Senior Leader

Government Recruitment Service; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a Communications Senior Lead to drive effective communication strategies and support internal engagement. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders and have the opportunity to lead a team. This role requires strong leadership, negotiation skills, and the ability to influence decisions. The position involves travel across the UK, with flexibility to adapt to diverse organizational needs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a leadership role, mentoring, and coaching teams.
• Strong communication skills, particularly in creating accessible messaging.
• Ability to manage complex relationships with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team to develop their skills.
• Collaborate proactively with various stakeholders to ensure effective outcomes.
• Monitor progress and evaluate deliverables against organizational objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Stakeholder Engagement

Negotiation

Governance

Job description

Communications Senior Lead

Communications Senior Lead is a key role in the Delivery Hub team, requiring someone who can create clear, accessible messaging aligned with DWP and CFCD standards, supporting internal engagement and understanding of organisational priorities and objectives.

• Planning and delivery of Communications products and events, virtually and face to face
• Enabling across DWP and CFCD as a supportive Business partner function
• Close collaboration with many diverse stakeholder groups advising on content, accessibility and consistency

CBRS Senior Lead

CBRS Senior Lead assures the Directorate’s approach to compliance with Security, Data and Information requirements

• Leading CFCD collation of responses to Briefings for Freedom of Information requests and other departmental requests
• Identifying and mitigating key CFCD risks
• Working with functional teams on access to small systems which are specific and key to how the organisation delivers
• Ensuring effective controls are in place to keep CFCD secure

The Delivery Hub work is fast paced and interesting and gives Job Holders an opportunity to lead, influence and participate in working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders across DWP. The ability to negotiate, engage, and influence at a senior level is essential.

The Delivery Hub is a National Team, travel for meetings is a key requirement across the UK, including overnight stays in UK locations.

Specific role tasks include:

• Strong leadership of a team, coaching and mentoring to develop skills

• Proactive collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, ensuring effective outcomes in a range of areas

• Ability to influence and negotiate tactfully, ensuring the right level of assurance and applying strict governance rules where applicable

• Lead progress monitoring, impacting and evaluation

• Maintain and continually evolve directorate products, plans and registers, linking to organisational objectives