Senior Communications

**Senior Communications and Engagement Manager**

**Transformation Delivery Division, Monetary Policy Transformation Programme**

**23-month Fixed Term Contract**

**Leeds/London/Debden**

**Monetary Policy Transformation Programme**

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of one of the Bank’s new strategic initiatives, delivering a once-in-a-generation change to the way the Bank conducts monetary policy.

The Monetary Policy Transformation Programme will enable the Bank to respond fully to the recommendations of the Bernanke Review into forecasting for monetary policy making and communication, and so help the Bank to:

- Modernise and develop “close to the frontier” competencies in terms of the Bank’s processes, expertise, modelling and data infrastructure.
- Build effective mechanisms for continuous improvement, to help maintain our capabilities close to the frontier of monetary policymaking internationally.
- Leverage those capabilities, to deliver more transparent communications and support monetary policymaking in a wide range of circumstances, including heightened uncertainty, large shocks and structural change.

We are introducing a new role of Senior Manager for Communications and Engagement within the Transformation Delivery Division of Monetary Policy Transformation (TDD).

This role will be responsible for establishing comprehensive Communication and Stakeholder Engagement strategies for Monetary Policy Transformation. Specifically;
- External communication
- Establishing a wide-reaching community for sharing information and collaborating with Central Banks, academics and industry regarding Monetary Policy Transformation and continuous improvement.
- Proactively identifying opportunities to raise visibility and understanding of the Bank’s ambitions and progress for MPT externally
- Contributing and supporting with content for external stakeholders with MPT content, including speeches, suggested lines for TSC, Annual Report and official briefings
- Internal communication
- Campaigns to build awareness, understanding and engagement with MPT within MA and more widely across the Bank
- Ensure strategies incorporate consideration of different audiences and levels of understanding
- Defining the communication and engagement capabilities needed beyond the MPT Programme, ensuring a long-term ability to engage with Monetary Policy stakeholders. This should be achieved by collaborating with a range of business areas across the Bank and comparable functions in the Central Banking community to define the future state (and continuous improvement) of communication and engagement capabilities for Monetary Policy. This will feed into wider work on the capabilities required in the areas supporting monetary policy to ensure that we have an effective operating model for our monetary policy work.The role will also involve planning and oversight of events, measuring engagement, and continuously improving communication capabilities.

Please note that interviews for this role will take place in September.

**Key Responsibilities will include**:

- Building and maintaining an external stakeholder community for information sharing and collaboration.
- Developing and executing a strategy for external communications around the Monetary Policy Transformation (MPT) programme.
- Creating external communication products and identifying opportunities to raise visibility and understanding of the Bank’s MPT ambitions and progress.
- Work with the External Engagement Division, Communications Directorate and Markets Division to ensure alignment of engagement and communication activities.
- Contribute to external stakeholder content, including speeches, briefing lines, and updates for the Bank’s Annual Report.
- Develop an internal communications plan to increase awareness, engagement, and support for MPT among staff within Monetary Analysis (MA) and across the wider Bank.
- Identify and own mitigation of communication-related risks.
- Collaborate with other business areas to define the enduring communications and engagement capability for the Monetary Analysis area post-transformation.
- Design the future state of the communications function once MPT’s initial objectives are delivered.Set performance metrics and feedback mechanisms for this function and collaborate across directorates to ensure a well-functioning, integrated approach to engagements related to MPT.

**Number of direct reports: 3**

**Role Requirements**:
**Minimum Criteria**
- Demonstrable experience of strategic communications and stakeholder engagement, within high profile, externally facing programmes or change initiatives.
- High level of technical/professional knowledge in both external and internal communications.
- Knowledge of central bank external engagement policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Experience in developing communication strategies and plans for different audiences and channels.Experience working as a communications senior manager,