Stakeholder Engagement Manager (SEO Grade)

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Job description

Stakeholder Engagement Manager - Senior Executive Officer - Job Share - Permanent

We're looking for a self-motivated individual to join our Stakeholder Engagement Team as a Senior Executive Office to job share. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your communication and events career and work with colleagues across the organisation at all levels. You'll develop your knowledge, skills and expertise though exposure to a wide range of communications, including strategic advice, maintaining relationships with the media and planning and managing inspection training and events.

You'll work closely with our senior team and Her Majesty's Inspectors (HMI) to identify communication opportunities, provide strategic advice and develop campaigns to spread our messages to a wide audience - making Estyn's work understandable, memorable and accessible. In this job share, you'll be involved in some of the following areas:

• Review, develop and implement a Stakeholder Engagement strategy that supports effective communication in delivering our strategic objectives
• Develop and maintain relationships with the media, identify and initiate opportunities and provide advice and support to senior managers
• Manage the delivery of communication campaign plans, using team resources and identifying solutions
• Oversee the development, maintenance and evaluation of our website
• Manage our social and digital media, drawing on knowledge of emerging trends
• Manage in-house design and video services to generate effective and engaging content across a range of channels
• Support and oversee the planning and management of inspection training and events/conferences
• Develop and maintain relationships with other relevant organisations and stakeholders to share resources and best practice
• Develop and maintain our tone of voice
• Quality assure our internal and external communication, using evaluation to inform improvement

Job specific criteria

It's essential that you have:

• relevant experience and knowledge working in a communications environment, in one or more of the following:
  • communications strategy
  • creating, managing, implementing and evaluating multi-channel communication campaigns
  • managing effective media relations
  • events management
  • multi-media design and brand management
  • website management and development
• strong written and verbal communication skills
• experience of managing and leading a team
• good interpersonal skills that enable you to develop and maintain productive working relationships
• ability to set direction through making effective decisions
• excellent prioritising and time management skills to manage multiple activities
• good IT skills (including Microsoft Office)

Salary: £39,310 - £47,000 (full time equivalent) - pay award pending

Hours of work: Job share, 15−18.5 hours per week (days to be agreed), excluding breaks.

Location - Cardiff, we're currently working remotely due to COVID-19 and exploring hybrid working arrangements

The closing date for applications is 10am Monday 13 th December 2021