Communications & Stakeholder Engagement Manager - (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 12 Months

Contracting Authority: Cabinet Office

Location: Remote However, Candidate will be expected to attend one of the following office sites on an agreed flexible basis London, Bristol, Glasgow, York

The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office

Every year, in central and local government, defence, education, in health and beyond, some 300bn is spent on public procurement in the UK and it is important that this spending delivers the best outcomes for taxpayers

The Transforming Public Procurement Programme is working to completely overhaul the procurement rules that govern how this money is spent. The new regime will drive improved commercial outcomes, increase innovation and reduce red tape by removing complex and unnecessary bureaucracy.

Comprehensive and coordinated stakeholder engagement together with a funded programme of easy-to-access learning and development will be key to embedding the changes in procurement practice so that the full benefits can be realised.

We are looking for an exceptional person who has an excellent track record of delivering high quality stakeholder management, as well an ability to confidently communicate with a broad range of stakeholders across the public sector.

This role will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to further develop their stakeholder management skills, as well offering a chance to hone skills around embedding cultural and behavioural change and to better understand how government policy is developed and implemented.

As a Communications & Stakeholder Engagement Manager, your main responsibilities will be: 

• Lead and oversee project management and delivery of operational communications and engagement activities, ensuring all content is appropriate for a range of audiences using visuals, email, video, social media and online, newsletters, engagement events - and monitor and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Have the ability to identify, analyse and communicate with stakeholders using a variety of channels and methods to ensure those impacted by the changes are engaged effectively throughout the life of the Programme.
• Have excellent relationship management skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, and experience of influencing at all levels to ensure stakeholders are engaged effectively.
• Identify and recruit communications partners/ channels to help amplify and extend key messages, including securing attendance at external speaking events
• Be driven, focused, and able to deliver at pace in a complex and often-changing delivery landscape.
• Ensure communications and engagement activity and messaging are relevant to stakeholder audiences and cut through effectively.
• Manage and monitor key products such as stakeholder maps and forward activity plans, ensuring delivery matches strategic intent.
• Support G6 team leader to devise overarching stakeholder communications and engagement strategies and monitor and ensure delivery against agreed plans.
• Managing the Programme stakeholder database and associated systems and processes to ensure accurate targeting and adherence to GDPR requirements.
• Lead on administrative tasks such as mailbox monitoring, events logistics and media monitoring

Essential Criteria:

• Leading or managing delivery of multi-channel operational, project or stakeholder communications campaigns, including via email, newsletters, design and print, social media, online and engagement events/webinars.
• Experience of managing a range of communications channels Newsletters, events etc
• Management of multichannel communication campaigns
• Experience of drafting and Writing / Maintaining databases (Admin)
• Creating or overseeing production of engaging written content including drafting, editing, and proofreading, commissioning
• design, video and animation
• Devising and maintaining stakeholder communications products such stakeholder maps, databases, and forward activity grids, and monitoring and evaluating stakeholder communications activity.
• Experience of database management to drive marketing activity, including audience segmentation

Desirable Criteria:

• Working in a change management or stakeholder engagement environment
• Commissioning design and content production either in-house of via specialist agency
• Using evaluation, lessons learned, and/or insight gathered to improve project or operational engagement activities - including managing audience surveys and data analysis and presentation.
• Recruiting and working with communications partners and channels to deliver activity
• Ability to work at pace and be resilient to changing circumstances.
• Working with Press Office to devise media lines and input into proactive media activity.
• Event management - either virtual or face-to-face

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, The Cabinet Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.