About You
Skills:
- The ability to develop and deliver engaging internal communications campaigns, aligned with strategic business objectives across a range of communications channels to a wide and varied audience.
- The ability to produce and present information, through a range of mediums, to a variety of stakeholders and to engage and respond to queries and requests in a way that fosters collaboration.
- The ability to plan, execute and complete projects to agreed deadlines and required quality standards.
- The ability to influence and negotiate with senior internal stakeholders.
- The ability to engage and communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Ability to understand and promote complex and sensitive issues in a persuasive way to different audience groups.
- The ability to manage online channels including intranets and e-newsletters, along with video capture and editing skills.
- Events management skills, including logistics, planning, technical requirements and delivery.
- The ability to independently manage and deliver individual and functional goals.
- Ability to work in a consistently evolving organization.
Knowledge
- Working knowledge of the development, delivery and measurement of best practice internal communications and its role in enhancing business performance.
- Knowledge of new and emerging internal communications tools, techniques and channels as well as evaluation techniques and practices.
- Knowledge of best practice employee engagement approaches, including survey processes, change management practices, tools and techniques.
- Project management tools and application within corporate communications.
- Knowledge of public affairs, media relations, corporate communications, community engagement, social media and campaigns.
Type of Experience
- Experience at senior management level developing and delivering comprehensive, evidence-based internal communications and engagement strategies and plans aligned with wider business objectives.
- Experience working on large-scale transformation programmes and using change impact analysis to inform appropriate communication approach.
- Experience of developing and delivering engagement campaigns.
- Providing counsel on internal corporate communications and engagement to Executives and senior leaders across large, complex, fast-paced matrix organisations.
- Development, delivery, and measurement of internal communications and resources planning, defining the processes and structures required to achieve success.
- Experience delivering high quality engagement communications to agreed deadlines.
- Experience of designing and writing content for a range of internal communications channels.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
