Internal Communications Manager

Overview: The Internal Communications team aims to ensure that Scottish Government employees are informed, engaged and inspired, and have their voices heard.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy team at a time when communicating effectively with our staff has never been more important.
Our friendly team is keen to welcome a colleague who shares our energy and enthusiasm for continuously improving employee engagement, working to these guiding principles:

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  we put employees at the heart of our work
• we test our assumptions
• we use insight and evidence to drive our decisions
• we work out loud
• we create innovative solutions
• we champion a digital first approach
• we evaluate our impact

The post holder will develop and support high quality internal communications strategies and products to ensure thousands of staff are up to date with important information; understand our corporate priorities; are engaging with our organisational vision and values and corporate transformation programme, and contributing to National Performance Framework outcomes.
You will work flexibly with colleagues across all business areas to develop, manage and coordinate internal communications, from members of our Executive Team through to our frontline teams. You will disseminate messages through a range of established channels and contribute your own ideas for new and better ways to communicate with colleagues.
This role requires specialist communications skills and expertise. The post holder will be well organised, have excellent analytical skills and the ability to influence, motivate and lead people working across a range of grades and areas.
The post is based in St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh and is offered on a hybrid basis, working between home, the office and on location with stakeholders as required.
Communications Pay Supplement
This is a specialist post and carries the communications pay supplement of £2,000 per annum (pro rata), which rises to £3,750 on completion of 12 months’ successful service. Pay supplements are subject to regular review. Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver creative communications plans that are driven by insight, support business outcomes and align with our organisational vision, values and behaviours.
• Source, write, edit and manage high quality content for a range of internal channels – including news stories and blogs for the intranet, written briefings for senior leaders and Yammer posts.
• Provide credible and authoritative communications advice and support to colleagues – including senior leaders – including in relation to high profile and/or sensitive issues relating to our corporate functions and reputation.
• Build and maintain strong, productive relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Promote corporate priorities across the organisation, advising on the best messages, methods and channels to reach and influence audiences.
• Robustly evaluate your work and share learning across your team and stakeholder network.
• Support the design and delivery of a range of staff engagement events.

Competencies
The interview will assess applicants’ suitability for the role against the Scottish Government Communications Competency Framework (Insight, Ideas, Implementation and Impact) and the below competencies,

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  People Management
• Self-awareness
• Communications and Engagement
• Analysis and Use of Evidence

Essential Criteria & Qualifications: No specific qualifications required.
Essential Criteria
1. Experience of working in a fast-paced, high profile communications environment, and excellent judgement, self-awareness and organisational skills. 2. First rate writing, editing and digital skills and the ability to tailor content for different channels and audiences to tight deadlines. 3. Ability to analyse data, evaluate the impact of your work and use evidence and insight to inform communications plans and activities. 4. Ability to build constructive relationships with stakeholders and staff at all levels, and to influence and persuade others.
Provisional Interview Dates
To be confirmed.
Diversity/Disability
We are committed to increasing the diversity of staff. We will develop all our staff, and positively value different perspectives and skills. We want to make full use of these on our work. We especially welcome applications from the minority ethnic and disabled community since these groups are under-represented at present.
To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date.
For futher information on this post please review the Person Specification below.
Person Specification
To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Stephanie Brown at stephanie.brown@gov.scot
The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via ScottishGovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
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