Communication Planner – Hydrogen Jobs Uk Cardiff

Overview

Position Title: Communication Planner

Company: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Location: Cardiff, UK

Job Description:

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission!
We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

Responsibilities:

• Works with seniors and communication teams across BEIS to help identify the highest priority activities in the medium and long-term.
• Brings together colleagues from appropriate policy teams and from within the communications directorate from media, digital, external affairs and internal to develop creative and effective communication plans on high priority activities.
• Project manage the delivery and execution of all communications outputs from high-priority communication plans, ensuring all external and internal stakeholders are kept up-to-date and are happy with progress.

Requirements:

• Support project leaders in Strategic Communications and Media team to identify and understand our highest priority communications. Over the last year, this might have included April’s Energy Security Strategy and the following Energy Bills Support Scheme, COP27, new support for workers including the ‘Tipping Bill’ and the ‘Neonatal Care Bill’, securing our status as a science superpower through investments like £273 million in the Aerospace industry and £743 million into technologies of tomorrow, the National Security and Investment Act and BEIS’ ongoing role supporting Ukraine after Russia’s illegal invasion in May.
• Work with the Senior Communication Planner and project leaders to define clear roles and responsibilities for each high priority moment.
• Influence and work with colleagues across the whole communications team to help develop creative communication ideas for high priority moments that are both ambitious and considerate to wider BEIS and HMG plans and priorities.
• Lead on the coordination of virtual teams in order to develop high-quality communication plans for our Secretary of State and Junior Ministers, ensuring feedback is incorporated in a timely and effective manner.
• Use the communication plan to develop a delivery plan and associated products with clear milestones and clearance deadlines, ensuring clarity and coordination across the full communications team.
• Provide regular updates to the Senior Communications Planner, escalating any issues early so they can be proactively addressed.
• Support the Insight and Evaluation team and other communication colleagues to produce project evaluations, assessing the impact, outputs and project management of the high priority moment, ensuring learnings are taken forward into the next project.

Benefits:

• You’ll need to be well organised and clear thinking, able to grasp complex issues – and make the complicated understandable.
• You’ll have communications experience and understand how different communications disciplines work including media handling, social media and stakeholder engagement.
• You’ll have experience of, or transferrable skills, that will enable to you effectively project manage.
• You’ll be proactive at identifying emerging issues/opportunities and confident in dealing with a wide network of people.