Head of Strategic Communications

3 weeks ago

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

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

- 277124**Salary**:

- £49,697- £49,697 (National), £54,632 (London)**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**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

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
LUHC’s role is to make sure that through levelling up, everyone has the same opportunity to flourish. It means people everywhere living longer and more fulfilling lives and benefitting from sustained rises in living standards and well-being. Improving prospects for businesses and strengthening local transport are equally important in developing stronger communities.

We are seeking a talented communicator to join our team in telling the story of how the Government plans to support communities across the country in achieving this goal.

**Job description**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Supporting the Head of Strategic Communications to deliver a cluster of comms activities and campaigns that are both impactful and cost effective.
- Work on the development, planning, coordination and delivery of campaigns, particularly at a local level, working with local partners and councils.
- Liaising and navigating work across other Government departments and local delivery partners. ensuring plans are aligned to wider UK Government objectives and are attuned to political nuances.
- Building relationships with senior policy stakeholders and external agencies to understand how strategic communications can best support them, and implement these improvements to optimize campaigns.
- Driving no-cost ground activity through compelling and innovative content and local partnerships.

**Person specification**:

- Demonstratable experience in a strategic communications and/or campaigns role. This includes planning communications from strategic development and thinking through to delivery.
- Have used multiple communications channels, including low cost and digital.
- Have strong communication and negotiation skills having worked with senior leaders to understand businesses requirements and an ability to develop trusted and authoritative two-way relationships.
- Good analytical skills with experience of behaviour change campaigns. You will be able to draw conclusions from data and be able to simplify complex policy into clear communications that drives action.
- Have a solid grasp of how to evaluate the success of communications.
- Strong written and verbal briefing skills with effective personal impact and confidence in giving verbal briefing.
- Strong project management and organisation skills.
- Experience of mitigating reputation risk when planning communications activity.

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

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

**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

Technical Ability

**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: Seeing the big picture, Changing and Improving, Making effective decisions, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Delivering at pace

Ability: Yes

**Grade 7 salary**
- ** The salary for this role is £54,632 (London) or £49,697 (National).**:
**Benefits**

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

**Sift and Interview dates**

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