Internal Communications Business Partner

CompanyStudent Loans Company

LocationGlasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Posted At2/26/2026

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Description

Role Title: Internal Communications Business Partner

Salary: £39,458.00 - £46,689.00 GBP pro rata

Location: Glasgow, Darlington or Llandudno

Pension: A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Advert Closing Date: Thursday 12 March 2026

Is it time you unlocked your potential?

Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.

Our Values

Culture is at the heart of everything we do at SLC and we are guided by our five values which help make SLC a great place to work:

Honesty: We act with integrity and transparency, sharing information openly and addressing challenges with courage.
Empowerment: We enable people to take initiative, make impactful decisions, and continuously learn and grow.

Accountability: We deliver on commitments, own our successes and mistakes, and strive for quality outcomes.

Respect: We value diverse perspectives, actively listen, and create an inclusive environment where everyone belongs.

Trust: We collaborate across teams, build dependable relationships, and work as one to deliver for our customers.

These values are more than words—they guide our decisions, shape our collaborations, and strengthen our impact on the students we serve.

About the role

SLC have a fantastic fixed term (circa 8 months) opportunity for an Internal Communications Business Partner to join our Corporate Affairs Team. The team works to ensure colleagues understand our mission, vision and strategic direction, and support the business to listen and respond to colleague voice and ultimately, to build a more engaged workforce. We do this by developing and delivering corporate and directorate communications activity and by monitoring sentiment, supporting action planning and managing a programme of colleague-focused events.

Although you will have a primary business area to support, you will also have the opportunity to work on and provide expertise across organisational wide events as needed.

The Internal Communication Business Partner helps promote and protect the reputation of their business area. Aligned with SLC’s key priorities and our listening strategy, the Business Partner shapes the content, tone and method of delivery of messages to internal audiences and supports the leadership team to increase levels of engagement within the directorate. This role is a real opportunity to affect change and help shape the new narratives for our leadership team.

What you bring:

Knowledge and use of internal communication strategies, planning methodologies and best practices, such as OASIS
Skilled in the creation and evaluation of high-quality internal communications for different on and offline channels
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to both develop content for colleagues and present to our senior leaders
Adaptable and resilient, able to deal with the unexpected and comfortable with working to deadline

Ability to troubleshoot and provide solutions using constructive and innovative thinking

Strong reporting and presentation skills with keen attention to detail

A high degree of discretion and professionalism

Skilled in the use of Microsoft 365 tools such as Word, PowerPoint, and particularly Teams. Experience of working with content management systems, such as SharePoint or Interact

Degree or relevant communications qualification, or significant experience in an internal communications role, preferably in financial services sector or public sector body

Benefits

You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes:

28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
Option to buy/sell annual leave
Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption

Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme

To find out what’s it’s like to work at Student Loans Company click here SLC Careers

The Legal Bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some background checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check.

SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk.