Responsibilities

• Plan, co-ordinate and lead on high-quality media and digital events, visits and engagements for Ministers, in order to deliver policy and communication objectives.
• Crafting Ministers' visits and engagement plans, ensuring buy-in from Special Advisers, Private Office, policy and wider communications colleagues.
• Drafting ministerial submissions and briefings to support visit and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Work in a team and independently to identify, recce venues ahead of Ministerial visits.
• Travel with Ministers to ensure that they are well supported and briefed, that logistics are effectively executed, and risks mitigated.
• Work closely with Ministers, Special Advisors, Private Office and policy colleagues from within the Department and across government.
• Manage key stakeholders from a variety of sectors across industry to help support future engagement opportunities.
• Support the Head of Visits in developing a strategic programme of events that is well integrated with Ministerial priorities.

Requirements

• Ability to work flexibly across different communication and policy priorities to support colleagues during busy periods and as Government priorities shift.
• Experience working across communications disciplines, including a good sense of what makes an eye-catching visit with engaging visuals that work for broadcast and digital storytelling
• Excellent political judgement to spot opportunities and risks, as well as a sharp news sense, being alert to the wider government agenda and vision.
• Ability to quickly build strong relationships, and the confidence to engage directly with colleagues at all levels and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written skills as you will be responsible for producing submissions for Ministers, as well as regular in person briefings on visit and stakeholder engagement opportunities.
• Experience of working at pace and often to very tight deadlines and be great at prioritising work.
• Ability to grasp complex issues quickly and think on your feet when dealing with difficult logistics, changes in plan, or challenging stakeholders.
• This position involves regular travel across the UK for recces and accompanying Ministers on visits.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £39,540, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £11,454 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .
• The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.