Internal Communications Specialist Defence & National Security

This role is aligned to our UK Defence & National Security business with around 1600 people supporting Defence and Security Services and Critical National Infrastructure. This role is based at our Basingstoke office on a hybrid basis (nominally two days a week in the office) with some occasional UK travel. This is a 12-month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) maternity cover and requires the ability to achieve or already hold SC clearance.

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As an Internal Communications Specialist you will contribute to this by creating and delivering exceptional employee communications within our Defence & National Security business group whilst managing reporting on and developing our internal communication channels in this area as part of a wider UK internal communications team.

Your role will involve:

• Working with the Internal Communications Business Partner for Defence & National Security and a range of stakeholders within the business to plan and deliver key internal communication activities

• Being a curious storyteller who proactively and creatively findsways to engage our employees through the content you produce to build trust advocacy and pride alongside specific business outcomes

• Adhering to and advising on our brand guidelines messaging tone withexceptionally high standards of writing and attention to detail whilst championing accessible and inclusive content

• Producing and delivering a range of content across a range of formats including written video audio events and visual graphics whilst measuring their impact against agreed outcomes

• Coordinating theset up and professional technical running of hybrid and virtual large-scale events including townhalls and webcasts as well as in person events such as roadshows and briefings.

• Being comfortable with the practical use of - and further adoption of - AI in the support of assisting with content creation and its role in enabling good practice self-service communications across the business
  

• Proactively seeking and amplifying customer employee and other relevant news from the business through local UK and broader channels as appropriate and in a proactive timely manner with close collaborative working relationships with the wider internal comms community

• Occasional travel to sites meetings and events in support of content creation including confidence to brief and converse with senior leadership and external stakeholders as necessary

Your transferable skills and experience:

• Experience in internal communications communications marketing events or a creative environment

• Exceptional written communications (English) and impeccable attention to detail

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and build relationships across all levels of the organisation

• Able to work independently and as part of a broader comms or virtual team often delivering and / or contributing to multiple communication activities and projects at once

• Digital fluency including experience with intranet platforms analytics tools and communication technologies

• Based in our Basingstoke office youll be comfortable being visible and making connections

• Passionate about internal communications as a profession the positive impact it can have and your own personal development within it.

Please note this role will require SC security clearance.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of up to two stages of interviews including a short task.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer:Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric:Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You.Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.

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