G5 Communications and Engagement Business Partner - 31973

This is an opportunity to help tell the story of the Environment Agency. The Internal Communications and Engagement (ICE) team supports the Strategy, Transformation and Assurance (STA) Directorate across high-profile areas as the organisation evolves to respond to environmental challenges set out in EA2030. This is a new way of working as the ICE team builds cohesion across directorates. Each role will oversee a portfolio of work while collaborating to share insight and provide resilience. The roles involve planning and coordinating activity across STA to ensure our people receive the right information, in the right format, at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Work across portfolio themes, acting as a vital link between the directorate and the wider ICE team.
• Interact broadly and develop effective relationships with stakeholders and customers across the organisation.
• Plan strategy, share and drive best practice, set editorial standards, ensure executional consistency, adhere to organisational priorities and our brand.
• Align communications and engagement with the central narrative and assure corporate discipline to improve message consistency.
• Champion high standards and help colleagues engage with what truly matters.
• Influence teams and departments to maximise the effectiveness of our work.

The Team

The business partner team is a small cross-functional team of communication and engagement experts within the ICE team, part of the STA Directorate. We collaborate with Defra Group Communications and other colleagues to enable effective communications and engagement by ensuring we have the right tools, skills and ways of working, and to plan and deliver integrated activities to continually improve engagement with our people.

• ENABLE effective communications and engagement by ensuring the right tools, skills and ways of working.
• PLAN AND DELIVER integrated activities, continually improving how we engage with our people.

Experience / Skills Required

• Ability to persuade, influence and reason with others; vital for this role.
• Experience and understanding of planning and delivering excellent communications and engagement activities to enable operational improvements.
• Ability to balance broad understanding of EA2030 challenges with prioritisation of individual projects and programmes.
• Comfortable creating and maintaining relationships at all levels of the EA and Defra; able to work as part of a dispersed team.
• Comfortable challenging constructively and driving high standards for all communications and engagement activities.

Contact and Additional Information

This is a hybrid role; you will work flexibly from home and your nearest Environment Agency office with occasional travel. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome flexible working patterns, including job share. Responding to incidents is a central part of our work; you may have an incident role and be available to respond or support during incidents, which may attract additional pay. Training and workplace adjustments will be available to support your incident role. Interviews are expected towards the end of October. For more information, contact sam.elfer@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Competencies

1. Communicates Effectively

2. Engages Others

3. Influences and Persuades Others

4. Builds and Sustains Relationships

Note: If you are applying from the Civil Service, the Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant if appointed. We are committed to Diversity and Inclusion and offer a Guaranteed Interview policy for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria. We also support flexible working patterns, including job share.

Artificial intelligence may be used to support applications, but all examples must be truthful and from your own experience. For more information, review guidance on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

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