Internal Communications Manager
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 441104/4 |
Summary
Can you influence, persuade and develop stakeholder relationships?
Are you someone who can work to deadlines and manage conflicting priorities?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for our customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of technology and data
- Grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing day to day internal communications so that colleagues are informed about, understand, and engage in delivering DVSA’s strategic goals and objectives, while supporting organisational and cultural change.
They will work in partnership with directors, corporate senior leaders, colleagues in communications, and in the wider agency to deliver campaigns, announcements and ‘business as usual’ communications.
The role supports the planning and sharing of internal communications to DVSA’s colleagues, around 80% of which work on the frontline and are geographically dispersed across the country.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Working closely with internal stakeholders to identify communications objectives, and design and develop effective, evidence based, internal communications plans, campaigns and messages.
- Using channels with a focus on building engagement and encouraging two way or multi-way communication and conversations.
- Developing and producing online communications content such as articles and blogs, and supporting the running events; both face to face to face and virtual.
- Developing, producing and presenting evaluation of internal communications.
- Demonstrating leadership by providing guidance to colleagues to support the delivery of objectives.
- Managing and engaging with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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