Senior Communications Officer - Southampton, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty
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Southampton, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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About the role
Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further - generations further.

Join our Living Places team as a
Senior Communications Officer and you'll be part of our legacy.


What you'll be doing
As a
Senior Communications Officer, you will have the following accountabilities:

  • Work closely assisting the Business Manager, you will be responsible for delivering a best practice service that ensures customer and colleague advocacy, adds value and supports the delivery of agreed KPI's.
  • Enhance and protect the reputation of the Southampton HSP through the delivery of an effective communications and community engagement strategy
  • Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with key stakeholders and have respect to act as an trusted adviser on communications matters
  • Embed a 'customerled' approach and support delivery of project/regulatory KPI's
  • To lead and manage the communications team

Who we're looking for

The following skills/qualities are essential:

  • Bachelor's Degree OR equivalent higher education/postgraduate industry qualification in marketing, public relations or communications OR over 2 years experience in a similar role.
  • Experience of working on construction/civil engineering infrastructure projects
  • Excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills
  • Self starter with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines
  • Strong community relations and stakeholder management experience
  • Team player with ability to influence and negotiate
  • Strong analysis and problem solving skills
  • Good understanding of the media including social media
  • Ability to manage, engage and develop direct reports
  • Experience of delivering informative and engaging presentations to different audiences
  • Continually searches for ways to add value and take performance to the next level
  • Proactively builds knowledge through sharing ideas and expertise with others
  • A clean driving licence and willingness to travel
  • Experience with using creative software including Adobe Creative Suite, Canva etc to produce images and footage for use across the business.
  • Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office

Desirable:


  • Member of CIPR and relevant qualification
  • Valid CSCS card

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.


About us

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise.

The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.


Living Places works in partnership with local authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.


We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed.

Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street:

a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely.

Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.


As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.


Job Reference:
BBUK05891
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