Regional Prison Resourcing Internal Communications Officer

at  Ministry of Justice

Salary
The national salary range is £34,140 - £37,105. London salary range is £38,661- £42,019. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
Number of jobs available
2
Detail of reserve list
12 Months
Region
National
City/Town
National
Building/Site

HEO

Post Type
Fixed Term , Loan
Duration of appointment
Up to 18 months
Working Pattern
Full Time
Role Type
Communications / Marketing
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?
No
Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Recruitment and Retention Communications (RRC) team sits within the Ministry of Justice’s award-winning communications team. We pride ourselves on having an excellent and supportive team culture, a focus on innovation and making a difference to people’s lives.
We are looking for two passionate, internal communications professionals to work in the Prison Resourcing Communications team. You will help us to deliver an impactful, local communications strategy, to achieve our ambition of improving our local prison communications channels, drive up staff engagement, improve staff retention and strengthen the relationships between people working across HMPPS (His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service).
We have one role based in the Southwest and West Midlands area of England and another in the North (to cover prisons in the Northeast and Northwest). Your own car and a full driving license are essential to enable you to travel to prisons for face-to-face meetings with prison staff and Governors. The successful candidate will join us at an exciting time and will help us to revolutionise the way we communicate to the staff working in our prison community.
For too long prisons have been overlooked, there is not enough recognition of the extraordinary jobs our staff do - incredible stories of compassion, progress against extraordinary odds, and rehabilitation.
The role has a strong focus on internal communications and staff engagement but also encompasses campaigns. With your line manager you will be helping to develop an impactful insight based local prisons communications strategy that will improve our local channels and drive-up staff engagement.
Working as part of a team of central and regional communications experts, the successful applicant will be a natural relationship builder and will be able to work collaboratively and with impact across a range of teams including those inside prisons, senior leaders in HMPPS and other communication functions. In addition, you will be a creative thinker, able to come up with new innovative solutions to old problems and remain positive in the face of adversity.
You will ensure all of your work is executed to brilliant standards, within an existing culture of continuous improvement and innovation, and evaluating the impact of your work on an ongoing basis. You will also be expected to develop strong networks.
Your interpersonal skills will be first rate and you will be at ease engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders for example policy teams and prison governors.

CHANGING AND IMPROVING

Understand Seeks out opportunities to create effective change and suggest innovative ideas for improvement. Review ways of working, including seeking and providing feedback

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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 (opens in a new window)

The role has several key requirements including:

• Expertise in delivering creative internal communications and excellent writing skill