Role: Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Lead
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/London, Manchester or Bristol - 2 days per week in London office (candidates based outside of London would also be asked to come to London once every two weeks for project meetings)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £475-£550 per day
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Lead for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT LEAD
- Be responsible for leading on the development of our communications and stakeholder management strategy and approach.
- Be responsible for leading on engaging internal and external communications, including weekly and ad-hoc comms to departments, you will be able to manage this sensitively encouraging participation and mitigating concerns.
- You will develop external facing communications and engagement products, working closely with the project team to enable you to respond to internal and external enquiries, maintain project FAQs, Lines To Take and Reactive Lines. You will be expected to build close working relationships with central communications and press office colleagues, client and Ministerial Private Office teams to enable this at pace.
- You will also be responsible for facilitating engagement meetings with departments and suppliers, using your expertise to guide senior leaders where necessary via briefings and handling advice with support from the Senior Leadership Team.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT LEAD
- Extensive experience in leading communications and engagement for large scale digital transformation projects, with cross cutting supplier and stakeholder engagement involved.
- Deep experience working closely with senior leadership at C-suite and/or ministerial level and be comfortable briefing upwards and at pace.
- The ability to work at pace to deliver lines to take, briefings and correspondence responses to very tight timescales.
- The ability to be a team player, being flexible to meet changing project requirements and supporting the wider team to ensure shared deadlines are met.
If you are a Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Lead, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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