Overview

This is an opportunity to help tell the story of the Environment Agency. The Internal Communications and Engagement Business Partner roles support the Strategy, Transformation and Assurance (STA) Directorate across high-profile areas as the organisation evolves to respond to environmental challenges outlined in the corporate strategy, EA2030. The ICE team builds cohesion across directorates and coordinates activity across STA to ensure our people receive the right information, in the right format, at the right time.

Transformation includes working with the Director for Service Transformation to describe the totality of change programmes. The People area includes working with the People and Inclusion directorate on themes such as the People Plan and Health, Safety and Wellbeing. Strategy involves helping colleagues understand their role in delivering our corporate strategy and the STA Leadership Team’s role in leading the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Work across a portfolio of themes, acting as a vital link between the directorate and the wider ICE team.
• Develop effective relationships with stakeholders and customers across the organisation.
• Plan strategy, share and drive best practice, set editorial standards, ensure executional consistency, and 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 people engage with the things that matter.
• Influence teams and departments to maximise the effectiveness of our work.

The team is a small cross-functional group 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, plan and deliver integrated activities, and continually improve how we engage with our people.

Experience/skills Required

• Ability to persuade, influence and reason with others is vital.
• Experience in planning and delivering excellent communications and engagement activities to bring operational improvements.
• Ability to balance broad understanding of EA2030 challenges with prioritisation of individual projects and programmes.
• Comfort in 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 with flexible working from home and an Environment Agency office. Occasional travel may be required. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and welcome flexible working patterns, including job share. Responding to incidents is a central part of the role; you may be required to respond or provide support during an incident, which may attract additional payment. Training and workplace adjustments will be available for the incident role. Interviews are expected towards the end of October. For further information, contact sam.elfer@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Competencies

• Communicates Effectively
• Engages others
• Influences and Persuades Others
• Builds and Sustains Relationships

Requirements and Notes

We operate a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support candidates with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria. The Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service. If applying from local government or other listed bodies, continuous service for redundancy purposes may apply. Please review status with your HR team if unsure. The Environment Agency uses government frameworks for recruitment and may not engage via post, email or phone calls for direct recruitment.|

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing