Stakeholder Engagement Lead - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Companies House

Companies House

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Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £40,676 - £46,120-
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer
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Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
External Communications
Type of role:
Communications / Marketing
Working pattern:
Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZAbout the job

Job summary:

This role is ideal for someone who is looking for an interesting and rewarding stakeholder engagement role with part time hours.

It's an exciting opportunity to work within an award-winning communications team in the heart of a vibrant and modern organisation.

Working within the external affairs team in the external communications department, this role is perfect for an experienced stakeholder engagement practitioner, who thrives when working in a fast-paced environment.

Companies House is going through its biggest transformation since 1844, with significant legislative changes on the horizon, via the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.

Our changing role is of interest to a wide range of external stakeholders.

Using your sophisticated engagement skills, you will co-lead on our stakeholder engagement activity, ensuring that we have two-way dialogue with the right stakeholders at the right time.

Working in a small stakeholder engagement team, you will be responsible for leading on some of our projects whilst overseeing and supporting other projects.

You will liaise closely with senior leaders as well as with our policy and external affairs colleagues at the Department for Business and Trade (BaT).

You will be experienced in drafting comprehensive briefing notes in plain English for stakeholder forums and conferences. You will also be adept at writing strategies, lines to take, presentations and evaluation documents.

This is a really interesting time to work at Companies House. Come and join our team and help shape our story.

Job description:

You will be responsible for:

Delivering cross-cutting engagement

Supporting and mapping strategic engagement to better inform communications activity, coordinate messaging, share insight and intelligence, and build awareness and understanding of the changes resulting from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.
Creating, delivering, monitoring and managing plans to ensure effective engagement with stakeholders across different sectors and functions.
Ensuring a joinedup approach to crosscutting policy issues and ensuring updates are shared with stakeholders in a strategic way.
Identifying work areas where stakeholder insight could add real value to policy thinking and the consideration of service changes. Encouraging a culture of seeking stakeholder insight and using it across the organsiation.
Act as the engagement lead for specific sectors, while maintaining an overview of and advising direct reports on activity for other sectors.
Supporting leads for other sectors and providing support across the team to deliver key activity.
Ensuring the team works with flexibility and collaboration in order that new priorities can be allocated and the workload remains fairly distributed.

Leading the stakeholder engagement team

Alongside your job share counterpart, you will provide visible leadership and strategic direction for the stakeholder engagement function, giving a clear sense of direction and purpose for direct report.
Develop and nurture talent through effective and clear leadership.
Ensure appropriate collaboration and insight sharing with other communications functions (e.g. campaigns, press and creative teams).

Relationship management

Develop productive working relationships with policy implementation and service delivery teams to understand their priorities, structures, policies and desired outcomes, and agree on areas to communicate with stakeholders.
Develop strong relationships with colleagues at BaT and across government
Build professional relationships with stakeholder contacts based on honesty, authority and credibility.
Good influencing skills: ability to work with and advise senior colleagues on engagement issues, make decisions about appropriate activities and offer constructive challenge where necessary.
Ensure the stakeholder relationship management system is used effectively and that its insight helps to identify trends or potential issues.

Reputation monitoring

You will deliver a robust stakeholder listening function to identify and tackle emerging risks and opportunities. You will also report quarterly stakeholder analysis to Companies House's Main Board.
You will undertake wider horizon scanning to identify relevant external factors.
You will analyse the results of an annual stakeholder reputation survey and recommend actions to take.

Proactive stakeholder communications