What you’ll be doing
Are you a creative communications professional who is passionate about making trusted information accessible and engaging? As Communications Manager for the House of Commons Library and POST, you'll play a key role in ensuring that MPs, their staff and wider audiences can easily discover and engage with the impartial research, analysis and information that supports parliamentary democracy.
Working within the Communications and Engagement team, you'll develop and deliver proactive communications campaigns, create compelling content across a range of channels, manage social media and newsletters, and identify innovative ways to promote the Library and POST's services and publications. You'll work closely with researchers, stakeholders and colleagues across Parliament to translate complex information into clear, engaging communications that resonate with diverse audiences.
This is a varied, fast-paced and rewarding role, offering the opportunity to work at the heart of UK Parliament, helping to ensure that reliable, impartial information remains central to democratic decision-making.
This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with an expectation of you spending 40% of your time in the office.
Find out more about working at the House of Commons.
Why Join us?
In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including but not limited to:
- Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 after one full working year.
- Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Flexible working options that help you find a balance including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave, caring leave and alternative working patterns.
What we’re looking for
- Your excellent written and spoken communications skills enable you to present complex information in a clear, accessible, and engaging way to different audiences using your excellent communication skills and are committed to upholding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion at all times.
- You have experience of working with different communication channels and understand how different channels can reach diverse audiences in different ways. Your creative flair means that you can devise engaging and appealing targeted content. You rely on evaluation to adapt and improve your approach.
- You can plan and manage workstreams, projects or programmes of work. You are highly motivated and understand how to prioritise effectively. You deliver on outcomes by taking responsibility for resolving issues and making improvements.
- Your outstanding stakeholder management skills allow you to engage effectively with customers and colleagues. You have the confidence to negotiate and persuade sensitively.
- Your political awareness gives you a good understanding of reputational risk, and you are confident in acting impartially.
How to Apply
CV & Criteria 1: To apply for this role, we would like you to write about a communications campaign you've taken a lead role on and that you are proud of.
In your answer to Criteria 1 (Communications Experience), please tell us:
- How you designed the content so that it was right for your audience.
- What did you do to make your content stand out?
- Which channels did you use and why? Which techniques did you use to evaluate your work
- If you could do it again, what would you do differently?
You have 500 words to tell us about your best communications work – we will use your answer to understand whether you meet the first criteria: communications experience. We want to hear about what you did, why and what the results were, so you may want to use the STAR technique help structure your answer. Please do read the application support pack before writing your application, as it will tell you more about what we are looking for.
When you access the application portal to apply, the criteria question as set out above will not be visible. Instead, you will be presented with a box labelled Criterion 1 – this is where you will insert your answer. Please refer to this job description or the application support pack and ensure you answer the question.
Once you have submitted your application, and the recruitment has closed, all candidates will also be asked to take an online verbal reasoning test.
If you are shortlisted for interview, the interview questions will be shared with you in advance.
Information Session
As part of the process, we will be running virtual information sessions on MS Teams for you to find out more about this role.
These sessions will be on:
- Tuesday 4 August, 15:00-16:00
- Wednesday 12 August, 13:00-14.00
To register to attend, please book your slot via Eventbrite here. If you are an internal staff member, please email Georgia Pearse (Recruitment Advisor) to receive the Teams invite.
Additional Information
Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.
Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.
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