Head of Strategic Communication and Campaigns

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 278047**Salary**:

- £64,965**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Communications**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities helps communities across the UK thrive. The communications team is at the centre of the Government’s commitments to spread opportunity throughout the UK through the Levelling Up agenda. It also plays a crucial role in tackling unsafe housing in the social and private rental sectors, as well as building a better future for the UK by strengthening the Union, expanding devolution, and building more homes. And it plays an important role to play restoring pride in our communities, from tackling anti-social behaviour to promoting Homes for Ukraine.

We are looking for an experienced, creative communications leader, with a proven track record of leading campaigns and advising ministers and senior officials on a broad portfolio.

**Job description**:

- Provide trusted advice to special advisers and ministers, aligning communications to their priorities.
- Lead risk management for strategic communications and campaigns, with robust project planning and evaluation across all campaigns.
- Ensure your team are empowered to identify and push forward creative ways to land campaign messages in support of communications objectives, ensuring at least 10% of your campaign budget is dedicated to new or innovative communications techniques.
- Ensure your team is working effectively across Government and within the department, with stakeholders and agencies to develop and deliver communications plans, positioning strategic communications and campaigns as a valued and trusted component of a high performing communications unit.

**Person specification**:

- Strong influencing and negotiation skills in working with senior stakeholder, special advisers and senior officials.
- Ability to think creatively to reach key audiences and find solutions
- Proven experience in establishing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders to support delivery
- Experience working in a fast-paced communication role
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Changing and Improving
- Leadership

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

**CV and Cover Letter Declaration**

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment.

Please remove references to your:

- name/title
- educational institutions
- age
- gender
- postal address
- phone number
- nationality/immigration status

**At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing**:
Experience

**Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description.**

In full the campaign will test the below Success Profile Elements:
Experience: Yes - Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description

Technical: Yes - Technical questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.

Strength: Yes

Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Leadership

**Grade 6 salary**
- ** The salary for this role is £64,965 (London) or £58,946 (National).**:
**Benefits**

**Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018**:
**Location**
- London

**Sift and Interview dates**

Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 10th of April with interview dates to be confirmed

**Reserve List**

**SC (Security Check)**:
**Important note**

**Internal Fraud Database**

For more information please see
- Internal Fraud Register

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic

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