We're currently looking to recruit a Communications & Social Value Manager to join our Kier Transportation Team. This role will work across both our North and West Northamptonshire contracts, covering both internal and external communications.

Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire, with flexible hybrid working and travel to project sites.

Contract: Permanent, full-time and able to consider part-time opportunities

Responsibilities

As a Communications & Social Value Manager, your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Promoting the importance of individual and team development and actively encouraging the use of development tools, processes, and conversations for personal and professional development.
• Improving employee engagement across the contracts and facilitating two-way communication, leading on internal communications channels, including weekly and monthly newsletters, digital screens in break out areas, employee calls and face-to-face briefings.
• Leading on proactive and reactive communications for North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire contracts, creating and delivering the internal and external communications plan.
• Be the first point of contact for the client communications team, all external communications, including media statements, press releases, case studies and ensuring we have the correct approvals in place.
• First draft of all external communications, including media statements, press releases, case studies and responsible for ensuring all verifications are in place.

What are we looking for?

This role of Communications & Social Value Manager is great for you if you have:

• Relevant experience in a similar role, such as communications, public affairs, customer relations or stakeholder liaison.
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to take complex information and make it easy to understand and accessible to our people, with the ability to tailor written content to suit different audiences and channels.
• A strategic thinker and collaborator, with experience of creating and delivering communications and customer strategies.
• Effective people skills, with the ability to form productive relationships with colleagues at all levels.
• Effective stakeholder relationship skills, with the ability to support effective storytelling, information and idea sharing.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for use. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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