Responsibilities

• Provide senior oversight in the planning, co-ordination and delivery of high-quality events, visits and engagements for Ministers, in order to deliver communications and policy objectives.
• Develop Ministers' visits and engagement programmes that meet strategic communications and policy objectives.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Ministers, private offices, special advisers, senior officials, external stakeholders, and other government departments to ensure successful delivery of visits.
• Travel with Ministers to ensure that they are well supported and briefed, that logistics are effectively executed, and risks mitigated.
• Writing ministerial submissions, itineraries and other materials to support visits; compiling and co-ordinating relevant briefing to support the visit, often at short notice.
• Being agile to changing communications opportunities and risks, making recommendations, and finding solutions.
• Evaluating the success of stakeholder and ministerial visits and events and identifying creative ways to showcase the team's work.
• As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.

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.
• Experience of working at pace and often to very tight deadlines and be great at prioritising work for yourself and others.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• Office attendance The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.