Internal Communication Lead

Circa £42,000 per annum
Full time / 37 hours per week / Permanent

Location: Peterborough, Huntingdon & Home Working

Anglian Water and the @one Alliance offer a flexible approach, this role offers you the flexibility to work from an Anglian Water office and from home. The @one Alliance is based at Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough and the Internal Communications Team hub is Lancaster House in Huntingdon. You will be required to work from both locations, with your based location as Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough, and can also work from home.

6 million customers. Countless career opportunities

We have an exciting opportunity for an Internal Communication Lead to join the team on a permanent basis.

This Internal Communications Lead role will sit in the Anglian Water central Internal Communications team and report into the Internal Communications Principal for Strategic Delivery and Commercial Assurance (SD&CA) and the strategic alliances.

In this role, you will support the @one Alliance, which is a partnership of seven partners (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Mott MacDonald Bentley, MWH Treatment, Skanska and Sweco) that work together to deliver more than half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.

It's a fantastic time to join Anglian Water and the @one Alliance. We have recently published our business plan for 2025-2030, which will deliver £9 billion of essential investment in the East of England.

You will support all aspects of communication, from day-to-day updates through to project and leadership communications. This will include content creation across a variety of media. You will develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders from across Anglian Water and the @one Alliance to ensure the effective delivery of the communications strategy and ad-hoc communications.

As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:
-Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
-Personal private health care
-Annual bonus scheme
-26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
-Life Cover at 8x your salary
-Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
-Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
-Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

What you'll be doing:
- Work with senior stakeholders to identify communications requirements and advise on the best approach to ensure messages land.
- Work closely with the Internal Communications Principal to deliver communications strategies and plans, ensuring the communications approach ties in with the wider business priorities and Anglian Water's approach to Internal Communications - putting country over club.
- Help embed our Purpose by consistently using the Anglian Water Tone of Voice and brand.
- Be responsible for continuously updating relevant channels with the latest news/content that is audience relevant and dynamic.
- Monitor relevant mailboxes, responding or forwarding to the appropriate person as required.
- Create engaging content that is meaningful to the audience.
- Generate a variety of Internal Communications materials such as presentations, videos, briefing packs, newsletters and Business Bulletins.
- Create assets that can be used internally, both print and online, such as video, photography, digital design, long and short-form copy, plus any other creative medium that is suited to the delivery of Internal Communications.
- Take part in training and development activities to improve the overall content generation capabilities of the People and Change department, and apply these skills to increase the amount of content we generate

What does it take to be successful?
- Demonstrable experience in a similar role
- Significant experience of stakeholder management (preferably internal), including senior stakeholders
- Previous experience executing Internal Communications strategies
- Experience of event/project management
- Able to work to tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment
- Ability to think strategically and deliver tactically
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, presentational (essential)
- Awareness of the significance of social and digital media in the modern communications mix
- Ability to manage several projects at one time, prioritising effectively and managing stakeholder expectations
- Knowledge of M365 applications and confident using PowerPoint, Word and ideally Teams and SharePoint
- Experience of Adobe Premier Pro is desirable although not essential.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.
Closing date: 24/01/2024
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