Communications Directorate

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

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

- 346110**Salary**:

- £57,000 - £67,100- National: £57,000 min - £62,700 max. London: £61,000 min - £67,100 max.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Communications Directorate**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- London - 2 Marsham Street (2MS), Salford - Dallas Court, Sheffield - Vulcan HouseAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The first duty of government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the frontline of this effort since 1782 and plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.

As a member of the Communications Directorate, you’ll be supporting our mission to deliver outstanding public services that work for everyone.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team with colleagues based across the UK, working together to deliver the Home Office’s communications strategy.

We believe a positive, open and supportive culture is essential to help everyone deliver their best work. We value diversity and provide an inclusive and encouraging environment for our team members. We nurture our talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities to help you fulfil your potential.

**Job description**:
**Benefits**

All Home Office employees are eligible to join the Civil Service pension scheme, which contributes on average 27% of your salary to a defined benefit pension.

You will also be entitled to benefits, including 25 days of annual leave a year, which increases by one day every year to a maximum of 30, as well the cycle to work scheme and a season ticket travel loan.

**Information about the role**

The Insight Team sits at the centre of the Communications Directorate. Working across the full range of Home Office policy areas, this specialist team helps ensure that the department’s communications strategy and activity is audience-led and effectively evaluated. This includes acting as trusted insight advisers to communications colleagues, carrying out high quality research and evaluation activities, and working closely with agency partners to brief, design and deliver commissioned studies.

Do you have:

- An excellent research background.
- A proactive, solutions-focused attitude.
- A track record for driving improvements in the insight profession.
- An ability to work well under pressure.
- A clear, engaging communication style.
- Confidence to influence decision-making.
- Confidence to negotiate with colleagues and partners at all levels.

This post will stretch and enhance your ability to:

- Operate at a strategic level (often during ambiguous and changing circumstances).
- Work through others, especially outside line management structures.
- Drive decision-making.
- Deliver pragmatic solutions to solve difficult research questions.
- Champion the value of audience-led communications.

**Responsibilities**

No day will be the same, but the role demands someone who can:

- Be fully embedded in the directorate’s strategic conversations to ensure that insight and robust understanding of our diverse audiences sit firmly at the heart of our communications strategies.
- Be a strong voice and positive advocate for audience insight, championing its use in driving effective communications.
- Be the custodian of the Directorate’s audience intelligence, holding the pen on what we know about our audiences and make sure that knowledge is accessible and shared across the Directorate.
- Work with colleagues to identify opportunities for generating new insight, advising teams on best value research solutions.
- Lead the design and delivery of insight and evaluation projects and programmes, including projects run in-house and those delivered by our agency partners, ensuring that all work is carried out to a high standard and offers value for money to the Directorate and the Department.
- Manage our contracts with external research agencies, working at a peer-to-peer level with senior leaders (e.g. Research Directors) in those agencies, ensuing the Directorate receives a value for money and high-quality service.
- Be responsible (working alongside colleagues) for ensuring that all communications activities have clear outcomes and evaluation.

**Person specification**:
Successful applicants will be highly motivated, adaptable, innovative, dependable and collaborative; prepared to work on some of the most challenging, high profile and interesting issues in government.

The knowledge and gravitas to:

- Hold your own in conversations with communications professionals, senior officials, special advisers, ministers, and director-level professionals working in research agencies.
- Lead our research agency partners to ensure successful delivery of work against our research contracts, e

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