Key responsibilities:
- Deliver the communications and change management plan
- Work with the project teams to provide strategic and tactical communications guidance to support successful project delivery
- Partner with a range of stakeholders (i.e. senior leaders, project teams, local communications leads, and employees) to craft messaging and narratives that contextualise the project activities and builds understanding, support and action amongst employees.
- With our communications team, maintain our internal
communications plans and create and schedule content across our key
internal channels.
- Work to shape and offer best practice around improving change management activity and internal communications.
What will you bring to the role?
Essential skills:
- Knowledge of internal communication and change communications best
practice, and comfortable at forming plans that drive real results
- Ability to effectively prioritise in a fast-changing environment
- Excellent stakeholder management skills. You'll be as comfortable talking
to one of our factory workers on the shop floor as you will be working with
those in the C-suite
Desirable skills:
- A relevant professional qualification (CIPR/IOIC/CIM/PRCA etc) is highly
desirable
- Experience advising complex, matrixed organisations on major change
programmes and initiatives
- Familiarity with digital communications methods e.g. video and use of
Adobe software (e.g. Photoshop, Premier Pro etc.) or a willingness to learn
new skills in this space
- Autonomous, resilient and have resolve to drive change and seek opportunity for
improvements
- Ability to think creatively and wisely and your influential personality
- Previous experience of writing, editing and creating content across multiple
digital and face to face channels including internal news announcements,
newsletters, and face to face forums like town halls
- Proofreading and attention to detail
- The communications expertise to identify communications themes topics and content from projects teams and employees, and translate these into activities that support change communications.
