Head of Internal Communications

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Homes England Full time

Bristol, Coventry, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Northstowe

access_time Expiring Soon: Apply by May 22, 2024

The role closes on 22nd May 2024, with 1st stage interviews held over Teams expected week commencing 10th June. 

A bit about the role...

As Homes England’s Head of Internal Communications you’ll play a pivotal role in helping to enhance collaboration, boost productivity, improve moral and motivation, build a sense of pride and belonging, and drive success in a truly purpose led organisation that’s making a positive impact on lives.

Leading a passionate, committed and talented team and working with colleagues and leaders from across the Agency, you will have the autonomy to shape how and what we communicate to our staff. You will lead our efforts in amplifying our impact, shaping our narrative, and fostering meaningful connections with our stakeholders.

As a key part of this role will be raising the visibility of our leadership you’ll need to be comfortable operating at the highest levels of Homes England, briefing our Chief Executive, Executive and Senior Leadership Teams as well as the Board on internal communications matters. 

As well as overseeing business as usual communications such as Town Halls and staff bulletins, you will also be leading on the communications for some significant, high profile change initiatives that impact everyone at Homes England. 

This is a significant and influential position for an outstanding communications leader to make an impact in an organisation that’s at the centre of home and place making across England. 

A bit about you...

You will have a strong track record in internal communications and an excellent understanding of how it supports an organisation to achieve its goals at a similar level. You would have led and delivered effective organisational internal communications campaigns that have supported business and behavioural change, demonstrating the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environments and effectively prioritise competing demands.

Excellent knowledge of internal communication effectiveness evaluation metrics and techniques will be essential, with a passion to use these to improve processes, ways of working and campaigns. You will have experience of managing the delivery of employee events such as Town Halls and conferences.

You will be comfortable working with and briefing leaders at the Board and Executive levels and below in an organisation with formidable experience of building relationships across complex matrix organisations. You will be able to have demonstrable experience of effective team leadership and management experience. 

Who are we?

Homes England : The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.

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