Internal Communications Team Leader - London, United Kingdom - Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Reference number:

Salary:

- £52,168 - £68,510

London: £57,239 £68,510, National: £52,168 £63,195
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:

Grade 7

G7 Communications Specialist
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DWP
Communications
Type of role:
Communications / Marketing
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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About the job

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Location

Leeds, London, SheffieldAbout the job

Job summary:

DWP Communications plays a critical role in managing the reputation of the UK's biggest government department.

We're a busy, highly-skilled, supportive community of experts delivering internal and external communications across a range of high profile issues.

Our Internal Communications team is recognised across government as setting the standard for best practice, supporting our Permanent Secretary and leadership teams to engage colleagues across DWP.

We're looking for an exceptional leader to head up one of our pivotal Internal Communications teams, promoting and enabling effective two-way communications and people engagement across the organisation.

Job description:

You will:

Act as a trusted advisor, providing strategic advice and coaching to the Permanent Secretary, Executive Team and other senior decision makers to ensure our communications resonate with colleagues, using professional gravitas, insight and creativity to secure buyin and deliver results
Provide effective communications businesspartnering to organisational units comprising tens of thousands of colleagues, and represent internal communications on departmental change programmes
Be the creative, transformative and digitally focused driving force behind planning, delivery and measurement of effective twoway campaigns that engage our people, leading your team to ensure quality control and delivery against tight deadlines
Provide collaborative leadership across the team and wider organisation to develop and deliver integrated communications activity, ensuring effective fit with organisational vision, external campaigns, broader government priorities and the external climate
Provide clear direction, support and motivation to your team while investing in their development and ensuring their wellbeing
Ensure that your team's internal communications are shaped by insight and evidence, and use rigorous evaluation to inform current and future engagement strategies.

Person specification:

Essential Criteria

A track record in leading planning and delivery of
innovative, creative internal communication strategies that draw on insight and deliver results
(Lead 1):
Evidence of being able to develop
positive and productive relationships with senior stakeholders, providing expert advice, support and challenge
(Lead 2):
Proven experience of
successful people leadership, including the ability to inspire and engage multilocation and multidisciplinary teams and wider stakeholders
(Lead 3):
An eye for detail and first class
written and oral communication skills and experience of managing a range of channels, with a strong eye for detail on own and others' work
Ability to
operate within a complex organisational and strategic context, including strong political judgement

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Flexibility and resilience, with the ability to support and inspire others to adapt to change and deliver at pace and to high standards

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Working Together
Leadership

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Insight
Ideas
Implementation
Impact

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £52,168, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £14,085 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
25 days annual leave allowance in year one. This may vary for existing civil servants based on their number of years' service

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
2. Interview

A 'blended' interview lasting around 45 minutes to 1 hour will test a mix of behaviours, technical skills and strengths: