Internal Communications Business Partner

1 week ago


Buckshaw Village, United Kingdom Avove Full time

**Who we are**:
We design, build and maintain the UK’s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.
We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment. Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.
We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water

Advance your career

Working here isn’t just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we’ll reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. You can also get involved in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.
- We offer a competitive salary that is based on proven skills and experience. Hard work is celebrated and rewarded. We recognise that one size doesn’t fit all so everyone has access
- to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
- Min. 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays (option to buy more)
- Company car or car allowance
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance
- A selection of lifestyle benefit options
- Financial wellbeing programme
- Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
- We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

**The Role**:
Our Marketing & Communications team is growing and we have a new opportunity for an Internal Communications Business Partner to join us in an exciting role. You will be passionate about storytelling and colleague engagement and you will be responsible for developing and delivering the internal communications plan, along with creating engaging & fresh content that supports Avove in achieving its ambition of creating a working environment where everyone feels empowered, motivated, trusted and values.
To do this you will support our People & Culture and HSEQ teams with their campaigns; promoting our EDI and ESG activities, interview colleagues for news stories and colleague case studies and produce the weekly internal newsletters and monthly manager briefing packs. This is a permanent role of hybrid nature and we are accepting applicants who are able to work from either our Chorley or Birmingham office.

**Responsibilities**:

- Working with teams across the business to identify engaging content, such as colleague stories and project case studies for internal and external use
- Create the content for our weekly newsletters and manager packs - this will include updates on D&I, health and safety and wellbeing initiatives
- Supporting Avove's Communities of Practice and communicating their achievements
- Develop engaging content for and coordinating the leadership colleague briefings and roadshows
- Keeping the intranet updated with the latest news and information
- Support the promotion and delivery of our sustainability and social impact agenda through colleague engagement activities
- Other writing support and proofreading for the wider team

**Skills & Experience**:

- Excellent communicator with the ability to capture and audiences attention and adapt your writing skills to meet different needs
- High attention to details and confident at writing, proofreading and editing copy
- Multi-campaign management, ensuring the right messages are delivered at the right time
- Previous experience in organising events and be proactive and creative at coming up with new ideas that elevate our comms output
- Great relationship building skills, you must have the ability to work collaboratively with all teams and engage colleagues who are in operational roles
- Time management, fantastic eye for detail and organised
- Previous experience of writing colleague newsletters, case studies and press releases and of updating an intranet, preferably Sharepoint
- 3 years people management experience



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