Employee Engagement and Wellbeing Lead

This is an exciting opportunity to join Ofgem as our Employee Engagement and Wellbeing Lead, taking ownership of a high-profile agenda that directly influences how colleagues feel, connect and thrive at work.

Reporting to the Inclusion, Engagement & Wellbeing Manager, you will lead the delivery of Ofgem's employee engagement and wellbeing strategy, transforming insight into action and ensuring colleague voice remains at the heart of decision-making.

The successful candidate will be an experienced engagement and wellbeing professional who can confidently translate employee insight into practical solutions that improve culture, engagement and organisational performance.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the delivery and ongoing management of the organisation’s employee engagement and wellbeing strategy
• Plan and execute listening cycles, including surveys, pulses and focus groups
• Translate engagement and wellbeing data into targeted action plans
• Build manager capability and integrate engagement with recognition and wellbeing
• Develop compelling communications and campaigns

Key Responsibilities

• Engagement Strategy and Roadmap Delivery: Own and deliver the annual engagement & wellbeing plan aligned to organisational priorities, culture aims and Ofgem values
• Insights: Plan and run end-to-end listening cycles, generate clear insights and advise senior leaders on trends
• Culture, Inclusion & External Benchmarking: Act as the primary operational lead for engagement and wellbeing initiatives
• Capability, Recognition & Wellbeing Integration: Design and deliver manager toolkits and resources
• Communications and Campaigns: Lead the delivery of engagement and wellbeing campaigns and organisational initiatives

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• A signed-off annual engagement and wellbeing plan with clear KPIs, milestones and benefits tracking
• Delivered listening cycles with high participation and clear insight packs
• Function/department action plans with defined owners, timelines and success measures
• Assessments conducted - evaluating uptake and impact of engagement and wellbeing activities
• Communications - annual plan/calendar developed in conjunction with Internal Comms and wider HR colleagues

Key Skills and Capabilities

• Proven experience delivering employee engagement and wellbeing programmes with measurable improvement in a complex public sector environment
• Strong listening and analytics capability
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills
• Clear, compelling communication skills
• Understanding of how engagement links with inclusion, recognition and wellbeing to drive sustainable culture change

Benefits

• Salary: £35,232 - £48,561 per year
• Ofgem contributes £10,206 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave after 2 years
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office)
• Flexible working hours and family-friendly policies