Communications Manager
| Posting date: | 03 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 January 2026 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 3BG |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75771302 |
Summary
Do you want to help shape and deliver collaborative, high-impact communications for Greater Manchester, one of the UK’s most ambitious and dynamic city regions?
We want to deliver a decade of good growth benefiting every part of Greater Manchester, and we have a plan to make it a reality. Great communications are essential to achieving our collective vision for the next decade - a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life.
Our communications team plays a critical role in connecting people, sharing stories, and celebrating our progress as we deliver for our communities.
Your Role
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Communications, you’ll be responsible for joined-up corporate communications for internal and stakeholder audiences.
You’ll build trusted relationships with senior leaders across Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), and Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (GMFRS) the ‘group’ - planning and delivering impactful, coordinated corporate communications that support the Greater Manchester Strategy.
To do this, you’ll work closely with the Group Chief Executive’s office and other senior leaders to deliver coherent and impactful activity that engages our colleagues and fosters support among our key local, regional and national stakeholders.
For more info see Job Profile below.
Who are we?
You’ll be based in the Communications team at TfGM, the organisation running the Bee Network - the region’s joined-up public transport system.
But you’ll also work closely day-to-day with GMCA and GMFRS, ensuring our communications are reflective of and coordinated across the group and aligned with the Mayor and Group Chief Executive’s activities.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
We’re looking for a positive, conscientious and experienced communicator who can take a strategic view of the organisations’ priorities and then get hands-on to bring them to life.
You’ll have substantial experience developing and delivering campaigns for internal and external audiences and be comfortable working with and providing communications advice to senior leaders.
You’ll bring a sound understanding of the range of different online and offline channels and be as comfortable creating a communications strategy as delivering the tactics within it. Particularly, you will be an excellent writer, with a track record of consistently delivering creatively written materials to high standards.
A key part of the role will be taking a broad view of what is going on across the group and ensuring we’re telling a coherent story. Therefore, you’ll need to be curious about different policy areas and highly collaborative, working with multiple stakeholders to deliver on shared goals.
If you’re ready to help us deliver Greater Manchester’s vision and support the Bee Network’s further development, we’d love to hear from you.
What we can offer you
A 12-month fixed term opportunity with a salary of £47,539 - £52,866 per annum depending on skills and experience.
At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.
Our benefits include:
- Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
- Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
- Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
- Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website
What's next?
To apply please submit your CV and complete your application ensuring that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.
We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.
Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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