JOB SUMMARY

Join our friendly and collaborative communications team at the Planning Inspectorate, where we pride ourselves on being supportive colleagues who work together to deliver excellent communications. Our team values high performance, professional development and creating an environment where everyone can contribute their best work.
The Planning Inspectorate is a great place to work, offering the opportunity to make a real contribution to the government’s Plan for Change, while developing your communications career in a supportive environment.
The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.
We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.
For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please visit our careers page at Civil Service Careers

JOB DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for a proactive and experienced communications professional who can develop effective communication plans, evaluate impact, and work collaboratively across multiple services to deliver excellent internal communications and engagement.
You will act as part of a flexible team to deliver internal communications and engagement functions. You will lead and shape internal engagement activity and act as a point of contact for internal communications within the Planning Inspectorate, sourcing, planning, drafting and publishing engaging content to increase employee engagement.
Working alongside another part time Internal Communications and Engagement Officer, you will contribute to the delivery of regular, targeted, effective and engaging internal communications, identifying opportunities and drafting high quality content. You will deliver regular all-staff briefings, support employee engagement events, and gather insight on staff communication needs to inform channel selection and improve effectiveness through evaluation.
You will support Planning Inspectorate units to devise, deliver and evaluate effective communication plans for their projects and initiatives.
The role requires establishing and maintaining close relationships with internal stakeholders across the organisation, working collaboratively to support delivery of strategic objectives while maintaining high standards of propriety and ethics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Government Communications technical skills

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Communications / Marketing