Internal Communications Coordinator - Templecombe, United Kingdom - Thales

Thales

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Templecombe, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Description

Location:
Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission.

Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air.

Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer.

We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.

Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

UWS UK Internal Communications Coordinator

Templecombe / Cheadle
Are you a skilled internal communications individual with a passion for creating communities at work and connecting people to their purpose in an engaging and effective way? Do you want to use your creative skills to inspire and motivate teams? If you do, read on

What we can offer you in this role:

The chance to use your creative skills to source, write, edit and publish content
An opportunity to develop your communications and event management skills
Ability to generate engagement activities that promote inclusivity, a community feel and drive

- engagement

Our Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Internal Communications Coordinator, to join the Under Water Systems [UWS] business within Thales UK.

This role focuses on providing internal communications delivery expertise to the business as well as communications and engagement events and activities.

Designed to generate great engagement and involvement, you'll help create an environment where employees feel connected and like they belong so that they can give their best each day.

You'll report directly to the Head of the Business Support team with support from the UK Internal Communications Business Partner.

This role will work closely with UWS UK leadership team, other stakeholders and external suppliers.

Day to day you'll

Be a team player and share best practice across the functional team and UWS UK team
Lead and deliver employee wellbeing and fun events & activities across UWS UK sites to create a sense of belonging and community [Templecombe, Cheadle, Crawley, Bristol]

Including:

New Year Event
Family Day to be arranged for summer 202
Poseidon Refurbishment activities
Create, deliver and maintain fresh, engaging & interesting wall art and electronic & physical collateral including up to date information on TV screens across UWS UK sites. This includes the deployment of UK and Group wide collateral. [Templecombe, Cheadle, Crawley, Bristol]
Source, write and edit internal content and publish across a range of channels, ensuring that all
UWS UK and Thales UK messaging and vision & strategy.
Create, gain sign off to the UWS UK Fortnightly Newsletter sending these out via Easycom
Provide logístical and delivery support for UWS UK Employee Briefings and communication events
Physical and virtual [invites, connection details, collateral, room booking, AV etc.]
Update and maintain the UWS UK Intranet pages including:
Overall UWS UK Intranet Pages
Cheadle Heath ) site pages.
Templecombe site pages
Maintain the monthly UWS UK and Site distribution lists [Templecombe, Cheadle, Crawley, Bristol]
MS Teams Comms
Manage Cheadle Site MS Teams Channel and sub channels
Manage Templecombe Site MS Teams Channel and sub channels

This role will require SC Clearance.

It would be advantageous if currently held; if not currently held it is expected that the post holder will undergo SC Clearance, please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

About you:

You're an excellent communicator both written and oral, demonstrating strong business acumen, with the ability to collaborate at all levels of the organisation.

A creative storyteller who motivates people to achieve, is outcome focused and measured. Encourages and facilitates a culture of dialogue amongst all audiences. Is proactive and gets out there to understand how our people think and feel.

To be successful in this role, it's essential you have a strong knowledge of what good engagement looks like, internal communication channels, event management and business as usual communications activities.

You'll need to be able to demonstrate your experience and understanding of business requirements to s