Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of daily community management, communications and event delivery for a fast-growing professional network.
• Bridge the gap between strategic messaging and real-world delivery, working alongside the Comms Lead.
• Drive audience engagement, run dedicated engagement groups and lead the end-to-end logistics for high-quality events.
• Create, manage and prioritise engagement plans and content for Grants Profession networks and channels.
• Build partnerships across government, the wider public sector and significant stakeholders.
• Support the design and delivery of stakeholder events and forums.
• Deliver a communications strategy to grow the Grants Profession and boost uptake of the learning and development offer.
• Deliver high-quality calendar of events and content that establishes the Grants Profession as a great place to work and an environment to build and enrich a career.
• Create content and manage a series of publications, intranet items and social media channels to help build the grant-making community and promote training and career development opportunities.
• Work with contracted partners to design, implement and evaluate audience specific communications campaigns.

Requirements

• Essential: Strategic influence: experience in designing and delivering effective communication and engagement plans from objective through to evaluation that influence organisational culture and behaviour.
• Event management: experience of designing and delivering engagement activities and events that deliver organisational outcomes.
• Content creation: excellent drafting and editorial skills to turn complex technical or policy information into clear engaging narratives to showcase and storytell the measurable value, efficiency and real-world impact that robust grant management brings to the public and economy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to adjust working and communication styles to meet the requirements of multiple audiences and partners.
• Collaboration: able to work across team boundaries to ensure communications and engagements are joined up and focused on organisational goals.
• Project Leadership: proven track record of strong planning and organisational skills to effectively manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work at pace.
• Senior stakeholder management: able to build trust and provide robust advice to senior leaders in fast-paced environments.
• Analytical thinking: experience of using insights, evidence and evaluation to monitor the effectiveness of communications and engagement activities to deliver continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate practical use of AI and digital tools to improve the quality of communications.

Preferred

• Desirable experience: Developing and delivering membership campaigns.
• Leading and delivering in-person and online events.
• Using graphic design packages, eMarketing platforms and analytics/evaluation reporting on digital campaigns
• Experience of working within and/or understanding of grant management.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £43,760, Cabinet Office contributes £12,677 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.