• Provide operational support to the Chief Executive and Chairman. This includes supporting delivery of the annual listening tour activity and stakeholder engagement events.• Management of the organisation’s obligations under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, collating information from colleagues across the organisation, applying exemptions, liaising with legal advisors and managing VisitScotland’s relationship with the Office of the Information Commissioner.• The development of key corporate information for visitscotland.org, ensuring effective communication of the business plan, corporate questions and answers and other information is updated in order to ensure VisitScotland’s key corporate messages are communicated externally.• Provide support to the management of corporate complaints and general enquiries.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Provide input and assist in delivering the Content Marketing strategy specific to all global content for core messaging.• Ensure all online content is search engine friendly, work with Content Marketing colleagues and specifically the retained agency and internal team to ensure all website and online e-marketing channels for content are developed and designed in consistent content optimised manner, are user friendly and critically, that the assets are shareable• Develop cohesive content messaging to include written content, imagery, video and social messaging. • Use creativity and innovation to deliver original and relevant content, providing copywriting, editing and proof reading skills and providing a good user experience for all online visitors and recipients of VisitScotland’s communications.• Deliver global content for key areas such as: editorial press, websites, video content, e-newsletters, online publishing and digital brochures, mobile, blogs, forums, events, product sections of the website and mobile.

Edinburgh

• Political and media monitoring. • Archiving media packs.• Report writing / copy writing.• Creating media lists / databases.• Research / analysis• Assisting with routine media activities.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Summarising news stories from newspapers, radio and television in an accurate and timely fashion, picking up all mentions of clients.• Processing selected articles to agreed standards.• Content delivery to clients, via the website and other delivery mechanisms.• Managing outsourced and other external content with speed and accuracy.• Handling client delivery and quality control responsibilities, delivering articles to agreed deadlines.• Maintaining and updating knowledge of client requirements, the media environment and working procedures.• Writing clear, concise summaries according to the individual client briefs.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Creating and maintaining databases.• Drafting letter of support / writing press releases and copy writing.• Assisting with routine media activities.• Research.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Reading of publications accurately to agreed time targets.• Content delivery to clients, via the website.• Research duties for Reform Scotland reports.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Researching policy initiatives.• Media monitoring.• Compiling reports. • Collating statistics. • Writing Parliamentary briefs.

Specialist Diploma (Public Affairs), Public Affairs

Ma (Hons), History