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About the Role
As the Head of Internal Communications for PA – now a division within Jacobs – you’ll work closely with PA’s CEO and Global Head of Communications to deliver the organisation’s communications strategy. You’ll also partner closely with key leaders from areas across both PA and Jacobs including, but not limited to, HR, Sales, and Consulting Leads. And you’ll play a key role in the change team responsible for designing and communicating the integration of PA into its new home. This is a high-impact role for a senior professional with experience developing and driving internal communications strategies and serving as a trusted adviser to the C-suite. You will be responsible for shaping the approach to internal communications that guides the organisation through a period of significant transition – therefore experience in M&A and company-wide transformations is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of internal communications colleagues
- Act as a trusted adviser to the CEO and other leaders on leadership communication and engagement
- Set the internal communications strategy and define clear objectives and priorities
- Own the tone of voice, messaging principles, and storytelling standards and guidelines
- Ensure communications actively support firm-wide performance and behaviour change
- Work closely with Jacobs’ communications colleagues to align on internal communications deliverables and future planning
- Build incremental innovations and enhancements to improve internal channels (intranet, leadership calls, written updates, video)
- Use insight to improve impact and inform leadership decisions
Requirements
- Experience developing and driving internal communications strategies
- Experience serving as a trusted adviser to the C-suite
- Experience in M&A and company-wide transformations is strongly preferred
- Must be a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years
- Must undergo background checks and achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard
- Some UK roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting
Skills
- Leadership communication
- Engagement
- Strategy development
- Messaging
- Storytelling
- Performance and behaviour change communication
- Channel management
- Insight generation
Location
- UK
- Ireland
- US
- Netherlands
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- 1-year fixed term (Maternity Cover)
Experience Level
- Senior professional
Benefits
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve)
- Opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
About the Company
- We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
- Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
- Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
- We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
- We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
- Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
- PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
- Jacobs Solutions completed its acquisition of the remaining stake in PA. Jacobs’ further investment in PA creates a global advisory and delivery powerhouse for clients.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]