Senior Communications And Engagement Officer

Are you a communications specialist in search for an exciting new job opportunity? If so, Greater London Authority are looking to recruit a Senior Communications and Engagement Officer on a 3-month contract (with possibility of an extension), starting immediately, to join their growing team.

The role is full time, Monday to Friday with hybrid work arrangements, currently the team are working twice a week in the office. The office is based near London Bridge and Southwark Station, about 10-minute walk.

Pay rate: PAYE Rate - £26.52 per hour £33.81 per hour (role is inside of IR35)

THE ROLE:

The role primarily focuses on the development and delivery of internal Communications and stakeholder engagement within the Good Growth directorate, ensuring that all internal communications activities effectively inform, engage, and align employees with the directorate's vision, values, and goals.

The post holder will be instrumental in creating compelling content, implementing effective communication channels such as staff newsletters, briefings via Teams and hybrid, and the intranet, and managing business-as-usual activities. This includes working closely with a range of stakeholders to ensure consistent messaging throughout the directorate and supporting the planning and management of directorate-wide programmes, projects and events to foster a cohesive, well-informed and inclusive directorate community.

Additionally, this role will play a leading role in the coordination of the directorate's external communications narrative, playing a pivotal role in how the directorate presents itself to the outside world.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be responsible for preparation and delivery of the Good Growth directorate’s engagement, Communications and marketing strategies, and the coordination of their delivery across the directorate with a range of partners, in accordance with the GLA’s marketing, brand and digital guidelines.
• Support the Good Growth directorate’s core corporate functions - developing internal communications delivery plans aligned to organisational priorities - including staff networks. Implement strategies that advance the directorate's equality diversity and inclusion, culture change, collaboration, and innovation goals.
• Work with the GLA’s External Relations teams to ensure the Good Growth directorate is integrated into the GLA wide marketing and communications activity.
• Create and manage the Good Growth directorate’s communication and Engagement systems and process ensuring a robust forward plan of communications activity and key events are planned for the directorate. This will include working closely with a range of policy teams and communications officers and wider colleagues in the GLA External Relations team to coordinate events, source speakers, develop messaging, respond to enquiries and optimise positive exposure.

Due to the nature of the role, applicants need to have internal communications experience where they have written communications for the intranet and newsletters. If you feel you have the required experience and skill set then forward me across your up-to-date CV in a MS Word format for immediate consideration.