Description
Communications Manager
£ - Competitive
Communication Manager urgently required by a leading Government Agency based in London, responsible for leading engagement requirements with stakeholders and as part of a multidisciplinary delivery team - creating briefing and communications materials for inter-team and cross-government engagement.
Communication Manager - Essential Skills
- Experience of communicating complex and challenging messages and devising engagement strategies in a fast-paced and complicated environment
- Experience of managing change, building and developing stakeholder relationships that deliver business transformation in a complex landscape, including addressing issues promptly and effectively
- Having demonstrable knowledge of how government works, as well as digital environment
- Demonstrable experience of working in a culture of continuous delivery and improvement.
- An understanding of the role effective stakeholder engagement and communications plays in agile delivery, user centric design, user research, content strategy, digital transactions and digital transformation
- Proven experience balancing changing priorities and dealing with ambiguity
- Experience of working alongside other engagement specialists to deliver the aims of the programme, including commissioning work from external teams
- Proven experience of embedding change management into an organisation
- Proven experience using agile project management methods
- Experience of being part of a multidisciplinary team
- Examples of previous plain English engagement materials and communication content such as blogs, briefings, speeches, internal presentations, relationship management materials etc
Communication Manager - Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of key stakeholders involved in wider departmental digital transformation activity across Whitehall (GDS, MoJ, HMRC, DWP etc)
- Ability to use design, image and video editing software
- Previous experience in a government transformation programme
If you an experienced Communications Manager with experience in Government, apply now for immediate consideration.