Chief Data Office Communications and Engagement Business Partner | Knutsford, UK

Barclays; Knutsford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Chief Data Office Communications and Engagement Business Partner to enhance employee engagement and communication strategies. This hybrid role involves collaborating with senior leadership, designing communication interventions, and managing internal platforms like SharePoint. The successful candidate will have expertise in communication strategies, strong writing skills, and experience in change management.

Qualifications

• Expertise in developing and implementing effective communication strategies.
• Strong writing skills and confidence presenting to senior audiences.
• Experience managing internal communications via SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Build partnerships with senior leadership to influence employee engagement.
• Design and implement communication interventions for organizational change.
• Lead communication initiatives and manage internal platforms.

Skills

Communication strategies

Writing skills

Media content production

Change management principles

Tools

SharePoint

Job description

Chief Data Office Communications and Engagement Business Partner

Chief Data Office Communications and Engagement Business Partner

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To build strong and effective partnerships with the senior leadership of the organisation, advising on how to engage and influence employees to achieve the business's goals through an insight-based employee communications strategy, backed by outstanding execution capability.

Accountabilities

• Leadership communication, using detailed, systematic insight research to help senior leaders understand employee sentiment and empower them to communicate empathetically with their people.
• Business strategy alignment, building belief in the strategy of the organisation and the progress being made, with a focus on the impact employees have on the client experience.
• Culture and employee proposition communication, designing and implementing communication interventions that influence individual behaviour to create a culture based on the Barclays Mindset; demonstrating why the organisation is a great place to work.
• Change delivery, creating communication interventions that build employee commitment and capability during organisational change.
• Crisis and issues management, working closely with the senior team as part of the management response, focusing on the role of employees in engaging clients.
• Capability building, leading and developing a high-performing team, enhancing individual skills and team capabilities.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements; escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define roles and responsibilities, plan for future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence department operations, align with strategic and tactical priorities, and ensure budgets and schedules meet requirements.
• If holding leadership responsibilities, demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, be a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, and mentor less experienced team members. Guide strategic decisions affecting long-term profits and risks.
• Advise key stakeholders, including leadership teams, on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignments.
• Manage and mitigate risks, supporting control and governance agendas.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability in managing risks and controls related to team activities.
• Understand organizational functions to contribute toward business goals.
• Collaborate across work areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analysis, comparing complex options, and including research outcomes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve objectives.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, guiding us to do what is right. They should also demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Join us as a Chief Data Office Communications and Engagement Business Partner to shape the Group Chief Data Office's People Agenda. You will design and implement strategic plans for communication, education, and engagement, manage internal platforms like SharePoint and intranet, lead communication initiatives, and deliver progress updates to senior management. Additionally, you'll develop and execute the CDO training strategy in collaboration with the Change Delivery team.

To succeed, you should have:

• Expertise in developing and implementing effective communication strategies.
• Strong writing skills and confidence presenting to senior audiences.
• Experience managing internal communications via SharePoint.
• Ability to produce engaging media content.
• Experience designing training materials.

Valuable skills include experience in a Chief Data Office environment and knowledge of change management principles.

This is a hybrid role based in Knutsford or Glasgow.