Head of Internal Communications - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Homes England

Homes England

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £63,731 - £74,977
Job grade:

Other
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Communications / Marketing
Working pattern:
Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, NewcastleuponTyneAbout the job

Job summary:

As Homes England's Head of Internal Communications you'll play a pivotal role in helping to enhance collaboration, boost productivity, improve moral and motivation, build a sense of pride and belonging, and drive success in a truly purpose led organisation that's making a positive impact on lives.

Job description:

Leading a passionate, committed and talented team and working with colleagues and leaders from across the Agency, you will have the autonomy to shape how and what we communicate to our staff.

You will lead our efforts in amplifying our impact, shaping our narrative, and fostering meaningful connections with our stakeholders.

As a key part of this role will be raising the visibility of our leadership you'll need to be comfortable operating at the highest levels of Homes England, briefing our Chief Executive, Executive and Senior Leadership Teams as well as the Board on internal communications matters.

As well as overseeing business as usual communications such as Town Halls and staff bulletins, you will also be leading on the communications for some significant, high profile change initiatives that impact everyone at Homes England.

This is a significant and influential position for an outstanding communications leader to make an impact in an organisation that's at the centre of home and place making across England.

Person specification:

You will have a strong track record in internal communications and an excellent understanding of how it supports an organisation to achieve its goals at a similar level.

You would have led and delivered effective organisational internal communications campaigns that have supported business and behavioural change, demonstrating the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environments and effectively prioritise competing demands.

Excellent knowledge of internal communication effectiveness evaluation metrics and techniques will be essential, with a passion to use these to improve processes, ways of working and campaigns.

You will have experience of managing the delivery of employee events such as Town Halls and conferences.

You will be comfortable working with and briefing leaders at the Board and Executive levels and below in an organisation with formidable experience of building relationships across complex matrix organisations.

You will be able to have demonstrable experience of effective team leadership and management experience.

Benefits:

Homes England is an executive nondepartmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits.

Holiday

Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly

At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.

Health and Wellbeing

We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development

At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one jobrelated professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
If anyone has any queries on any of these terms and conditions, please get in touch for further information.

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Selection process details:

Two stage process
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment

Security:

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks

Nationality requirements:

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals

- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Icelan