Annual Business Planning Stakeholder & Communications Manager
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,808 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 349450/2 |
Summary
Do you have excellent stakeholder engagement and communications skills?
Would you like an opportunity to produce and deliver engaging communications for high profile projects that make a difference to people’s lives and help place Britain at the forefront of the transport revolution?
If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to join our Coordination and Planning (CAP) team, and we would love to hear from you!
Our CAP team is responsible for coordinating the business planning process for train operators, ensuring alignment between individual operator plans, Department and industry policies and strategies, the contractual basis and incentives for rail operators, and the industry financial settlement the Department agrees with His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT).
In this role, you will be responsible for the stakeholder engagement and communications on behalf of the Programme Lead. You will collaborate with the Project Manager to systematically identify and carry out an analysis of stakeholders, coordinate the planning and conduct of interactions with them, take account of their levels of influence and particular interests, and ensure their involvement throughout the Annual Business Planning (ABP) programme and related work streams.
As ABP Stakeholder and Communications Manager, you will have a key role within our CAP team using your expertise to handle the planning, production, and delivery of communications. You will coordinate content requests, advise on, and produce messaging, and how best to deliver communications through events, channels, materials, and other activities for diverse audiences. Your target audience will include senior civil servants, internal Whitehall Departments and Ministers, alongside the private sector and delivery partners.
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Your key responsibilities will include:
- Leading stakeholder analysis, utilising appropriate tools and developing the strategy in conjunction with other senior project leads, and providing advice on the most appropriate communication channel for each stakeholder group.
- Developing the stakeholder profile by working with the project leads to understand and map the changing needs against stakeholder influence and involvement.
- Managing relationships, successfully influencing, and collaborating with key partners in the programme, wider department, delivery partners and the Private Sector to deliver outcomes.
- Preparing, co-ordinating and delivering events to the required time, budget and quality standards and fully contributing to the effective governance arrangements for the delivery of the events programme.