Engagement & Communications Officer

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Engagement and Communications Officer

Fixed Term Contract

Grade 5 - £41,511 - £49,764

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

I wanted to bring to your attention an opportunity available for an Engagement & Communications Officer, within the Brindley Oracle Programme, in the Business Change workstream. The role involves understanding the engagement requirements across directorates and creating appropriate collateral to support these needs. It includes coordinating and supporting engagement activities across directorates, as well as contributing to broader communications and engagement efforts.

A key responsibility is helping to establish and support a strong Change Champions network by providing the necessary support. This includes managing the network by facilitating Change Champion calls, capturing and documenting questions or queries from directorates and Change Champions, and escalating them when necessary.
The programme is now at a critical stage and exciting phase ahead of re-implementation.

The role will report to Louise Milner, the BCC Head of Oracle Improvement and retain a dotted line to the Business Change Team to ensure we are joined up and how we provide services to the council.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

For any informal enquiries please contact: Jai Patel - [e-mail] or Louise Milner - [e-mail]

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

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