Deputy Head of Internal Communications

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

- 273185**Salary**:

- £52,000 - £61,933- National: £52,000- £58,652; London: £55,365 -£61,933**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DIT - COO: Communication and Marketing**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**:
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Location
- Darlington, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Engage DBT's colleagues behind our vision and mission by designing creative stories about our ambitious trade and investment agenda and great people experiences at DBT's. You will be central to helping our people advocate for trade, make the most of our employee offer work, celebrate inclusion and connect with their senior leaders.

In return join a dynamic, energetic, creative and award-winning communications team that take pride in having a unique impact with colleagues, senior leaders and Ministers at home in the UK and around the world in the 108 countries we work from.

**As a leader on the team, you will be**:

- A guardian of our audience’s time - using data to ensure our channels are used to their best.
- An empowerer - providing strategic advice that enables others to develop and deliver best practice internal communications.
- A strategist - working smart to plan and prioritise our work so it has maximum impact.
- This senior role is at the heart of the organisation - working hand in glove with business leads, senior leaders and private offices across the Department to deliver superb communications.
- You will provide expert advice, deliver high quality engagement events and run our internal communications campaigns shaping our audience into a global network of engaged ambassadors for DBT.
- You will be an integral on the highly valued DBT Internal Communication Team, offering your invaluable professional expertise through handling advice in senior papers and ministerial submissions.
- You will lead a fast paced environment, using audience insight to devise strategies and create engaging content.
- You’ll guide team members to achieve excellence, balancing the needs of multiple high-level projects and events and day to day operations.

**Job description**:
**You will**:

- Lead the creation, design, implementation and evaluation of compelling internal communication campaigns and events
- Act as a team leader and line manager providing strong direction on team members work schedule, campaigns, planning, budget and line management
- Provide expert handling and strategic advice to senior leaders and to teams across DBT delivering high quality communication in a timely, appropriate and consistent manner
- Be responsible for reviewing your team’s content and recommendations to ensure it is engaging, visually pleasing, well written, accurate and free from mistakes
- Deputise for the Head of Internal Communications as required

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DBT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting which is within the London salary advertised at top.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Internal communication experience or communications experience with knowledge of internal communication and described transferable skills
- Strong programme planning and horizon scanning - balancing competing priorities, deadlines and people resources
- Excellent writing standards and attention to detail
- Excellent judgement, with highly developed analytical skills linked to strong interpersonal, consultative and negotiation skills
- Strong leadership and management skills

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of large, complex, multi-site organisations
- Experience of running events
- Engaging a global workforce

**Personal Attributes & Skills**

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

- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
**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%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will,