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Communications Manager

Employer
National Highways
Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Salary
£33,940 - £37,334
Closing date
17 Jun 2022

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Contract Type
Fixed-term
Hours
Full Time
Discipline
Corporate Communications
Seniority
Senior Executive
Sector
Engineering
Business Type
In-house

Your new role

National Highways has an exciting opportunity for a Communications Manager to join our Corporate Affairs and Communications team, based in Bedford.

As our Communications Manager, you will be part of the East regional team, providing support and advice to a range of multi-million-pound infrastructure projects at various stages of development.

You’ll work alongside our project teams to oversee the supply chain who deliver the communications for road maintenance and major improvement projects, focussing on communications, engagement and consultation activity.

You’ll also help provide trusted communications and public relations advice to regional directors and other senior leaders.

This flexible and varied role will take your career to the next level, with lots of opportunity for personal autonomy to oversee the communication activity of your portfolio.

What you’ll be leading on

  1. Overseeing the delivery of communication campaigns for consultations and external stakeholder engagement.
  2. Ensuring that communication activities are consistently planned in a timely manner; are well implemented; and are evaluated effectively to ensure continuous improvement.
  3. Managing relationships with communication counterparts in the supply chain, ensuring their activity and output meets both the project and corporate messaging, objectives and values.
  4. Ensuring that there’s timely communications in place to explain construction activity so that customers understand why roadworks are necessary.
  5. Working with our supply chain and specialist internal communications colleagues (such as Press and PR, Digital, Public Affairs and Creative Design) to co-ordinate, develop and deliver integrated communication campaigns.
  6. Working collaboratively to identify project priorities and potential challenges, and to reduce risks.
  7. Helping roll-out communications campaigns to change or influence drivers’ behaviour.

To be successful you’ll need

  • Demonstrable experience as a communications professional in a complex environment.
  • Experience of leading communications campaigns and storytelling across multiple channels.
  • A proven track record of working with a range of senior internal and external stakeholders to manage complex and contentious projects and issues.
  • Experience of leading communications to support customer engagement and consultation activity in line with Government consultation principles.
  • Specialist communications knowledge and experience, ideally with a relevant professional qualification or training.

A bit about us

The Corporate Affairs and Communications Directorate is responsible for building and maintaining a robust and positive reputation for National Highways with all its audiences, internal and external. The Directorate includes a full range of communications disciplines which provide support to the business including media relations, public relations, stakeholder engagement, creative, digital, marketing and internal communications.

About Us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this.  We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.

We also offer:

  • Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
  • Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
  • Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
  • Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
  • A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
  • Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

  • Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
  • Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme

Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation  

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