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