Communications and Engagement Senior Manager (Corporate)

Communications and Engagement Senior Manager (Corporate)

12 month FTC

£49,282 - £53,460

Do you want to help shape and deliver collaborative, high-impact internal and stakeholder communications for Greater Manchester, one of the UK’s most ambitious and dynamic city regions?

We want to deliver a decade of good growth benefiting every part of Greater Manchester, and we have a plan to make it a reality. Great communications are essential to achieving our collective vision for the next decade - a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life.

Our communications and engagement team plays a critical role in connecting people, sharing stories, and celebrating our progress as we deliver for our communities.

Your role:

Reporting to a Head of Communications and Engagement, you’ll be responsible for joined-up corporate communications for GMCA internal and stakeholder audiences.

As well as GMCA colleagues, you’ll work closely alongside communications teams from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) as part of a coordinated ‘group’ approach.

You’ll build trusted relations with senior leaders such as the GMCA Managing Director, Mayor, Deputy Mayor and senior leaders planning and delivering impactful coordinated corporate communications that support the Greater Manchester Strategy.

About you:

You’ll be a proactive, creative and experienced communicator who can produce compelling content based on the organisation’s strategic priorities and bring them to life.

You’ll be committed to embedding our values and be a collaborative leader that can work across the ‘group’ to deliver on shared goals GMCA, GMFRS and TfGM.

You’ll have specialist knowledge of corporate communications techniques and approaches, and experience of using these to effectively and creatively engage internal and stakeholder audiences.

You’ll be comfortable working with and providing communications advice to senior leaders. Particularly, you will be an excellent writer, with a track record of consistently delivering creatively written and visual materials to high standards.

A knowledge and understanding of local government would be an advantage as would experience of working in a politically sensitive environment.

If you’re ready to help us deliver Greater Manchester’s vision, we’d love to hear from you.

About us:

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) brings together the cityregion’s ten councils and key partners including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) - to deliver the Greater Manchester Strategy. Our shared vision is to create a thriving city region where everyone can live a good life. We work to grow an inclusive economy and ensure people have what they need to live happy, healthy lives, tackling inequalities. Our policy department include Digital, Economy, Education, Work & Skills, Environment, Place Making, Public Service Reform, and Safer & Stronger Communities - who are supported by our essential corporate functions like Finance, Legal & Governance, People Services, Procurement and Communications.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/

Our offer:

In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:

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Interviews will take place on Tuesday 21 April