Internal Communications Manager
| Posting date: | 18 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 448288/3 |
Summary
Do you build strong stakeholder partnerships, manage multiple channels, and evaluate impact to continuously improve communications?
Are you someone who can work to deadlines and manage conflicting priorities?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Internal Communications Manager is responsible for managing day to day internal corporate communications so that colleagues are informed about, understand, and engage in delivering DVSA’s strategic goals and objectives, while supporting organisational and cultural change.
The Internal Communications team is responsible for the internal corporate channels needed to reach this large, diverse workforce. These include DVSA’s intranet, webinars and Teams live events, face to face events, regular direct emails and communications targeted at senior leaders and line managers.
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!
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You will work as part of the internal communications team as a trusted adviser, working in partnership with directors, corporate senior leaders, colleagues in communications, and in the wider agency to deliver campaigns, announcements and ‘business as usual’ communications.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Oversee the delivery of communications activities that inform, engage and support our culture and vision.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to identify communications objectives, and design and develop effective, evidence based, corporate internal communications plans, campaigns and messages.
- Work collaboratively on communications plans with colleagues across Corporate Communications and with other stakeholders including directorate communications managers and business change managers, ensuring approach is agreed and deadlines are met.
- Based on sound research and insight, use own judgement to raise risks or issues that will impact on the communications activities, and advise on the best approach to resolve them.
- In line with Government Communications Service requirements, set the communication evaluation criteria for communication activities, measuring the success of messages and channels, producing regular evaluation.
- Develop, produce and evaluate internal communications content (including events; both virtual and face to face, and online content).
- Gather and analyse other feedback channels such as surveys, focus groups and ad hoc feedback.
For further information on the role, please read the attached 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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