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Communications Business Partner

JM/CBP588_1760436344
  • Up to £37398 per annum
  • Eastleigh, Hampshire
  • Permanent
  • Housing & Property Services, Housing Management, Property Services & Asset Management, Supported Housing

Communications Business Partner

Permanent position

Location - You'll be based at one of their offices in Eastleigh, Yeovil, Bracknell, or London. The client has requested that you spend a minimum of three days a week collaborating with colleagues at their offices or events or other touchdown spaces, and the other two days can be worked from at a place of your choosing, whether that's at another of their offices, a cafe or at home.

Salary - £37398 per annum

Hybrid role

Must own a vehicle and possess a full UK driver's license with business insurance

Sellick Partnership Ltd are working alongside a well-established housing association to support them with recruiting a Communications Business Partner to ensure effective coordination between a specified business directorate(s) and the communications function by clarifying business strategies and plans and translating these into actionable communication objectives, plans and campaigns.

Key duties and responsibilities of the Communications Business Partner

  • Act as the single point of contact for all communications advice and delivery for a specified business directorate(s), working closely with, and influencing, the executive, senior leaders and managers
  • Lead communications planning and oversee delivery of all aspects of internal and external communication to support the business to achieve its objectives
  • Provide communications advice to leaders and managers and ensure that communications are effective and efficient
  • Promote best practice and upskill business colleagues in communications by helping them to self-serve where appropriate through templates, how to guides and training
  • Evaluate the impact of communications and make recommendations for improvement
  • Act in a collaborative and supportive way at all times with other team members and colleagues in a manner consistent with Radian's values

Knowledge, skills and experience required

  • Broad communication skill base, ideally experienced in press, stakeholder, customer and internal communications
  • Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with colleagues at all level
  • Able to clarify business priorities and translate these into communication objectives and activities
  • Strong influencing and negotiating skills
  • Ability to prioritise and manage competing demands
  • Positive, highly motivated and solutions-focused
  • Uses evidence to define and evaluate the impact of communication strategies and plans
  • Professional qualification in a related communication discipline
  • Knowledge of audience insight tools and techniques and how to integrate strategic communications within business activities.
  • Ability to provide evidence-based advice to senior
  • Demonstrates our Values and Behaviours.

Benefits for the role:

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Staff loans
  • Rewards/discount schemes
  • Agile working
  • Life insurance
  • Pension contributions
  • Employee assistance programmes

If you feel you are well-suited to the role or would like to discuss it in further detail, please apply or contact Josh Meek at Sellick Partnership Ltd Derby Office

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.

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