Overview

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 to build cohesion across directorates, with each role overseeing a portfolio of work while collaborating to share insight and provide resilience. You will plan and coordinate activity across STA to ensure our people receive the right information, in the right format, at the right time.

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, drive best practice, set editorial standards, ensure executional consistency, and align with organisational priorities and 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 what truly matters.
• Influence teams and departments to maximise the effectiveness of communications and engagement activities.

Experience / Skills Required

• Ability to persuade, influence and reason with others.
• Experience in planning and delivering high-quality communications and engagement activities that drive operational improvements.
• Ability to balance 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, and ability to work as part of a dispersed team.
• Comfort in 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 equal opportunities and inclusive working patterns, including job share. You may be required to respond to incidents as part of the role, with training and workplace adjustments provided.

Interviews will take place towards the end of October. For further information, contact sam.elfer@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Competencies

• Communicates Effectively: Listens, asks questions to understand, and conveys information clearly in speech and writing.
• Engages others: Plans, conducts and evaluates effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Influences and Persuades Others: Presents a convincing case to gain buy-in across diverse groups.
• Builds and Sustains Relationships: Develops and maintains effective working relationships.

Note: If you are applying from the Civil Service, Environment Agency is not part of HM Civil Service. The agency is a Non-Departmental Public Body and has policies on continuous service and redundancy calculations. See the applicant guidance for details. We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria and welcome flexible working arrangements and job share.

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