About this role
### Posting ID
PIP11386
On behalf of The Department for Transport, we are looking for an Internal Communications and Engagement Manager (Inside IR35) for a contract until March 2027 based hybrid in either London, Leeds, Birmingham, Swansea or Hastings. Office attendance is 3 days a week.
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Role Profile:
To provide critical communications and engagement support during a significant period of people-related organisational transformation.
Working closely with HR, Internal Communications and the Transformation Directorate, you will lead employee engagement activity across a range of change initiatives , ensuring colleagues, managers and senior leaders are informed, aligned and engaged throughout the transformation journey. This role will play a key part in reducing delivery risk, supporting stakeholder alignment and embedding successful organisational change.
As an Internal Communications and Engagement Manager , your main responsibilities will be to:
- Lead internal communications and employee engagement activities across HR and people transformation programmes.
- Develop and deliver engagement strategies informed by employee insight, feedback and data.
- Act as the key link between HR, Internal Communications and Transformation teams.
- Ensure communications are aligned, timely and support organisational decision -making.
- Support the delivery of major change initiatives , leadership programmes and culture transformation activities.
- Create and maintain effective engagement channels, networks and feedback forums.
- Measure and evaluate communication effectiveness, using insights to drive continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior leaders to support alignment on people, culture and transformation priorities.
- Develop stakeholder engagement plans that support programme delivery and governance requirements.
- Identify, manage and mitigate communication and engagement risks.
- Produce executive briefings, key messages and communications materials for senior stakeholders.
- Enable leaders to communicate complex organisational change clearly and effectively.
- Build strong relationships across HR, communications, transformation and business teams.
- Contribute to governance papers and programme documentation where people and engagement impacts are significant.
- Provide flexible support across priority projects and periods of high organisational change.
Essential:
- Significant experience leading internal communications and employee engagement activity within large, complex organisations.
- Strong experience supporting organisational change, transformation or culture change programmes.
- Proven ability to develop and deliver strategic communication and engagement plans.
- Experience influencing and engaging senior stakeholders, including executive leadership teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex messages for varied audiences.
- Experience identifying communication risks and developing mitigation strategies.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to use employee insight, feedback and evaluation data to inform engagement activity.
- Experience working across multiple projects and managing competing priorities.
Desirable:
- Previous experience working within UK Government, Civil Service or wider Public Sector organisations.
- Experience supporting HR transformation, workforce change, organisational design or culture programmes.
- Knowledge of change management methodologies and employee engagement best practice.
- Experience working with governance forums, executive committees or board-level stakeholders.
- Professional communications qualification (CIPR or equivalent).
- Experience using employee engagement, survey or communications analytics tools.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a Disability Confident employer, DfT encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, DfT welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".