Internal Communications and Change Officer
| Posting date: | 06 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO1 2EP |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 3284 |
Summary
Internal Communications and change officer - secondment/fixed term contract for up to 1 year due to funding
Salary: Band: 8, £33,945 - £36,647 p.a.
37 hours per week
Portsmouth City Council has an exciting opportunity for a talented internal communication and change professional to ensure internal stakeholders are well-informed, engaged, and that change is managed effectively within the organisation.
If you have experience of developing and implementing innovative, creative internal communications campaigns and supporting organisational change, then we would love to hear from you.
Portsmouth City Council
At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.
With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.
Your New Role
In this role you will join a small internal team where you will play a key part in delivering the council's internal communications and change strategy at a time of significant cultural change for the authority. This post will focus on the people side of change, including stakeholder engagement, building effective communication plans, as well as supporting the organisation to adopt changes to working practices.
You will contribute to the delivery of engaging communication and effective change management plans supporting council wide strategic priorities and change programmes. You will have specific responsibility for change and internal communication for the council's digital strategy and initiatives. In addition, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining clear internal communications and change project plans, ensure internal communications and change activity is effectively researched and evaluated. You will work on a hybrid basis, based in the council's civic offices headquarters, in the heart of Portsmouth's city centre.
This post is politically restricted under the terms of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.
For full details on the role please click here.
What you'll need to succeed
The successful candidate will need to be a self-starter and display confidence and initiative to quickly build working relationships with staff and stakeholders and support some change already underway. An excellent all-round communicator you will have experience of internal communications and change and will be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the role of internal communications and change in supporting successful organisational change. With excellent organisational skills, you will demonstrate your ability to develop and deliver a range of successful internal communications campaigns and channels and be able to identify and analyse appropriate and multiple sources of data. You will have a degree or equivalent in a relevant subject area and or/appropriate professional qualification or significant communications or change experience in a relevant environment.
Please read the job profile for the full details of what you need to succeed in order to undertake this role.
What you'll get in return
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Application process:
Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.
When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
Closing: 17 April 2024 @ 23:59 pm
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk