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SalaryAre you a confident strategic leader, who is experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams, in a fast paced and complex environment? Then this is the role for you.
The Synergy Programme represents a step change in how we’ll deliver corporate functions across Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Home Office (HO), Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which together make up almost half of the civil service.
The programme’s purpose is to enable better public services through better ways of working, supporting more than a quarter of a million officials and public servants who deliver some of the most vital and high-risk public services in our country. Synergy’s mission is to make working lives easier and help deliver crucial public services by providing systems that are smarter, faster, more intuitive, and are designed around the needs of the user.
We’re transforming the way we deliver corporate services in government, simplifying the way we do things, joining up functions, and showing how deep the benefits of partnership run.
Synergy’s objectives are to:
- Simplify and operate through an optimised Shared Services Centre
- Improve user experience
- Improve data quality and reporting
- Provide service continuity and foundation for service enhancements
- Demonstrate value for money
As Head of Stakeholder Engagement, you will lead a proactive programme of strategic communications in the Synergy Programme, reporting directly to the SRO and Programme Director. Your role will be to further Programme objectives, including helping to shift mindsets and associated ways of working to land significant cultural transformation at all levels.
You will play a pivotal role in leading and coordinating Synergy communications from the centre, working with Communication partners across the four departments and with our strategic partners and suppliers to ensure consistency, coherence and a clear narrative that describes our transformation journey and ambition as well as responding to any requests for further information and clarity as the Programme progresses. Your work will be both proactive and reactive and you will need to be able to balance competing priorities, using limited resource effectively to achieve this. You will provide strong leadership and strategic direction to lead the team to provide a high-quality, timely and accurate communications function for the Programme.
Please see the candidate pack attached to the advert for Key responsibilities.
