# Senior Internal Communications Officer

**Company**: Croydon Council
**Location**: London Borough of Croydon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 51,738 - 53,919 per year
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Public Sector

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## Description

This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in how we communicate with and engage more than 3,500 employees across Croydon Council. You'll help colleagues understand our priorities, support organisational change, celebrate success and build a strong, connected workforce.

Working at the heart of the organisation, you'll provide strategic communications advice to senior leaders, develop high-impact campaigns and lead corporate engagement activities that support the council's priorities and help bring our culture and values to life.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Developing and delivering creative communications and engagement campaigns

- Providing strategic communications advice to directors, senior managers and project leads

- Planning and delivering corporate staff events, webinars and engagement activities

- Creating compelling content across digital and traditional channels, including video

- Supporting organisational change and improvement programmes through effective and timely communication

- Managing communications responses to corporate issues and reputational risks

- Measuring and evaluating communications activity to improve outcomes and demonstrate impact

- Supporting the Internal Communications Manager as a senior member of the team and helping to drive continuous improvement across the service.

**Requirements:**

- Substantial experience in internal communications, employee engagement or corporate communications

- Ability to provide confident strategic advice to senior leaders and stakeholders

- Outstanding writing skills with excellent attention to detail

- Experience managing complex communications projects from planning through to evaluation

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and handling competing priorities

- Ability to think creatively, challenge constructively and identify innovative ways to engage audiences

- Understanding of change communications and staff engagement best practice

- Experience producing content across a range of channels, including video and digital platforms

- Experience designing and delivering events and engagement activities

- Strong political awareness and sound judgement when dealing with sensitive issues.

**Benefits:**

- Fantastic benefits package

- Hybrid working policy

- Opportunity to work on high-profile corporate projects and influence organisational culture

## Skills

### Required
- internal communications
- employee engagement
- corporate communications
- strategic advice
- content creation
- project management
- event planning
- change management

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