Description
Job Title: Communications Lead
Location: London (Hybrid)
Job Type: 6 months
Rate: £600+
IR35: OUTSIDE
ROLE OVERVIEW
- Providing communication leadership at programme and workstream level
- Maintaining established communication strategy and plans
- Collaborating with wider change, comms, engagement and training community
- Engaging with key communications stakeholders
- Creating core collateral and toolkits to support comms and engagement
- Supporting delivery of stakeholder comms as per programme/workstream plans
- Drivingcomms in line with the programmelifecycle and aligned to each phase and wave:
- Process and organisation design
- People and org transition
- Enabling technology implementation
- Other key linked transformation initiatives across Finance, HR and Procurement
DELIVERABLES
Ongoing
- Coordinate the implementation of the overall programme communications strategy
- Create and guide execution of detailed workstream communications plans
- Review, update and maintain workstream stakeholder and audience analysis
- Establish strategic communications platforms (Sharepoint, Teams, Yammer, Stream)
- Follow programme communications principles, including the use of a consistent programme identity and channels and contribution to an integrated comms plan
- Align to the approaches, standards, brand guidelines and methodology of the existing Internal Communications team
- Work closely with the Internal Communications Team, Change and Training Teams, ensuring that the communication and training plans are aligned and where possible, integrated
As needed
- Engage with functional and business leadership, change and transition leads
- Attend regular programme team meetings
- Maintain content
Weekly/Fortnightly
- Co-chair the Comms & Business Engagement Board, especially where key decisions and actions are needed
- Attend Status Update Meeting to report on communications to programme leadership including progress against plan, status, risks, issues and key decisions
Monthly
- Track and report on comms effectiveness
- Produce programme townhall(s)
- Co-ordinate production of programme newsletter