Head of Remediation Comms and Briefings - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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3 weeks ago

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- £61,599
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Grade 6
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Future Remediation Schemes, Levies and Leaseholder Voice
    Type of role:
  • Communications / Marketing
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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  • Bristol, Darlington, London, Nottingham, WolverhamptonAbout the job

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Our work affects the entire population: the financial interests of hundreds of thousands; the health of major parts of the economy; and the legacy we leave subsequent generations.

The remediation programme was established following the Grenfell Tower fire to make sure that buildings are safe, and that residents feel safe in them, now and in the future.


Remediation work began six years ago, first prioritising fixing buildings with Grenfell-type ACM cladding before expanding to high-rise and medium-rise buildings with unsafe cladding as the scale of the challenge has grown.

It is an exciting time to join us in meeting the challenge. There is a high level of ministerial engagement, public and media interest.

As the Head of Remediation Communications and Safer Greener Buildings Briefings you will lead thematic policy announcements; identify opportunities to ensure that we can tell the best story possible; lead internal remediation comms to ensure the portfolio is well informed; and lead the group-wide briefings team to support ministerial and senior stakeholder and parliamentary activity.

The briefings team sits in the very centre of the Group, providing a critical function in translating its work into clear, robust and high-quality briefing products and PQ responses for our ministers, senior officials and others.

This supports effective engagement with stakeholders and parliament.

We are a small and friendly team and are looking for an enthusiastic team player who will guide the team as they work collaboratively and supportively with wider departmental colleagues.


Job description:


You will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic communications strategies and working with the departmental comms team and other relevant teams to implement plans.

This will include digital communications, insight, press office, policy and operational teams, and private offices.

You will need to build excellent relationships with them to deliver effective comms and briefing products that have the desired impact.

You will enjoy being on top of, and alive to, a wide range of issues, and be able to translate this into succinct high quality written products.

This is a visible role that will best suit applicants who can thrive under pressure, manage competing priorities, have excellent written skills, handle complex policy, and engage confidently with Ministers and senior stakeholders across Whitehall.

It is a great opportunity to play a leading role in delivering on a critical government priority, as well as creating a supportive, inclusive and effective team culture.

We are looking for someone who is brave and not afraid to develop new and creative approaches to storytelling, ensuring that we're continually testing and learning and increasing the impact of our messages to achieve our objectives.


Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Developing and maintaining a single, consistent portfolio narrative. This will form the basis of multiple products and be utilised by teams. You will ensure message discipline across the group and explain our intention to key audiences.
  • Overseeing the Safer Greener Buildings briefings team in supporting Ministers and senior officials in their parliamentary appearances and stakeholder meetings. You will be responsible for ensuring concise and informative crosscutting briefing products are drafted and delivered for ministers and senior stakeholders and for coordinating responses to Parliamentary Questions.
  • Work closely with the central comms team to set strategic direction for remediation comms and support the ongoing development of an overarching remediation comms strategy to achieve objectives and reflect diverse stakeholder needs.
  • Identify communications opportunities, providing strategic communications advice and oversight to identify and drive the delivery of policy announcements. You will be adept at recognising opportunities and then, working with DLUHC comms, putting in place plans to turn these into strong announcements to demonstrate delivery.
  • Lead the coordination of crosscutting remediation announcements.
  • Promote best practice across the remediation portfolio. Playing a leading role in upskilling the wider remediation portfolio in communications and briefings.
  • As a key spokesperson for our senior leadership team you will be responsible for engaging with our senior
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