Internal Communications Manager

Internal Communications Manager – Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: Ministry of Defence

Location: Remote – travel to Andover as and when required

The Internal Communications Community Manager is a key role within the Army’s International, Communications and Engagement Branch. Based within Army Headquarters, our role within Internal communications is to provide advice, consultancy and outputs to key stakeholders within the British Army.

The role of the communications manager is to influence, engage and understand our internal audience. You will be expected to lead with training, produce guidance and best practices to users on Defence Connect (DC) to ensure they fully exploit the DC Capability.

Main responsibilities:

• You will produce training packages and plans for both in person and online training, through one-to-one engagements and be responsible for the development of online information for self-study.
• The Community Manager will coordinate, publish and follow up on all internal communication content on DC and DefNet when required. You will encourage and manage them to engage with town hall’s and ask me anything sessions, ensuring these are responded to and encourage internal users to utilise these tools.
• You will support the Defence Connect technical support contractor as required and provide assistance in developing membership, usage and engagement reports for our internal channels.
• You will have the IT knowledge and know how to adapt and make suggestions to the development of Defence Connect.
• You will also be responsible in providing regular reports on usage, memberships and engagement across internal communications. You will be the SME across this area and will have daily involvement in the review and management of new MOD and other users on to DC.
• You will monitor the internal community, encourage members, facilitate discussions and manage “inappropriate Use”/ Modernation policy and procedures. You will monitor group usage and consolidate/retire groups when applicable.

Essential:

• Previous demonstratable experience of communications management, ideally with Enterprise Social Media platforms.
• Previous demonstratable experience of managing JIVE software or other similar Enterprise Social Media Software.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable:

· An active SC Clearance.

· Public Sector / Defence experience.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or email [email protected]

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Public Sector Resourcing