Internal Communications and Engagement Manager

Internal Communications and Engagement Manager

Essex/London/Kent

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working  

Do you want to define the communications strategy on a major infostructure project? Can you engage with others in multiple locations? Are you experienced internal communications professional? Then, join us to shape a sustainable and liveable world.  

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow   

To create and deliver an effective communications strategy, we are looking for an Internal Communications and Engagement Manager to join us. Working on a large infrastructure project, you’ll inform and engage with a dispersed workforce, in multiple office and non-office sites. In this role, you’ll be accountable for a programme of activity with the support of a direct report, and working collaboratively with colleagues in External Affairs, the People Team, and in the programme’s Delivery Partners.

Your key responsibilities will be:  

• Create and update the Internal Communications and Engagement Strategy, in consulation with leadership to ensure it anticipates and reflects the programme’s goals and challenges.
• Manage the event and channel strategy. This includes a weekly Teams broadcast; a monthly hybrid staff briefing; email sharing of news and information; updating a news feed and information cascades to share sensitive and tailored information.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. 

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve. 

On top of that, you’ll have:  

• Experience of working in a senior internal communications & engagement role delivering an ongoing programme of communications and engagement.
• Experience of creating and improving internal communications and engagement strategies, through to and including delivery of the strategy 
• Experience reviewing and enhancing employee engagement levels by implementing a structured delivery plan
• Experience of obtaining employee feedback and analysing results
• Experience engaging with senior leaders to anticipate programme goals and challenges
• Previously built and managed relationships with colleagues across the workforce in an environment with frequent changes and competing priorities
• Hosting events and organising events/conferences
• Worked with IT applications such as intranet sites and other online collaborative tools, such as ExpMS Office Suite - Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word.
  
  

A place to work and so much more 
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.   

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. 

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer: 
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.  

Some of our benefits include:  

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays 

• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities 

• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents 

• Flexible and hybrid working conditions 

• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions 

• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange 

• Life assurance 

• Cycle-to-work scheme 

• Corporate gym membership   
    
  
  

Got more questions? 

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM.  

Equal opportunity employer. 
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

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