About the Role
Do you have experience leading on communication and engagement activities?
Are you an effective and engaging communicator?
Are you driven by a passion for internal communication and employee engagement?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in an extremely varied and exciting role where you will be trusted to utilise your creativity and passion for communications and engagement.
Job description
Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
Lead the delivery of high quality, creative and innovative communications activity and campaigns across the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) providing effective support to stakeholders and helping to deliver business objectives.
Work with colleagues across the business to write and develop content and stories that engages and informs a target audience.
Create engaging multimedia content to share across our internal channels, looking for new and interesting ways to share information with a geographically dispersed audience - including news articles, blogs, infographics, and videos, helping to make complex information visual through infographics or video content.
Support senior leader engagement in APHA, including regular hybrid events, including identifying topics, creating briefings, sourcing venues where appropriate and finding ways to make events interactive.
Partner with colleagues across the business, leaders and programme/project leads, acting as a trusted advisor to ensure engagement plans are in place to support priority activity and, which have a positive impact on employee engagement.
Support the Deputy Head of Internal Communications and Engagement in the development and delivery of the APHA internal communications strategy.
Line manage a team of Internal Communications Officers.
Motivate, lead and provide strategic direction to team members; championing learning and development.
Take an active role in ensuring you and your team are aligned with the wider Defra group Internal Communications team.
Ensure all communications activity is evaluated and that we share successes, insight and learning across the team so we are constantly improving.
Deputise for the Deputy Head of Internal Communications and Engagement as required.
Play an active part in the Defra group incident response if required; taking part in contingency preparedness training and incident exercises.
About the Organisation
The Animal and Plant Health Agency, formerly known as the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom.